Jennifer Hart, a professor of History and Anthropology at Wayne State University, reflects on the impact of her training as a philosophy student and her time studying with Dr. Kwame Gyekye in Ghana during a presentation on Wednesday, March 29 at 6:45 p.m. in Briggs Building, Room 317.
Hart’s presentation is titled, “Conceptual Schemes and the Decolonization of African Studies: Possibilities and Provocations in the Work of Kwame Gyekye.”
Hart’s research explores the history and culture of technology, infrastructure, mobility, and urban space in Ghana and across Anglophone Africa. Her first book, Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation (Indiana University Press, 2016) was a finalist for the African Studies Book Prize. Her newest book, Making an African City: Technopolitics and the Infrastructure of Everyday Life in Colonial Accra, is forthcoming from Indiana University Press.
The event is co-sponsored by CLASA and the Department of Philosophy.