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You are warmly invited to an event organised by the Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies (CERS), featuring Dr Hyab Yohannes. Dr Yohannes is Lecturer in Forced Migration and Decolonial Education within the UNESCO Chair on Refugee Integration through Education, Language and Arts at the University of Glasgow. Abstract ‘Does the world know...
What are the social and cultural implications of platforms and platformisation in Africa? This in-person and online seminar critically assesses accelerating and expansive platformisation Digital platforms significantly shape everyday economic, social, and political life in Africa. This landscape is underpinned by a combination of economic, political and cultural logics and practices, both global and local....
Dear All, You are warmly invited to the below event in the School of Media and Communication, which will be given by Leah Komen (Daystar University, Kenya) and Chaired by Chris Paterson. Please note that this talk will be taking place in-person and will be held in the G.12 Lecture Theatre, Clothworkers’ North Building....
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies and the Centre for Religion and Public Life invite you to attend the launch of the latest book by Prof. Adriaan van Klinken, titled Decolonizing Christianities in Contemporary Nigerian Literature. The programme will include an interview with the author, by Emmanuel Erhijodo; reflections on and responses to the...
Ethnography invites researchers to immerse themselves in the lived realities of communities, uncovering the rich textures of everyday life, belief systems, and social interactions. The Yorkshire African Studies Network (YASN) and Leeds Centre of African Studies (LUCAS) are delighted to invite you to join us for an engaging workshop that explores the vital role of ethnographic methods in...
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies and the Centre for Global Development are proud to co-host Dr Tolulope Osayomi, who will present a paper titled "Epidemics As Reflections of Society: COVID-19 and State Failure in Nigeria." Dr. Tolulope (‘Tolu) Osayomi is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at Nigeria’s premier university, the...
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 [email protected] 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-...