Center for African Studies

CAS Working Groups introductory meeting September 1 | 11:45am With funding from a USED National Resource Center grant and from the UF Office of Research, CAS sponsors a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary working groups. These thematic-oriented groups provide a forum for faculty and students to pursue research and funding initiatives that cut across standard academic …

Join us on Saturday October 16th from 4-7pm for the Center for African Studies  2021 Annual Fall Party at the Austin Cary Forest Campus. The event will comply with UF Covid Protocols and masking indoors will be expected. CAS faculty, staff, students, friends, and family are invited to the Center's Annual Fall Reception. Join us …

Siri Lamoureaux, an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Siegen in Germany, will speak at this event, organized by the Digital Africa Working Group at the Center for African Studies.

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The Center for African Studies presents: SASA@ Lunch with Kimberley Williams, University of Florida Death and Grieving Studies in Ghana Wednesday 9 November @ 11:45 in 471 Grinter Pizza and soft drinks provided

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The University of Florida School of Theatre + Dance invites you to Agbedidi, an invigorating dance experience that merges African and modern dance styles into one high-energy performance. Friday, December 02, 2022 7:30pm Sunday, December 04, 2022 4:00pm  Friday, December 02, 2022 7:30pm  Saturday, December 03, 2022 7:30pm  Sunday, December 04, 2022 2:00pm    For Tickets and More Information : …

Join the Center for African Studies and the International Center for the first of two African Research Sharing & Networking events Get the opportunity to hear from students of all disciplines and their African-focused research. OPEN TO ALL Light refreshments will be served. If you or someone you know has done research in Africa this …

A Baraza with Joseph Hill, University of Alberta Muslim Women’s Interpretive Authority Reconsidered: Everyday Interpretation among Female Islamic Leaders in Senegal Dr. Hill is associate professor of anthropology. His publications include: “Islam and the Question of Gender.” In Routledge Handbook of Islam in Africa (2021); “Women Who Are Men: Shaykha Maryam Niasse and the Qur’an in Dakar.” In Approaches to the Qur’an in Sub-Saharan …

AI in Africa Speaker Series: Decolonial Imaginaries of AI: Contested Visions of Modern State Building in Africa The Digital Africa working group at the Center for African studies is proud to present the first talk of our AI in Africa speaker series, by Yousif Hassan University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Please see below for information about …

Please join us on Zoom for an informative session scheduled from 5:00 pm to 6:45 pm. During this event, speakers comprising Students, Alumni, and Faculty/Staff will share invaluable insights on mastering the collegiate experience of "GATOR life." We are excited to delve into a diverse array of topics, each offering essential guidance for your academic …

Addis Ababa-based architect Rahel Shawl is one of the leading designers in Ethiopia.  She will discuss her recent project in Halala Kella in a conversation with Professor Dawit Benti of the Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction, and City Design   Rahel Shawl was born and educated in Ethiopia. She co-founded Abba Architects in 1992 and founded …

The African Student eXperience (ASX) Graduate Student welcoming reception, Home away from Home, is an in-person meet and greet for all enrolled African Students to socialize, enjoy an African-style meal, and gather more information from the open tabling session from on and off-campus resource groups. Learn more about the UF Center for African Studies.   …

We will discuss activities for the year, including possible themes for our spring conference.  Please come and bring your good ideas.

Sebastian Elischer, University of Florida. Toward Praetorian-led Electoral Authoritarianism? The (non)Transitions from Junta Rule in West Africa.   Dr. Elischer is associate professor of political science. His publications include: "Tribeless and Democratic Youth? Political Attitudes of Kenyan University Students Toward Ethnicity and Democracy." Canadian Journal of African Studies (co-author, 2022); Salafism and Political Order in Africa (2021); …

Benjamin Smith, University of Florida. Resource Curse or Oil Blessing? Counterfactual Evidence from Africa.

Amy Schwarzott, North Carolina A&T. Welding, Hammering, Cutting, Tearing & Twisting: The Persistent Power of Recycling in Mozambican Urban Arts.

Join the University of Florida National Resource Centers (NRCs) and the University of Texas at Austin Hemispheres NRCs virtually or in-person for current research presentations on The Many Faces of Democracy. Area studies experts will represent what democracy looks like in Western Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Russia/Eastern Europe/Eurasia. This free workshop is an opportunity to network …

A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations, Homegoing heralds the arrival of …

C4SP Lecture Series presentation on Norms of Solidarity and Regionalism: Theorizing State Behavior among Southern African States is approaching. Topic: Despite many recognized ambivalences, “norms of solidarity” portray a dominant picture of foreign policy practices of Southern African states. However, norms of solidarity, state behavior among Southern African states, and regional integration arrangements are not …

Food Security, Partnerships, and the War in Ukraine.   Zoom: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/95642389472?pwd=TGx3alVIdHh3Rm5ZOTNjNEd1RUZwUT09

John Mwihaki, University of Florida. Use of Herbarium Specimens from Africa in the Molecular Phylogeny of Tree Ferns. 11:45am in 471 Grinter

Devaka Premawardhana, Emory University. Male Initiation and Matrilineal Ideology in Northern Mozambique.

UNA*USA Gainesville Chapter Celebrates United Nations Day Global Health: Human, Animal, and Environment   Saturday, October 21, 2023 9:45 am to 1:45 pm At Oak Hammock 5100 SW 25th Blvd. Gainesville, FL Keynote Speaker: Dr. Zhoumeng Lin Associate Professor, Public Health University of Florida  Expert Panelists  Dr. Paul Gibbs Professor Emeritus Veterinary Medicine …

Noah Nathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Explaining Urban Order: The Autocratic Origins of Africa’s City Street Networks. Abstract:  I connect the political incentives of state leaders to the physical geometry of urban built environments. Drawing on a novel combination of street network data, archival maps, and satellite imagery, I test and refine classic claims that …

Torben Becker, University of Florida. At Night in Accra: A Multifaceted Partnership Saves Lives in Ghana.

Rujeko Dumbutshena, University of Florida. Ndechedu Tese: Sustainable Communitybased and Cultural Arts Projects in Zimbabwe.

DISCUSSANT: Professor Istvan Tarrosy, Ph.D., Dr. habil. University of Pécs and University of Florida   Abstracts of the talks: The Political Economy of China’s Globalizing Railways – and their Arrival in Africa Tim Zajontz will sketch the historical development of China’s own railway sector and document the centrality of railways in the current spatial reorganization …

Black Seine, White Masks Kevi Donat, Le Paris Noir Paris used to be the capital city of a massive colonial Empire. That legacy shows in its architecture, its culture, and its people. But 21st-century France is not comfortable talking about race. The French Republic does not acknowledge race and most French people are quite defensive when …

Richard Kweitsu, University of Florida. The Significance of Post-Election Legal Challenges for Democratization in Africa.

Chinese Infrastructure Investment in Egypt and Djibouti. 10am online

Mari Webel, University of Pittsburgh. The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness and its Precedents in the Great Lakes Region.

Bienvenue Mukungilwa, University of Florida. Motorcycle Cab Drivers in Eastern DRC: Between Mobility, Adaptation and Survival.

Adria LaViolette, University of Virginia. The Archaeology of Colonialism in Eastern Africa: Emerging Trends on the Swahili Coast. 3:30pm in 404 Grinter