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Prof. Jane Plastow will be giving a paper on Wednesday 9th December at 5 pm in Studio One of the Workshop Theatre – that is the main theatre in the old theatre building beside the Laidlow, in the old red-doored church. The talk is “From Research to Activism: Making Theatre and Anthropology in Walukuba''. We...
On Tuesday 8 December, Prof. Jane Taylor will give a talk on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: ”Ubu and the Truth Commission: Transitional Justice and Theatre''. This will be held at 5pm on Tuesday 8 December in Studio One of the Workshop Theatre (behind the Laidlaw library). This is primarily for theatre students but all...
LUCAS Seminar - all welcome Naomi Haynes (Edinburgh), ‘Learning to Pray the Pentecostal Way: Language and Personhood on the Zambian Copperbelt’. Tuesday 8 December, 4–5.30pm (Michael Sadler LG10)
Sustainability Research Institute, Centre for Global Development and Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Seminar Series Invite you to the third in the series on The Environment, Human Rights and Development Resource Politics and Advocacy Struggles in Zimbabwe: Encountering Power at Multiple Scales Sam Spiegel, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh As the mining sector...
The next Finding Africa seminar will be two papers on the Zimbabwean author and scholar, Yvonne Vera. Ryan Topper will present on “Life Beyond the Archive: Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins” and Thando Njovane will give a paper on “Architectures of Voice and Language in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue” at 5.30pm at the University of Leeds’...
A festival of films by the Rainbow Collective film company, dealing with human resilience, economic development, exploitation, racism and resistance Hosted by Leeds University School of Media and Communication, Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, Centre for African Studies, Centre for Global Development, Dept. of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Tuesday October 27th,...
Leeds University Centre For African Studies and the Centre for Global Development host Amazulu The Children Of Heaven + Bafana Tuesday 27th Oct 6pm, Worsley Medical LT (7.35) Amazulu Velabahleke (Come with a Smile) High School in Umlazi township outside Durban may be the only school in the country that starts at 06h30am and finishes...
LUCAS Seminar - all welcome: Tom Penfold (University of Johannesburg), ‘Black Consciousness in South Africa’. Thursday 15 October, 4-5.30pm (Michael Sadler Building LG10)
The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Annual Lecture 2015 Wole Soyinka - 'Narcissus and other Pall Bearers: Morbidity as Ideology' Thursday 8 October, 5.15pm Conference Auditorium 1, University of Leeds This is a free event and all are welcome (no need to book in advance) Supported by the School of English For further...
This one-day workshop will explore the interaction between cultural creativity and politics in Africa. Through discussions of novels, poetry and other cultural expressions, it will explore the relationship between the state, political movements and people engaged in cultural projects. York-based Malawian author Jack Mapanje will read extracts from his prison memoir And Crocodiles Are Hungry...