Presenting: Of Flags and Forebearers: Chimurenga and the Shape of Protest in Zimbabwe

Kathryn Takabvirwa is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Her research centers on policing and citizenship in Zimbabwe, as well as on migration, governance, and the state in Southern Africa...

Presenting: Violence, Media, and Remaking Sovereignty in Revolutionary Ghana.

Jesse Weaver Shipley is a writer, ethnographer, and artist whose work explores the links between aesthetics...

Presenting: The Apartheid Psychiatrist: Individual Guilt and Collective Responsibility in South Africa.

Jacob Dlamini is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton. He is a historian of Africa, with an interest in precolonial, colonial and postcolonial African History. He obtained a Ph.D. from Yale University in...

Nancy Rose Hunt, Professor of History & African Studies at the University of Florida since 2016, is undertaking new research on psychiatry and mental health in Africa, with a focus on diagnostic categories and care in zones of war, migratory politics, and securitization.  She will present on Veins of Madness in a Turbulent Congolese Border City. Discussant: Byron Good (Harvard University).

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Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at UCLA, where she also serves as Associate Faculty Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy. She will present The Licit Life of Capitalism: U.S. Oil in Equatorial Guinea. Discussant: Caroline Filice Smith (Harvard University).

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Eugene Richardson, MD, PhD. is a physician-anthropologist based at Harvard Medical School. He previously served as the clinical lead for Partners In Health’s (PIH) Ebola response in Kono District, Sierra Leone, where he continues to conduct research on the social epidemiology of Ebola virus disease.  He will be presenting two...

Brad Weiss is Professor of Anthropology at William & Mary, where he has served on the faculty since 1993. He received his doctorate with distinction in Socio-Cultural from the University of Chicago. Weiss’s research projects have included ethnographic studies of both rural and urban Tanzanian communities; archival work on missionization in Tanzania; as well as ethnographic research in the southern United States. Weiss is the author of four books, and the editor of an additional volume. He has served as the Executive Editor of the Journal of Religion in...

Rebecca Tapscott is an Ambizione Research Fellow at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and a visiting fellow at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at the London School of Economics. Her research interests include political violence, security, and authoritarianism; gender—particularly masculinities—and the state; and institutions of ethical review as they pertain to knowledge production and global governance. She will present Arbitrary governance in modern authoritarian regimes: Informal security and social control in Uganda. Discussant: Daniel Agbiboa (...

Ramah Mckay is assistant professor in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Mozambique, India, and the US. She is the author of Medicine in the Meantime: The work of care in Mozambique (2018). She will present Local pharmaceuticals? Race, regulation, and medical industry in more-than-global medicine. Discussant: Annikki Herranen-Tabibi (Harvard University).

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Regrettably, this evening's African Studies Workshop is cancelled. The students enrolled in the noon class are still expected to attend.

Brittany Meché is a doctoral candidate in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. She also currently serves as the Gaius Charles Bolin Fellow in Environmental Studies at Williams College. She will present Light Touch: Surveillance, Intelligence, and Spectatorship in the Sahel. Discussant: Paul Clark (Harvard University).

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Dan Magaziner  a Professor of History at Yale University. He is a historian of 20th century Africa. He received his PhD in 2007 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and taught at Cornell University before coming to Yale in 2011. He will present Available Light: Intimacy and Media, Apartheid and After. Discussant: Panashe Chigumadzi (Harvard University).

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Lys Alcayna-Stevens is a Fellow in the Department of Anthropoloy at Harvard University. Previously, she was a post-doc researcher in socio-cultural anthropology at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale (Collège de France) and Institut Pasteur, Paris. She will present Ebola Business: Surfeit and suffering in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  Discussant: Eugene Richardson (Harvard Medical School).

A week in advance, the presenter’s paper will be circulated...

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 will present Crisis as Context: Transport, Labor and Predatory Politics in Lagos, Nigeria. Discussant: Parker Shipton...

George Paul Meiu is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. His research and teaching focus on sexuality, gender, and kinship; belonging, citizenship and the state; race and ethnicity; and the political economy of postcolonial Africa. He will present...

Robert Blunt is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. He holds a BA from Lewis & Clark College in Religious Studies, an MA in Biblical Languages from the Graduate Theological Union, an MA in the Social Sciences and a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Rob’s research and teaching have focused on the historical relationships between religion, ritual, and political economy in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. His work reflects general concerns for tracing on the ground shifts...