African Studies Workshop

Presenting: City of Living-Death: Necropolitics, Urban Development, and Social Transformation in an Egyptian Cemetery Marwa Ghazali is the 2021-2022: Genevieve McMillan-Reba Stewart Fellow in the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University’s...

Presenting : Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Chair of the Department of English at Stanford. He graduated with a First-Class Honors in English and Arabic from...

Presenting: #RhodesMustFall: An Intellectual Protest Movement in Post-Apartheid Academia. Discussant: Xolela Mangcu (George Washington University) Chumani Maxwele is a political science graduate from the University of Cape Town (UCT). During his tenure at...

Presenting: A Gift of Autochthony: Rerooting the Future through Genetic Reconnection in Cameroon Discussant: Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) Victoria M. Massie (she/her/hers) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University. Her...

Presenting: Urbanism interrupted: Informal Economy, National Reconstruction and Luanda's Urban Morphology Discussant: Finn Brandon (Harvard University) António Tomás is an anthropologist trained at Columbia University. He is the author of various...

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...

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 &...

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...

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...

Presenting: É Maluqueira!: Thinking Through Madness in the Age of Neoliberalization in Post-War Angola Discussant: Nana Osei Quarshie (Yale University) Selina Makana is an Assistant Professor of African history at the University of Memphis. Her research...