{"id":18417,"date":"2023-04-12T16:02:51","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?page_id=18417"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:05","slug":"knowing-africa-2021-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/knowing-africa-2021-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2022 Monthly Knowing Africa Seminar Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        2021-2022 Monthly Knowing Africa Seminar Series\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Our new series of webinars and talks on the theme of \u201cKnowing Africa\u201d start this Fall term. The series will cover a wide range of issues from African theorists, decolonial epistemologies, feminist era in Africa and more. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the speakers lined up for Fall 2021 series are;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>September 29, 2021 | 1:00 pm \u2013 2:30 pm (EDT)<br>\nSpeaker:<\/strong> Achille Mbembe<br>\n<strong>Respondent:<\/strong> Aboubakar Sanogo<br>\n<strong>Topic:<\/strong> France in Africa Under Macron<br>\n<strong>Watch Video Here: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu_video\/france-in-africa-under-macron\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">France in Africa under Macron<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>October 13, 2021 | 1:00 pm \u2013 2:30 pm (EDT)<br>\nSpeaker:<\/strong> Pumla Dineo Gqola (Chair for African Feminist Imaginations, Centre for Women and Gender Studies, Nelson Mandela University)<br>\n<strong>Respondents:<\/strong><br>\nProfessor&nbsp;Yolande Bouka&nbsp;(Political Science, Queen\u2019s University)<br>\nDr. Bibi Bakare-Yusuf (Publishing Director, Cassava Republic Press)<br>\n<strong>Topic:<\/strong> The Female Fear Factory<br>\n<strong>Watch Video Here: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu_video\/the-female-fear-factory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Female Fear Factory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>November 3, 2021 | 1:00 pm \u2013 2:30 pm (EDT)<br>\nSpeaker:<\/strong> Emily Bridger<br>\n<strong>Respondents:<\/strong> Rachel Sandwell and Shireen Hassim<br>\n<strong>Topic:<\/strong> Young Women in the Struggle Against Apartheid<br>\n<strong>Watch Video Here: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu_video\/young-women-against-apartheid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Young Women in the Struggle Against Apartheid<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>November 10, 2021 | 1:00 pm \u2013 2:30 pm (EST)<br>\nSpeaker:<\/strong> Mark Gevisser<br>\n<strong>Respondents:<\/strong> Ann Cvetkovich and Jordache Ellapen<br>\n<strong>Topic:<\/strong> The Pink Line<br>\n<strong>Watch Video Here:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/cu_video\/the-pink-line-journeys-across-the-worlds-queer-frontiers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pink Line<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>November 17, 2021 | 1:00 pm \u2013 2:30 pm (EST)<br>\nSpeaker:<\/strong> Cynthia Becker<br>\n<strong>Respondents:<\/strong> Atiqa Hachimi and Carolyn Ramzy<br>\n<strong>Topic:<\/strong> Music &amp; Blackness in Morocco<br>\n<strong>Watch Video Here: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uLgvKygbjWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Music &amp; Blackness in Morocco<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>December 1, 2021 | 1:00 pm \u2013 2:30 pm (EST)<br>\nSpeaker:<\/strong> Christopher Ouma<br>\n<strong>Respondents:<\/strong> Sarah Emily Duff and Nduka Otiono<br>\n<strong>Topic:<\/strong> Childhood in African Diaspora Literature<br>\n<strong>Zoom Registration: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwsfu2tqjgsHNWXBmTupG9KwrUMNTBKx2pf\"> https:\/\/carleton-ca.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwsfu2tqjgsHNWXBmTupG9KwrUMNTBKx2pf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our new series of webinars and talks on the theme of \u201cKnowing Africa\u201d start this Fall term. 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