Seminar

David Clayton (York), ‘Development and Decolonisation? Radio Broadcasting in Northern Rhodesia, 1942-1953’ David Clayton is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York

Joint LUCAS and Centre for Religion and Public Life Research seminar Prof Birgit Meyer (Utrecht) - 'Studying Religion in and from Africa'. Abstract The study of religion in Africa, as the flagship journal with the same name shows, is a thriving field with researchers from Europe, Africa, and elsewhere. It mainly consists of articles based...

LUCAS Seminar - CANCELLED We regret that Alemseged Tesfai will have to cancel his planned lecture as the British authorities have been too slow in granting his visa. Alemseged Tesfai - British colonialism in Eritrea, 1941-1950 Born in 1944 in the southern Eritrean town of Adi Quala, Alemseged Tesfai is Eritrea's premier playwright. His play The...

LUCAS Seminar - all welcome Professor Paul Cooke (Leeds), 'Changing the Story or Confirming the Story? Participatory filmmaking, development and youth leadership in the East Rand, South Africa’ Tuesday 21 Nov 2017 5pm, Michael Sadler Building room LG.17, University of Leeds   Prof Paul Cooke is director of the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures...

As part of the University of Leeds School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) research seminar series, you are warmly invited to a presentation by Dr Winifred Bedigen (University of Leeds): This paper seeks to clarify some of the misunderstood issues in current African women’s empowerment and development messaging. Some western scholars, by theorising women’s...

University of Leeds Faculty of Arts Women, Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster and Global History Research Cluster seminar 1956 Women's Day Protest, Pretoria Wednesday, 15th November, 5pm-7pm,  Grant room, Michael Sadler Building (room 3.11): Speaker, Dr Nick Grant (UEA), ‘Anti-Apartheid and the Politics of Motherhood’ - University of Leeds Nick Grant’s book, Winning Our Freedoms...

LUCAS Seminar - all welcome Kathleen Vongsathorn (Warwick), ‘Deep into the village’: Tracing Shifting Attitudes to Hospital Childbirth across Uganda, c. 1918-2017' Thursday 2 November 2017 5-7pm – LG17, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds Kathleen Vongsathorn is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow for the project "Women and the Spread and Adaptation of Biomedical Knowledge in Uganda, 1897-1979"...

WEST AFRICAN TROOPS IN INDIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR © IWM (IND 2864) LUCAS Seminar - All welcome Oliver Coates (Cambridge), ‘West African soldiers in India, 1943 to 1947’ Tuesday 17 Oct 2017 4.30-6pm, Michael Sadler Building LG15, University of Leeds

Sustainability Seminar hosted by the Sustainability Research Institute: Speaker: Prof Samantha Ashman, Director of UJ-IDEP MPhil in Industrial Policy, and Co-ordinator of the Industrial Development and Policy Research Cluster South Africa's system of accumulation has historically been skewed towards a narrow set of capital intensive sectors concentrated on mining and energy, with strong linkages between...