ASWAD Conference
Panel: “The Social Lives of West African Waters”
chair and panelist
with Comfort Azubuko-Udah, Abdoulie Jabang and Tony Yeboah
Author Meets Readers Panel, Lagos Studies Association
Engaging The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850 by Jody Benjamin (Ohio University Press, 2024).
With Judith Byfield, Morolake Dairo, Zingha Foma, Toby Green, and Mutiat Oladejo
Launch, Verso 'Southern Questions' series
with Adom Getachow, Adéwálé Májà-Pearce and Howard French. RSVP here.
Yambo Ouologuem, Bound to Violence
Film screening and discussion with director Kalidou Sy, Maysles Documentary Center. photos
American Historical Association Conference
Panel: Intimate African Histories: Archives, Methods, and Practice
chair and panelist
with Sara Hussein and Marius Kothor
Panel: Islam and New Directions of Pan-Africanism
commentator
with Rasul Miller, Tasneem Siddiqui, Chris Abdul Hakim Martinez (chair), and Alden Young (chair)
African Studies Association Conference
Panel: Women and Gender in West Africa during the Atlantic Era
panelist
with Sarah Zimmerman, Lisa Lindsay, and Ana Lucia Araujo (chair)
Columbia University, Studies in Contemporary Africa Seminar
Decolonizing Soudan’s Venice: Land, Labor, and Postwar Politics in Mali, 1946-1960
Update, April 18: I’ve cancelled my talk.
US Book Launch, Colonisations: Notre histoire
A panel discussion with Pierre Singaravélou, Youssef Ben Ismail, Madina Thiam, Audrey Célestine, and Emmanuelle Saada
Rutgers University, Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice
‘Race and Religion Series: Global Circuits of Difference with Dr. Madina Thiam’
Book Launch: Post-Imperial Possibilities
Book launch for Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia
Discussants: Sandrine Kott, Jessica Pisano and Madina Thiam
Address at the African Burial Ground National Moment
Featured speaker on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of Reinterment of the Ancestors
Histories at the Intersection of the Sahel and the Atlantic: Panel at the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
With Gana Ndiaye, Jody Benjamin and Michael Gomez
Reinvention in the Wake of Slavery: Panel at the Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society
with Elizabeth Foster, Mary Lewis, and Makhroufi Ousmane Traoré
UCLA Atlantic History Colloquium
“Absolutely and Utterly Free: An Atlantic-Saharan Journey through Slavery and Race-Making, 1834-1836”
