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… ‘11 The following interview is part of the Council on African Studies’ Alumni Spotlight series featuring graduates … to us, to understanding about how the rest of the world operates. There’s a confluence of so many cultures in … to work in journalism. So I went to go work at the PBS News Hour. They have a program – I don’t know if they still …

… and the Politics of Public Memory in the Atlantic World” This presentation discusses how the problem of slavery … colonies. This provides new appreciation of not only the African presence in the Spanish Americas, but also—given the … present an opportunity to consider the travel of news and information beyond moments of rebellion.  They hint, …

… of the Yale Africa Initiative When he announced the Yale African Initiative (YAI) during his inaugural address in … through which Yale and its collaborators are changing the world, told by the people who are leading the way. Mar 12, 2018 … Council on African Studies … …

… of the Yale Africa Initiative When he announced the Yale African Initiative (YAI) during his inaugural address in … through which Yale and its collaborators are changing the world, told by the people who are leading the way. Mar 12, …

… Sanneh is the D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity and Professor of History at Yale Divinity … his new book Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam (Oxford University Press) and what it’s like to … interview can be found here .  Sep 6, 2016 … Council on African Studies … …

… both disciplinary boundaries and received notions of African studies. Other work appears in  New Literary History … the aesthetic and the literary, making the case for literature as constitutive—rather than simply reflective—of …   Teaching Undergraduate FREN 012, Imaginary Maps : World Literature & French Empire (first year seminar, writing …

… “Hidden Economies and Finances in the Early Anglo-Atlantic World” Jared Lucky (Renaissance Studies), “Cowboys and … the Dawn of Abolition in Trinidad, 1777-1834” Alycia Hall (African American Studies/ History), “Community Formation … King Philip’s War” Matthew Vernon (English Language & Literature), “Strangers in a Familiar Land: The Medieval and …

… Storrs. She teaches courses on American Studies, African American literature, and  disability studies. She is the author of  … Special Adviser, Anti-Slavery International, the world’s oldest human rights organisation. He received his PhD …

… ‘15 The following interview is part of the Council on African Studies’ Alumni Spotlight series featuring graduates … immigrant from Nigeria. Through her, I got this lens to a world that I was connected to, but had very little knowledge … about food and to watch Nollywood movies and to read the news if you will, which at the time was – I mean, the news is …

… of East Asian Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “The idea is to go beyond the evening news soundbites about China and to root an understanding of … DeVane Lecture course was “Power and Politics in Today’s World,” taught by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of …

… Ayesha Ramachandran, assistant professor of comparative literature, for “The Worldmakers: Global Imaging in Early … to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. It moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself was self-consciously shaped by human agents. …

… of Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale Divinity School, and Director of … Island in the River Gambia. A descendent of an ancient African royal family, he grew up as a Muslim but converted to … Professional Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1997-2019). He also …