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Department of History
School of Humanities and Sciences

Africa Research Workshop

Africa Research Workshop

This long-standing series is the key intellectual forum for Stanford historians who study the African continent and its diaspora. Our workshop showcases completed research and work-in-progress by both Stanford  and external scholars. The interdisciplinary series serves a vital function on campus, bringing Stanford historians together with anthropologists, literary scholars, political scientists, art historians, and is a key fixture of the Bay Area intellectual scene, hosting scholars from UC Berkeley, SFSU, USF, and UC San Diego as well as from further afield.

2024-25 Faculty Organizer: Gabrielle Hecht (Spring 2025)

2024-25 Graduate Student Organizer: Selam Kidane | selamk [at] stanford.edu (selamk[at]stanford[dot]edu) (Spring 2025)

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Past Events

May
21

Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Modern Egypt

Date
-
Location:
Encina Commons Room 127
Center for African Studies
April
7

In Search of Two First Instance Courts of Black Slavery, Userā’-yı Zenciyye Bidāyet Mahkemesi, in the Red Sea Region: 1890-1914

Date
-
Location:
Lane History Corner 307
March
31

Of Rinderpest, Famine, Smallpox, and Debt: Land, Tax, Labor, and the Structure of the Conjuncture in 19th c. eastern Africa

Date
-
Location:
Lane History Corner 307
March
4

The Problem of “African Slavery” in the Age of Abolition

Date
-
Location:
Center for African Studies
Encina Commons 127
December
11

Tamazgha Remaps Africa: Reflections on the Scholarly Potential of Amazigh Indigeneity

Date
-
Location:
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 127

 

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