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'I am NOT a KONY2012 POSTER': Discussion of Issues

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Location: Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre (Leeds Business School) What do you think of the INVISIBLE CHILDREN campaign? Did the campaign do good? Or harm? What are its implications? With presentations by a range of experts. This event is organised by Jo Sadgrove, Alex Beresford and Chris Paterson. Dr Joanna Sadgrove is a Research Fellow in the...

Chris Vaughan: 'Demonstrating the machine guns’: rebellion, counter-insurgency and state formation in colonial Darfur

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Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building Dr Chris Vaughan teaches African history at the Universities of Liverpool and Durham, and taught in POLIS at Leeds in the first semester of the current academic year. He completed his doctorate on the history of Darfur under British colonial rule at Durham in 2011. Chris's research is particularly focussed on examining the character...

Tanzania: 50 Years of Independence and Evaluation

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Location: Michael Sadler: LG15 In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of independence in Tanzania we are delighted to host this panel event: 50 Years of Independence and Evaluation Dr Anna Mdee: 'Addicted to Aid?' Prof. John Loxley: 'From Self-reliance to Neo-liberalism' Emeritus Prof. Peter Lawrence: 'Agricultural strategy and (De)Industrialisation' Nicodemus Shauri Eatlawe 'Democracy in Tanzania'...

Alex Beresford: The ANC reaches 100. Time for South African Workers to Celebrate?

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Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building Dr Alex Beresford is a newly appointed to Lecturer in Development Studies in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. Alex completed his Ph.D. at the Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University. His interdisciplinary Ph.D. thesis provides a detailed ethnographic focus into class and nationalist politics...

LUCAS/Africa College Seminar: Lionel Cliffe (Geography) and Christine H. Foyer 'Green Revolution and GM Crops in Africa'

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Location: School of Earth and Environment, Seminar Room 8.119 NOTE CHANGE! Lionel Cliffe is a LUCAS board member and Emeritus Professor of Geography with particular interest in land politics in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Kenya. Professor Christine H. Foyer is of the Centre for Plant Sciences whose lab looks at, inter alia, plant performance: plant performance...

LUCAS/Africa College/POLIS/Earth and Envt Seminar: Lindsay Stringer and Gordon Crawford 'Bio-Fuels and Land Dispossession'

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Location: Room 8.119, School of Earth & Environment Dr Lindsay C. Stringer is Co-Director, Sustainability Research Institute and Reader in Environment and Development, School of Earth and Environment. Gordon Crawford is Professor of Development Politics in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and a member of the LUCAS Board. Both are also active members of...

LUCAS Seminar: Maha Abdel-Rahman and Habib Ayeb 'Still an Arab Spring?'

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Location: Parkinson Seminar Room 1.08 (also known as Parkinson Lecture Room) Event co-sponsored by the Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20051/arabic_and_middle_eastern_studies 'On Protest Movements and Uprisings: Egypt's Permanent Revolution' Maha Abdel-Rahman, University of Cambridge Dr Abdel-Rahman teaches Development Studies and Middle East Politics at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include State/civil...

LUCAS/English/POLIS Seminar: Jane Plastow and Caroline Dyer Meeting them where they’re at? Ways of working with students and teachers in education for development'

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Location: Seminar Room, Beech Grove House [opposite Students Union] Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre at the University of Leeds in the School of English (Theatre Workshop). She is also LUCAS Director with a special interest in education on Africa in British schools. Caroline Dyer is Reader in Education and Development in the School...

LUCAS Seminar: Joanna Sadgrove, Morality Plays and Money Matters: Understanding the Politics of Homosexuality in Uganda'

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Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Joanna Sadgrove is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. Her recent publications include a book chapter, “‘Keeping Up Appearances’: Sex and Religion amongst University Students in Uganda,” Aids and Religious Practice in Africa, (2009), edited by F. Becker and P. Wenzel Geissler, Leiden: Brill,...

LUCAS Seminar: Graham Harrison, ‘The African presence in Britain: politics, post-imperial melancholia, and the commodity-form’

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Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Graham Harrison is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield where he carries out research in International Political Economy. He has published on corruption, the World Bank, globalisation, and development, specialising in east Africa, especially Tanzania.