Keynote speakers:
Research Professor in History and Politics, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa and a Senior Researcher at the Witwatersrand
Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), Johannesburg
Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the
University of California (Irvine)
Saskia Sassen
Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago, Illinois
Speakers:
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
Assistant Professor; Spanish; and Director, Duke-in-Madrid
Duke University
Mario Blaser
Assistant Professor in International Development Studies
York University, Toronto
Michaeline Crichlow
Associate Professor, Department of African and African American Studies
Duke University
Sean Metzger
Assistant Professor of English and Assistant Professor of Theater Studies
Duke University
Fellow, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies
University of the West Indies
Tejaswini Niranjana
Director & Senior Fellow
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India
Tejumola Olaniyan
Professor of African Languages and Literature and Louise Durham Mead Professor of English
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Vicente Rafael
Professor of History
University of Washington, Seattle
Sandra L. Richards
Professor of Theater
Northwestern University, Illinois
Rebecca J. Scott
Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History & Professor of Law
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Natsu Taylor Saito
Professor of Law
Georgia State University
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