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Finding Africa seminar – African Feminisms seminar series 2017 Feminism and Literary Form in the Novels of Leila Aboulela Sybil Adam Thursday 20 April - this seminar has been cancelled unfortunately - see here African Feminisms Seminar Schedule (UK)
Finding Africa – African Feminisms seminar series 2017 Womanism in Contemporary African Feminism - Joanita Mirembe Thursday 6 April, 5pm, Leeds Humanities Research Institute Seminar Room 1 African Feminisms Seminar Schedule (UK) The next seminar paper in our African Feminisms series will be delivered by Joanita Mireme Lwanga and is entitled “Womanism in Contemporary African Feminism”....
Jacqueline Rose: “The Legacy” Chiara de Cesari: “Impossible Memories: On the Predicament of Creating Palestinian National Museums” We are delighted to host Jacqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities at Birkbeck University, and Chiara de Cesari, Assistant Professor of European Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam. They will be speaking as part of the...
Finding Africa seminar - African Feminisms seminar series 2017 To Have Seven Thousand Vaginas and None At All: Bessie's Head's Radical Visions of Sex and Gender Elinor Rooks Thursday 23 March 5pm, Leeds Humanities Research Institute Seminar Room 1 The next seminar in our African Feminisms series will be a paper entitled “To Have Seven...
Finding Africa seminar - African Feminisms seminar series 2017 Mossane (Safi Faye, 1997) and Djanta (Tahirou Tassere Ouedraogo, 2006): Intersections of Feminism with Ethnic Identity Monika Kukolova Thursday 9 March, 5pm, Leeds Humanities Research Institute Seminar Room 1 African Feminisms Seminar Schedule (UK) Abstract In this paper, I would like to acknowledge why it is important...
Jörg Wiegratz on Neoliberal Moral Economy in Uganda Neoliberal Moral Economy: Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda Book Launch and LUCAS seminar with Jörg Wiegratz Tuesday 28 February, 4.30pm–6pm, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds, LG 19 – all welcome This event is co-sponsored by the Review of African Political Economy and there will be...
Finding Africa - African Feminisms seminar series 2017 The Birth of 'New' Materialism? Abortion and Southern African Women's Writing Caitlin Stobie Monday 27 February, 5pm, Leeds Humanities Research Institute Seminar Room 1 African Feminisms Seminar Schedule (UK) Abstract In her preface to Opening Spaces: Contemporary African Women’s Writing (1999), Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera recalls a scene...
Finding Africa are pleased to announce that Jane Plastow will open our next set of seminars on the theme of African Feminisms with a paper co-authored with Katie McQuaid, Stiwanism and Gendered Identities in Jinja (Uganda) The seminar will take place on Monday, 13 February 2017 at the Leeds Humanities Research (LHRI) Institute Seminar Room at...
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...
Dr Tara Deubel, University of South Florida, will be discussing how Saharawi communities preserve identity and community through the arts in the face of uncertainty and change. In the context of the protracted conflict over the Western Sahara following Spain's decolonisation of the territory in 1975, Sahrawis have witnessed numerous political and social ruptures in recent decades....