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Africans | Europe Working Group
Africans | Europe Working Group
Africans | Europe February 7 @ 4:00pm European “Poaching” of African Nurses.
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Natural Resource Management-SSI | Africa Working Group
Natural Resource Management-SSI | Africa Working Group
POSTPONED : NRM | Africa February 10 @ 12:00pm How Can We Feed Africa While Conserving Biodiversity?
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Digital | Africa Working Group
Digital | Africa Working Group
Digital | Africa February 14 @ 12:45pm Frederick Madore, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient & Perry Collins, UF. Publishing the Islam Burkina Faso Collection: Collaboration for Digital Scholarship. Link to the Zoom Meeting https://ufl.zoom.us/j/7185043986 Meeting ID: 718 504 3986 The Digital Africa working group aims to facilitate discussions of a critical and informed character on a …
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Islam | Africa Working Group
Islam | Africa Working Group
Islam | Africa February 15 @ 11:45am Brahim Afrit, UF. The Paradox of the Two Ummas: the Predicament of the Algerian Ulama between Tradition and Modernity. This talk will draw on the specific case of the current reform of Islamic schooling in Algeria to examine the implications of the political ambivalence of the notion …
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Health | Africa Working Group
Health | Africa Working Group
Health | Africa February 16 @ 8:00am Jean-Baptiste Sagahutu, University of Rwanda. Community Participatory Intervention Training and Interprofessional Training in District Hospitals.
Students in African Studies Association (SASA)
Students in African Studies Association (SASA)
SASA February 16 @ 11:45am Mustapha Mohammed, UF. Community Engagement and Participation in Field Research. Register https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fMI17WKHTuWHQnjWDoMAOw
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Baraza February 18 @ 3:30pm David Rifkind, UF. Architecture and Urbanism in Addis Ababa. Register https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_snNZK2DSR1qASibUVDe0EQ Dr. Rifkind is professor and director of the School of Architecture. His publications include: Modern Ethiopia: Architecture, Urbanism and the Building of a Nation (2022); “Colonial Cities at the Crossroads: Italy and Ethiopia.” In Silva (ed.) Urban Planning in …
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Africans | Europe Working Group
Africans | Europe Working Group
Africans | Europe February 21 @ 4:00pm Michela Wrong. Exporting Opposition: Europe as a Stage for African Dissent. Michela Wrong is a writer and journalist with nearly 30 years’ experience covering Africa. She joined Reuters in the early 1980s and served as foreign correspondent in Italy, France and Ivory Coast. She became a freelance …
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Students in African Studies Association (SASA)
Students in African Studies Association (SASA)
SASA February 23 @ 11:45am Yekatit Tsehayu, UF. Being Convert and Woman: Negotiating Islamic Religious Authority through Social Media in Ethiopia. Register on Zoom
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Africa | China Working Group
Africa | China Working Group
Africa | China February 24 @ 10:00am Re-Visiting African Agency in China-East Africa Relations. Rethinking African Agency within China-Africa Relations Through the Lens of Policy Transfer: A Framework for Analysis, Dr. Oscar Otele (University of Nairobi) African Agency in Tight Corners? Determinants of African Governments' Contracting of Chinese Enterprises in Infrastructure Development: Evidence from Ethiopia, …
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Baraza February 25 @ 3:30pm Marissa Moorman, University of Wisconsin - Madison. Angolan Radio in Five Songs. *This is a hybrid event: Attend on Zoom or in person in 404 GRI Dr. Moorman is professor in the Department of African Cultural Studies. Her publications include: “Luanda Humms and Buzzes: Urban Soundscapes, Club Music, and Dance, 1960-present.” …
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State | Africa Working Group
State | Africa Working Group
State | Africa February 28 @ 3:00pm Anne Mette Kjaer, Aarhus University. When ‘Pockets of effectiveness’ matter politically: Extractive industry regulation and taxation in Uganda and Tanzania Abstract It is a common view that states in the developing world with substantial extractive natural resource discoveries may not have the capacity to tax and regulate multinational …
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Baraza March 4 @ 3:30pm Christopher Witulski, Bowling Green State University. Innovation and Authenticity: Diatribes of Gnawa Heritage. Dr. Witulski is assistant professor of ethnomusicology and earned his PhD at UF. His publications include: Focus: Music and Religion of Morocco (2019); The Gnawa Lions: Authenticity and Opportunity in Moroccan Ritual Music (2018); and “Light Rhythms …