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Baraza Recap: Dr. John Straussberger, Florida Gulf Coast University

Baraza Recap: Dr. John Straussberger, Florida Gulf Coast University

Wednesday March 8, 2023

Baraza: March 3, 2023 Dr. Straussberger is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science & Public Administration. His publications include: “Storming the Citadel: Decolonization and Political Contestation in Guinea’s Futa Jallon, 1945-1961.” Journal of African History (2016) and “Fractures and Fragments: Finding Postcolonial Histories on Guinea in Local Archives.” History in Africa (2015). Dr. John (Trey) Straussberger, Assistant Professor […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Lamya Khalidi, Université Côte d’Azur

Wednesday February 8, 2023

Baraza: February 3, 2023 Dr. Khalidi is CR1 researcher at CNRS and alumnus of the UF in Dar es Salaam study abroad program. Her publications include: “Survival kit for the afterlife or instruction manual for prehistorians? Staging artefact production in middle Neolithic cemetery Kadruka 23, Upper Nubia, Sudan.” Antiquity (co-author, 2021); “9000 years of human lakeside adaptation […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Anna K. Mwaba, Smith College

Wednesday January 25, 2023

Baraza: January 20, 2023 Dr. Mwaba is assistant professor in the department of government and earned her PhD at UF. Her recent writings have largely focused on public engagement: “Addressing a pandemic on a continental level.” Africa Is A Country (2020); “The African Union called on Congo to suspend its election’s results. That’s unprecedented.” The […]

Baraza: April 22, 2022 

Monday April 25, 2022

Professor Benneta Jules-Rosette is a distinguished professor of sociology and the African and African American Studies Research Center director at the University of California, San Diego. She also served as the President of the Society for Africanist Anthropology of the American Anthropology Association. Professor Jules-Rosette is also in charge of the Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Students Essay […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Saida Hodžić March 25, 2022

Monday March 28, 2022

Baraza: March 25, 2022 This week’s special baraza was also the keynote lecture for the SEAN (Southeast Africanist Network) annual meeting, held by Centre for African Studies. The speaker was Dr. Saida Hodžić, from Cornell University on the topic of  “From (In)security to Abolition: African Perspectives on Ruling Imaginaries.” Dr. Saida Hodžić is associate professor […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Witulski (March 4, 2022)

Monday March 7, 2022

  Dr Christopher Witulski is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology and earned his PhD at UF. He is also the author of Focus: Music and Religion of Morocco (2019); The Gnawa Lions: Authenticity and Opportunity in Moroccan Ritual Music (2018); and “Light Rhythms and Heavy Spirits: Entertaining Listeners through Musical and Ritual Adaptations in Morocco.” Ethnomusicology Forum (2016), among others. […]

Baraza Recap: Dr. Moorman, “Angolan Radio in Five Songs”

Monday February 28, 2022

Dr. Marissa Moorman is a professor in the Department of African Cultural Studies, in University of Wisconsin. Her publications include: “Luanda Humms and Buzzes: Urban Soundscapes, Club Music, and Dance, 1960-present.” In Hossfeld, et al. (eds.) Ten Cities: Berlin, Bristol, Cairo, Johannesburg, Kiev, Lagos, Lisbon, Luanda, Nairobi, Naples (2020); Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, […]

Baraza Recap

Monday February 21, 2022

Dr. David Rifkind is a director of the School of Architecture at the University of Florida. As he shared in his brief introduction, he has been contributing extensively through his professional works, publications, and ongoing book and architectural projects. His training informs his professional work as an Architect, his concerns about sustainability, resilience, and climate […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Cleveland

Monday April 19, 2021

On April 16th, 2021, The Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled, “Servers, Safaris, and Social Ascension: African Labor in the Tourism Industry of Colonial Mozambique, 1890-1975”. The presentation was given by Dr. Todd Cleveland, associate professor of history at the University of Arkansas. His publications include: Following the Ball: The Migration of African […]

Recap: Baraza with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah

Monday April 12, 2021

On April 9th, 2021 the Center for African Studies, the Islam in Africa Working Group, the Center for Global Islamic Studies, the Department of Religion, and the Henry Luce Foundation presented: A Baraza with Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah.  The title of the Talk was “Christian-Muslim Encounters: The Nigerian Experience” Matthew Hassan Kukah is the bishop of […]

Recap: Baraza with Álvaro Luís Lima

Monday March 29, 2021

On March 26, 2021, The Center for African Studies presents hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “Partners in Crime: The Dog in the Art of Post-apartheid South Africa”. The presentation was given by Dr. Álvaro Luís Lima, an assistant professor of art history here at the University of Florida. His publications include: “The Place of Socialism […]

Recap: Baraza with Cheikh Thiam

Monday March 22, 2021

On March 19th, 2021, the Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “COVID-19, Coloniality, and the Limits of Western Arrogance: Thoughts from Africa.” The presentation was given by Dr. Cheikh Thiam, the academic dean for Africa South of the Sahara at the School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT. His publications include: “Negritude Africentered: […]

Baraza Recap with Ambassador John Campbell

Wednesday March 10, 2021

On March 5th,2021, The Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “How Should the Biden Administration Engage with a Rapidly Declining Nigeria – and Does it Matter?”. Dr. Brenda Chalfin Director of the Center for African Studies and Dr. Villalón, Dean of the International Center at UF welcomed the speaker. Ambassador John Campbell […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Katherine Luongo

Monday March 1, 2021

On February 26th, 2021, the Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “Border-Crossing Beliefs: African Witchcraft and Global Asylum-Seeking”. The presentation was given by Dr. Katherine Luongo, a professor of History at Northeastern University. Dr. Luongo is a specialist in the anthropological history of Kenya. Her work focuses on legal systems in colonial […]

Recap: Baraza with Dr. Nana Osei-Opare

Monday February 22, 2021

On February 19th, 2021, the Center for African Studies hosted its weekly Baraza entitled: “We Became Ghanaian: The Archive, Race, and the USSR.” The presentation was given by Dr. Nana Osei-Opare, an Assistant Professor of African and Cold War History at Fordham University, New York City. He currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled, Ghana’s Cold War: […]
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