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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: On the Limits of Colonial Sovereignty Monday, December 3, 2012 Candidate for African History Tenure-Track PositionNathan R. Carpenter, Ph.D.University of California, DavisArbitrary rule---unrestrained and violent---was at the very heart of colonial sovereignty in French West Africa. So too, however, was the idea that the territorial limits of state power were well defined. What happened, then, when colonial sovereignty came up against a conception of state power as conditional, where claims of authority were testable and refutable. This talk will examine how communities responded to colonial partition in northern French Guinea. In so doing, it will also consider what an investigation into the origins and maintenance of colonial borders can tell us about the nature of state sovereignty in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Africa. Location: RKC 103 Sponsor: Africana Studies Program; Dean of the College Contact: Yuka Suzuki. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7219 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://socialstudies.bard.edu/calendar/