Current Schedule | THE COMMITTEE on AFRICAN STUDIES

Academic Year 2020-21:

October 21, 2020, 4:30pm	“The Archive of False Prophets: Delusional Worldmaking in a West African Psychiatric Hospital” Nana Osei Quarshie Assistant Professor of History, Yale University co-sponsored by Medicine and its Objects
October 27, 2020, 5:30pm	*“not all realisms: Photograpy in Africa in the Long 1960s”* Leslie Wilson Curatorial Fellow for Diversity in the Arts, Smart Museum of Art Discussant: Gregory Valdespino, PhD Candidate in History
November 10, 2020, 11:15am	“Remembering Gukurahundi in Johannesburg: Migration Trajectories and Memory in Music” Duduzile Ndlovu Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
December 1, 2020, 5:30pm	“Unexpected Callings: The Rediscovery of Ancestral Spiritualities among Queer Zimbabweans” Raffaella Taylor-Seymour PhD Student in Anthropology and Comparative Human Development Discussant: Tadiwa Madenga
January 12, 2021, 5:30pm	“‘The Natives Must Feel at Home:’ Plague, Homes, and State Responsibilities in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1921” Gregory Valdespino PhD Candidate in History Discussant: Emily Webster, PhD Candidate in History
January 26, 2021, 5:30pm	“The Political Vision of Intermediary Intelligentsia: Political Innovation in the Early African Nationalist Movement, 1860-1900” Jonathan Schoots PhD Student in Sociology Discussant: Gregory Valdespino, PhD Candidate in History
February 16, 2021, 5:30pm	“Landscape and Settlement Histories in the Sandawe Homeland” Matthew Knisley PhD Student in Anthropology Discussant: Estefania Vidal Montero, PhD Candidate in Anthropology
March 9, 2021, 5:30pm	“Post-Oil Futures, Spatial Enclosures, and the Politics of Disruption in Central Sudan” Dr. Nisrin Elamin Assistant Professor of International Studies, Bryn Mawr College
April 13, 2021, 11:00am	“Sweet Sounds of a Painful Past: The Archaeologist, the Griot and the Musician in Sereer Safen and Lebou country, Coastal Senegal” Dr. Ibrahima Thiaw Professor of Archaeology, Cheikh Anta Diop University
May 4, 2021, 5:30pm	“Corporal Punishment, Qur’anic Education, and Child Rights in Sudan” David Boze PhD Student in Comparative Human Development Discussant: Raffaella Taylor Seymour, PhD Student in Anthropology and Comparative Human Development
May 18, 2021, 5:30pm	Matthew Knisley PhD Student in Anthropology Discussant: Elizabeth Sawchuk, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow & Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta

All events will be held on Zoom. The meeting link will be circulated via the ASW listserv (click here to subscribe). For more information, please contact the ASW student coordinator, David Boze, at dboze(at)uchicago.edu.