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Rebecca VanDiver to Coordinate Seminar at Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities

Posted by on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 in HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC.

africaglobeRebecca VanDiver, assistant professor of African American art, Moses Ochonu, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of History, and Tasha Rijke-Epstein, assistant professor of history, will coordinate a seminar this fall at the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities. This seminar, entitled “Critical Approaches to African Studies,” will bring together faculty and students from diverse fields across campus to explore cutting-edge topics relating to Africa’s past and present. Meetings are scheduled at noon on September 19, October 31 (featuring Abdulbasit Kassim, doctoral student in religion, Rice University), and November 14.

Reflecting Africa’s long-standing central place in the modern world, the seminar will foreground historical and contemporary experiences of commercial, political, cultural and ecological changes across and beyond the continent. Participants will delve into such subthemes as entrepreneurialism, urban life, religious traditions, violence, and artistic expression. Through engagement with leading scholarship across a range of fields, this workshop invites participants to sharpen their analytical and theoretical approaches to African studies.

 

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