Upcoming Events
Spring 2024 Events Line Up
Thursday, January 25
FLAS Info Session
Come learn about FLAS and get help with your application.
4 PM| Bailey 318
Tuesday, January 30
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium Series
Dr. Brian Norris, Lincoln University
Political Decentralization in the Rural Areas in the Global South: Comparing the Cases of Mozambique, Colombia, and Bolivia
12:00 PM CT (18:00 UTC)| Virtual and Strong 307
Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/KASC001
February 2-11
African Cup of Nations Watch Party
Bailey 109
February 15-16
2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities, African Stories, and Agency
Accra, Ghana (Hybrid)
Monday, February 19
Book Talk Series
Equals in Learning and Piety: Muslim Women Scholars in Nigeria and North America
Dr. Beverly Mack, Prof. Emeritus, Department of African & African-American Studies, KU
12:00 PM (18:00 UTC)| Virtual
Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/KASC004
Friday, March 1
KASC Graduate Research Workshop
Scholarly presentations on Africa & its Diaspora
9:00 AM – 4 PM (15:00-22:00 UTC) | Virtual and In-person
Wednesday, March 20
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium Series
Dr. Imani Sanga, University of Dar-es- salaam
Sonification of Anti-slavery Resistance in Semzaba’s Kiswahili Play Tendehogo
12:00 PM (17:00 UTC) | Virtual and Bailey 204
Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/KASC002
Tuesday, March 26
The Lives of Extraordinary Women of West Africa and Senegal: Tableau Ferraille
Screening & Discussion with Director Moussa Sene Absa
7:00 PM | Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
Wednesday, March 27
Book Talk Series
Cultural Netizenship: Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria
Dr. James Yeku, Assistant Prof. Department of African & African-American Studies, KU
12:00 PM (17:00 UTC) | Virtual
Wednesday, March 27
The Lives of Extraordinary Women of West Africa and Senegal: Madame Broutte
Screening & Discussion with Director Moussa Sene Absa
7:00 PM | Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
Thursday, March 27
The Lives of Extraordinary Women of West Africa and Senegal: Xale
Screening & Discussion with Director Moussa Sene Absa
7:00 PM | Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
Wednesday, April 3
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium Series
Dr. Sophia Mo, University of Kansas
Speak Next to the Masses: Assia Djebar’s Rescripting of the Role of the Revolutionary Writer12:00 PM (17:00 UTC) | Virtual and Bailey 204
Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/KASC003
Wednesday, April 3
African & Diasporic Language Festival
Join us for an evening of skits, music & dance
4:00 PM | Burge Union, Forum D
Saturday, April 6
Afro Prom
Flag parade, Spoken word, performances, African food, African Music
6:00 PM| Ballroom, Kansas Union
Wednesday, April 10
African Heritage in Brazilian Music and Culture
12:00 pm CDT (17:00 UTC), in 318 Bailey Hall & via zoom
Zoom Meeting Details: ID 919 1265 3460 Passcode:2024
Wednesday April 17
International Jayhawk Festival
4 pm, Burge Union
Wednesday, April 24
Book Talk Series
Secular Narrations and Transdisciplinary Knowledge
Dr. Hannoum Majid, Prof. Department of Anthropology, KU
12:00 PM (17:00 UTC)| Virtual
Zoom Meeting ID: 965 3247 5182
Passcode: 2024
Friday, May 3
KASC Council Meeting
1 pm, Bailey 318 and zoom
Meeting open to KU affiliates (faculty, students, and staff) who have strong interest and active participation in African Studies
https://kansas.zoom.us/j/92704442909
Passcode: 2024
Fall 2023 Events Line Up
View full calendar here
Thursday, August 31,
Kansas Room, Kansas Union, 12 pm
FLAS Social and Orientation
Friday, September 8
Bailey, 109, 1 pm
Oscar Micheaux Film Series
Atlantics (2019)
Saturday, September 9
Centennial Park, 5 pm
KASC Fall Gathering
Thursday, September 14
Bailey 318 (Hybrid), 12 pm
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Ebenezer Obadare (Council on Foreign Relations Fellow)
Sunday September 24,
Lawrence Public Library, 3:30 pm
Multicultural Storytime
Thursday, September 28
Kansas Room, Kansas Union, 1 pm
International Career Forum
Thursday, October 5
Jayhawk Welcome Center, 7:00 pm
AAAS Marwa Muhammad Lecture Series
Saturday October 7
Baldwin Public Library 11 am
Multicultural Storytime
Tuesday, October 10
Bailey 318 (Hybrid), 12 pm
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium with Dr. Emily Riley (El Colegio de Mexico)
Tuesday, October 10
Virtual, 4 pm
FLAS Info Session 1
Friday, October 13
Bailey, 109, 1 pm
Oscar Micheaux Film Series
Destination Planet Negro (2013)
Thursday, October 19 & 20
Kansas Health Institute, Tokepa
MAAAS Conference
Tuesday, November 08
Virtual, 12 pm
Ujamaa Virtual Colloquium Series with Dr. Merve Fejzula (University of Missouri)
Tuesday November 08
Bailey 318, 4 pm
FLAS Info Session 2
Tuesday, November 14
Alderson, Kansas Union, 5 pm
Film Screening & Discussion
"Garden City"
Wednesday, November 15
Venue, time TBA
KASC Annual Symposium
Sunday December 10
Lawrence Public Library 3:30 pm
Multicultural Storytime
Spring 2023 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