Upcoming Events
Wednesday, February 8
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium Series
Dr. Daria Trentini, Formal And Informal Collaborations Between Traditional Healers and Public Health in Northern Mozambique
12:00 PM via Zoom
In this presentation, Dr. Trentini will examine how these guidelines have been implemented by Mozambique’s Public Health (saude), especially through the creation of the “Institute of Traditional Medicine” in 2010.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/Ujamaa-with-Daria-Trentini
Wednesday, March 1
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium Series
Dr. Nathan Wood, Vagabond Tourism and a Non-Colonial European Gaze:
Kazimierz Nowak’s Bicycle Journey across Africa, 1931-1936
This talk argues that his critical gaze on colonialism and capitalism arose due to his method of travel as a poor, vagabond tourist and because of his position as a European from a country without colonies in Africa.
To register, visit https://tinyurl.com/Ujamaa-with-Nathan-Wood
12:00 PM via Zoom
Monday, March 9
Digital Indabas: Pandemic Mediations
Digital Indabas this semester casts a retrospective gaze on the pandemic in Nigeria and Ghana through an exploration of the works of artists and performers for whom digital media became useful in continuing their works and capturing the cultural realties of Covid-19 in their respective communities.
11:00 AM via Zoom
Wednesday, March 29
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium Series
Dr. Puleng Segalo, Interrogating the Everydayness of Gender-Based Violence: Promoting Ethics of Care through Embroidery
The presentation will engage the ways in which needlework in the form of embroidery can be used to visually depict how gender-based violence affects families, and communities more broadly. Segalo describes an embroidery initiative that from an ongoing project in collaboration with a community of women which focuses on the everydayness of gender-based violence.
12:00 PM via Zoom
Wednesday, April 5
African & Diasporic Languages Festival
Experience the wonder of African languages at KU with entertaining performances in Arabic, Kiswahili, Wolof, Amharic and Haitian Creole from our talented students.
4 PM at the Burge Union Forum D
Friday, April 7
Graduate Research Workshop
The annual Kansas African Studies Center Graduate Research Workshop (GRW) provides a welcoming and supportive environment for graduate students to showcase their research while gaining valuable feedback from KU faculty and peers.
9 AM at Bailey Hall Room 318
Wednesday, April 26
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium Series
Dr. Alhaji N’jai, Project 1808, Inc.: Decolonizing Education and Transforming Lives Through a School-Community- University Model
N’jai discusses the story of Project 1808, Inc. in Sierra Leone along the three fundamental areas of decolonizing education, global and local (GLocal) collaborations to transform community, and opportunity for social capital and empowerment. Project 1808, Inc. has now built a wide moat of programs along a school-community-university partnership model.
12:00 PM via Zoom