| When | Wednesday, Feb 3, 2021, 12 – 1:30 p.m. |
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| Campus room | Online via Zoom link |
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| Event Types | Lectures/Seminars, Special Events |
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| Event sponsors | This online series is sponsored by the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and African Studies program, in partnership with the Center for Global Studies, Comparative History of Ideas, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation.
This talk is additionally co-sponsored by the Department of History. |
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| | | Description | Despite a remarkable post-war building boom and returning diaspora, Somalia's capital city remains contested. Ballooning property values and the refurbishment of public and private spaces continue to embody the politics of urban belonging, memory and violence of the past three decades. RSVP by following this link.
Speaker: Surer Mohamed is a David and Elaine Potter Cambridge Trust Scholar and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge.
This event is part of the Jackson School of International Studies and its African Studies Program Winter 2021 Lecture Series on Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds. Join us in conversation with emerging scholars tracing Horn of Africa connections to today’s global trends in popular politics, racial formation, and new forms of belonging. Art credit: "The Other Side" by Yeggy Michael. |
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