African Studies Workshop

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Presenting: T he 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...

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...

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 fellow at the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa at the...

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...