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Graduate Student Lunch with Dr. Adam Ashforth
February 23, 2016 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Anthropology will be hosting a lunch with graduate students and Dr. Adam Ashforth at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 23 – in the Diaspora room – 1350 Turlington. Please plan to attend.
Candidate for the Preeminence Position – Public Health and Social Change in Africa
Dr. Adam Ashforth (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan) has published extensively on state formation and the political implications of spiritual insecurity in everyday life in South Africa. During South Africa’s transition to democracy he spent many years living and writing in Soweto. He is currently researching responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in everyday life in rural Malawi and ethnic conflict in Kenya’s Rift Valley. His publications include three books: The Politics of Official Discourse in Twentieth-Century South Africa (Oxford, 1990); Madumo, A Man Bewitched (Chicago, 2000); and Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa (Chicago, 2005) [winner of the Herskovits Award, 2005].