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SUMMARY: Ziegler Lecture: Michelle Moyd\, “Askari\, Gurnah’s Afterlives\, a
 nd History: Some Reflections”
DESCRIPTION: Join CENES on February 28th at 11:00am Pacific Time for an onl
 ine Ziegler Lecture with Associate Professor Michelle Moyd from Michigan St
 ate University.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <h3><img class="alignnone wp-image-21664 size
 -full" src="https://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/1
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 "1080" /></h3><h3>Join CENES on February 28th at 11:00am Pacific Time for a
 n online <a href="https://cenes.ubc.ca/news-events/ziegler-lecture-series/"
 >Ziegler Lecture</a> with <a href="https://history.msu.edu/people/faculty/m
 ichelle-moyd/">Associate Professor Michelle Moyd</a> from Michigan State Un
 iversity.</h3><p><strong>Title: </strong>Askari\, Gurnah’s <em>Afterlives\,
  </em>and History: Some Reflections</p><p>[caption id="attachment_21662" al
 ign="alignright" width="300"]<img class="size-medium wp-image-21662" src="h
 ttps://cene.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/11/MOYD-photo-
 for-UCB-talk-300x194.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="194" /> "View of the t
 hematic areas 'Colonial Contact Zones and Societies' and 'Dominion and Viol
 ence' © Deutsches Historisches Museum/David von Becker"[/caption]</p><p><st
 rong>Abstract: "</strong>The history of African soldiers (askari) who fough
 t in the German colonial army (Schutztruppe) in German East Africa (1890-19
 18) garnered new attention in 2020 when Abdulrazak Gurnah’s <em>Afterlives<
 /em> was published. Gurnah’s Nobel Prize for Literature win in 2021 brought
  his body of work to much wider audiences. Where do fiction and history mee
 t in his acclaimed novel? Reflecting on over two decades of historical rese
 arch on the askari and their roles in the First World War in eastern Africa
 \, I discuss how insights from Gurnah’s recent fiction have shaped my think
 ing about the askari and the German colonial past. I also situate <em>After
 lives</em> within a growing literary landscape of novels\, short stories\, 
 and film that feature African colonial soldiers as central subjects."</p><p
 ><strong><img class="size-medium wp-image-21663 alignleft" src="https://cen
 e.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2023/11/MoydSept22-728x1024-2
 13x300.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="300" />Bio: </strong>Michelle Moyd i
 s Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is the a
 uthor of <em>Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers</em>\, <em>Conquest\,
  and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa</em> (Ohio University Press
 \, 2014). She is co-author\, with Yuliya Komska and David J. Gramling\, of 
 <em>Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language</em> (Palgra
 ve\, 2019). She is currently at work on Africa\, Africans\, and the First W
 orld War\, under contract with Cambridge University Press.</p><h3>Watch Mic
 helle Moyd ’s Lecture Online:</h3><p>Missed Michelle Moyd ’s  lecture on Fe
 bruary 28th? You can <a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2429/87537">access the 
 video and audio recording</a> on UBC’s cIRcle database.</p>
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