African Studies Workshop http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/africanstudies Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:24:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ASW Event Schedule, Spring 2012 http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/africanstudies/2012/03/07/asw-event-schedule-spring-2012/ http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/africanstudies/2012/03/07/asw-event-schedule-spring-2012/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:07:48 +0000 zdingley http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/africanstudies/?p=783 African Studies Workshop
University of Chicago
-“THE CURRENT SCHEDULE OF ASW FOR 2012 – 13 IS HERE”-
(All meetings are held at 5 p.m. in Wilder House, unless otherwise noted.)
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University of Chicago
Winter 2012 Schedule
(All meetings are held at 5 p.m. in Wilder House, unless otherwise noted.)

January 10:
Brady Smith, PhD Student, Department of English, University of Chicago
Title: “Ecology, Economy, and the Contemporary African Novel”
Discussant: Matthew Knisley, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

February 7:
Nick Smith, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Title: “Silencing the Criminal Past: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Post-Apartheid State Building”
Discussant: Mary Robertson, PhD Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

February 9*** (please note the special date, time, and location):
Co-Sponsored with the Ethnoise! Ethnomusicology Workshop
Kelly Askew, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Title: “‘Poetry in Motion’: Ethnography vs. Cinematography in a Swahili Music Documentary
***The event will be held in the Regenstein Library, seminar room 264, at 4:30 PM***

February 21:
***Special Event: Guest Lecture***
Nigel Gibson, Director of the Honors Program, Emerson College
Title: Thinking Fanon: Fifty Years Later

**Suggested Event: Sawyer Seminar: Understanding Sexual Violence in Conflict: Gendered Dynamics of Victimization (regional focus on Great Lakes region)**
March 1: Keynote by Dr. Elisabeth Wood
Franke Institute Joseph Regenstein Library  S-118, 4:30-6:00, reception to follow
March 2: Working conference, Classics 110, 8:30-5:00
Presentations by Dr. Elisabeth Wood (Yale University), Dr. Dara Cohen (University of Minnesota), Jocelyn Kelly MS (Harvard Humanitarian Initiative), and a student panel (Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, Jonathan Shaw, and Amanda Blair)

March 6:
Mark Geraghty, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: Gacaca, Jenicide
Discussant: Nusrat Chowdhury, Visiting Lecturer, Northwestern University

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University of Chicago

Fall 2011 Schedule

(All meetings are held at 6 p.m. in Wilder House, unless otherwise noted.)

October 4***:
Fall Welcome Event
François Richard, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: In Pursuit of ‘Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms’: Historical Archaeology in Senegal and the Material Contours of the African Atlantic
Discussant: Genviève Godbout, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
***Please note: This opening event will be held at a different location.  Please contact the coordinator, Zeb Dingley (zdingley@uchicago.edu), for further details and directions.

October 6:
Zebulon York Dingley, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Segeju Social Life
Discussant: Amy McLachlan, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
***Co-Sponsored with the Semiotics: Cultures in Context Workshop. The Workshop will be held in Haskell Hall 101, 4:30-6:00 PM

October 18:
Jay Schutte, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title:  “’Bodysuits’ and ‘Biodomes’: The formation of the Sonochronotopia on Johannesburg’s Korean Ethnoscape”
Discussant:  Chris Bloechl, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

November 1:
Matthew Knisley, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “Primitives, Power, and Sandawe Prehistory”
Discussant: Mudit Trivedi, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

November 8:
Jennifer Cole, Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Title:  Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in Madagascar  (University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Discussant: George Paul Meiu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
***The discussion of Professor Cole’s book is co-sponsored by the African Studies Workshop and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory.

November 15:
***Red Lion Seminar***
Presenter:  Jonathon Glassman, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Northwestern University
Discussant:  Zebulon York Dingley, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
***Please note: This event will be held at The Aberdeen Tap, located at 440 N. Aberdeen St., Chicago, IL  60642. The workshop will be held at the usual time, 6:00 PM. Please contact the workshop coordinator, Zeb Dingley, with any questions, or if you need assistance.

November 29:
Bernard Dubbeld, Ph.D. Candidate, Departments of Anthropology and History, University of Chicago
Title: TBA
Discussant: TBA
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