Yale University Council on African Studies

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We are excited to announce that this spring our lecture series is resuming! Check out our lecture schedule!
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Join us today! As part of our CAS lecture series, we are hosting Gana Ndiaye, who will be presenting "Ethnoracial Cacophony: African Immigrants in Post-Truth” We hope to see you all this evening!
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Join us today! As part of our CAS lecture series, we are hosting Sharad Chari, who will be presenting "Apartheid Remains.” We hope to see you all this evening!
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On March 4th, as part of our CAS Lecture series we are hosting Eduardo Lichuge who will be presenting, "Timbila and the Politics of Memory: Re-reading Colonial and Post-independence Archives in Mozambique."
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On February 11th, as part of our CAS Lecture series we are hosting Alden Young who will be presenting, "Sudan and the UAE: Revisiting a 1970s moment of Pan-Africanism."
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On February 4th, we are hosting Lindsay Fellows Yumi Yang and Mikhail Moosa as a part of our Lindsay Fellows Speaker Series. We hope to see you all this evening!
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Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming Nicholas Kerr as our first lecture series speaker of the semester. Thank you to everyone who came out and we hope to see everyone at the next lecture! #CASLectureSeries
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This coming Wednesday, we look forward to welcoming our first lecture series presenter, Nicholas Kerr. Light food and drink will be provided!
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A CAS family reunion! Last month at Yale MacMillan Center's Regional Futures Lab program, the Council of African Studies led the event, "Ecological Resilience: On Balancing People, Place, and Planet in Africa." Our 2025 graduate, Joshua Amponsah was one of our featured speakers!
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On November 14th, the Council of African Studies hosted the Leadership in Africa Forum: Entrepreneurship in Africa. A special thank you to our panelists and all who attended!
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Join us on November 14th for this year’s Leadership in Africa Forum: Entrepreneurship in Africa! Follow this link to RSVP: cglink.me/2dA/r2308537
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On October 9th, we had our first of many Lindsay Fellow presentations. We heard from Charlotte Bednarski and Rita Nwanze on their research. Check out our video highlighting the event!
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Join us today at 4pm for another CAS Lecture! This week, we welcome Jonathan Greenacre, an Assistant Professor at Boston University. We are looking forward to hearing from Dr. Greenacre!
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Join us tomorrow for our lecture series where we’ll be hearing from Monica H. Green! @monicaMedHist is a historian of medicine and global health, specializing on the pre-1500 period. We hope to see you all tomorrow!
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Thank you Samar Al-Bulushi for providing such an engaging presentation and discussion last Wednesday! @YaleMacMillan @samar42
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On September 8th, The Council of African Studies hosted a Welcome Reception to kick-off the academic year. Thank you to everyone who attended. Keep an eye out on our page for more exciting events, updates, and happenings! @yalemacmillancenter
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Samar Al-Bulushi is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine. Her book, “War-Making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror,” was published by Stanford University Press in November 2024. Come out and join us as we hear from Dr. Al-Bulushi!
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Check out the schedule for our upcoming CAS Lecture Series for this fall! We are looking forward to hosting and hearing from an array of fantastic scholars. We hope to see you all there!
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Six weeks, three cities! Charlotte Bednarski, a Sociocultural Anthropologist, spent her summer deepening her understanding of Malian and Ugandan people’s political imaginaries, focusing on how social relationships contribute to and reinforce them.
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Marouen Jedoui, a religion scholar focusing on the intellectual history of Islam. Marouen tells us that “Archives breathe and that spiritual knowledge is not only studied but lived.”
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