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  2. Year: 2017
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Month: November 2017

Ramzi Fawaz’s Book Awarded 2017 ASAP Book Prize

Posted on November 30, 2017

IRH Resident Fellow Ramzi Fawaz’s book The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics recently won the 2017 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Book Prize and was …

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Emily Callaci Publishes “Street Archives and City Life”

Posted on November 16, 2017

Former IRH Resident Fellow Emily Callaci has published Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania – now available from Duke University Press. For more information, click here. (To order the paperback at a 30% discount, …

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Tejumola Olaniyan Publishes “State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa”

Posted on November 15, 2017

Former IRH Senior fellow and former IRH Interim Director Tejumola Olaniyan has edited the volume State and Culture in Postcolonial Africa: Enchantings – now available through IUP Press. For more on the book, see here. 

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Ali Humayun Akhtar Publishes “Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs”

Posted on November 9, 2017

Former Kingdon Fellow Ali Humayun Akhtar‘s new book Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad is now available through Cambridge University Press. For more on the publication, see here.

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Ramzi Fawaz Lecture at the Chazen Museum 11/16

Posted on November 7, 2017

IRH Resident Fellow Ramzi Fawaz (English, UW-Madison) will be giving a talk titled “The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics” on Thursday, November 16, 2017 in conjunction with the Chazen Museum …

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