Events

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...

Location: SSB Room 11.13 Dr.  Jan-Georg Deutsch (MA (University of Hannover), PhD (School of Oriental and African Studies London), Habilitation (Humboldt-University Berlin)), is a Lecturer in African History at the University of Oxford. Dr Deutsch works on the social and economic history of Africa from the nineteenth century to the present. He recently published a study...

Location: Centre for Medical Humanities A double bill of research presentations co-hosted by the School of English Critical and Cultural Theory Research Group, the Postcolonial Research Group, and the Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities Seminar Series. All welcome! Please contact Clare Barker (c.f.barker@leeds.ac.uk) or Sam Durrant (s.r.durrant@leeds.ac.uk) with any queries. Painful Bodies: Visual and Literary Representations...

Women, sexuality, and risk in East Africa. Location: SSB Room 11.13 Dr. Jelke Boesten will present: Transactional Sex and Unsafe Practices among HIV Positive Women Ms. Egle Cesnulyte will present: Sex workers' dreams in Kenya At the seminar series staff and research students (where appropriate pairings can be found) present their work to an audience of undergraduates, postgraduates and staff,...

Location: SSB Room 11.13 Andrew Feinstein is a former ANC Member of Parliament in South Africa, a writer, campaigner and broadcaster. He is the author of “The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade” which reveals the corruption and malfeasance at the heart of the global arms business, both formal and illicit. A film of...