Dr. Leslie Anderson and Dr. Juliana Restrepo Sanin are speaking at a book launch for the book, The Paradox of Violence in Venezuela. (published 2022). This is a book of political sociology with a lot of information about living under an authoritarian regime and coping with the total breakdown of democratic institutions. Smilde is a …
The Working Group State and Institutions in the Center for African Studies Is Pleased to Present Explaining Urban Order: The Autocratic Origins of Africa's City Street Networks. Noah Nathan Massachusetts Institute of Technology OSF Preprints | Explaining Urban Order: The Autocratic Origins of Africa's City Street Networks Abstract: I connect the political incentives of state …
OUR MORAL RESPONSIBILITIES TOEACH OTHER IN A TIME OF WAR UF ETHICS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE &GEORGE A. SMATHERS LIBRARIES JOIN SCHOLARS FROM THERELIGION DEPARTMENT FORA CONVERSATION ABOUT THEONGOING WAR IN GAZA. This discussion will feature Religion Professors Yaniv Feller, Terje Ostebo, and Anna Peterson. The moderator will be April Hines, Journalism and Mass Communications …
On Wednesday, November 8th at 1 pm in Turlington Hall, Room 3310, Mr. Kevi Donat, Owner of the Le Paris Noir (Black Paris) tour company, and Dr. Sharon Austin, Professor of Political Science, will discuss the experience of Black Americans and immigrants in Paris, France. Dr. Austin will also discuss her 2024 African Americans in Paris spring …
The Center for African Studies presents: SASA @ Lunch with Richard Kweitsu, University of Florida The Significance of Post-Election Legal Challenges for Democratization in Africa Wednesday 15 November @ 11:45am in 471 Grinter Pizza and soft drinks provided.
Dear colleagues and graduate students, Please join us for a Mock Graduate Conference RSP on Tuesday November 21, 2:30-4 in Anderson 117. Panelists include Baba Adou and Richard Kweitsu who received departmental funding to attend upcoming conferences with Dr. Nicholas Kerr serving as panel discussant. The panel will include draft versions of the graduate …
Dear colleagues and graduate students, Please join us for a Mock Graduate Conference RSP next Tuesday, January 9, 2:00-3:30. Panelists include Marcelline Amouzou, Sarah Snowmann and Corinne Tomasi who received departmental funding to attend upcoming conferences with Dr. Ben Smith serving as panel discussant. The panel will include draft versions of the graduate students’ …
The Working Group State and Institutions in the Center for African Studies Is Pleased to Present Uncivic Legacies: Civil Society & Democracy Promotion in Post-Conflict Africa Justine Davies University of Michigan Abstract: My book project addresses a question of global significance: How do societies build democracy after war? In the past two decades, international donors …
Volodymyr Kulyk will give a talk on Wednesday, April 18, 12:30-2:30 (beginning with lunch). The talk is organized by CES and co-sponsored by Michael Bernhard's Raymond and Miriam Ehrlich Chair. Volodymyr Kulyk | The Harriman Institute (columbia.edu) Volodymyr Kulyk | Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University
Please mark your calendars for an upcoming RSP on Monday, February 19, 4p in 216 Anderson Hall. The RSP will feature an Author Meets Critic panel on Weaponizing the Past: Collective Memory and Jews, Poles, and Communists in Twenty-First Century Poland by Kate Korycki (Western University). Commentators include Natalia Aleksiun, Michael Bernhard, and Lenka Bustikova.