Friday February 11th, 2022 at 10:00am (EST) / 3:00pm – 5:00pm (GMT). Simultaneous French translation. Zoom registration link here

Introduction of the Series - N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba is the Director of the Institute for African Development (IAD) and Professor of African and African Diaspora education, Comparative and International education, Social institutions, African social history, and the study of Gender, in the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University.

Chair - Marcel Kitissou is a historian and political scientist. He is a professor in the African Studies Department at the State University of New York at Albany and an IAD Regional Scholar Affiliate. Professor Kitissou previously served as Faculty Director of the Global Humanitarian Action Program and Executive Director of the Africa Faith and Justice Network.

Discussant - Kassim Kone is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the State University of New York-Cortland. Professor Kone teaches Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Peoples of Africa, Introduction to Linguistics, Language in Culture and Society, Development Anthropology, Anthropological Theory, and Research Methods.

Panelists

Valeria Fargion is associate professor of political science, holder of a Jean Monnet Chair at the "Cesare Alfieri" school of political science of the University of Florence, where she teaches "Politics of European Integration" for the master's degree in international relations and European studies. Until 2020 she coordinated the path of European Studies and was responsible for international relations for the School of Political Science. Her priority attention to the international dimension and to the dialogue between scholars from different disciplinary fields and socio-political and cultural contexts have led her over the years to cover coordination roles in a series of transnational academic networks: two mandates (2002-2006 and 2006-2010) as an elected member of the Executive Board of the Research Committee 19 "Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy" of the International Sociological Association; from 2002 to 2007, she was a member of the executive committee of ESPANET (the European network of social policy scholars) and from its foundation until 2014, Co-Chair of ESPANET-Italy. From 2008 to 2010 she worked as a national expert for the DG Employment of the European Commission, and from its foundation in 2014 until 2019, she was co-director and then director of Politiche Sociali / Social Policies, published by Il Mulino.