{"id":13559,"date":"2023-03-23T09:04:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2023-03-24T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T04:38:43","slug":"jennifer-hart-shares-philosophical-insights-on-ghana-and-african-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2023\/03\/23\/jennifer-hart-shares-philosophical-insights-on-ghana-and-african-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Hart shares philosophical insights on Ghana and African Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13560 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Hart-with-book.png?resize=231%2C181&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jennifer Hart holding a book\" width=\"231\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Hart-with-book.png?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Hart-with-book.png?w=442&amp;ssl=1 442w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>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 <strong>Wednesday, March 29 at 6:45 p.m.<\/strong> in Briggs Building, Room 317.<\/p>\n<p>Hart&#8217;s presentation is titled, &#8220;Conceptual Schemes and the Decolonization of African Studies: Possibilities and Provocations in the Work of Kwame Gyekye.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hart\u2019s research explores the history and culture of technology, infrastructure, mobility, and urban space in Ghana and across Anglophone Africa. Her first book, <em>Ghana on the Go: African Mobility in the Age of Motor Transportation<\/em> (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.<\/p>\n<p>The event is co-sponsored by CLASA and the Department of Philosophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":13560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[194,4074,5975],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2023\/03\/Hart-with-book.png?fit=442%2C346&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-3wH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13561,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions\/13561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}