Fordham Africanist Group Events

Upcoming Events

black and white headshot of Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi
Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City with Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Associate Professor of History, Howard University)

Wednesday, February 26 | 4-5:30 p.m.
Lincoln Center Campus, 40 W 62nd St, Room 460

 

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Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change in South Africa with Daniel Magaziner (Professor of History, Yale University)

Wednesday, April 9 | 4-5:30 p.m.
Lincoln Center Campus, 140 W 62nd St, Room 460

 

 

 

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Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya with Emma Park (Assistant Professor of History, The New School)

*Co-Sponsored with the O'Connell Initiative on the History of Global Capitalism*
Wednesday, April 16 | 4-5:30 p.m.
Lincoln Center Campus, 140 W 62nd St, Room 460

 

Past Events

Fall 2024

Brittany Meché

Afropolitan Insecurities: Kairological Time and Urban Geographies with Brittany Meché (Environmental Studies, Williams College)

Wednesday, October 30, 4-5:30 p.m.
Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein room 713

 

 

 

Tyesha Maddox
A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity with Tyesha Maddox (African and African American Studies, Fordham University)

Wednesday, September 25 | 4-5:30 p.m.
Lincoln Center Campus, Lowenstein room 713

 

Spring 2023

Oumar Ba Portrait Image.

Towards a Decolonial U-Turn: Lamine Senghor, The League Against Imperialism, and Anti-Colonialism in Interwar Europe
Oumar Ba (Government, Cornell University)

Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Martino Hall, 45 Columbus Ave, Room 525.

 

Talk Title: TBD
Brooke Bocast (Anthropology and African Studies, Montana State University)

April 20, 2023

 

Fall 2022

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A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa
Robyn d’Avignon (New York University) Book Launch

Wednesday, September 21, 2022
140W Gabelli Conference 460

 

Alessandro Iandolo Portrait Image.

Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
Alessandro Iandolo (University College London) Book Launch

Wednesday, October 5, 2022
140W Gabelli Conference 461

 

Caitlin Beach Portrait Image.

Sculpture at the Ends of Slavery
Caitlin Meehye Beach (Art History, Fordham University) Book Launch

Thursday, November 3, 2022
140W Gabelli Conference 462