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
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.
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
Apr 19, 2017
Africa Film Series ─ Lumumba (Democratic Republic of Congo, 2000) Directed by Raoul Peck
7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 12, 2017
Africa Film Series ─ Mortu Nega (Guinea Bissau, 1987) Directed by Flora Gomes
7 p.m. – 10 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Apr 4, 2017
Mar 10, 2017
Feb 23, 2017
Ebola Response and Recovery
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Africa Initiative
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Nov 11, 2016
Medicine and Public Health in Africa: Past, Present, and Future
9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Joukowsky Forum
Nov 10, 2016
Nov 3, 2016
Oct 12, 2016
Nancy Jacobs & Aidea Downie ─ The Remarkable Life of Washington Okumu, of Kenya, 1936-
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room
Apr 21, 2016
Paul Lubeck ─ The Political Demography of Boko Haram and the Northern Crisis
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Board Room
Feb 26, 2016
Nov 16, 2015
Fiori Berhane ─ Anarcho-Humanitarianism: Intimate Ties, Betrayal and Refugee Assistance
12 p.m. McKinney Conference Room
Oct 23–24, 2015
Conference ─ Democracy in Africa
10/23, 8:45am - 4:30pm 10/24, 8:45am - 11:00am Joukowsky Forum
Apr 14, 2015
Apr 7, 2015
Nov 13, 2014
Political, Cultural and Epidemiological Aspects of the Ebola Outbreak
5:30 p.m. Salomon Center 101, DeCiccio Family Auditorium, The College Green
Oct 20, 2014
Sep 30, 2014
Wole Soyinka ─ Hatched from the Egg of Impunity: A FOWL CALLED BOKO HARAM
TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT. There will be a live stream of this event here: Brown Live Webcast and overflow space with live webcast in McKinney Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Watson Institute for International Studies, 111 Thayer Street
4 p.m. Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, 154 Angell Street