Academic Year 2025–26:
Fall 2025

October 7, 2025, 5:30–7:00pm

Location: Foster 107, 1130 E. 59th St.

African Studies Workshop

Welcome Back Event

October 14, 2025, 5:30–7:00pm

Location: Foster 107, 1130 E. 59th St.

African Studies Workshop

“Governing the Township: The Alexandra Health Committee”
Thuto Thipe
University of Chicago, Department of History and the College

October 30, 2025, 12:30–2:00pm

Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB 122)

African Studies Workshop (in partnership with Law, Letters, and Society)

“Sovereignty, Disrupted: The Roles of Energy and Law in Africa and Beyond”
Andrew Lawrence
Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

November 11, 2025, 5:30–7:00pm

Location: Foster 107, 1130 E. 59th St.

African Studies Workshop

Gregory Mann
Columbia University, Department of History

November 20–22, 2025

Location: Atlanta, GA

African Studies Association Annual Meeting

December 9, 2025, 5:30–7:00pm

Location: Foster 107, 1130 E. 59th St.

African Studies Workshop

Social event to celebrate the end of the quarter

Winter 2026

January 13, 2026, 5:30–7:00pm

Location: Foster 107, 1130 E. 59th St.

African Studies Workshop

“Gifts and Peças: African Women and the Commercialization of the Portuguese Atlantic Slave Trade in the 16th and 17th Centuries”
Mary Hicks
University of Chicago, Department of History