“Trading the Gaze: Materiality of Swahili Coast Photography, 1870-1964” [KORAMEDIA URL=”http://eyeonafrica.matrix.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/EOA-April-3rd-2014-Sandy-Prita-Meier.mp4″ TAGID=”playerid” RESPONSIVE=”true”]
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March 27th, 2014: Chima Korieh
“Fighting for the Empire: Petition as African Voices During the Second World War (Nigeria)” [KORAMEDIA URL=”http://eyeonafrica.matrix.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/EOA-March-27th-2014-Chima-Korieh.mp4″ TAGID=”playerid” RESPONSIVE=”true”]
March 20th, 2014: Daniel Roberts
“Diversity of Opinion in the Face of Prevailing Practices: Schooling and School Cultivation in Two Tanzanian Villages” [KORAMEDIA URL=”http://eyeonafrica.matrix.msu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/EOA-Daniel-Roberts-March-20th-2014.mp4″ TAGID=”playerid” RESPONSIVE=”true”]
Violence and Political Advocacy in the ‘Lost Counties’, Western Uganda
Speaker: Derek Peterson Date: Thursday April 10, 2014 Time: 12-1:30pm at the International Center, room 201 Derek R. Peterson teaches African history at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent (2012), which was awarded the 2013 Herskovits Prize by the African Studies…
Trading the Gaze: The Materiality of Swahili Coast Photography, 1870-1964
Speaker: Prita Meier Date: Thursday April 3, 2014 Time: 12-1:30pm at the International Center, room 201 Prita Meier (Ph.D. Harvard University) is assistant professor of art history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the African engagement with modernity and the visual culture of colonial and postcolonial East Africa. Her recently…