Academic Year 2021-22:
October 19, 2021, 5:30pm

African Studies Workshop

“A Healer or a Witch?: Spirits, Kinship, and the Struggle over Spiritual Authority”
Raffaella Taylor Seymour
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Chicago

Discussant: Debbie Durham, Editor of Hau Books and Deputy Editor of Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
November 9, 2020, 5:30pm

Distinguished Lecture Series

TBD
January 18, 2022

African Studies Workshop

“At Home in Empire: Dwelling, Domesticity, and Welfare in France and Senegal, 1914-1974.”
Gregory Valdespino
PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago

Discussant: Gregory Mann, Professor of History, Columbia University
February 15, 2022, 5:30pm

Distinguished Lecture Series

Carina Ray
Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies, Brandeis University
April 12, 2022, 5:30pm

Distinguished Lecture Series

Cheikh Babou
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

All events will be held on Zoom. The meeting link will be circulated via the ASW listserv (click here to subscribe).