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The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) and School of Media and Communication are pleased to host a research seminar with Dr. David Cheruiyot (University of Groningen, The Netherlands). Please RSVP to c.paterson@leeds.ac.uk if you wish to attend. A link will be available for those wishing to attend remotely. In 2023, the Scott Trust, the owners of The Guardian, issued...
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies and the Global Political Economy group at the School of Politics and International Studies invite you to two engaging academic events featuring Dr Yusuf Serunkuma. Dr Serunkuma is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, at KU Leuven in Belgium....
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies and the Centre for Religion and Public Life are hosting a joint research seminar, open to all interested students and staff. In this seminar, Dr Olúwábùnmi Bernard will present her research under the title “Megashrines: Modernity and the Reconfiguration of Òrìṣà worship”. Presentation The introduction of Christianity to indigenous...
This workshop, hosted by the Leeds University Centre for African Studies, offers a space for researchers in the Arts and Humanities to present and discuss current work relating to issues of gender and sexuality in contemporary African contexts. It is an opportunity for cross-disciplinary conversations about the empirical, methodological, ethical and political dimensions of art-...
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies and the Centre for Religion and Public Life are hosting a joint research seminar with Dr Tolulope Osayomi (University of Ibadan; currently a Fellow at Oxford University). He will speak about: “Boundaries of Loves, Fringes of Hostility”: Spatiality, Symbolism and Paradox of Interfaith Relations on a Sacred Prayer...
You are warmly invited to attend the inaugural lecture of Professor Tendai Mangena, titled Disruptive Single Women: Gender and Sexuality among the Shona of Zimbabwe. Since 2023, Professor Mangena holds a four-year British Academy Global Professorship in African Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. At Leeds, she is associated with the Leeds University Centre...
-- this seminar has been called off due to ongoing industrial action -- Please join us on Monday 26th June 16:00-17:30 (BST) for a research seminar with Dr Angela Crack, University of Portsmouth & Dr Michael Chasukwa, University of Malawi who will speak about: “Leave no one behind? Addressing linguistic exclusion in international development work”...
Please join us on Tuesday 13th June for the following symposium and lecture series: About the Event: African Apocalypse: a film symposium on racial violence, colonial accountability, literature and oral history. This is an all-day event including a screening of the BBC/BFI feature documentary African Apocalypse (Rob Lemkin, 2020) with a series of talks by...
Gender and sexuality are among the most critical and productive categories in the analysis of African cultural production, social formation, and political mobilisation. In recent decades, African feminist, gender and queer studies have emerged as highly vibrant and prolific subfields of African Studies at large. Rather than simply applying Western theoretical and political models, these...
Please join us on Tuesday 9th May 16:00-17:30 (BST) for a research seminar with Dr Nathan Suhr-Sytsma (Emory University) who will speak about: “The Worldmaking of New-Generation African Poets” The research seminar is hosted by the Leeds University Centre for African Studies, the University of Leeds Poetry Centre, and the School of English's Postcolonial Research Group. ...