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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...
Campaigners in Leeds gather to show their support for the anti-apartheid movement (Photo courtesy of Dr Salim Essop and the Voices Against Apartheid - the Leeds Story website - please acknowledge if reproduced). LUCAS Roundtable: 'Remembering Anti-Apartheid Activism in Leeds' Wednesday 12 October, 5.30pm (Michael Sadler LG19) - all welcome. This roundtable of anti-apartheid activists in...
Liberating the Female Voice from the Patriarchal Order of the South African Pastoral Tradition: Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s Chimney by Ruth Daly This event is brought to you in association with the University of Leeds’ Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) and is hosted by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI). The seminar will take place on 24...
South Africa’s Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles Book Launch and LUCAS seminar with Alexander Beresford Thursday 3 March, 4–5.30pm, Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds, LG 19 - all welcome South Africa's long road to political freedom reflects only a partial freedom and an unfinished project of liberation. The country remains one of...
LUCAS Seminar - all welcome James Morris (York), ‘The Orchestra on the Titanic? Oxfam in Kenya, 1963-2002’. Tuesday 2 February, 4-5.30pm (Michael Sadler LG10) Abstract: The paper concentrates on Oxfam’s work in Kenya during the first fifteen years after independence. During this period the developmental state was at its most active, with modernising schemes for...