Events
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"Imagining Adwa" Harvard University, 27 February 2011.
Book reading - Reading from The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire at the University Bookstore, 7pm, 2 February 2011.
"The Color of Africa: Black and White at the Battle of Adwa—Ethiopia, 1896" Distinguished Katz Lecture for 2011, University of Washington, 25 January 2011.
"The Battle of Algiers" an introduction to a screening of Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 film, University of Washington, 18 February 2010
"After Adwa" International Conference on Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa, 2 November 2009.
"Ethiopia in the American Imagination: When Menelik Came to America" African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 14 November 2008.
"Ethiopia in the American Imagination: When Menelik Came to America" University of Washington, 27 April 2007.
“A Panofsky Moment in the History of Race – When Menelik Came to America.” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 30 October 2006.
“Menelik Imagined: Ethiopia and Italy in Post-Emancipation America,” Princeton University, 26 October 2006.
“The Color of Africa: Black and White at the Battle of Adwa,” University of Virginia, 22 March 2006.