Oct 24, 2023
William Miles – Niger’s Coup in Context: A Four-Decade Retrospective from the World's Poorest Country
12:00pm – 1:30pm Birkelund Board Room (140), Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street
Event Archive
Oct 16, 2023
Merve Fejzula — A Political Economy of West African Publics, 1840-1920
12:00pm – 1:20pm Birkelund Board Room (140), 1st Floor, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 2, 2023
BRIDGES Symposium: Cutting-Edge Research by Young South African Scholars
3:00pm – 5:00pm McKinney Conference Room (353), 3rd Floor
Sep 13, 2023
Film screening and discussion ─ "Father's Day" with renowned Rwandan filmmaker Kivu Ruhorahoza
5:00pm – 9:00pm The Agora, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Mar 2, 2023
Victor Alabi — The Semiotics of Yoruba Clothing
4:00pm – 5:30pm Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Dec 6, 2022
Nov 30, 2022
Celebrating Africa at Brown!
5:30pm – 8:30pm The Agora, Watson Institute, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Apr 13, 2022
Mar 18, 2022
Temie Giwa-Tubosun ─ Data, Health and Technology: Tackling Blood Shortages in Nigeria and Kenya
12:00pm – 1:00pm Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 21, 2022
Gender and Development: Lessons from Kenya
Tune in starting Monday, February 21 at 6 a.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube channel.
Dec 6, 2021
Khalid Medani ─ Our Revolution is Peaceful: Understanding the Domestic and Regional Factors Behind Sudan’s Political Crisis and the Prospects for a Transition to Civilian Democracy
12:00pm – 1:00pm McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 9, 2021
Elizabeth Pfeiffer — Viral Frictions: An Ethnography of Global Health, Intersecting Inequalities, and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Western Kenya
4:00pm – 5:30pm Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 26, 2021
Mar 8, 2021
Michael Woldemariam ─ From Rebelling to Ruling: Insurgent Victory and State Capture in Africa
12:00pm – 1:00pm Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Mar 3, 2021
Sanyu A. Mojola ─ A Nowadays Disease: HIV/AIDS and Social Change in Rural South Africa
12:00pm – 1:30pm Register here to join the webinar.
Oct 20, 2020
Mar 17, 2020
CANCELED: Priya Lal ─ Making Human Resources and Building Nations in Southeastern Africa
12:00pm – 1:00pm McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 9, 2020
Meghan Healy-Clancy ─ Women and Popular Politics in 20th Century South Africa
12:00pm – 1:00pm McKinney Conference Room, Third Floor, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 2, 2020
Elizabeth Foster ─ African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church
12:00pm – 1:00pm McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 11, 2019
Marie Grace Brown — Setting up House: Bachelors, Domesticity, and Mobility in Imperial Sudan
12:00pm – 1:00pm McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 22, 2019
Alex de Waal ─ Starvation Crimes in the Horn of Africa
12:00pm – 1:00pm Watch on Watson's YouTube Channel. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Africa Speaker Series
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Oct 8, 2019
Nada Mustafa Ali & Khalid Medani – New Voices from Sudan
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube Channel. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street