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Mondays from 12:00pm - 1:30pm ET starting February 2nd, 2026 The Spring 2026 African Studies Workshop will take place in-person and online. We encourage all local folks to join us in-person at the Center for African Studies. A light lunch will be served...

African Studies Association Teachers' Workshop

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The Harvard University Center for African studies is a proud member for the African Studies Association Outreach Council (ASAOC). Each year, the ASAOC organizes an annual teachers' workshop that provides educators with resources, lesson plans, and...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Daniel Agbiboa

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Daniel E. Agbiboa is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He earned a PhD in International Development from the University of Oxford and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. He...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Louisa Lombard

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Presenting : Rules of Cosmopolitan Engagement: Rwandan Peacekeepers and African Conflicts Louisa Lombard is an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University. She is writing a book about the moral dilemmas of contemporary “aggressive” peacekeeping...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Amah Edoh

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M. Amah Edoh is Assistant Professor of African Studies in the Global Studies and Languages program at MIT. Her work interrogates the politics of knowledge production about Africa. Centering on material and visual objects traveling between African...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Mekonnen Ayano

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Mekonnen Firew Ayano is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for African Studies where he studies law and development with a focus on land and agricultural policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mekonnen received SJD degree from Harvard Law...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Wale Adebanwi

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Presenting: Becoming a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity, Elitism and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria Wale Adebanwi is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He was until recently the Rhodes Professor of...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Darja Djordjevic

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Darja Djordjevic received her BA in anthropology from Harvard College, and was a mentee of Professors Arthur Kleinman and Michael Herzfeld. Her BA thesis examined the predicament of women asylum seekers and refugees in Paris. She will present The Cancer...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Monica Popescu

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Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures at McGill University. She will present African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies and the Cold War. A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Sarah Balakrishnan

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Presenting : Colonizing the Underworld: Cemeteries and the Necropolitics of Property in Colonial Ghana Sarah Balakrishnan is an incoming Assistant Professor of History and African & African American Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She...

African Studies Workshop Featuring Alioune Sow

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Alioune Sow is a joint appointment in French and African Studies at the University of Florida. He is the Director of the France Florida Research Institute. His research interests include democratic transition and cultural forms in francophone West Africa...

African Studies Workshop featuring Biodun Jeyifo

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Biodun Jeyifo is a professor of African and African American studies and of comparative literature at Harvard University. A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated through the Harvard African Studies Workshop listserv. It is assumed that...