Mar 26, 2021
Hassan Kochore — Do the Locals Count? State documentation and (il) legible temporalities in Northern Kenya
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
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.
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
Adrienne Cohen ─ Infinite Repertoire: On Dance and Urban Possibility in Postsocialist Guinea ─ Virtual Book Talk
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Oct 28, 2020
Oladipupo Oyeleye — Curbing COVID-19: Perspectives on African Popular Music in the Era of Global Health Crisis
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar, or tune in to the talk live at Watson's YouTube channel
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
Nov 15, 2017
Imraan Valodia ─ A National Minimum Wage for South Africa: A Means for Addressing Inequality
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Board Room
Nov 9, 2017
Caroline Melly ─ Bottleneck: Engaging Infrastructures in Dakar, Senegal
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 26, 2017
Ivor Chipkin ─ Does Democracy have a Future in South Africa? ‘State Capture’ and Elite Politics
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 5, 2017
Andrew Bank ─ Africanizing Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Oct 2, 2017
Andrew Bank ─ Feminizing the Foundational Narrative: South Africa’s Women Anthropologists, 1885-1995
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Sep 20, 2017
Jennifer Johnson – Reconsidering the Origins of Family Planning in Africa: The Curious Cases of Tunisia and Morocco
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Apr 26, 2017
Africa Film Series ─ Estas São As Armas (Mozambique. 1979), Directed by National Film Institute of Mozambique
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Joukowsky Forum