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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 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....
Masterclass with Prof Nic van de Walle, Cornell Prof Nicolas van de Walle is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and the Chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University. His primary field is comparative politics. His teaching and research focuses on the political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa, on democratization,...
LUCAS Seminar Professor Ebenezer Obadare (University of Kansas), ‘Man of God, Subject of Veneration: Pastors, Politics, and Changing Forms of Authority in Africa’. Wednesday 9 November, 4pm, SR 1.14 (Baines Wing). All welcome - no need to book in advance.
The second event of the Leeds Migration Research Network/Sadler Series Seminar 2016-17 'Who/What is a 'Good'/'Bad' Migrant?' This seminar will feature state-of-the-art short presentations on key methodological concerns in various disciplines regarding studying the question of how "migrants" are conceptualised, classified, categorised and evaluated as differential objects of policy and public discourse, followed by discussion....
Postcolonial Cultures of Corruption Seminar For our inaugural seminar we are delighted to be able to invite Dr Steven Pierce from the University of Manchester for a discussion of his recent ground-breaking book on the history of corruption in Nigeria, Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation & Political Cultures in Nigeria (Duke University Press, 2016)....
A LUCAS seminar organised jointly with French Dr. Sabrina Parent (Université Libre de Bruxelles), ‘From Senghor to Bouchareb, the living memory of Thiaroye’ Monday 24 October, 5pm, Michael Sadler Building LG15. All welcome In 1944, in Thiaroye, Senegal, the French colonial army severely repressed a rebellion organized by repatriated West African soldiers who had participated...
Seminar hosted jointly by LUCAS and Leeds University Business School as part of their Economic Seminar Series. Prof. Howard Stein (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies & Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan), ‘Industrial policy in Africa’ There is a growing literature on the need for industrialization in Africa and some form of industrial policy...