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Remembering Biafra: History, Memory, and the Global Impact of the Nigerian Civil War
April 20, 2017 - April 21, 2017
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This conference brings together scholars, policy analysts, humanitarians, and artists to explore the multiple ways in which the Nigerian civil war of 1967-1970 drew the attention of the world, and to assess the legacies of Biafra for subsequent generations.
The Conference is co-sponsored by George Washington University’s departments of Africana Studies, American Studies, English, History, Political Science, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Revised schedule (as of February 13, 2017).
THURSDAY, APRIL 20
Milken Institute School of Public Health
Ambassador Reuben E. Brigety II, Dean, Elliott School of International Affairs
Richard Grinker, Director, Institute for African Studies
Olufemi Vaughan, Geoffrey Canada Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College
Brad Simpson, Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut
Douglas Anthony, Associate Professor of History, Franklin and Marshall College
Chair: Ambassador Liberata Mulamula
Sir Michael Aaronson, Visiting Professor, University of Surrey, UK. Director General of Save the Children, 1995-2005
Peter Redfield, Professor of Anthropology, University of NC – Chapel Hill.
Chair: Michael Barnett, University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science, George Washington University
Chima Korieh, Associate Professor of History, Marquette University
Chika Okeke-Agulu, Associate Professor of Art, Princeton University
Chair: Nemata Blyden, Associate Professor of History, George Washington University
FRIDAY, APRIL 21
Duques 151
Dean Ben Vinson, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences, GWU
Anthonia Kalu, Professor of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California-Riverside
Gloria Chuku, Professor of Africana Studies, University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Chair: Josephine Dawuni, Assistant Professor of African Politics, Howard University
Brian McNeil, Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy, U.S. Air War College
Cecelia Lynch, Professor of Political Science, University of California-Irvine
Chair: Msia Kibona Clark, Assistant Prof. of Africana Studies, Howard University
Melani McAlister, Assoc. Professor of American Studies and International Affairs, GWU
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Novelist, Nonfiction Writer and Short-Story Writer
For more information on Ms. Adichie’s lecture, including location, tickets and live streaming, click here.
Keynote Lecture Co-Sponsored by Howard University