On the morning of April 6th, 2021, the first session of “African Studies Lecturer Series: Tradition, Integration and Change” was held in Auditorium 205 of the Central Main Building, with the theme of “Timbuktu from a Cross-cultural Historical Perspective”. Prof. Pan Huaqiong, Associate Professor at the Department of History of Peking University, was invited as the keynote speaker. Doctorate...

On the afternoon of April 16th, 2021, the second session of “African Studies Lecturer Series: Tradition, Integration and Change” was held in Auditorium 205 of the Central Main Building, with the theme of “‘Politics of the Everyday’: Understanding Youth Cultures and Social Transformations in Urban Africa”. Prof. Cheng Ying, Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies...

On the afternoon of April 29th, 2021, the 3rd session of African Studies Lecture Series “Tradition, Integration, Change” was held at Conference Room 205 of the Central Main Building, with the theme of “Changes of Indigenous Anthropology in Africa: The Case of Two Traditions of South African Anthropology”. The event was delivered by Prof. Wang Haowu, Assistant Research Professor of The Insti...

On the afternoon of May 17th, 2021, the fourth session of “African Studies Lecturer Series: Tradition, Integration and Change” was held in Auditorium 205 of the Central Main Building, with the theme of “Traditional Institutions and Modern State Governance: The Politics of Post-war Reconstruction in Rwanda”. Prof. Zhao Jun, Research Associate of the Institute of African Studies, Zhejiang Nor...

On the afternoon of May 26th, 2021, the fifth session of “African Studies Lecturer Series: Tradition, Integration and Change” was held at Conference Room 205 of the Central Main Building, with the theme of “The Concept of Brokerage in Anthropological Studies of Africa”. Dr. Cheryl Mei-ting Schmitz, Research Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), was invited ...