ASC Film Screening and Lecture. “The Alchemy of Culture and Law in the South African Constitutional Court.”
Albie Sachs, activist and former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Albie Sachs, activist and former judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa will show a short film he made called, “Touring the...
WCED Lecture. Judicial Politics in Africa
Fiona Shen-Bayh, WCED postdoctoral fellow, U-M
Existing research in comparative politics has focused on the legislative, bureaucratic, and coercive tools of autocratic survival, but...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world,...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world,...
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series
2018-2019 U-M African Presidential Scholars
This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are...
DAAS Africa Workshop “Get Along without It”: Contested Domestic Desires in Imperial Sudan
Marie Grace Brown (History, University of Kansas, Sudan)
In recent scholarship and past imperial logic, the colonial marital home has stood as a symbol of civility, stability, and imperial order....
CREES Noon Lecture. The Worlding of Eastern Europe: Architects from Socialist Countries in Cold War West Africa
Łukasz Stanek, visiting associate professor of architecture, U-M
This talk revisits one of the most under-researched topics in the history of 20th century modern architecture: African and Asian engagements...
CREES Noon Lecture. "They Treat Us Like Animals Here": Romani and Egyptian Belonging in Albania
Chelsi West Ohueri, postdoctoral fellow for population health, University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School
While many scholars in the Balkan region have analyzed identity and the politics of difference through the lens of ethnicity and ethnic...
