Presenting: African Journalism in the Shadow of the Global North: How Postcolonial New Organizations Frame Human Rights Violations

Discussant: Christopher Ouma (University of Cape Town)

j. Siguru Wahutu is an Assistant Professor at NYU's Department of Media, Culture and Communication and a Faculty Associate...

Presenting: Pan African Capital

Discussant: James Smith (University of California, Davis)

Hannah Appel is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at UCLA, where she also serves as the Associate Director of the Institute on Inequality & Democracy. Her work focuses on transnational...

Presenting: Locating Controversy in Established Technoscience: Debating National DNA Databases in South Africa

Discussant: Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of Chicago)

Noah Tamarkin is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University and a research associate at...

Presenting: Counterinsurgent Citizenship

Discussant: Steven Robins (University of Stellenbosch)

Renugan Raidoo is a PhD candidate in social anthropology at Harvard University. His research concerns lifestyle estates in the Gauteng city region, their political economic origins, and their social and spatial consequences....

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Presenting: From Interracial Sexuality to Mixed Kinship in (Post)colonial Eritrea

Discussant: Sebastian Jackson (Harvard University)

Valentina Fusari is currently postdoctoral researcher in the Dept. of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Pavia (Italy). Her research is broadly rooted in...

Presenting: Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea

Jatin Dua is an associate professor of Anthropology and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. His research explores processes and projects of governance, law, and economy along the East African coast and the wider Indian Ocean...

Presenting: Harvesting the Future in Rwanda: Transitional Justice, moral extraction and the promise of the law

Natacha Nsabimana is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Nsabimana is currently working on a book manuscript examining the everyday aftermath of violence in post...

Presenting: Breathing Grief

Danai S. Mupotsa is a Senior Lecturer in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She specialises in gender and sexualities, black intellectual traditions and histories, intimacy and affect and feminist pedagogies. She is a member of...

Presenting: Heineken in Africa: an Island of Perfection in a Sea of Misery?

Olivier Van Beemen is a Dutch investigative journalist specializing in Africa. For his book in Heineken in Africa, he won De Tegel, the most prestigious award in Dutch journalism, and got several nominations for other prizes. His work has...

Presenting: Notes on Two Cities

Yayra Sumah is a doctoral candidate in the department of Middle Eastern South Asian and African Studies. She holds bachelors and masters degrees in Political Science with a minor in African Studies from Boston University, magna cum laude. She is an interdisciplinary...

Presenting: The Archives of False Prophets: Delusional Worldmaking in a West African Psychiatric Hospital

Nana Osei Quarshie is Assistant Professor at the Program in the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University. His current research examines the place of psychiatric care in...

Presenting: Musseque City: Urban Autochthony in Luanda

Claudia Gastrow is an anthropologist of Southern Africa specializing in issues of land, urbanism, housing, informality and governance, with a special focus on Angola. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2014, and currently an...

Presenting: Arbitrary States: Social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda

Rebecca Tapscott is an Ambizione Research Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and a visiting...

Presenting: Eskia Mphahlele, Chemchemi and Pan-African literary publics

Christopher Ouma is a Senior Lecturer in the department of English at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and co-editor...