Guest Lecture Professor Louis Mendy: " The Upcoming U.S. Elections: The Perspective of a West African Academic"
| Date: | 10/29/2024, 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM |
| Category: | Startseite |
| Location: | Hubland Süd, Geb. Z6 (Zentrales Hörsaal- u. Seminargebäude), 1.005 |
| Organizer: | Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik |
Professor Louis Mendy is Professor of American Studies at Cheikh Anta Diop University (Dakar, Senegal), founder and former Chair of SASA (Senegalese American Studies Association), Kent State University (Ohio) Fulbright Scholar, and Honorary Chair of Amnesty International, Senegal.
During the winter term 2020/21, Prof. Louis Mendy was an ERASMUS guest professor at the American Studies Department here at the University of Würzburg where he taught courses on Naturalism, Black Lives Matter and Global Human Rights.
Latest Publications of Professor Louis Mendy are:
- Survivances de la doctrine du puritanisme dans l’Amérique moderne. Harmattan, Paris, 2015.
- Representations of Africa in American and Caribbean Studies. The Laboratory of American and Caribbean Studies (LEAC). Harmattan, Dakar, 2021.
