African Studies Workshop

Seye is a health systems researcher from Nigeria. He is a senior lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney, in Australia, where he teaches and studies knowledge practices in global health, health system governance, and the adoption and...

Presenting : Imagining the Euro-African Mediterranean: Eritrean Counter-Discourses to EU Human Smuggling and Trafficking Rhetoric. Fiori Berhane is an Assistant Professor in anthropology at the University of Southern California. She is a socio-cultural...

Presenting: "It's too local." Young Instrumental Musicians from Ghana, and some Paradoxes of Globalisation Discussant: Nate Plageman (Wake Forest University) Katharina Gartner is a researcher and lecturer on youth and expressive cultures (especially music...

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...

Presenting : Governance, personality cult, and sacred enchantment – negotiating failed public aspirations in prebendalist Nigeria Chidi Ugwu has a background in cultural anthropology and a PhD in medical anthropology. He has taught anthropology and...

Presenting : Black Time Mpho Matsipa is a 2022 Loeb Fellow (Harvard GSD), educator, researcher and curator. She received her PhD in Architecture from UC Berkeley and teaches Advanced Studio, History and Theory of Planning and Architecture, in the School...

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...

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...

Presenting : Secrecy, Knowledge, and Power in Indigenous African Society Jacob Olupona , who joined the Faculty of Divinity and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2006, is a noted scholar of indigenous African religions. His current research focuses on...

Presenting: Interracial Publics: Representing Race, Intimacy, and Desire in Post-Apartheid Public Culture Sebastian Jackson is a Ph.D. candidate in African and African American Studies and Social Anthropology at Harvard University. His ethnographic and...