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Location: Room 11.13 Social Sciences Building Dr Alex Beresford is a newly appointed to Lecturer in Development Studies in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. Alex completed his Ph.D. at the Centre of African Studies, Edinburgh University. His interdisciplinary Ph.D. thesis provides a detailed ethnographic focus into class and nationalist politics...
Location: Room 1.44 of the Geography main building Joanna Sadgrove is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. Jen Brown and the Citizenship and Belonging Reading Group would like to invite everyone to a reading group gathering where we will be discussing an exciting new paper with the author herself. The meeting...
Location: School of Earth and Environment, Seminar Room 8.119 NOTE CHANGE! Lionel Cliffe is a LUCAS board member and Emeritus Professor of Geography with particular interest in land politics in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Kenya. Professor Christine H. Foyer is of the Centre for Plant Sciences whose lab looks at, inter alia, plant performance: plant performance...
Location: Room 8.119, School of Earth & Environment Dr Lindsay C. Stringer is Co-Director, Sustainability Research Institute and Reader in Environment and Development, School of Earth and Environment. Gordon Crawford is Professor of Development Politics in the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and a member of the LUCAS Board. Both are also active members of...
Location: Parkinson Seminar Room 1.08 (also known as Parkinson Lecture Room) Event co-sponsored by the Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20051/arabic_and_middle_eastern_studies 'On Protest Movements and Uprisings: Egypt's Permanent Revolution' Maha Abdel-Rahman, University of Cambridge Dr Abdel-Rahman teaches Development Studies and Middle East Politics at the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include State/civil...
Location: Seminar Room, Beech Grove House [opposite Students Union] Jane Plastow is Professor of African Theatre at the University of Leeds in the School of English (Theatre Workshop). She is also LUCAS Director with a special interest in education on Africa in British schools. Caroline Dyer is Reader in Education and Development in the School...
Location: University of Leeds - details confirmed with booking The first YASN conference will include coffee, lunch and drinks, but has limited space. Those interested in attending should contact Karen Cereso directly to reserve a place (african-studies@leeds.ac.uk). Event sponsored by the Review of African Political Economy South Sudan and after: rethinking borders and revisiting migration...
Location: Old Broadcasting House, Woodhouse Lane In association with Leeds Metropolitan University School of Social Sciences, LUCAS are delighted to announce a lecture by: Between Revolution and Counter Revolution: Lessons from the Obama Phenomenon Horace Campbell, leading activist and professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University, New York. “There are reverberations of revolution all...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Joanna Sadgrove is a Research Fellow in the School of Geography, University of Leeds. Her recent publications include a book chapter, “‘Keeping Up Appearances’: Sex and Religion amongst University Students in Uganda,” Aids and Religious Practice in Africa, (2009), edited by F. Becker and P. Wenzel Geissler, Leiden: Brill,...
Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13 Graham Harrison is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield where he carries out research in International Political Economy. He has published on corruption, the World Bank, globalisation, and development, specialising in east Africa, especially Tanzania.