New Directions in China-Africa Studies

This all-day workshop will explore post-pandemic shifts in China-Africa relations. These shifts are evident in the changing configurations of labor regimes, extractive industries, debt and finance, and in the mobility of peoples, commodities, capital, and imaginaries across the African continent.

Speakers: Mingwei Huang (Dartmouth), Vivian Lu (Rice), Nina Sylvanus (Northeastern), Elisa Gambino (Manchester), Fidèle Ebia (Duke), Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke), Engseng Ho (Duke)

Film screening and Q and A with co-director Xinyan Yu from 3:00 to 5:30 pm: Xinyan Yu's award-winning film "Made in Ethiopia" (2024) about a Chinese industrial park in Ethiopia.

Sponsors: Duke Africa Initiative, APSI, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Department of African & African American Studies (AAAS), Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)