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 co-sponsored by Medicine and its Objects |
| October 27, 2020, 5:30pm |
“not all realisms: Photograpy in Africa in the Long 1960s” Leslie Wilson Discussant: Gregory Valdespino, PhD Candidate in History |
| November 10, 2020, **11:15am** |
“Remembering Gukurahundi in Johannesburg: Migration Trajectories and Memory in Music” Duduzile Ndlovu |
| December 1, 2020, 5:30pm |
“Unexpected Callings: The Rediscovery of Ancestral Spiritualities among Queer Zimbabweans” Raffaella Taylor-Seymour 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 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 Discussant: Gregory Valdespino, PhD Candidate in History |
| February 16, 2021, 5:30pm |
“Landscape and Settlement Histories in the Sandawe Homeland” Matthew Knisley 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 |
| April 13, 2021, 5:30pm | Dr. Ibrahima Thiaw |
| May 4, 2021, 5:30pm | David Boze |
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.