CAS Lecture Series - (Re)filming Africa: Historical Documentaries and the New Turns in African Popular Culture Studies
- When
- Wednesday, November 18, 20264:00 PM – 5:30 PM ESTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
- Where
- Luce Hall 20334 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06511Open in Maps
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About
Speaker: Saheed Aderinto
Professor Saheed Aderinto, an award-winning filmmaker and an award-winning author, is the Founding President of the Lagos Studies Association. His books include Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria (Ohio University Press/New African Histories Series, 2022), Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order (Indiana University Press, 2018), and When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (University of Illinois Press, 2015), which won the 2016 Nigerian Studies Association's Book Award Prize for the “most important scholarly book/work on Nigeria published in the English language."