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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. ...
Please join us on Thursday 4th May 16:00-17:30 (BST) for a lecture with Marcus Tebogo Desando. This event will be in person at the University of Leeds and is jointly hosted between LUCAS and the Centre for Cultural Policy & Leadership. This lecture will be in two parts – the first will focus on Marcus’...
Please join us on Thursday 9th March 16:00-17:30 (GMT) for a research seminar with Dr Diana-Abasi Ibanga who will speak about: "Epistemic Injustice, Decolonisation and Environmental Policymaking in Africa" The research seminar is hosted by the Leeds University Centre for African Studies and will take place online (via Zoom). This presentation is based on the research...
In this seminar, jointly hosted by the Centre for Religion and Public Life and the Leeds University Centre for African Studies, Adriaan van Klinken (Professor of Religion and African Studies) will present some of the findings of the Sexuality and Religion in East Africa project. The project focuses on the role of religious leaders as...
Please join us on Thursday 1st December, 11.30 am (GMT) for a research seminar with Dr Mikel Burley who will speak about: “Conceptual Decolonization and Conceptual Justice: Critically Examining Proposals from Kwasi Wiredu and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o" The seminar is jointly hosted by the Leeds University Centre for African Studies and the Leeds Centre for Religion and Public...
The School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds, and the Leeds University Centre for African Studies, are hosting a research talk with by Dr Catarina Laranjeiro, who will speak about Bissau-Guinean vernacular films in transnational flow This presentation addresses the relation between the colonial legacy of images and the vernacular film...