2024 Hopper Lecture with Nanjala Nyabola

Address

William Doo Auditorium, New College at 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto

Dates

Event start date : 10/10/2024

Event end date : 10/10/2024

Event start time : 04:00 PM

Event end time : 06:00 PM

Event Description

University of Guelph Institute of Development Studies 2024 Hopper Lecture Series

Restless Earth: Money, Digital Technology and Political Entropy Around the World with Nanjala Nyabola

Join the Women and Gender Studies Institute on Tuesday, October 10 at the William Doo Auditorium from 4 - 6PM for an afternoon with Kenyan writer, political analyst and activist Nanjala Nyabola as part of the 2024 Hopper Lecture Series.

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Event Details:

Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2024
Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Address: William Doo Auditorium (New College), 45 Willcocks Street, Toronto

About Nanjala Nyabola

Nanjala Nyabola is an independent writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. She holds a BA in African Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham, an MSc in African Studies and an MSc in Forced Migration, both from theUniversity of Oxford, as well as a JD from Harvard Law School. She has held numerous research associate positions including with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Oxford Internet Institute(OII), and other institutions, while also working as a research lead for several projects on human rights broadly and digital rights specifically around the world. She has been published in several academic journals including the African Security Review and the Women’s Studies Quarterly, and contributed to numerous edited collections. Nanjala also writes commentary for publications likeThe Nation, Al Jazeera, The Boston Review and others. She is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the InternetEra is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018) and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move(Hurst Books, 2020).