Africology Now and the Departments of History and Global Studies present:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Uncommon Narratives, Unusual Actors: Animals and the Making of Africa’s Past<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Saheed Aderinto
Winner, Dav David Prize ’23
Florida International University, Miami, Florida<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
11:00AM – 2:00PM
Free lunch!
Alumni Fireside Lounge W140
UWM Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Saheed Aderinto is an award-winning historian of Africa and its diasporas. This year he won the $300,000 Dan David Prize, the largest history prize in the world, in recognition of his “outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is the author of Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa: The Human and Nonhuman Creatures of Nigeria<\/em> (2022), Guns and Society in Colonial Nigeria: Firearms, Culture, and Public Order<\/em> (2018), and When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958<\/em> (2015). He is currently writing a book and producing a documentary on Fuji, an African popular culture. The first episode of the documentary, “Mr. Fuji: Barry Wonder” will premiere at BarryFest, the biennial celebration of Fuji creator, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister.<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"saheed-aderinto-uncommon-narratives-unusual-actors","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2023-11-07 11:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2023","month":"11","day":"07","hour":"11","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2023-11-07 14:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2023","month":"11","day":"07","hour":"14","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2023-11-07 17:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2023","month":"11","day":"07","hour":"17","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2023-11-07 20:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2023","month":"11","day":"07","hour":"20","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"America\/Chicago","timezone_abbr":"","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"$","currency_code":"USD","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Department Event","slug":"department-event","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":66,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":49,"count":124,"filter":"raw","id":66,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/66","collection":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories","up":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/49"}},{"name":"Global Studies Event","slug":"global-studies-event","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":52,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":49,"count":71,"filter":"raw","id":52,"urls":{"self":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/52","collection":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories","up":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/49"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":9885,"author":"32664","status":"publish","date":"2022-12-16 10:23:55","date_utc":"2022-12-16 16:23:55","modified":"2022-12-16 10:23:55","modified_utc":"2022-12-16 16:23:55","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/venue\/uwm-union-fireside-lounge\/","venue":"UWM Union Fireside Lounge","slug":"uwm-union-fireside-lounge","state":"WI","stateprovince":"WI","json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"UWM Union Fireside Lounge","description":"","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/venue\/uwm-union-fireside-lounge\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressRegion":"WI"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures?id=9885","global_id_lineage":["uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures?id=9885"]},"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Saheed Aderinto, “Uncommon Narratives, Unusual Actors”","description":"<p>Africology Now and the Departments of History and Global Studies present: Uncommon Narratives, Unusual Actors: Animals and the Making of Africa\\'s Past Professor Saheed AderintoWinner, Dav David Prize \\'23Florida International University, Miami, Florida Tuesday, November 7, 202311:00AM - 2:00PMFree lunch!Alumni …<\/p>\\n","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/event\/saheed-aderinto-uncommon-narratives-unusual-actors\/","eventAttendanceMode":"https:\/\/schema.org\/OfflineEventAttendanceMode","eventStatus":"https:\/\/schema.org\/EventScheduled","startDate":"2023-11-07T11:00:00-06:00","endDate":"2023-11-07T14:00:00-06:00","location":{"@type":"Place","name":"UWM Union Fireside Lounge","description":"","url":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/world-languages-cultures\/venue\/uwm-union-fireside-lounge\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressRegion":"WI"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"performer":"Organization"},"is_virtual":false,"virtual_url":null,"virtual_video_source":""}