This event is in the past.It took place on February 4, 2026 at McCone Hall.
Literature TalkLiterature TalkSabine Mohamed unpacks Ethiopia's post-WWII transformation into a black maritime empire through the lens of Red Sea infrastructure and a 1998 mass deportation. Expect archival evidence and ethnographic material exploring empire-making in Pan-African Africa.
African history
Post-colonial studies
Academic lecture
Infrastructure politics
Tips
🎓speaker is from Johns Hopkins University
đź’Žcheck out the mineral displays while you're here
🪑arrive early for a good seat
Black Empire and Infrastructures of Deportation in Ethiopia
Northside
Literature TalkLiterature TalkSabine Mohamed unpacks Ethiopia's post-WWII transformation into a black maritime empire through the lens of Red Sea infrastructure and a 1998 mass deportation. Expect archival evidence and ethnographic material exploring empire-making in Pan-African Africa.
African history
Post-colonial studies
Academic lecture
Infrastructure politics
Tips
🎓speaker is from Johns Hopkins University
đź’Žcheck out the mineral displays while you're here
🪑arrive early for a good seat
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