“Health, Wealth, and Knowledge in Buganda, East Africa”
The keynote speaker for the 2012 Africanist Graduate Student Conference will be historian Neil Kodesh from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His book, Beyond the Royal Gaze: Clanship and Public Healing in Buganda, received the 2011 Melville Herskovits award for outstanding Africanist scholarship. Kodesh will deliver his address on the third floor of the International Center at 6:30 pm, on Friday, October 19, 2012. Prior to the address, Kodesh will sit down for an informal discussion with students at 3:00 pm (also on the third floor of the International Center).