Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa
Zekeria Salem, Northwestern University: ‘Global Shinqī Mauritania’s Islamic Knowledge Tradition and the Making of Transnational Religious Authority (Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century).’
The Harvard & Legacy of Slavery Memorialization Committee invite you to explore the complexity of history and memory, and the role communities play in helping institutions reckon with the past in the present. This first installment in a series of programs focuses on the change-agents and descendant community voices shaping the future of this work at James Madison’s Montpelier. To set the table and anchor this important dialogue, a framing introduction will be provided by FAS Chief Campus Curator Brenda Tindal, and AAAS Professor Vincent Brown will serve as moderator.
Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa
Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Bowdoin College ‘Bilad Brazil The Importance of West African Scholars in Brazilian Islamic Education and Practice in Historic and Contemporary Perspective.’
On Monday, April 10, 2023, from 4:00pm-6:00pm, in the Thompson Room at the Barker Center, The African Language Program in the Department of African and African American Studies, with the support of the Harvard Center for African Studies, will present the second of two evenings of the Spring ALP Theater Night. This annual event showcases the talents of the students through short skits in the studied African languages and provides the students and instructors an opportunity to display their accomplishments, while at the same time providing the audience with an...
Critical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in Africa
Caitlyn Bolton, Boston College, ‘The Lives and Afterlives of Donor Funds: “Sustainability” as Neoliberal Development or Islamic Interdependence in Zanzibar, Tanzania.’
On Wednesday, April 5, 2023, from 4:00pm-6:00pm, in the Thompson Room at the Barker Center, The African Language Program in the Department of African and African American Studies, with the support of the Harvard Center for African Studies, will present the first of two evenings of the Spring ALP Theater Night (Part 2 will happen on Monday, April 10, 2023). This annual event showcases the talents of the students through short skits in the studied African languages and provides the students and instructors an opportunity to display their accomplishments, while at the same...