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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...
Location: SSB Room 11.13 Dr. Steven Pierce, of the University of Manchester, studied political science as an undergraduate at Yale University and then received a Ph.D. in anthropology and history from the University of Michigan in 2000. Before coming to Manchester in January 2006, Steven taught for five years in the history department at Tulane University....
Location: Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 19 Dr. David Booth leads the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP) at the Overseas Development Institute. APPP is a five-year consortium research programme dedicated to "discovering institutions that work for poor people”. APPP brings together research organisations and think-tanks in France, Ghana, Niger, Uganda, the UK and the USA....
Location: Grant Room, School of History A workshop organised by the the School of History, the Sustainability Research Institute, and School of Politics and International Studies. Sessions: Dr. Frank Nyame, University of Ghana 'The Challenges of Mainstreaming Artisanal and Small Scale Mining in sub-Saharan Africa: towards a pragmatic approach' 2:30pm Prof. Rosaleen Duffy, University of...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Jörg Wiegratz is a Lecturer in Political Economy of Global Development at the University of Leeds. Previously, Jorg taught at the universities of Bath and Sheffield. He holds a PhD in Politics (Sheffield), a MA in International Political Economy (Warwick), and a MA in Economics (Cologne, Germany). Between 2004-2007, he...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Emma Anderson is interested in development, gender, health and HIV with specialist area in the gender politics of HIV in Africa. Emma has undertaken research in Malawi since 2005, which has included consultations, observations, key-informant interviews and focus group discussions, and has language training and experience working in Chichewa and...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Dr. Golooba-Mutebi is a Political Scientist. He was educated at Makerere University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2005 to 2011, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University. From 2001 to 2004 he was a Research Officer...