Sexualities in Africa and the African Diaspora
This project aims to broaden research on the history of sexuality in Africa and African diasporas in the Americas and Europe with critical attention to events that forward new epistemological and methodological models of research. Research on sexuality in Africa and persons of African descent dispersed across time and space has been characterized by four themes: death, danger, degeneracy, and dearth. Contemporary research has focused on AIDS as originating from and spread by persons of African descent, rape and sexual violence, and the immorality of sexual practices. Particularly for the distant past, scholars bemoan the dearth of primary sources and data to document how persons of African descent conceived of and experiences sexuality. This project will host speakers at the cutting edge of research on conceptions and praxes of sexuality across time and space in the African diaspora.
Intimacy in Africa is a new film series curated and organized by Comparative Human Development graduate student and CSGS Fellow Erin Moore held in the Spring 2014 quarter. The series features cinema related to domesticity, intimacy, sexuality, subjectivity and affect in Africa. Films will be followed by a short discussion.
On May 13, 2014, following a screening of the feature-length documentary God Loves Uganda, join an intimate conversation at CSGS with filmmaker, Roger Ross Williams moderated by Brandon Hill from Ci3. God Loves Uganda is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right, following American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting "sexual immorality" and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law.