Akin Ogundiran (Northwestern University)
Sewell Social Sciences, Rm 8417 @ 12:00 pm
Anthropology Colloquium This talk examines the Oyo Empire (ca. 1600–1836) through the lens of domesticity, household organization, and the politics of dependency. Multi-sited excavations in the metropolis (Oyo-Ile) and the colony of Ede-Ile suggest the …
Terrence G. Peterson (Florida International University)
Fluno Center - Howard Auditorium @ 6:30 pm - 7:45 pm
The Algerian War was a pivotal event in the global struggle for decolonization. In this discussion of his new book, Terrence G. Peterson highlights how the conflict also helped to transform the nature of modern …
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive @ 12:00 pm
In Africa, the late twentieth century was a time of military coups and martial “revolutions.” In Nigeria and other former British colonies, the army officers who took power tried to remake their societies along military lines. They had utopian visions, and Samuel Fury Childs Daly describes the dismal ideology …
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building (455 N Park St) @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Colloquium Ayo Adegbite (UW-Madison) Sponsored by Department of …
Pyle Center, Room 309 -
Frameworks: Austerities Past and Present (9:00 AM -12:00 PM) Julia Elyachar (Princeton) Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barabara) Comments: Amy Offner (UPenn) Inventing Austerity (3:15 PM – 6:00 PM) Clara Mattei (New School) Priya Lal (Boston …
