Differential diagnoses: political discourses of illness and disease
March 16, 2020
Within the field of public health the most serious response to pathology is quarantine. Quarantines segregate populations according to a […]
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2020 Call for Panelists
Post-Independence Transformations in Medical Care and Public Health
March 12, 2020
This is a proposal-still-in-the-making, but please do contact me if you would like to join a discussion about changes in […]
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The Social Lives of African Borderlands: Daily Practices and Festive Moments
March 10, 2020
For understandable reasons, there is a heavy emphasis in borders research on contemporary security issues. But it remains important to […]
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Decolonizing Africana Sociology
March 10, 2020
These sessions will apply sociological thought to the analysis of contributions and struggles of people of African descent globally. From […]
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Development of sustainable Health Systems in Africa
March 10, 2020
In Africa the state of the health systems has an enormous number of challenges to cope with. According to The […]
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African Peacebuilding Network’s (APN) contribution to Africa(n)centred knowledge production on peacebuilding
March 03, 2020
Attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (especially Goal 16) remains a global priority among policy makers and development practitioners within the […]
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Geopoetics of care and repair in the Postcolony
March 03, 2020
This panel invites participants to examine material and metaphorical practices of care and repair that gesture towards the possibility for […]
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African Children, Agency, and the Politics of Representation
March 02, 2020
The dominant theoretical perspective on children in postcolonial Africa is tied to the crises of the state arising from the […]
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Drugs and Work: New entanglements
March 02, 2020
There is a rich tradition of Africanist scholarship on psychoactive substances, from writings on fermented drinks to studies of how […]
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Africans and Europeans: Exchanging Luxury Products During the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade
February 28, 2020
This panel will discuss how a variety of African and European social actors who participated in commercial and cultural transactions […]
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