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12:00 pm
1/29/2020
101 ISB; 910 S. Fifth St.; C
CAS Brown Bag: Black Women in the French Diasporic Press: Amina Magazine in the 1980s and 90s
Seminar/Symposium
12:00 pm
2/12/2020
101 ISB; 910 S. Fifth St.: C
CAS Brown Bag: How to Improve Extension Services for More than 2 Million Malawian Farmers: Results, Evidence and Lessons from the USAID Strengthening Agricultural and Nutrition Extension (SANE) Activity
Seminar/Symposium
12:00 pm
2/19/2020
101 ISB; 910 S. Fifth St.; C
CAS Brown Bag: Small Fish Meets Big Industry: Fishmeal Factory in Sanyang Village, The Gambia
Seminar/Symposium
12:00 pm
2/26/2020
Room 101 ISB, 910 S. Fifth St., C
CAS Brown Bag: "Soft Power" and the Impact of the Bui Hydropower Dam on China-Ghana Relationship
Seminar/Symposium
12:00 pm
2/28/2020
Room 200, ISB, 910 S. Fifth St., C
CAS Brown Bag: What’s in the Timbuktu Manuscripts?
Lecture
12:00 pm
3/4/2020
Room 101 ISB, 910 S. Fifth St., C
CAS Brown Bag: Welfare Culture, Environmental Harm, and the Aesthetics of Failure in Postcolonial Nigeria
Seminar/Symposium
12:00 pm
3/11/2020
Room 101 ISB, 910 S. Fifth St., C
CAS Brown Bag: Awuyicecebule ("let's peel it"): Broadcasting and Archiving with Musical Bows
Seminar/Symposium
12:00 pm
3/25/2020
Room 101 ISB, 910 S. Fifth St., C
Brown Bag: Public Health in Ghana: The Key Issues
Seminar/Symposium
8:30 am
4/1/2020 - 5/15/2020
All Center for African Studies events are cancelled until futher notice.
Informational
12:00 pm
4/22/2020
Portraits by the Colonized: independence on film
Lecture
6:30 pm
4/30/2020
When the Sea was Still a God
Lecture
2:00 pm
9/4/2020
Women and Fatwas in Early Colonial Timbuktu
Lecture
12:00 pm
9/16/2020
The Neglected Power of Listening: A Case Study of Communities in Sierra Leone
Lecture
12:00 pm
9/23/2020
A Calabash, Cash, and a Community: Women’s Saving Associations in Urban Senegal
Lecture
7:00 pm
9/29/2020
A Special Event: Passing On Stories
Performance
2:00 pm
10/2/2020
Early Print Culture in Zanzibar
Lecture
12:00 pm
10/7/2020
(10/7) Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration & Launch of the Bokamba Graduate Scholarship Fund
Festival/Celebration
12:00 pm
10/21/2020
Community Development through Libraries and Books: A Case Study of Community Libraries in the Eastern Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo
Lecture
8:30 am
10/23/2020
Illinois Global Institute Career Day
Informational
7:00 pm
10/29/2020
Word is Seed: A Celebration of International Voices through Poetry and Languages
Performance
1:00 pm
11/4/2020
Afro-Iraqi Rituals: Between Preserving Identity & Resisting Oppression
Lecture
2:00 pm
11/6/2020
Race and Violence in Mali's Last Decade, 2010-2020
Lecture
12:00 pm
11/11/2020
Placing Value on Black Intellectual Travel
Lecture
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
11/17/2020
75 years of the UN and the Africana Diaspora--a special CAS webinar
Lecture
12:00 pm
12/2/2020
Creative Destruction, Pentecostalism, and the Spectacle of Ghana’s National Cathedral
Lecture
2:00 pm
12/4/2020
Seeking Freedom in the Sahel: Transnational Politics and Islamic Networks in Colonial Mali
Lecture
12:00 pm
1/26/2021
Photobook Egypt: Nine Stories, Nine Influential Photographers
Lecture
12:00 pm
2/3/2021
From Yellowstone (USA) to Bimbia (Cameroon): Land and Wellbeing in Global Nodes in Africa and the USA
Lecture
2:00 pm
2/5/2021
Timbuktu Talks: Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970
Lecture
12:00 pm
2/10/2021
Struggle to Survive: The Story of Abayudaya Jewish Community
Lecture
12:00 pm
2/22/2021
The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles
Lecture
12:00 pm
2/24/2021
I Give You Half the Road
Lecture
