Events
The Worldmaking of New-Generation African Poets
Please join us on Tuesday 9th May 16:00-17:30 (BST) for a research seminar with Dr Nathan Suhr-Sytsma (Emory University) who will speak about: “The Worldmaking of New-Generation African Poets” The research seminar is hosted by the Leeds University Centre for African Studies and the School of English’s Postcolonial Research Group. Abstract The migration of literary culture…
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Allison Drew seminar
Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Professor Allison Drew (Department of Politics, University of York), ‘Models of armed struggle: the impact of Algeria’s war of independence on Umkhonto we Sizwe’s theory and practice’
Devon Curtis seminar
Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Dr Devon Curtis from Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge gives a seminar titled “Politics and the Practice of Peacebuilding through Power-sharing in Burundi”.
Justice for Genocide: Accountability and Reconciliation in Rwanda
Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Dr Phil Clark from the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford gives the seminar: ‘Justice for Genocide: Accountability and Reconciliation in Rwanda’.
The Cold War and Domestic Politics in Kenya, 1964-69
Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Dan Branch from the Department of History at the University of Warwick gives the seminar: ‘The Cold War and Domestic Politics in Kenya, 1964-69’
Democratization in Africa conference
[tab:{About the Conference}] Almost two decades have passed since the ‘third wave’ of democratization began to roll across Sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s, and while the holding of regular elections has become relatively well-established in many countries, perhaps most successfully in Ghana, electoral processes have also been deeply flawed in recent instances such as…
Freed Slaves, Respectability and Religious Transnationalism: The Expansion of the Christian Frontier from Angola to the Belgian Congo
Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building David Maxwell from the School of History at Keele University gives the seminar: ‘Freed Slaves, Respectability and Religious Transnationalism: The Expansion of the Christian Frontier from Angola to the Belgian Congo’.
Land reform in settler colonies: Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa compared
Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Lionel Cliffe from the School of Geography gives the seminar: ‘Land reform in settler colonies: Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa compared’.
Kinships, Remittances, and Transnationalism amongst Zimbabwean Diaspora
Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Farai Magunha from the School of Geography gives the seminar: ‘Kinships, Remittances, and Transnationalism amongst Zimbabwean Diaspora’.
Historical memory, sexual behaviour and the origins of HIV in Great Lakes East Africa
Location: Room 11.13, Social Sciences Building Shane Doyle from the School of History gives the seminar: ‘Historical memory, sexual behaviour and the origins of HIV in Great Lakes East Africa’.