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Location: Conference Auditorium 2 This event is the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Global Development at the University of Leeds. *Event will be followed by a drinks reception For more information e-mail cgd@leeds.ac.uk Abstract: With hindsight, looking back over the development decades, professional knowledge has again and again proved to be wrong. Professionals have...
Location: Roger Stevens Lecture Theatre 2 Matthew LeRiche is in the Department of Internation Development (ID) at LSE and has been working in South Sudan and the region, including Kenya, Central African Republic, and the DRC for approximately 8 years. His doctorate studied the then rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Army/Movement and how international humanitarian action impacted...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Stefan Ouma is an assistant lecturer at the Institute for Human Geography, University of Frankfurt, since November 2007. He received a BA degree in Human/Development Geography (Major), Political Science and Cultural Studies (Minors) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and a Master of Arts degree in African Development Studies in Geography...
Location: Social Sciences Building. Room 11.20. The White Spaces Postgraduate Research Network invites you to 'Knowing Transformation: Race, space, and epistemic power in one post-apartheid South African town' by Haley McEwan. Abstract: This paper examines space, identity and power in Prince Albert, a small town in the South African Karoo, through analysis of white constructions...
Location: University of Leeds We are delighted that the 2012 ASAUK conference will be held in conjunction with Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) at Leeds University. It will run from 1:30pm on Thursday Sept 6th to 3:30pm on Saturday 8th September 2012. A number of panels and streams have already been proposed for...
Location: University of Leeds Cloth and Tradition in West Africa The Yoruba of south western Nigeria are amongst the most prolific art making people of Africa. A major aspect of their creative culture is the design, production and use of textiles. Yoruba textile creativity has developed through a number of different technical processes and shows...
Location: Baines Wing SR 1.16 Within the context of international development the importance of culture is often overlooked, or even ignored. Culture does however play a strong role in attaining overall development goals. While this has been asserted by international organizations throughout the past decades, culture has remained a minor element in most development approaches. It...
Location: Yorkshire Bank Lecture Theatre (Leeds Business School) What do you think of the INVISIBLE CHILDREN campaign? Did the campaign do good? Or harm? What are its implications? With presentations by a range of experts. This event is organised by Jo Sadgrove, Alex Beresford and Chris Paterson. Dr Joanna Sadgrove is a Research Fellow in the...
Location: Location details made available with confirmation of booking Sponsored by LUCAS and Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE) http://www.roape.org/ 2012 is the African National Congress’ centenary year and this workshop will examine a range of issues relating to South African politics, history and society at this symbolic moment in the country’s history. The themes addressed...
Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building Dr Chris Vaughan teaches African history at the Universities of Liverpool and Durham, and taught in POLIS at Leeds in the first semester of the current academic year. He completed his doctorate on the history of Darfur under British colonial rule at Durham in 2011. Chris's research is particularly focussed on examining the character...