Interrogating Historical Silences and Listening to the Voices of the Excluded 

Spring 2025 Symposium of the Center for Cultures and Communities, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee & the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Topic:
Interrogating Historical Silences and Listening to the Voices of the Excluded

Date:
February 13, 2025

Time:

• Session 1: 8:30 – 9:45 am CST (3:30 – 4:45pm WAT)
• Session 2: 10:00 – 11:15am CST (5:00 – 6:15pm WAT).

Venues (In-person):

• University of Wisconsin: Holton G80
• University of Nigeria Nsukka: IAS Seminar Room

Virtual:
Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 942 1136 1493
Passcode: 379518

Paper Presenters:

• Carolyn Eichner (Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
  Topic: “Viewing Transnational Colonial Whiteness through Feminist Lenses.”
• Chidi Ugwu (Professor of Anthropology, University of Nigeria Nsukka).
  Topic: “A Decolonial Ethnography of Subaltern Agency.”
• Rebecca Shumway (Professor of African and African American History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
  Topic: “Challenges of Historicizing Enslaved Africans both in Africa and in the African Diaspora between the 16th and 19th centuries).
• Chukwuma Opata (Professor of Economic History and African Heritage Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka).
  Topic: “Spirituality as Unsung Driver of Development in Traditional Igbo Societies: Extrapolations from Northern Igboland-Nigeria).

Convener:

• Vitalis Nwashindu (Eliana G. Berg Scholar & Doctoral Student of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).

Hosts:

• Professor Joseph Walzer
  Director, Cultures and Communities, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Hmong Diaspora Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
• Professor Ozioma Onuzulike
  Director, Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria Nsukka.