This symposium brings together researchers in political science and politics who focus on key questions emerging from Africa. The symposium presenters will focus on sub-Saharan African but will address themes that effect the broader continent. Presentations will cover a variety of issues, including the role of gender and sexuality in political presentation; the emergence of women as local, national, and international leaders; gender and sexual identity within and across formal and informal institutions; the relationship between human rights and women’s rights; discrimination in economic and social relations; gender and migratory patterns within Africa; and the gendered experience of conflict.
Sponsored by the MacMillan Center, the Council on African Studies, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Program, and the Political Science Department at Yale.
http://african.macmillan.yale.edu/symposium-gender-and-sexuality-africa