Africa Research Seminar

"Educating Linguistic Minorities in Botswana" Speaker: Lydia Nyati-Saleshando, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, University of Botswana. Co-sponsored by the Committee on African Studies. Chair: Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Assistant Professor of...

“The Agency, Advocacy, and Voice of Resettled African Refugee Youth” Speaker: Martha K. Ferede, Researcher and Consultant; Former Canada Program Research Fellow (2010–2013). Co-sponsored by the Committee on African Studies. Contact: Bethany Mulimbi...

"From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda: A Talk with the Author" Speaker: Elisabeth King, Fellow, Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo. Co-sponsored by the Committee on African Studies. Contact: Bethany Lynn Hoag bethany...

"Syrian and Malian Regional Refugee Crises: Implications for Education" Co-sponsored by the Committee on African Studies. Speaker: Ita Sheehy, Senior Education Advisor, UNHCR, Geneva. Chair: Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard...

"Humanitarian Early Warning: Progress and Complexity" Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Committee on African Studies Dr. Leaning's research and policy interests include issues of public health, medical ethics, and early...

“Conflict and Beyond: A Deeper Look into Telling African Stories” Finbarr O’Reilly is a Reuters photographer based in Dakar, Senegal. He began his journalism career as a writer and has covered Africa for the past ten years. He turned to photography in...

“Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: A Talk with the Author” Jason Stearns is author of Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa. He has been working on the Congo for the past ten years, most recently as the...

"The Impact of Minimum Age of Employment Regulation on Child Labor and Schooling" Labor laws and regulation are the primary instruments used by many countries to combat child labor. The last 15 years has seen an enormous surge in these laws as...

"A Day in School: How Much Opportunity to Learn Do Schools Provide?" Significant progress has been made across the globe towards providing students access to primary education. However, getting children into schools is just the first step in tackling the...

"Can We Realize the Promise of All Children Reading? A Conceptual Framework for Literacy Intervention in Action" A graduate of Stanford (MA) and Harvard’s (MEd, EdD) Graduate Schools of Education, Amy Jo Dowd is passionate about using rigorous research to...