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SUMMARY:Reception\, Awards Ceremony\, Business Meeting\, Distinguished Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Join the Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) for an evening of celebration\, reflection\, and community at our annual reception held during the AAA Annual Meeting. This signature event brings together scholars\, students\, and practitioners committed to Africanist anthropology. \nThe evening will feature: \n\nReception: Connect with colleagues and enjoy refreshments in a welcoming atmosphere.\nAwards Ceremony: Celebrate outstanding contributions to Africanist anthropology through our annual awards.\nBusiness Meeting: Hear updates on AfAA initiatives\, future plans\, and opportunities to get involved.\nDistinguished Lecture: Be inspired by a keynote address\, Studying Soldiers: From Military Rule to Cosmopolitan Careers\, by Louisa Lombard.\n\nAll are welcome. We especially encourage early-career scholars and graduate students to attend and engage with the AfAA community.
URL:https://afaa.americananthro.org/event/reception-awards-ceremony-business-meeting-distinguished-lecture/
LOCATION:Sheraton Grand Ballroom D (5th fl)\, 500 Canal Street\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70130
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SUMMARY:Louisa Lombard to Deliver the 2025 AfAA Distinguished Lecture at AAA
DESCRIPTION:© Photo by Mara LavittJune 7\, 2022Yale University\, New Haven\, CT.Faculty of Arts and Sciences headshots. \nThe Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is honored to announce that Louisa Lombard will deliver the AfAA Distinguished Lecture during the AfAA Business Meeting (on Friday evening\, November 21\, 7:30 pm) at the 2025 AAA Annual Meeting\, held in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, from November 19–23\, 2025. \nLecture Title:\nStudying Soldiers: From Military Rule to Cosmopolitan Careers\n“Many anthropologists have studied African rebels. Fewer have studied African soldiers. There are understandable reasons\, both practical and ideological\, for that discrepancy. It is nonetheless time to turn to soldiers. Across a broad swathe of West Africa and the Sahel\, soldiers rule. Elsewhere on the continent\, soldiers are deployed domestically\, often far from their homes and increasingly alongside soldiers from neighboring countries\, as is the case in Mozambique’s northernmost Cabo Delgado prefecture\, where Mozambican soldiers from the south are stationed alongside thousands of Rwandan soldiers engaged in counterinsurgency operations. One common anthropological approach to militaries has been to critique soldiers’ effects\, both on society and on people working in military institutions. In this talk\, I draw on my research with Rwandan soldiers to make the case for alternative approaches. Militaries\, I argue\, are as cultural as any other social institution. While in recent Euro/American history a sharp divide has emerged between the military and everyone else\, that is not the case in most African settings\, and there is more to learn about the varied cultures of the laws of war. Soldiering has become an unexpected vector for middle-class life and cosmopolitanism\, given that many African soldiers repeatedly serve abroad\, often as peacekeepers\, and become involved with people in the places where they deploy. Soldiers can also be hugely destructive. Their social effects are varied\, and even contradictory\, and\, I argue\, expanding – and not just in Africa” \nLouisa Lombard is a leading anthropologist whose work explores the dynamics of armed life in Central Africa. Her research brings ethnographic depth to the study of conflict\, conservation\, and governance\, with a focus on the lives and logics of soldiers\, rebels\, and anti-poaching guards. She is the author of State of Rebellion and Hunting Game\, and currently serves as Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. Learn more about her work. \nThis year’s AAA Annual Meeting theme\, “Ghosts\,” invites reflection on how the past haunts the present. Lombard’s lecture will offer a powerful engagement with this theme through the lens of militarized life and the spectral traces of violence\, memory\, and statecraft. \nWe warmly invite all AfAA members and conference attendees to join us for this event.
URL:https://afaa.americananthro.org/event/2025-afaa-distinguished-lecture/
LOCATION:Sheraton Grand Ballroom D (5th fl)\, 500 Canal Street\, New Orleans\, LA\, 70130
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SUMMARY:2021 AFAA Distinguished Lecture & Reception: Lecture Delivered by Dr. Wale Adebanwi
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2021 AFAA Distinguished Lecture\, delivered by Dr. Wale Adebanwi. The title of the lecture is “Becoming a Big Man in Africa: Subalternity\, Elitism\, and Ethnic Politics in Nigeria.” His lecture will be followed by a reception with food and drinks. The venue is the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel\, Key Ballroom 1. \nWale Adebanwi is the Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He was until recently the Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at Oxford University\, United Kingdom where he was also the Director of the African Studies Centre.
URL:https://afaa.americananthro.org/event/2021-afaa-distinguished-lecture-reception-lecture-delivered-by-dr-wale-adebanwi/
LOCATION:LA
CATEGORIES:Upcoming Events
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SUMMARY:2021 AfAA Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at the AAA conference in Baltimore to recognize the winners and honorable mentions for the student paper awards (Bennetta Jules Rosette Graduate Student Essay Award and the Nancy “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Essay Award) and the Elliot P. Skinner Book Award. The venue is the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel\, Key Ballroom 1.
URL:https://afaa.americananthro.org/event/2021-afaa-awards-ceremony/
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SUMMARY:Awards and Distinguished Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Please join the AfAA for our 2020 Awards Ceremony and a Distinguished Conversation on the theme of “Systemic Racism in Global Contexts: Legacies and Practices of Racial Violence\, Representation\, and Neocolonialism.” Our guest speakers include Dr. Laurence Ralph (Princeton University) and Dr. Francis Nyamnjoh (University of Capetown). \nRegister today
URL:https://afaa.americananthro.org/event/awards-and-distinguished-conversation/
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SUMMARY:Association for Africanist Anthropology Mentoring Event
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URL:https://afaa.americananthro.org/event/association-for-africanist-anthropology-mentoring-event/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting\, United States
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