2024 Spring Symposium

The Spring 2024 symposium, organized by Georgetown University’s Africa-China Initiative and African Studies, brought together experts from across the United States, as well as Peru and Chile, to examine transregional linkages between Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In three sessions, scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines examined historical connections and engagements, elaborated on diasporas and other flows between regions, and problematized the concept of “the Global South” as they explored “Global China’s” relations with Africa and Latin America.

This public event was part of a larger workshop exploring the possibilities of transregional studies and a collaboration between Georgetown University’s Africa-China Initiative, Center for Latin American Studies, Georgetown Americas Institute, and Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues with Howard University’s African Studies Center and Michigan State University’s African Studies Center and Asian Studies Center.

Panel 1: Africa, Asia, and the Americas: Connections and Flows, Past and Present

Featured:
Caitlin Barker, Michigan State University
Yasser Ali Nasser, University of Chicago
Laura MacDonald, Michigan State University
Ignatius Suglo, University of Pennsylvania

Panel 2: Diasporas and Other Flows

Featured:
Carol Chan, Universidad Diego Portales
Monica DeHart, University of Puget Sound
Nifta Lau, Universidad del Pacífico
Vivian Lu, Rice University
Manjusha Nair, George Mason University

Roundtable Discussion: Problematizing ‘The Global South’: African and Latin American Engagements with ‘Global China,’ Restrictive Nationalisms, and Shifting Global Dynamics

Featured:
Eleanor Albert, Georgetown University
Lina Benabdallah, Wake Forest University
Jordan Lynton Cox, The Ohio State University
Margaret Myers, InterAmerican Dialogue
Viola Rothschild, U.S. Department of State