The African History Graduate Student Collaborative (AHGSC) is run by a group of PhD Students in African History at the University of Minnesota.
The African History Graduate Student Collaborative (AHGSC) is composed of a group of University of Minnesota graduate students who are all working on their doctoral degrees in African History. Our “Collaborative,” which is a product of a research workshop, titled “The Problem of Time in African History," funded by the Consortium for the Study of the Premodern World (CSPW), critically examines the
04/26/2016
Please join the AHGSC in congratulating our 2016 IASC Graduate Student Paper Prize winner, George Agbo from the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape, for his paper, “Challenging the Frivolities of Power: The Ubiquitous Camera and the Nigerian Political Elites.”
04/23/2016
ICGC Final Reflections Roundtable with Jessica Farrell, Virgil Slade, Paul Vig, Gabriale Payne, Premesh Lalu, Janeke Thumbran and Elliot James
04/23/2016
6B: Roundtable - An “Ethical Pedagogy”: Exploring the Fault Lines of ‘Best Practice’ Teaching with Wesley Lummus, Virgil Slade, Elliot James, and Tracey Deutsch
04/23/2016
And our final panels of the conference commence!!
Panel 6A: Orality and the Geography of Texts with Patricia Lorcin, Kevin Huselid, Xavier Guégan, Satty Flaherty-Echeverría and Denise Malauene
04/23/2016
Panel 5B: Making ‘Space’ for Gender: Alternate Narratives and the Pursuit of New Theories and Praxis with Sonali Pahwa, Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, and Tara Reyelts (Absent, but not forgotten, is Tasoulla Hadjiyanni.)
04/23/2016
Panel 5A: Archival Disruptions: Interrogating the Mnemotechnics of Conventional Historical Imaginaries with Heather Wares, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, Gary Minkley (absent but not forgotten), and Adam A. Blackler
04/23/2016
Panel 4B: Multimodal Mixing: Interdisciplinary Methods to Exploring Identity, Orality and Power for Black/African Diasporas with Shaden Tageldin, Hawa Y. Mire, Suban Nur Cooley, and Shewonda Leger
04/23/2016
Panel 4A: Thinking with Space in Historical Analysis with Julia Büchele, Noah Gasser, Dominic Westhoff, and Giorgio Miescher
04/23/2016
Another day's work ends, this time at Town Hall where we continue to unpack all of the amazing ideas we were so privledged to engage with today!
04/22/2016
2016 IASC Keynote Address, “Varieties of Secular Experience: Magical Thinking, Occult Economies, and Puppetry Arts,” delivered by Dr. Jane Taylor, Wole Soyinka Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds
04/22/2016
Panel 3B: After the Event: Power, Memory and Violence with Yuichiro Onishi, Ahmed Sh. Ibrahim, Lidwien Kapteijns, and George Agbo
04/22/2016
Panel 3A: Ethnography to Sociology: African Grids of Intelligibility and Social Thought with Lorena Rizzo,
Jonathan Schoots, Louisa Rice, and Christopher Kirchgasler