2015 Focus on the Humanities Distinguished Faculty Lecture:
Tejumola Olaniyan
English and African Languages & Literature, UW-Madison
Tejumola Olaniyan will look at literature, popular culture, and social and political practices to tell a cultural history of African politics, and a political history of African culture that re-frames our understanding of the modern state, and takes seriously the charge from African scholars that even humanities scholarship should propose “concrete solutions” to problems of the state.
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Research in the Humanities and the Center for the Humanities.