Yale Council on African Studies Lecture Series • Fall 2016 Room 203 • Luce Hall • 34 Hillhouse Avenue Wednesdays at 4:30pm

Yale Council on African Studies

Lecture Series • Fall 2016

Room 203 • Luce Hall • 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Wednesdays at 4:30pm

September 7

Yale Digs Africa

Rod McIntosh, Professor of Anthropology, Yale University

September 14

History, Fiction and South Africa

Imraan Coovadia, Novelist and Director, Creative Writing Program, University of Cape Town

September 28

The Re-installation of the African Art Gallery

Barbara Plankensteiner, Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation Curator of African Art, Yale University Art Gallery

October 5

Musical Passage: Listening in on Early Afro-Atlantic Music

Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History,

Duke University

October 12

The Digital Life of African Literature

Ainehi Edoro, Assistant Professor of Global Anglophone

Literature, Marquette University

November 2

Slavery and Its Afterlives in South Africa

Gabeba Baderoon, Associate Professor of WGSS and African

Studies, Penn State University

November 16

Sensational Movies. Ghanaian Films as

Oneiric Spaces of and for the Imagination

Birgit Meyer, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University

November 30

Angola: Ideology, Identity and Survival in the Shadow of the Cold War

Justin Pearce, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies, Cambridge University

December 7

#BringBackOurGirls in Nigerian Feminist History

Absoede George, Professor of History and Africana Studies, Barnard College