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You are warmly invited to attend the inaugural lecture of Professor Tendai Mangena, titled Disruptive Single Women: Gender and Sexuality among the Shona of Zimbabwe. Since 2023, Professor Mangena holds a four-year British Academy Global Professorship in African Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. At Leeds, she is associated with the Leeds University Centre...
Please join us on Tuesday 13th June for the following symposium and lecture series: About the Event: African Apocalypse: a film symposium on racial violence, colonial accountability, literature and oral history. This is an all-day event including a screening of the BBC/BFI feature documentary African Apocalypse (Rob Lemkin, 2020) with a series of talks by...
Please join us on Thursday 4th May 16:00-17:30 (BST) for a lecture with Marcus Tebogo Desando. This event will be in person at the University of Leeds and is jointly hosted between LUCAS and the Centre for Cultural Policy & Leadership. This lecture will be in two parts – the first will focus on Marcus’...
On 28 October 2021, Adriaan van Klinken will deliver his inaugural lecture as Professor of Religion and African Studies, under the title "Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa". The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) and the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (PRHS) are delighted to announce the inaugural professorial...
Professor Carole Boyce-Davies will deliver the 2018 Race and Resistance Public Lecture at the University of Leeds on "Decolonizing Discourses and African Literary Studies." The lecture is co-sponsored by the School of History and Leeds University Centre for African Studies. Carole Boyce-Davies is Professor of Africana Studies & English Africana Studies and Research Center at...
LUCAS Annual Lecture - supported by the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Leeds Conscripts of Colonial Modernity in Chinua Achebe's Rural Novels Professor Ato Quayson (New York University) Wednesday 6 December, 5.30pm, Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds. *please note slightly later start time and slightly different location...
You are warmly invited to the annual Race and Resistance Lecture which this year is co-sponsored by the School of History and the Conversations in Black History Series (run by Anyaa Anim-Addo and Say Burgin). We are delighted to welcome Kehinde Andrews, Associate Professor of Sociology who will talk on “Why We Need Black Studies:...
LUCAS Annual Lecture, 2016-2017 Professor Nic Cheeseman (University of Birmingham) will speak on Elections and Political Change in Africa: The Case of Kenya 2017 Thursday 16 March 2017, 4.30pm, Clothworkers South Building Lecture Theatre 2, University of Leeds. (for directions see this link: Clothworkers South Building LT 2 (3.04) ) All welcome - no need...
Nando Sigona, Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, Membership and Belonging A book talk on the forthcoming volume from Routledge edited by Sigona with Roberto Gonzales https://www.amazon.co.uk/Within-Beyond-Citizenship-membership-Sociological/dp/1138285528 Nando Sigona is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Policy at University of Birmingham, and deputy director of Institute for Research into Superdiversity. He is one of the editors...
Pentecostalism and Pre-marital Counselling in Africa; A Case of Religious Sophistication? Prof. Rijk van Dijk (ASCL, Leiden University/ AISSR, Univ. of Amsterdam/ Centre of Excellence, Univ. of Konstanz) Tuesday 7 February, 5pm, venue: Baines Wing SR (1.13) Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) and the Centre for Religion and Public Life (CRPL) organise a joint...