Please join us for our final "First Fridays" AAS Speaker Series Event of the Fall Quarter, featuring Dr. Bruce Haynes, Professor of Sociology, UC Davis, on Friday, December 6th, 12:00pm-1:30pm. Full details below. Please join us for a great presentation, conversation, and food!
RSVP here or by emailing aas-support@ucdavis.edu
Friday, December 6th
12:00pm-1:30pm
Hart Hall 3201
Hart Hall 3201
Lunch Provided
Dr. Bruce Haynes, "Jews, Monsters, and Space Lasers"
Bio: A native of Harlem, New York, Bruce D. Haynes received his B.A. in Sociology from Manhattanville College. Haynes conducted applied research under the tutelage of sociologist Jay Schulman, selecting juries for high publicity trials in New York State before going on to earn his doctorate in sociology from the City University of New York (1995). Dr. Haynes was appointed Assistant Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Yale University in 1995. In 2001, he joined the faculty at the University of California, Davis, where he now serves as Professor of Sociology. An expert or race, racialization, and urban communities, Dr. Haynes has appeared on Capital Public Radio’s Insight with Vicki Gonzalez and KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny. He has also appeared on PBS, and has written for ESPN, and The Forward. His publications include Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family (co-author Syma Solovitch, Columbia University Press 2017), and The Soul of Judaism; Jews of African Descent in America (New York University Press 2018), awarded the 2019 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for Best Book in Africana Religion. The book was also noted by the Jewish Book Council.
Please join us for our next "First Fridays" AAS Speaker Series Event, featuring Dr. Bettina Ng'weno, Associate Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, UC Davis on Friday, November 1st, 12:00pm-1:30pm. Full details below. Please join us for a great presentation, conversation, and food!
RSVP here or by emailing aas-support@ucdavis.edu
Friday, November 1st
12:00pm-1:30pm
Hart Hall 3201
Hart Hall 3201
Lunch Provided
Dr. Bettina Ng'weno, "No Place like Home: Anti-Urbanism and the time and place of Indigeneity in Nairobi"
Bio: Bettina Ng’weno, is an Associate Professor and award-winning teacher in African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she is affiliated with the Graduate Groups in anthropology, geography and cultural studies. Trained as an anthropologist at Stanford and Johns Hopkins University and with a foundation in agricultural science and management at UC Davis, her research and teaching interests include space, property, social justice, citizenship, cities, states, race and ethnicity within Latin America, Africa and the Indian Ocean region. She was previously co-director of the Mellon Research Initiative Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds at the University of California, Davis. Her books include: Turf Wars, Citizenship and Territory in the Contemporary State (Stanford) focused on Colombia; and the edited volumes Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (Routledge) on the Indian Ocean region, and Developing Global Leaders: Insights from African Case Studies (Palgrave) focused on Africa. Working from personal, familial, ethnographic and archival history and experience, her current book (No Place Like Home in the New City) and creative film (Last Dance in Kaloleni) project, focused on the capital of Kenya, brings to life a Nairobi centered on the Railways, the dreams and aspirations of long-term residents, and the complicated spatial and temporal dynamics of the city.
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Our first speaker event features Dr. Corrie Decker, Professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, UC Davis. Full details below. Please join us for a great presentation, conversation, and food!
RSVP here or by emailing aas-support@ucdavis.edu
Friday, October 4th
12:00pm-1:30pm
Hart Hall 3201
12:00pm-1:30pm
Hart Hall 3201
Dr. Corrie Decker, "From Census Reports to School Lessons: Institutionalizing Chronological Age in 20th C East Africa"
Abstract: The twentieth century was the age of institutions for children and youth, when standardizing legal, medical, scientific, and social definitions of childhood and youth became a global phenomenon. In colonial East Africa (now Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda), this began with the institutionalization of chronological age in the first half of the twentieth century as officials, teachers, religious leaders, and doctors worked to bring children within the state’s reach. The standardization of chronological age in East Africa facilitated the registering and management of young people, and it imposed “modern” standard concepts of time, both historical and individual, on colonial subjects. British colonial practices of measuring and monitoring African children privileged Western temporal cultures based on the Gregorian calendar, but East Africans interpreted these ideas through their own epistemologies of development, both individual and societal.
