Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 12:40 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Memorial Union Building Theater I
The New Hampshire International Seminar (NHIS) is a series of talks organized by the International Affairs Program at UNH to cultivate community-wide dialogue on critical global issues. To achieve this, the program brings leading scholars and practitioners to campus to speak not just to our students but also to the broader community. The NHIS series is meant to engage an undergraduate audience and give some sense of why the presentation is important/useful to understanding some aspects of international affairs. UNH faculty, staff, students, and community members attend.
Please Join us on Thursday, March 30th from 12:40-2pm in MUB Theater I for "Epidemics and Conflict in West Africa" featuring Dr. Tamba M'bayo. Dr. M'bayo is an associate professor of history at West Virginia University.
Dr. M’bayo’s current research traces Sierra Leone’s long history of epidemic episodes from 1787 to the Ebola outbreak of 2013. Tentatively titled “From ‘White Man’s Grave’ to Ebola: Sierra Leone’s History of Epidemics, 1787- 2015,” the study seeks a more profound understanding of the dynamics of cultural, social, political, and environmental conditions that have influenced disease eruptions in the country. During the 2019-20 academic year Dr. M’bayo conducted archival research for his book in Sierra Leone as a Fulbright US Scholar.
