The 2020-2021 Monthly African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series
Fall Semester
Chris Brown, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Topic: “We, too, the people of Botswana, are a species”: Elephants, Democracy and Racism — Reflections on the Botswana Hunting Ban Controversy
Date: October 7, 2020 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (EDT)
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Amal Madibbo, Visiting Professor, Global and International Studies,
Topic: A Panel on Canada-Sudan Relations
Date: November 25, 2020 | 11:30 am – 1:00 pm (EDT)
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Winter Semester
Trinish Padayachee, UCL, MA graduate.
Topic: Transport justice in South Africa – mapping the gendered impact of transport policy in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg”
Date: January 13, 2020 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (EST)
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Rebekah Sheppard, Independent Anthropologist of Art based in the UK
Topic: “ A magical clockwork elephant? Emil Torday’s Encounter with the people of the Kasai in 1909”
Date: January 20, 2021 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (EST)
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Ana Luiza de Oliviera de Silva, Independent historian based in Ottawa – CANCELLED
Topic: “Intellectual and Political Nigerian biography”
Date: February 17, 2020 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (EST)
John Kotsopoulos
Topic: “Africa EU Relations” CANCELLED
Date: March 24, 2021 | 1:00pm – 2:30 pm (EST)
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