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Lecture by Dr. Adam Ashforth
February 22, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Please join us a lecture by Dr. Adam Ashforth
Candidate for the Preeminence Position – Public Health and Social Change in Africa
strong>Death=Silence? Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of AIDS
Monday, February 22, 3:00 pm in 404 Grinter
Reception to follow in the Center for African Studies.
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].