Join Goran Hyden of the University of Florida for this Baraza Lecture. Dr. Goran Hyden is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science. His research interests include […]
Join Christopher Day of the College of Charleston for this Baraza Lecture. Dr. Day’s research interests extend to international security, counterinsurgency, proxy warfare, and the institutional role of different armed […]
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Join Cheikh Babou of the University of Pennsylvania for this Baraza Lecture. Dr. Babou is a historian of Islam and the modern West African Muslim diaspora. Dr. Babou’s current research, […]
Join Kjetil Tronvoll of the International Law & Policy Institute for this Baraza Lecture. Tronvoll has undertaken long-term anthropological fieldworks in Eritrea, Ethiopia and Zanzibar, in addition to shorter field […]
Dr. Nancy Kula, Professor of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, will offer this lecture as part of the Baraza Lecture Series. Dr. Kula studied phonology for her […]
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Ben Mendelsohn is the 2018-2020 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow with the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. He earned his PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, where his dissertation […]
Dr. Lioba Moshi, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia, is a native speaker of Swahili from Tanzania. She has developed […]
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Join Professor Robyn d’Avignon of New York University for her lecture “Shadow Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge on the West African Savannah.” Robyn d’Avignon is an historian and anthropologist of […]
Join Professor James Essegbey of the University of Florida for his talk “Ethics and the Dilemma of Documenting an Endangered Language in Ghana”.
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