“Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire”

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 …

“Nigeria’s Biomedical Public: African Medical Practitioners in the Environment, Politics and Science of Disease Control in Africa 1850 to 1990” – Ayo Adegbite

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 …

“Global Histories of Austerity, Past and Present”

Pyle Center, Room 309
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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 …

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