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PAS Community News and Events
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 Thursday, May 12, 1:00-2:00pm CDT (UTC -5) join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for an ISITA Diaglogues Series talk "An Uneasy Embrace: Africans, Indians, and the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam" by Shobana Shankar, professor of history, Stony Brook University. In-person location is the Forum Room (2nd Floor), University Library, Evanston Campus, but.those participating through Zoom can register here. |
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 Thursday, May 12, 4:30 p.m., join the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and University Libraries for their collaborative annual lecture "On the History of the Book." This year Stephanie Newell (Yale University), author of Histories of Dirt in West Africa: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos (2020) presents “Ephemeral Texts and Local Creativity in Colonial Nigeria.” The event will take place in Harris Hall 108 (the Leopold Room), 1881 Sheridan Rd., Evanston campus with reception to follow. If you cannot attend in person, please register here to join. |
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Friday May 13, 6:30pm in the African Studies Library (5 East Tower, Main Library), the Pan-African Students' Union (PASU) hosts the final discussionunder of the Political Education Series, which focuses on the operational mechanisms of "neoliberalism" and the need for independent national economies in Africa. To augment the discussion, facilitators Patrick Owuor and Chernoh Bah have provided the documentaries linked below. The first video is a short documentary that provides a broad overview on the IMF/World Bank and the implications of its lending policies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYCH1Ylncxc.
The second video is on the life and work of Thomas Sankara, and it focuses mostly on Sankara's efforts to deal with the enduring legacy of French colonialism/neocolonialism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Vlt41HPUE.
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 Thursday, May 19, 10-11:30am, join Critical African Heritages, a Kaplan Institute for the Humanities Workshop in partnership with Northwestern’s Program of African Studies, on for "Behind the wire: Documenting the history of Kenya's independence movement through digital heritage,” a hands-on conversation with Chao Tayaina Maina, founder of African Digital Heritages. Maina will introduce the work of African Digital Heritages through the technologies it uses and the questions it asks, exploring themes including participatory heritage, public history, immersive technologies, and the nuances around doing digital heritage work in an under-funded and unrecognized sector. Register for this online event here.
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Thursday, May 19 at 3:30pm, at University Library (5th Floor, South Tower 1970 Campus Drive), Dean of Libraries Sarah M. Pritchard cordially invites you to join Northwestern University Libraries as we unveil the painting Young Masai Warrior by Paul Collins, recently gifted to the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies by alumnus Stanley McConner, Jr. Seating is limited. Direct questions to c-roccaforte@northwestern.edu.
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 Wednesday May 25, 12pm CT, As part of the interdisciplinary series, “Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey” Keyman Modern Turkish Studies presents "Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul" with Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University). Register to join this online event here.
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 Swahili Language Table will meet Mondays, 4-5pm in the Main Library's Video Theater Room. All levels of proficiency are welcome to come and use their skills! Meeting dates:
May 16
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Call for Proposals: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg Conference: Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges & Perspectives
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022
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Call for Applications for the 2022 Ife Institute of Advanced Studies’ summer institute
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022
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CPF: The Ethics and Politics of Naming Names of Enslaved Africans in Digital Humanities
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022
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CFP: Digitizing Performance in Africa: Politics, Aesthetics, and Historical Continuities in the Circulation of Music
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: July 22, 2022
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"Maš(w)i a Ditoro (tsa Rona)" with works by the Batswana artist collective The Botswana Pavilion opens on Monday, 25 April 2022. "Maš(w)i a Ditoro (tsa Rona)" includes video, photomontage, sculpture, painting and photography by Sade Shoalane, LegwakanaLeo Makgekgenene, Kim Makin, Thebe Phetogo and Thero Makepe. The title of the show references the title of the 2022 Venice Biennale, "The Milk of Dreams," translated into Setswana and altered to "Milk of (Our) Dreams," highlighting a subjectivity that holds the possibility of different as well as collectively shared perspectives (real or imagined).
Visit the Sakhile&Me website for more information.
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More Africa news and events:
Rwanda: Tracing the Origins and Role of Bananas in the Rwandan Culture, The New Times (Kigali), 11 May 2022
Cultural documentary ‘Bigger Than Africa’ set to debut on Netflix, Premium Times (Abuja), 10 May 2022
Africa and the Soldiers of Misfortune, African Arguments (London), 10 May 2022
A story of 90,000 trees: how Kenya’s Kipsigis brought a forest back to life, Guardian, 9 May 2022
Africa’s solutions to conflict are in crisis, ISS Today (Pretoria), 11 May 2022
Threat of being sent to Rwanda ‘harming health of UK asylum seekers’, Guardian, 10 May 2022
Africa Live: Africa's top Covid vaccine maker struggles, BBC, 6 May 2022
In Zimbabwe, conflict escalates between elephants and humans, Al Jazeera, 6 May 2022
Homophobia: Africa’s moral blind spot, Al Jazeera, 6 May 2022
The global stakes behind America’s abortion fight, Washington Post, 5 May 2002
Archive sheds new light on Tutankhamun discovery, 100 years on, BBC, 10 May 2022
Former Kenyan Meta employee files lawsuit, BBC, 10 May 2022
Angola's Joice Zau: The prize-winning poet who refuses to stay quiet, BBC, 2 May 2002
Somali Presidential Election Set for May 15, VOA, 5 May 2022
Champion of women’s right to manage land and forests wins top environment prize [Cameroon], UN News, 5 May 2022
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