Podcasts from the UCLA African Studies Center
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Podcasts from the UCLA African Studies Center
Podcasts from the UCLA African Studies Center.
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Water Resource Management in Africa from Space (Mekonnen Gebremichael)
African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021)
“Water Resource Management in Africa from Space,” by Mekonnen Gebremichael, Professor...
The Challenge of Technology in the Quest for Environmental Justice (Nnimmo Bassey)
African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021)
“The Challenge of Technology in the Quest for Environmental Justice,” with Nni...
African Readiness For Climate Change 2021 (Welcome Remarks)
African Readiness For Climate Change (April 19 - 23, 2021)
Welcome remarks from Dr. Andrew Apter and Ms. Annie de la Bouillerie Goeke.
Natalia Molebatsi, South African Poet
Natalia Molebatsi is a Pan-Africanist cultural worker who has been responsible for introducing the work of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison to the post-...
"History on Trial: Mau Mau and the High Court of Justice" Caroline Elkins
The UCLA African Studies Center's Coleman Memorial Lecture will feature Caroline Elkins, Professor of History and African and African American Studies...
“Kenyan Muslim Women Leadership in Education” Ousseina Alidou
This lecture is part of the Monday African Studies Center Seminar (MASCS) organized this fall by the graduate students in the Master’s program in Afri...
“The Role Played by the 12 Disciples of Nelson Mandela in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle, 1960-1991”
This lecture is part of the Monday African Studies Center Seminar (MASCS) organized this fall by the graduate students in the Master’s program in Afri...
"Private Anti-Piracy Navies and Pirate Maritime Security"
Author John-Clark Levin will discuss how the security situation off the Horn of Africa has affected the development of private warships and its role w...
"Exhibiting the Sacred: The Altar as Museum, the Museum as the Altar"
Professors in the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts will present an analysis of Afric...
"The Missing Middle: Global Development Policy Faces a World Full of Religion"
The UCLA Center for the Study of Religion presents Stephen K. Commins, a lecturer in Urban Planning and the Associate Director of Global Public Affair...
"From Ruga-Ruga to Askari: Intersections between African History and Military History"
Based on a revisionist approach to military history, Michelle Moyd uncovers the intentional lives of African colonial conscripts.
Africans in China: some key empirical, methodological and theoretical questions
Professor Adams Bodomo, University of Vienna, delivered the Coleman Memorial Lecture held annually in honor and memory of James S. Coleman, a pioneer...
Margaret Bourke-White and Dawn of Apartheid Photo Exhibit
A podcast by Alex Lichtenstein, Associate Professor of history at Indiana University, Bloomington
Imagined Congos: Displays of Early Colonial Hegemony
A podcast of lecture given by Allen F. Roberts of UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/ Dance
Hermeneutics and African Philosophy
A podcast of Professor Bekele Gutema, Fulbright Fellow, Howard University and Associate Professor, Addis Ababa University presenting the opening lectu...
Choreographic performance and politics in 20th century Urban Senegal
A podcast of a lecture by visiting anthropology professor Hélène Neveu Kringelbach from Oxford University.
Do Catholics See Things Differently? On Photographs and Museum Objects in Missionary Representations of Africa
A podcast of a public lecture by Professor Peter Pels, Leiden University
Mamadou Diouf delivers the James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Islam and the Making of the Public Space
Mamadou Diouf is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies. He leads Columbia University’s Institute of African Studies at the School of Internation...
Manthia Diawara will provide an analysis of the films of Abderrhamane Sissako and Haroun Mahat Saleh
Manthia Diawara, NYU.
African Women in War Zones: A Feminist Perspective
Dr. Amina Mama, University of California, Davis
Expanding Horizons: Pumzi, Science Fiction and African Cinema
A Podcast by Jude G. Akudinobi, UC Santa Barbara.
Locking Hoes and Horns: Ethnic Contestation in Ankole
A podcast by Christopher Muhoozi African Presidential Scholar, University of Michigan Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda from his public talk.
James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture: Oral Tradition, Religious Syncretism and Politics: The Example of Cote d'Ivoire
A discussion with writer, academic, artist and author of books for young people, Véronique Tadjo.
African Conflict and the Paradox of Change (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Myralyn O. A. Nartey, Doctoral Student, UCLA School of Public Health
Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Maasai Group Ranches in Kenya (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Willis Oyugi, UCLA Department of History
Chinese Presence in Africa: Trade, Investment, Diplomatic and Cultural Ties (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Tiffany Man, UCLA International Development Studies
A Conflicted Curriculum: Student Perceptions of Gender in Kenyan Social Studies Textbooks (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Kim Foulds, UCLA Department of Education
Space and Time in Socialist Tanzania: The Dodoma Capital Project (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Duncan Yoon, UCLA Department of Comparative Literature
Hating the Postcolony Properly: Hip Hop Aesthetics in Kenya (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Natasha Himmelman, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town
Creating New Leaders: Youth Involvement in Community Activism in South Africa (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Amber Reed, UCLA Department of Anthropology
The State and the Performing Arts in Zimbabwe: Friends or Foe? (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Christopher Mlalazi, Villa Aurora Writer in Exile Feuchtwanger Fellow
Tracing the Development of the Code of Personal Status: The Tunisian Case (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Rayed Khedher, UCLA Department of Anthropology
The Colonial Hauntings of Contemporary Gender- based Violence in Conflict Zones (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Tina Beyene, UCLA Department of Women's Studies
North African Women in Madrid: Intersections of Race, Religion and Gender and the 2004 Law Against Gender Violence (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Kristina Benson, UCLA Islamic Studies
Relating Modernity, Conflict and Sexual Violence: Discourses of Violence against Women in Post-war Sierra Leone (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Dayo Spencer, UCLA School of Public Health
A Myth of Benign Humanitarianism, Militarism and Womens Rights: A Case Study of the Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Amber Murrey-Ndewa, Syracuse University, Pan-African Studies
The New Progress Philosophy: Addressing Development and Psychology from the Traditional Perspective (5th Annual AAA Conference)
Marvin Boateng, California Lutheran University, Department of Public Policy