The 2018-2019 Monthly African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series
Fall Semester
All fall events are public and take place on a Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Discovery Centre, Room 482 MacOdrum Library (“MC” on the map of Carleton, http://carleton.ca/campus/)
September 19: Jane Parpart, Professor Emeritus, IAS Adjunct Researcher and former Lester Pearson Chair in International Development at Dalhousie University
Title: “Beyond the Binary: Rethinking Silence, Voice and Power in a Gendered and Insecure World”
October 31: Annette Isaac, Adjunct Research Professor and former Instructor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton.
Title: “Missing The Cues. Tales of a Newcomer’s Life in Canada”
November 14: Logan Cochrane, Banting Fellow, Global and International Studies, Carleton University
Title: “Bottom-up Change in a Top-down Government: Changing Policy and Law in Ethiopia”
December 12: Moses Galadima, Postdoc Fellow, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University
Title: “Title to be Announced” – CANCELLED
Winter Semester
All winter events are public and take place on a Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in either The Arts Lounge in 2017 Dunton Tower or Discovery Centre in the MacOdrum Library – Room 482 (“DT” or “ML” on the map of Carleton, http://carleton.ca/campus/)
January 23: Nimo Bokore, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Carleton University.
Title: “Somali Studies in Canada: Resilience and Resistance”
February 13: Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, The Pauline Jewett Institute, Carleton University.
Title: “Look at their Clothes!”: Sartorial identity and Afropolitanism in An African City
March 20: Cajetan Iheka, Assistant Professor, Department of English, at the University of Alabama
Title: “Title to be Announced”
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