Fall 2025

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• September 17: Subho Basu – “Quest for Golden Bengal: Cold War Sheikh Mujib and the Making of Bangladesh“
• October 1: Vatsala Shoukla – “Visualizing Feminist Urbanism in Mumbai: Participatory Video-Voice and the Nagar Swaraj Leadership Approach“
• October 8: Elizabeth Elbourne – “Hunter Gatherers between Clientage, Child Trafficking and Genocide: Reading Missionary Papers for Evidence of Interactions between San, Settlers and other Africans in early Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa“
• October 22: Everjoy Grace Chiimba – “The aftermath of Cyclone Idai (2019): Youth narratives beyond official and online discourses in Zimbabwe.“
• October 9: Ayesha Vemuri – “The Case for Letting Assam Flood: Speculative Infrastructure in the Brahmaputra Floodplain“
• November 19: Mathew K. Birgen – “Towards Radical Utu: Reimagining the Tower of Babel through an African Ecological Lens”
• December 3: John Galaty – “A Deep History of Pastoralism in Eastern Africa: From the Origins of Domestication to the Indigenization of Pastoral Modernities”