Maxwell School Events Calendar

Maxwell African Scholars Union Events

• Memory, Justice, and (Re)Construction of Society in Post-Colonial Africa

  March 21, 2025, 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  For some ordinary Africans, memory and imagination has provided them with tools to assert a view against that of a repressive regime keen on erasures of the past and censorship of the present.

• The War in Sudan: Origins and Trajectories

  February 21, 2025, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

  Eggers Hall, 220

  Since April 2023, the country of Sudan has been embroiled in a struggle for power between two wings of its military apparatus, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

• Africans and African Americans: Political Solidarities and the Question of Slavery

  October 25, 2024, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Africans and African Americans: How is their relationship mediated through the lens of racism?

• ‘An Unparalleled Economic Gold Mine’: Climate Finance in Northern Kenya

  October 04, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  Amiel Bize discusses financialized climate responses in northern Kenya, focusing on a soil-based carbon credits project with local pastoralists.

• MASU: Graduate Research Presentations

  April 04, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EDT

  Eggers Hall, 341

  MASU’s previous graduate student research grant recipients, Jane Appiah-Okyere, Matthew D. O'Leary, David Aanuoluwa Okanlawon, and Tumbu Ladislaus, share the preliminary results of their research.

• Maxwell African Scholars Union - Challenges to Citizenship Series: Authoritarianism in Africa

  February 23, 2024, 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Analyzing post-Cold War geopolitics, focusing on authoritarian strategies, security forces' rising power, and predictors of their inclination towards military governance and authoritarianism.

• International Law in a World of States: The Politics of the International Criminal Court

  November 13, 2023, 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  The Moynihan Institute’s newest series, Law in World Affairs, with the Maxwell African Scholars Union and the Political Science Department presents Oumar Ba from Cornell University.

• Time and Refugee Placemaking in Urban Spaces: The Experiences of Ethiopian Australians in Melbourne

  September 22, 2023, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  Explore temporalities of Ethiopian Australian refugee migration in Melbourne with Goshu Wolde Tefera, Ph.D., of California State University, Stanislaus.

• Authoritarianism in Africa: Moynihan Institute’s Challenges to Citizenship Webinar

  April 21, 2023, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  This webinar is a part of the Moynihan Institute of Global Affair’s Citizenship Challenge Series and is hosted by the Maxwell African Scholars Union. Join our panel of three experts in an international webinar to explore these aspects of authoritarianism in Africa.

• MASU Graduate Student Research Presentations

  February 24, 2023, 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  During this online event, four of MASU’s previous annual graduate student research grant recipients share the preliminary results of their research and provide reflections on their field experience.

• Climate Change, Civic Engagement, and Development in Africa

  April 22, 2022, 3:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m. EDT

  Virtual

  This panel of 4 experts will discuss climate change, civic engagement, and development in Africa.

• From the Ivory Tower to the Ebony Village: Do You Dare Cross the Bridge?

  March 04, 2022, 1 p.m.-3 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  Ana Menezes will share her personal experiences, reflections and lessons learned over a period of 35-year career in the field, especially in Africa.

• Dimensions of Motherhood in an African World Sense: Ritual and Power among Avalogooli

  February 25, 2022, 2 p.m.-4 p.m. EST

  Virtual

  This talk examines the ethos of motherpower and mother agency among Avalogooli, a subgroup of the Luhya ethnic community of Western Kenya.