Harvard Africa Seminar: "Republic of Therapy: Social Triage in Francophone West Africa in a Time of AIDS"
Wednesday, February 6th (4:15-6:00pm)
1730 Cambridge St., Room S250
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal
Contact:
cafrica@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Africa Seminar: “Chronic Malnutrition and the Trope of the Bad Mother: Reflections on the 2005 Crisis in Niger”
Tuesday, February 19th (4:15-6:00pm)
1730 Cambridge St., Room S250
Barbara Cooper
Director, Center for African Studies, Rutgers University
Contact:
cafrica@fas.harvard.edu
African summer research travel grant application deadline
Tuesday, February 26th (12:00pm)
Africa Initiative Conference "New Geographies in Contemporary African Art"
February 29th- March 1st
Register at
www.fas.harvard.edu/~afrart
Committee on African Studies/WCFIA Joint African Research Seminar:"The Neglected Role of Religion in Political Topographies of the African State"
Thursday, March 13th (12:00pm)
1737 Cambridge St., Room N262
Jon Kirby
Boston University
Contact:
clkelly@fas.harvard.edu
essor of Theology, Boston University
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Africa Initiative Conference: "Sacred Knowledge, Sacred Power and Performance: Ifá Divination in West Africa and the Diaspora"
March 14-16th
Program at Ifa Divination (Program subject to change.)
Additional support
from the Du Bois Institute, Center for the Study of World Religions, and Dept. of African & African American Studies
Harvard Africa Seminar : "Trauma and Personhood: The Photographic Legacy of Dr. Edward Margetts in 1950's Kenya"
Tuesday, March 18th (4:15-6:00pm)
Room S250, 1730 Cambridge Street
Sloan Mahone
Lecturer, History of Medicine; Deputy Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford University
Contact:
cafrica@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Africa Seminar: "Islam, Africa and Empire"
Wednesday, April 9th (4:15-6:00pm)
1730 Cambridge St., Room S250
Benjamin Soares
Senior Research Fellow, Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden
Contact: cafrica@fas.harvard.edu
Africa Initiative Conference: "Ethiopian Cultural Creativity Conference and Concert"
April 13-14th
Program at www.music.fas.harvard.edu/ethiopia.html
Additional support from the Du Bois Institute; Provost Fund, Dean for the Humanities, Radcliffe Institute
Africa Initiative Conference: "Art as Activism (and its limits) in the Post-Colony"
April 16-17th
