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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).
LUCAS seminar with Dr Fred Mudhai (Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Global Media and Communication, Coventry University).
LUCAS Spring seminar - 'Music Piracy in West Africa: Beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’?' With Christiaan De Beukelaer (Lecturer in Cultural Management, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and PhD Candidate, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds) This paper addresses the struggle to make money from music in Burkina Faso and Ghana. According to most music...
Liberalism in Action in Africa: State Rebuilding, Security Reform and Justice Room P2.11 For the last quarter of a century, liberalism has been the dominant policy paradigm in the realms of politics, development, economics and security in Africa. Indeed, Africa has had little choice but to liberalise, at least officially, given the continued need for...