Select Fridays between September 2015 and May 2016, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center becomes an intellectual salon. Scholars at Hallwalls features eight thought-provoking, award-winning lectures in the humanities, presented in the intellectual and inspiring setting of Hallwalls. Faculty Fellows will present their cutting-edge humanities research in terms accessible to those in other disciplines and outside academia. The events will continue to be social occasions as well, with complimentary hors d'oeuvres...
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Emergent Masculinities: Gendered Power and Social Change in the African Atlantic
He examines how changing gender identities between 1750 and 1920 in the West African Bight of Biafra defined the 1.6 million slaves exported to the Americas. Mbah draws on European colonial and missionary archives, oral interviews, participatory ethnography, and film documentation of material culture and rituals to reveal the shift from a pre-colonial period characterized by female breadwinners and powerful female political institutions, to a colonial period of male political domination.