12:00 pm
3/3/2021
Affirming African Agencies
Lecture
2:00 pm
3/5/2021
Timbuktu Talks: Talismanic Arts: Practices of Sacred and Protective Writing from Northern Nigeria
Lecture
6:30 pm
3/25/2021
POLICING, RACIAL INJUSTICE, AND THE REGGAE BLUES CLUB IN BRITAIN: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe Anthology
Lecture
12:00 pm
3/31/2021
Organize Your Digital Files and Learn about African and Middle East Studies Collections
Lecture
2:00 pm
4/2/2021
Timbuktu Talks: Northern Mozambique Swahili Ajami Manuscript Culture: An Historical Overview"
Lecture
5:00 pm
4/6/2021
Finding Yingying
Film Screening
5:00 pm
4/6/2021
AsiaLENS: Finding Yingying (Virtual Screening + Online Filmmaker Discussion)
Film Screening
12:00 pm
4/7/2021
Covid-19 Exposes the Social-Economic Divide in Learning: An observation case in Kenya
Lecture
7:00 pm
4/7/2021
Kalushi: The Story of Solomon Mahlangu
Film Screening
4:00 pm
4/8/2021
From Refugee to Game Developer: Peacemaking through the Art of Gaming
Lecture
12:00 pm
4/14/2021
Developing African Landscapes: The Development Industry and Environmental Change in Southern Africa
Lecture
10:00 am
4/16/2021
Women at the Frontlines against COVID-19: Leadership from Informal Settlements in South Africa, Iran and Argentina
Ceremony/Service
6:30 pm
4/22/2021
Salutations to the Animated Earth
Other
2:00 pm
5/7/2021
Timbuktu Talks: Harāṭīn Reformist Intermediaries: Slavery, Islam, Gender, and Social Change in Colonial Mauritania, 1900-1960
Lecture
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
7/20/2021 - 7/22/2021
Education in Uncertain Times: How to Prepare for the New Normal Around the World
Professional Development
3:00 - 4:30 pm
9/10/2021
Timbuktu Talks--Islam, Diaspora and Nationalism: the case of Zanzibar's postcolonial Arab exiles, 1964-1990
Lecture
12:00 pm
9/15/2021
Uprooting University Apartheid in South Africa
Lecture
12:00 pm
9/22/2021
Study Abroad and Wildlife Conservation in Tanzania and South Africa
Lecture
2:00 - 3:30 pm
10/1/2021
Timbuktu Talks: Night Falls On The Sahel: How the French Occupation Began
Lecture
12:00 pm
10/6/2021
A New Biography of Samora Machel
Lecture
12:00 pm
10/15/2021
Home Front Egypt: Famine, Disease & Death During the Great War
Lecture
12:00 pm
10/21/2021
"Transitional Justice in Latin America: Lessons for the United States"
Lecture
12:00 - 1:30 pm
10/21/2021
Illinois Global Institute 2021-2022 Lecture Series
Lecture
12:00 - 1:30 pm
10/26/2021
Tunisia's Political Crisis
Lecture
6:30 - 8:30 pm
10/28/2021
Word Is Seed
Performance
12:20 pm
10/29/2021
Conversation with Grassroots Activists from Brazil and South Africa on Politics and Practices of Care and Solidarity
Lecture
12:00 pm
11/4/2021
Bones in the Forest: Exhumation and Reburial as Tools to "Healing The Dead" in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Lecture
2:00 pm
11/5/2021
Timbuktu Talks: From Rebels to Rulers: Writing Legitimacy in the Early Sokoto State
Lecture
7:00 pm
11/17/2021
Film Screening of We Loved Each Other So Much
Film Screening
12:00 pm
12/1/2021
Ninjani, Howzit, and Hoe Gaan Dit? Social Work Perspectives with a Social Justice Lens in Cape Town, South Africa
Lecture
6:30 pm
12/2/2021
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: film discussion
Lecture
2:00 pm
12/3/2021
Timbuktu Talks--The Dawn of the West African Clerisy: Moodibo Muhammad al-Kabari and "The Grove of Gains & Benefits"
Lecture
6:30 pm
2/25/2022
African, African Diaspora Transnational Musical Narratives
Lecture
4:00 pm
3/3/2022
Krannert Art Museum, 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign, Lower Level, Hood Classroom, and Virtual Event
A Night of Poetry: Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here!
