Mar 2, 2023
Victor Alabi — The Semiotics of Yoruba Clothing
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Africa Initiative
The Africa Initiative promotes research and pedagogy at Brown and in collaboration with African partners, supports academic programs and activities that foster critical inquiry, enhance knowledge, and contribute to efforts to address contemporary social problems.
Dec 6, 2022
Nov 30, 2022
Celebrating Africa at Brown!
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. The Agora, Watson Institute, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Mar 18, 2022
Temie Giwa-Tubosun ─ Data, Health and Technology: Tackling Blood Shortages in Nigeria and Kenya
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. 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 p.m. – 1 p.m. 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 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. 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 p.m. – 1 p.m. 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 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Feb 25, 2021
Oct 28, 2020
Oct 20, 2020
Apr 1, 2020
CANCELED: Screening of Guangzhou Dream Factory
5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Joukowksy Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 2, 2020
Elizabeth Foster ─ African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 15, 2019
Cancelled - Laura Vinson ─ Explaining Patterns of Religious Violence & the Role of Ethnic Identities: The Case of Northern Nigeria
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Feb 6, 2019
James Phillips ─ Biafra at 50: A War Remembered
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 27, 2018
Oct 29, 2018
Luke Messac ─ No More to Spend: Neglect and the Construction of Scarcity in Malawi's History of Health Care
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 22, 2018
US Military Counterterrorism in Africa
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 15, 2018
Julie Soleil Archambault ─ Fitness, Class and the Political Economy of Sweat in Mozambique
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 12, 2018
Mar 8, 2018
Africa Teach-In
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, Churchill House, 155 Angell Street
Feb 26, 2018
Catherine Boone ─ Regional Inequality and Land Law Reform in Africa
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 3rd Floor
Nov 27, 2017
Craig Daigle ─ Sadat’s African Dilemma: Ethiopia, Libya, and the Making of the Camp David Accords
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room