Seminars

Studies in Contemporary Africa

Year Founded 1956

Seminar # 435

StatusActive

The seminar provides a lively forum for scholars engaged in the advanced study of Africa. Faculty and visiting scholars from Columbia University, Barnard College, and neighboring institutions actively participate in the regular series of sessions. Seminar discussions focus on theoretical and comparative approaches to the study of colonial and contemporary states, built environments and ecologies, gender, the arts, media, cultural studies, and processes in political mobilization and leadership.

Chair/s

Casey McNeill

Rhiannon Stephens

Rapporteur/s

Mylkah Djacko

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Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

28
Jan

January 28, 20265:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Faculty House

Mistaking Order for Anarchy Territory, Mobility, and Security in the Sahel

Speaker/s

Casey McNeill, Fordham University

Scheduled

25
Feb

February 25, 20265:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Faculty House

Socialist De-Colony: Black and Soviet Entanglements in Ghana’s Cold War

Speaker/s

Nana Osei-Opare, Rice University

Scheduled

08
Apr

April 8, 20265:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Faculty House

“A Model C School in the Township”: Cape Town’s Marketplace of Schools and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

Speaker/s

Amelia Herbert, Barnard College-Columbia University

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

03
Dec

December 3, 20255:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Faculty House

An Interspecies Contact Zone: Locusts and Humans in Colonial Burundi (1924-1939)

Speaker/s

Benoît Henriet, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Scheduled

15
Oct

October 15, 20255:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Faculty House

Sediments of Meaning: A Military History of Mapungubwe National Park, 1932-Present

Speaker/s

Jacob Dlamini, Princeton University

Scheduled

17
Sep

September 17, 20255:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Faculty House

Who Will Use Your History? How Will It Be Interpreted in Future Years?

Speaker/s

Winifred Armstrong

Lauren Stark, New York University Libraries

Lydia Walker, The Ohio State University

Scheduled

08
Apr

April 8, 20254:30 pm -

Faculty House

Maritime Dreams from the Horn of Africa

Speaker/s

Emanuel Admassu, Columbia University

Scheduled

04
Mar

March 4, 20254:30 pm -

Faculty House

Theater of the Cosmos: Infrastructures of Space in Africa

Speaker/s

Asif Siddiqi, Fordham University

Scheduled

28
Jan

January 28, 20254:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

A Sotto Voce Conspiracy: Black World Disaster and the Great Aid Hoax

Speaker/s

Shana Redmond, Columbia University

Scheduled

12
Nov

November 12, 20246:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

Robyn D’Avignon and Anooradha Siddiqi in dialogue with Laura Fair

Speaker/s

Robyn D'Avignon, NYU

Anooradha Siddiqi

Laura Fair

Scheduled

08
Oct

October 8, 20246:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Faculty House

“Afrobeats” Women on Bridging Generations for Africa in Diaspora through Songs

Speaker/s

Ruth Opara

Cancelled

23
Apr

April 23, 20244:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Faculty House

Scheduled

26
Mar

March 26, 20244:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Scheduled

27
Feb

February 27, 20244:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Scheduled

28
Nov

November 28, 20234:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Zoom

Scheduled

19
Oct

October 19, 20234:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

Scheduled

18
Sep

September 18, 20234:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Faculty House

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