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Dr Alex Vines OBE (Head of the Africa Programme at Chatham House), ‘Narratives about Africa's Future: what role for academics and analysts?’ Tuesday 18th October, 5pm, Maurice Keyworth Lecture Theatre, Business School All welcome. Organised by LUCAS and the Centre for Global Development. Edited to add - you can now watch Alex Vines's talk -...
Professor Manuel Barcia's inaugural lecture Thursday 10 March, 5pm, Clothworkers South Lecture Theatre 3 This lecture will examine how a series of historical events that occurred in West Africa from the mid-1790s - including Afonja's rebellion, the Owu wars, the Fulani-led jihad, and the migrations to Egbaland - had an impact upon life in cities...
LUCAS Annual Lecture: Prof. Pat Manning, ‘Africa and its Diaspora as a Metaphor in World History’ Pat Manning is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History and Director, World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. He is in addition the current President of the American Historical Association, the Director of the Collaborative for World-Historical...
Location: Conference Auditorium 2 This event is the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Global Development at the University of Leeds. *Event will be followed by a drinks reception For more information e-mail cgd@leeds.ac.uk Abstract: With hindsight, looking back over the development decades, professional knowledge has again and again proved to be wrong. Professionals have...
Location: Old Broadcasting House, Woodhouse Lane In association with Leeds Metropolitan University School of Social Sciences, LUCAS are delighted to announce a lecture by: Between Revolution and Counter Revolution: Lessons from the Obama Phenomenon Horace Campbell, leading activist and professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University, New York. “There are reverberations of revolution all...