
The African History Workshop (AHW) is a seminar series for Princeton students and faculty interested in the use of historical sources and approaches to the study of Africa, broadly defined. The series brings together a community of Africanists that transcends common subdivisions in this field. The series provides graduate students, faculty and visitors with an informal forum in which to present and receive feedback on works-in-progress, research papers, and dissertation chapters and draft articles or book chapters.
View past AHW events in our archive.
Upcoming Events
African History Workshop | Mishka Wazar, Princeton University
“An Analysis of Photographs from the Casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum”
Fri, Oct 6, 2023, 1:30 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, room 230
Virtual Location
Speaker
Affiliation
Princeton University
African History Workshop | Elisa Prosperetti, Nanyang Technological University
“Improvement of the Highest Order”: Race, Development, and Education in Colonial West Africa”
Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 1:30 pm
Virtual Location
Speaker
Elisa Prosperetti
Affiliation
Nanyang Technological University
Global History Workshop | José Lingna Nafafé, University of Bristol
"Evidence that Demands a Verdict: Prince Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionists’ Case in Rome and the Vatican Response in the Seventeenth Century"
Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 211
Virtual Location
Speaker
Affiliation
University of Bristol
African History Workshop | Gregory Valdespino, Princeton University
“The Politics of Dwelling in Senegal and France”
Fri, Feb 9, 2024, 1:30 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 230
Virtual Location
Speaker
Affiliation
Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Architecture, Princeton University
African History Workshop | Ernest Sasu Kwame Sewordor, University of Basel
“Every Industry Produces Expert Swindlers: Crime and Counterintelligence in Gold Coast’s Diamond-Mining Enterprise, 1919-1950s”
Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 1:30 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 230
Virtual Location
Speaker
Ernest Sasu Kwame Sewordor
Affiliation
University of Basel
African History Workshop | Haris Durrani, Princeton University
“Space Like Sea, Sea Like Land: Jurisdiction, Sovereignty, & U.S. Empire in Africa, 1963”
Fri, Mar 1, 2024, 1:30 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 230
Virtual Location
Speaker
Affiliation
Princeton University