Performance
3:00 pm
3/4/2022
CAS: Africa, Race and the War in Ukraine
Lecture
2:00 pm
3/8/2022
"Untouched Structures: Racism and the Experience of Brazilian Transitional Justice"
Lecture
11:00 am
3/23/2022
Sankofa Black Studies / Diasporic Futures: A global conversation among information scholars
Lecture
12:00 pm
3/23/2022
The Smell of Money: Fishmeal Factories and Coastal Protest in The Gambia
Lecture
5:00 pm
3/24/2022 - 3/25/2022
1002 Lincoln Hall
West African Dance: The Un-Taught: Film Screening "Engagement Féminin Project" (based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) with Artist Discussion
Film Screening
6:30 pm
3/30/2022
film discussion: Citation
Other
2:00 pm
4/5/2022
The Timbuktu Manuscripts Now
Lecture
12:00 pm
4/6/2022
The Author as Cannibal: Rewriting in Francophone Literature as a Postcolonial Genre, 1969-1995
Lecture
12:00 pm
4/7/2022
Decentralization and Challenges of a Fragmented Territory: The Rural Commune of Kalabancoro, Mali
Lecture
12:00 pm
4/13/2022
The Intersection of Western Music and Technology with Indigenous Traditions in Sierra Leone: Finding Inspiration from Non-Industrialized Conventions
Lecture
6:30 pm
4/22/2022
202 S. Broadway; Urbana, IL, 61801
film screening and discussion, The Great Green Wall
Film Screening
3:00 - 4:30 pm
6/25/2022
West African Drumming Workshop
Conference/Workshop
12:00 pm
9/7/2022
Improving Dairy Cattle Genetics in Tanzania
Lecture
12:00 pm
9/14/2022
Road to Qwanqwa--Establishing an All-Star Music Ensemble in Addis Ababa
Lecture
3:00 - 5:00 pm
9/18/2022
Nigerian Cooking Class & Meal Kit
Festival/Celebration
12:00 pm
9/21/2022
Bruce Nesbitt African-American Cultural Center lounge
Reimagining Africa in Our Futures
Lecture
6:30 - 8:00 pm
9/22/2022
Up North
Other
2:00 pm
9/27/2022
Main Library, Room 321
Chicago Immigrant Orchestra Afternoon Pop-Up Concert
Performance
2:00 pm
9/27/2022
Independent Community Rooted AI Research
Lecture
7:30 pm
9/27/2022
Colwell Playhouse (Krannert Center)
The Chicago Immigrant Orchestra Evening Concert
Performance
12:00 pm
9/28/2022
108 Coble Hall
Reflections on Kenya’s New Competency Based Curriculum (CBC): A Setback to Education Equity or a Panacea for Inequity?
Lecture
6:30 - 8:00 pm
9/28/2022
Searching for the Afrikan Roots of the Blues
Lecture
11:00 - 11:30 am
10/5/2022
4100 FLB
Arabic Tutoring
Informational
12:00 pm
10/5/2022
108 Coble Hall
A Modest, but Peculiar Style”: Self-Fashioning, Atlantic Commerce and the Culture of Adornment on the Urban Gold Coast
Lecture
4:00 pm
10/5/2022
Lucy Ellis Room (1080 FLB)
Swahili Movie Night: "Uncle JJ"
Film Screening
2:00 pm
10/7/2022
Room 306 of Coble Hall (801 S. Wright St., C)
The Peace Corps and the State Department: Great Career Moves
Lecture
12:00 - 1:00 pm
10/13/2022
108 Coble Hall
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Climate Change: A Zambian Perspective
Lecture
6:30 - 8:00 pm
10/13/2022
Watch it on Netflix! October 1st
Film Screening
12:00 pm
10/19/2022
108 Coble Hall
Exploring How Colonial Psychiatry and Colonialism interact in Settler Colonies in Africa: a short summary of a master's thesis
Lecture
12:00 pm
10/26/2022
108 Coble Hall
African influences on European Mapping of Africa. The case of Louis-Gustave Binger’s Carte du Haut-Niger au Golfe de Guinée par le Pays de Kong et le Mossi (1:1,000,000)
Lecture
6:30 - 9:00 pm
10/27/2022
Call for Poets and Readers of Poetry
Film Screening
12:00 pm
11/2/2022
108 Coble Hall
The de-Africanization and re-Europeanization of Libya: The geopolitical implications of the Libyan conflict on Africa
Lecture
12:00 pm
11/9/2022
via Zoom only (click link to attend)
Western Sahara: A Conflict that Could Explode Northwest Africa
Lecture
4:00 - 5:00 pm
11/28/2022
FLAS Virtual Information Sessions
Meeting