Lead Faculty: Chris Ippolito, Michael Best, Samba Sy, Valerie Thomas
Description: coming soon
African Lecture Series
China in Africa: A Conversation with D'wayne Copper
5:30-6:30pm, Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - Swann 106 and via Zoom
D’wayne Copper discusses aspects of the special relationship between China and Africa. Moderated by Chris Ippolito (Professor of French, African Studies Minor Advisor, School of Modern Languages).
D'wayne Copper is a Project Associate at Connexus Corporation. He graduated from Georgia Tech with a BS in Economics and International Affairs and an MS in Applied Language and Intercultural Studies with a concentration in French. He was also a Democracy Program Intern at the Carter Center (Atlanta).
Filming Africa: From Ethnography to Essay - A lecture by Rachel Gabara
3:30-4:30pm, Thursday, October 26th, 2023 - SEN Theater, Price Gilbert Library, Georgia Tech
Dr. Gabara will discuss the development of independent sub-Saharan African cinema in the context of her forthcoming monograph, Reclaiming Realism: From Documentary Film in Africa to African Documentary Film. Gabara’s book and essays on the topic are based on research supported by the Fulbright Scholar Program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Philosophical Society.
Rachel Gabara teaches Francophone African and European literature and film at the University of Georgia. Senior film review editor for African Studies Review, she has published widely on African film in its global contexts as well as first-person narration in multiple media. Her recent essays address the intertwined histories of colonial French and independent West and Central African cinemas, and her new monograph, Reclaiming Realism: From Documentary Film in Africa to African Documentary Film, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press.