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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.
Panel presentations followed by audience questions Speakers: Blair and the Middle East: the Aftermath Dr. Jack Holland, POLIS Blair, Neoliberalism and the Rise of Corbyn Prof. Salman Sayyid, School of Sociology Blair, Sleaze and the Revolving Business-Politics Door Hasan Hafidh, Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Blair, the Israel Lobby and Israel/Palestine Dr. Sarah Marusek,...
The second event of the Leeds Migration Research Network/Sadler Series Seminar 2016-17 'Who/What is a 'Good'/'Bad' Migrant?' This seminar will feature state-of-the-art short presentations on key methodological concerns in various disciplines regarding studying the question of how "migrants" are conceptualised, classified, categorised and evaluated as differential objects of policy and public discourse, followed by discussion....
Dept. of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds presents: The Killings of Tony Blair Film showing followed by audience discussion with George Galloway, Peter Oborne, Stephen Fry, Will Self, Clare Short, David Davis, Noam Chomsky, Craig Murray, Seamus Milne, Matthew Norman, Ken Livingstone. A meticulous documentation of […] the catastrophic and illegal...
Postcolonial Cultures of Corruption Seminar For our inaugural seminar we are delighted to be able to invite Dr Steven Pierce from the University of Manchester for a discussion of his recent ground-breaking book on the history of corruption in Nigeria, Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation & Political Cultures in Nigeria (Duke University Press, 2016)....
A LUCAS seminar organised jointly with French Dr. Sabrina Parent (Université Libre de Bruxelles), ‘From Senghor to Bouchareb, the living memory of Thiaroye’ Monday 24 October, 5pm, Michael Sadler Building LG15. All welcome In 1944, in Thiaroye, Senegal, the French colonial army severely repressed a rebellion organized by repatriated West African soldiers who had participated...