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Course and lecture series: "Africa, Method, Theory"
This joint course and public lecture series brings Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (Queen’s University), Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Florida), Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University) and Jacob S. Dlamini (Princeton University) to Basel during the fall semester 2024.
How does current research grounded in Africa decenter the perspectives from which we understand knowledge production in urban studies, history, anthropology, and related fields? This course and public lecture series facilitates in-depth engagement with four prominent scholars' research-in-progress, and through it, a discussion about the cutting edge of theory and method.
27 September 2024: Introduction (only 11:15-13:00)
11 October 2024: Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin (Queen’s University)
Feminist scholar of African urban futures and black futurity
1 November 2024: Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Florida)
Historian of medicine, reproduction, and humanitarianism in Africa
22 November 2024: Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University)
Historian of West African cities, interested in cartography and digital humanities
6 December 2024: Jacob S. Dlamini (Princeton University)
Historian of the environment, conservation, and apartheid
Classes take place from 12.15-4pm (Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201), public lectures from 4.15-6pm (Alte Universität, Hörsaal -101).
The course and public lecture series is jointly organized by George-Paul Meiu (Anthropology), Julia Tischler (African History), Kenny Cupers (Urban Studies), and Marie Muschalek (African History) for the ZASB.