African History Graduate Student Collaborative

Please join the AHGSC in congratulating our 2016 IASC Graduate Student Paper Prize winner, George Agbo from the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, for his paper, “Challenging the Frivolities of Power: The Ubiquitous Camera and the Nigerian Political Elites.”

And our final panels of the conference commence!!

Panel 6A: Orality and the Geography of Texts with Patricia Lorcin, Kevin Huselid, Xavier Guégan, Satty Flaherty-Echeverría and Denise Malauene

Panel 4B: Multimodal Mixing: Interdisciplinary Methods to Exploring Identity, Orality and Power for Black/African Diasporas with Shaden Tageldin, Hawa Y. Mire, Suban Nur Cooley, and Shewonda Leger

2016 IASC Keynote Address, “Varieties of Secular Experience: Magical Thinking, Occult Economies, and Puppetry Arts,” delivered by Dr. Jane Taylor, Wole Soyinka Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds

Panel 3A: Ethnography to Sociology: African Grids of Intelligibility and Social Thought with Lorena Rizzo,
Jonathan Schoots, Louisa Rice, and Christopher Kirchgasler