Gender Workshop

Can Africa Breathe? Lessons From Two Pandemics

Oyeronké Oyewùmí (Stony Brook University)

July 9, 2020, 17h00 (GMT +01:00) (CANCELLED)

Evento em formato digital

[DUE TO PERSONAL REASONS OF THE SPEAKER, THIS GENDER WORKSHOP  HAS BEEN CANCELED]


Overview

Has Africa been able to "breathe" since the pandemic of White Supremacy took hold on the continent, and globally? What are the linkages between this state of coloniality, and the diseases that plague Africans, and African descendants everywhere? The Covid pandemic undoubtedly  constitutes a terrible, but also an opportune moment to reimagine a new world. The talk will make a contribution to Africa\\\'s quest to reinvent the future.

This Webseminar is included in the gender workshop series and celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Gender Workshop


Bio note

Oyeronke Oyewumi is a Full Professor of sociology at Stony Brook University, NY. She was born in Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan, and the University of California at Berkeley. Oyewumi is the author of two monographs, and editor of three anthologies. The monograph The Invention of women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourse (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1997) won the 1998 Distinguished Book Award of the Gender & Sexuality Section of the American Sociological Association. The book was also a finalist for the Herskovits Prize of the African Studies Association in the same year. Oyewumi’s latest book is What Gender is Motherhood? Changing Yoruba Ideals of Power, Procreation & Identity in the Age of Modernity (Palgrave/Macmillan 2016)