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Category: PAS News & Events

Queering Belonging mini-series: Bimbola Akinbola

Intro by Queering Belonging curator Bimbola Akinbola (performance studies, Northwestern University) While the contentiousness of community has been taken up by several scholars in...
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Ava Thompson Greenwell on her “Mandela in Chicago” documentary

Ava Thompson Greenwell, journalist and professor at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, has a new documentary premiering on WTTW Chicago this February 14,...
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Covid and Forced Migration in Africa

October 28, 2020, Clementine Nkweta-Salami (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) regional director for East, Horn and Great Lakes Region) discussed the effect...
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PAS bookshelf: The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics

The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics, University of Michigan Press, 2019 Evan Maina Mwangi (English) analyzes the importance of African writing to...
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Swahili Corner: Welcome Nyanjala Maingu

PAS welcomes Nyanjala Maingu, a Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant from Tanga, Tanzania, who will be involved in teaching and developing instructional materials for...
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Celebrating D. Soyini Madison, a personal tribute

by Karen Tranberg Hansen, professor emerita of anthropology We all regret missing what would have been the most fabulous retirement party in recent memory:...
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PAS welcomes new director, Chris Abani

Chris Abani, the Board of Trustees Professor of English, became director of the Program of African Studies in September.When he joined North-western in 2013,...
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