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Finding Africa - African Feminisms seminar series 2017 The Birth of 'New' Materialism? Abortion and Southern African Women's Writing Caitlin Stobie Monday 27 February, 5pm, Leeds Humanities Research Institute Seminar Room 1 African Feminisms Seminar Schedule (UK) Abstract In her preface to Opening Spaces: Contemporary African Women’s Writing (1999), Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera recalls a scene...
Finding Africa are pleased to announce that Jane Plastow will open our next set of seminars on the theme of African Feminisms with a paper co-authored with Katie McQuaid, Stiwanism and Gendered Identities in Jinja (Uganda) The seminar will take place on Monday, 13 February 2017 at the Leeds Humanities Research (LHRI) Institute Seminar Room at...
Pentecostalism and Pre-marital Counselling in Africa; A Case of Religious Sophistication? Prof. Rijk van Dijk (ASCL, Leiden University/ AISSR, Univ. of Amsterdam/ Centre of Excellence, Univ. of Konstanz) Tuesday 7 February, 5pm, venue: Baines Wing SR (1.13) Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) and the Centre for Religion and Public Life (CRPL) organise a joint...
Remembering Christopher and David: Justice and Police Brutality in Yorkshire Wednesday 1 February - 6pm, Leeds West Indian Centre, Laycock Place, LS7 3JA In 1949, David Oluwale made his way from his native Nigeria to Hull. He settled in Leeds. Twenty years later, he was found drowned in the River Aire. In 1971, two Leeds...
Dr Tara Deubel, University of South Florida, will be discussing how Saharawi communities preserve identity and community through the arts in the face of uncertainty and change. In the context of the protracted conflict over the Western Sahara following Spain's decolonisation of the territory in 1975, Sahrawis have witnessed numerous political and social ruptures in recent decades....
This workshop is part of a series sponsored by the African Studies Association in the UK (ASAUK) and funded by the British Academy. It brings together journal editors and early career African scholars and postgraduate students involved in or interested in African studies (various fields/disciplines) to work with journal editors with the aim of supporting...
Leeds University Centre for African Studies are very proud to be able to offer a rare chance to see this special show: 'Sing Freedom - a story with songs of liberation', a personal story told by Leeds Free Range choir leader Frances Bernstein, set against the background of apartheid South Africa and the trial of Nelson Mandela....
The conference aims to subject to scrutiny the realms of criminal justice, social justice and reconciliation in Africa. This is not envisaged as a narrow field; the conference is designed to include all elements of international criminal justice, truth and reconciliation commissions, localised notions of retributive, restorative and redistributive justice, and ideas of social justice...
Masterclass with Prof Nic van de Walle, Cornell Prof Nicolas van de Walle is the Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and the Chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University. His primary field is comparative politics. His teaching and research focuses on the political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa, on democratization,...
LUCAS Seminar Professor Ebenezer Obadare (University of Kansas), ‘Man of God, Subject of Veneration: Pastors, Politics, and Changing Forms of Authority in Africa’. Wednesday 9 November, 4pm, SR 1.14 (Baines Wing). All welcome - no need to book in advance.