Workshop: New Directions in China–Africa Studies
This all-day workshop, co-organized by professors Charles Piot and Ralph Litzinger, will explore post-pandemic shifts in China-Africa relations. These shifts are evident in the changing configurations of labor regimes, extractive industries, debt and finance, and in the mobility of peoples, commodities, capital, and imaginaries across the African continent.
Featured speakers include:
- Mingwei Huang (Dartmouth)
- Vivian Lu (Rice)
- Nina Sylvanus (Northeastern)
- Elisa Gambino (Manchester)
- Fidèle Ebia (Duke)
- Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke)
- Engseng Ho (Duke)
At 3:00 PM, the workshop will conclude with a screening of the 2024 documentary “Made in Ethiopia” followed by Q&A with director Xinyan Yu, moderated by Professor Ralph Litzinger (Cultural Anthropology).
About the film
When a massive Chinese industrial park lands in rural Ethiopia, a dusty farming town finds itself at the new frontier of globalization. This award-winning documentary throws audiences into two colliding worlds: an industrial juggernaut fueled by profit and progress, and a vanishing countryside where life is still measured by the cycle of the seasons.