Thursday, October 13th – 11:30 am – 1 pm – Seminar in African History, Culture & Society (SAHCS)
Meredith McKittrick, Georgetown University
“Colonial Backwater: Struggles Over International Boundaries and Political Identities in the Okavango River Basin, 1890-1940”
Thursday, October 27th – 11:30 – 1 pm – SAHCS
Jeremy Pool, Emory University
“Whose Process, Which Event? – The 1948 Ghana School Strikes and the Contested
Nature of Historical Development”
Tuesday, November 1st – 11:30 – 1 pm – SAHCS
Leslie Witz, Centre for Humanities Research University of the Western Cape
“History Below the Water Line: The Making of Apartheid’s Last Festival”
“Malintzin, The Woman Who Went with Hernando Cortes”
Thursday, November 10th – 11:30 am – 1 pm – SAHCS
Steven Feierman, University of Pennsylvania
“History and the Social Composition of Knowledge”
Thursday, December 1st – 11:30 am – 1 pm - SAHCS
Christopher Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Racism as A Weapon of the Weak: Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion Among ‘Coloured’ (Mixed Race) Political Organization in British Central Africa”
All Seminars are held in the Major Room (323 Bowden Hall) unless otherwise noted – For further information,
Please visit the History Department website www.history.emory.edu
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