Past Event Category: African History
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Oct 7“Three Things to Know about Africa and the Great War (since the Centenary)”
Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University)
Room 206, Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI 53706 & via Zoom
UW–Madison Africa at Noon Africa, Africans, and the First World War Michelle Moyd (Associate Professor, Michigan State University) Hosted by Jeremy Foltz Join Zoom Livestream Sponsored by: UW–Madison African Studies Program UW–Madison Department of History George L. Mosse Program
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Feb 27“Domesticity of Governance & Politics of Dependency in the Oyo Empire, 1600-1836”
Akin Ogundiran (Northwestern University)
Sewell Social Sciences, Rm 8417
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 Oyo Empire was constituted through layered domestic practices and that governance was deeply household-centered. Beyond solely formal political institutions, everyday …
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Oct 22“Decolonization, the Algerian War, and the Making of Modern Counterinsurgency”
Terrence G. Peterson (Florida International University)
Fluno Center - Howard Auditorium
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 warfare. As the French Army attempted to counter the struggle for Algerian independence, it fashioned a radical project of armed …
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Apr 2“Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire”
Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
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 that they made: militarism. Co-sponsored by: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, War in Society and Culture Program, Department of History, African Studies Program
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Mar 7“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)
“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 History
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May 24“Global Histories of Austerity, Past and Present”Pyle Center, Room 309
Frameworks: Austerities Past and Present (9:00 AM -12:00 PM) Inventing Austerity (3:15 PM – 6:00 PM) Thursday, May 25, 2023 Pyle Center, Room 309 Race, Empire, and the Making of Our Times (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM) Roundtable: Austerity and Resistance (1:00 PM – 3:15 PM) Sponsored by: The Brittingham Wisconsin Trust Grant, UW–Madison Department …