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Previous African Anthropology seminars

2023

Nick Rahier

"‘Deep Science’: Enchanting Urban Futures through Geothermal Explorations in Nakuru, Kenya"

Date: Dec. 14, 2023


Ismaël Maazaz

"Fluent waterscapes in the Lake Chad basin: exploring the entanglement of drinking water and flooding"

Date: Nov. 9, 2023


Emmanuelle Roth & Gregg Mitman

"Fragments of the Forest: Infrastructures of Extraction and Endangerment in the Making of a West African Hotspot"

Date: Oct. 26, 2023


Noemi Tousignant

"Postcolonial styles of research diplomacy (Senegal, 1970s)"

Date: Oct. 19, 2023


Nile Davies

Bona Vacantia

Date: Sep. 7, 2023


Timothy Makori

"A post-industrial world in a pre-industrial landscape: generations, monuments and movements in the Congo Copperbelt"

Date: Aug. 24, 2023


Anitha Kemi Tingira & Fatoumata Hane

"The Maternal Referral System, Childbirth Experiences and Healthcare Providers’ Dilemmas in Usandawe, Tanzania" and "A sociohistory of disease management in Senegal: Health policies between permanency and discontinuity"

Date: Jun. 15, 2023


Sarah Howard

Stable Jobs, Precarious Lives: Rural Public Servants in Ethiopia

Date: May. 24, 2023


Jess Auerbach

"Weighting data: Hydroinformatics, drift, and the cable around the cape"

Date: Apr. 13, 2023


Jochen Lingelbach

"On the Edges of Whiteness. Polish Refugees in British Colonial Africa during and after the Second World War"

Date: Mar. 9, 2023


Samwel Ntapanta

Polarised Cityscapes: Gathering Electronic Waste and Its Malcontents in Dar es Salaam.

Date: Jan. 15, 2023

2022

Patience Mususa

"The Politics of DIY Urbanism on Zambia’s Copperbelt"

 


Filip de Boeck

"TOXICITY : Presenting the Lubumbashi Biennale 2022"

Sep. 29, 2022


Julia Tischler

"African Encounters with Modernity and Development - Agriculture and Industrialisation in Southern Africa"

 May 12, 2022


Teresa Mbatia

"Activists Ignoring the Needs of Ordinary Citizens:  Web-Based Citizen Participation in Conserving Urban Protected Areas in Nairobi, Kenya"

Apr. 28, 2022


Gerda Kuiper

"Labour and living conditions in the cut flower industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya"

Feb. 10, 2022


Ruben Andersson

"Fighting and fearing the Other: Notes for an anthropology of nefarious systems "

Jan. 13, 2022

2021

Aissatou Mbodj-Pouye

"Radio, mobility, and migration. A view from Kayes, Mali"

Dec. 2, 2021


Katie Kilroy-Marac

"Postcolonial Psychiatry and Memory Work in a West African Clinic"

Nov. 11, 2021


Monika Motylinska

"Claiming the territory – and retreating. The Bong Mining project and its histories"

Oct. 28, 2021


Pierre du Plessis

"Speculative Presences and Temporal Disjunctures: Exploring Landscapes for Truffles, Water, and Gas in the Kalahari Desert"

June 17, 2021


Simukai Chigudu

"The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe"

 May 20, 2021


Frederic Le Marcis

"наука и жизнь (Science and life.) Russian-Guinean scientific cooperation looking for viruses in the sub-prefecture of Madina Oula (1980-1990)"

Apr. 29, 2021


Cecil Marie Schou Pallesen

"Making Friends and Playing the Game. Tanzanian Indians Negotiating Distance and Belonging through Practices of Bribery"

Mar. 18, 2021


Nolwazi Mkhwanazi

"Negotiating families"

Feb. 18, 2021

2020

Tom Neumark

"Living in hype: Tanzanian technologists and health for all in an era of techno-optimism"

Dec. 3, 2020


Naomi Haynes

"Concretizing the Covenant: Zambia’s National House of Prayer and the Aesthetics of Christian Nationalism"

Oct. 15, 2019


Hannah Brown

"Blind spots in global health:  Lassa Fever, Science and the making of neglect in Sierra Leone"

 Nov. 19, 2020


Sandra Calkins

"Between the lab and the field:  Plants and places of evidence in a Ugandan-Australian research collaboration"

Oct. 22, 2020


Katrin Bahr

"East Germans in Mozambique: Negotiating Solidarity and the Everyday"

Sep. 24, 2020


Gregg Mitman

"The Land Beneath our Feet"

Aug. 27, 2020

2019

Melissa Graboyes

"Malaria as an “Environmental” Disease"

Dec. 4, 2019


Jacinta Victoria S. Muinde

"Eating and sharing: Universal Health Coverage, citizenship and narratives of ‘free’ public healthcare in Kenya"

Nov. 20, 2019


Guillaume Lachenal

"Tracing epidemics in an African anthropocene"

Nov. 6, 2019


Naomi Haynes

"Concretizing the Covenant: Zambia’s National House of Prayer and the Aesthetics of Christian Nationalism"

Oct. 15, 2019


Peter Ernest Mangesho

"Knowing and unknowing of AMR among Tanzanian pastoralists: local conceptualizations about (mis)appropriations of veterinary knowledge"

 Sep. 25, 2019


Richard Rottenburg

"On techno-scientific archives and (de)colonization"

Sep. 4, 2019


Armando Cutolo

"The return of Gbabgo: Oratory, history and performance in Abidjan street parliaments"

Apr. 3, 2019


James Wintrup

"Artful claim-making: rethinking relationships of dependence at a hospital in rural Zambia"

. 27, 2019

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