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Organised by Leeds University Centre for African Studies Location: Michael Sadler SR (LG.15) 'International Development in Transition: Implications for Health in Africa' Dr. Sophie Harman (Queen Mary University) 'The global AIDS response in a Post-2015 World' Dr. Simon Rushton (The University of Sheffield) 'Neglected Tropical Diseases verses MDGs?: Reshaping Global Health Prof. James...
Location: Conference Auditorium 2 LUCAS are delighted to announce the Leeds premiere of the documentary "Bob Marley: The Making of a Legend" on Wednesday 5th February at 4:30pm. The film charts the rise of Bob Marley and The Wailers to international stardom, and is made from footage shot in the early 1970s and lost for...
In September Dr. Kevin Ward, Senior Lecturer in African Religious Studies, will embark on his final semester of teaching at Leeds, as he will retire in February 2014. There will be a farewell symposium for Kevin on Thursday 23 January, addressing the theme of Dynamics of Religion and Sexuality in Contemporary Africa. All are invited...
Location: Conference Auditorium 2 Ray Bush is Professor of African African Studies and Development Politics at the University of Leeds. He has had a foundational and inspirational role in the Centre for African Studies. As an expert on much of Africa, and especially of Egypt and North Africa, we are delighted he will take the podium...
Location: Parkinson Seminar Room B.22 Dr. Lutz Oette is Lecturer in Law at SOAS, University of London and teaches on international protection of human rights. His recent publications include (selection): Bantekas, Ilias and Oette, Lutz (2013) International Human Rights Law and Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Oette, Lutz (2012) 'Oil for Food Programme.' In:...
Location: Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 18 Dr David Harris specialises in West African politics, in particular in Sierra Leone and Liberia. His first book was published by IB Tauris in 2011 and a second book comes out through Hurst & Co in 2013. An article on the 2011 Liberian elections emerged in early 2013. He...
Location: The Grant Room, Michael Sadler 3.11 Dr Cherry Leonardi is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Durham.She specialises in African history with a particular research focus on South Sudan. She is currently writing a book on the history of chiefs in South Sudan since the mid-nineteenth century, the result...
Location: Seminar Room 1, Fairbairn House Hilary Benn is MP for Leeds Central and the Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. Previously, he served as International Development Secretary, as a Minister in the Home Office, as Secretary of State at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and as the...
Location: SSB 11.13 The Centre for Global Development (CGD) in cooperation with Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) would like to invite you to the seminar by speakers from both institutions. The seminar will focus on power, authority and agency in the developing contexts: Dr Glyn Williams (SIID) 'Managing political space: authority, power and marginalised...
Location: SSB Room 11.13 Dr Gaurav Desai is Associate Professor of English and has a joint appointment in the Program of African and African Diaspora Studies at Tulane University. Author of Subject to Colonialism: African Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library (Duke University Press, 2001) and editor of Teaching the African Novel (MLA, 2009) he has...