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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...
Prof. Jane Plastow will be giving a paper on Wednesday 9th December at 5 pm in Studio One of the Workshop Theatre – that is the main theatre in the old theatre building beside the Laidlow, in the old red-doored church. The talk is “From Research to Activism: Making Theatre and Anthropology in Walukuba''. We...
On Tuesday 8 December, Prof. Jane Taylor will give a talk on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: ”Ubu and the Truth Commission: Transitional Justice and Theatre''. This will be held at 5pm on Tuesday 8 December in Studio One of the Workshop Theatre (behind the Laidlaw library). This is primarily for theatre students but all...
LUCAS Seminar - all welcome Naomi Haynes (Edinburgh), ‘Learning to Pray the Pentecostal Way: Language and Personhood on the Zambian Copperbelt’. Tuesday 8 December, 4–5.30pm (Michael Sadler LG10)
Sustainability Research Institute, Centre for Global Development and Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Seminar Series Invite you to the third in the series on The Environment, Human Rights and Development Resource Politics and Advocacy Struggles in Zimbabwe: Encountering Power at Multiple Scales Sam Spiegel, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh As the mining sector...
The next Finding Africa seminar will be two papers on the Zimbabwean author and scholar, Yvonne Vera. Ryan Topper will present on “Life Beyond the Archive: Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins” and Thando Njovane will give a paper on “Architectures of Voice and Language in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue” at 5.30pm at the University of Leeds’...
LUCAS Seminar - all welcome: Tom Penfold (University of Johannesburg), ‘Black Consciousness in South Africa’. Thursday 15 October, 4-5.30pm (Michael Sadler Building LG10)
LUCAS seminar with Professor Katrin Voltmer (School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds).