Events
African Apocalypse: A film symposium and lecture series
Please join us on Tuesday 13th June for the following symposium and lecture series: About the Event: African Apocalypse: a film symposium on racial violence, colonial accountability, literature and oral history. This is an all-day event including a screening of the BBC/BFI feature documentary African Apocalypse (Rob Lemkin, 2020) with a series of talks by…
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Inaugural lecture Professor Adriaan van Klinken: “Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa”
On 28 October 2021, Adriaan van Klinken will deliver his inaugural lecture as Professor of Religion and African Studies, under the title “Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa”. The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) and the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (PRHS) are delighted to announce the inaugural professorial…
An editathon for Black History Month: citing African scholars on Wikipedia
Learn how to edit Wikipedia and help increase the representation of African scholars on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia ‘The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit’ aspires to provide universal access to a summary of all human knowledge and is one of the first places people go when looking for information, with over 15 billion visitors…
African Knowledges of Customary Justice: Chinua Achebe’s Writings
Presenters: Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama and Brendon Nicholls Hosted on Zoom https://universityofleeds.zoom.us/j/85856626936?pwd=dXo5THdUK1E3WTYxbUI1T09WSm5ldz09 Presentation 1, by Dr Evelyn Urama (Department of English and Literary Studies, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Ebonyi State, Nigeria & LUCAS/LAHRI Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds) Africa formerly had organized cultural and leadership systems that promoted communal life where everyone was…
LUCAS Annual Lecture 2020-21 with Professor Grace Musila: ‘#AskAMan and the Cultural Itineraries of Courtship in South Africa’
Professor Grace Musila (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa) will deliver the Leeds University Centre for African Studies annual lecture of the academic year 2020-21. The lecture is co-organised with the “Language in Africa” (LIA) special interest group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) as part of its 2021 annual conference about “African Languages…
African Knowledges – Taking Stock and Looking Ahead – Seminar 8 in the series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”
On 20th May, we have the eighth seminar in the Sadler series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”. In this last seminar of the academic year, we will take stock of our conversations so far, identify emerging questions of common interests, and discuss how to further develop collaborative work in this area. We will specifically look…
African Knowledges of Community and Belonging – Seminar 7 in the series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”
On 29 April, we have the seventh seminar in the Sadler seminar series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”. This seminar focuses on the theme “African Knowledges of Community and Belonging”, and the following three presenters will address this topic from their own PhD research projects: Sreya Datta (English): “Critical Affiliation in Sefi Atta’s Swallow: Female…
University of Leeds and CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Webinar – ‘Innovation: Solutions to the climate crisis in Africa
Tuesday 20 April 2021 | 14:00 – 15:30 BST | Online Despite its low contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change and already the region is experiencing disproportionate impacts. Collaborative research initiatives will play an important role in driving innovation of climate-resilient solutions. In the run up to the COP26,…
Rescheduled Music Research Colloquium: ‘Folk Opera Development & Impact in Ghana: Historical & Cultural Contexts’
Abstract Ghanaian Folk Opera, arguably one of the country’s most successful musical art forms, was invented by Saka Acquaye (1923-2007) in response to Kwame Nkrumah’s Cultural Renaissance and nation building agenda. Between 1960 and the late 1980s, when the first and last of his 10 operas were written and performed, a number of Saka Acquaye’s…
African Knowledges of Water and Environment – Seminar 6 in the Series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”
On 18 March, we have the sixth seminar in the Sadler seminar series “African Knowledges for Global Challenges”. Under the theme “African Knowledges of Water and Environment”, three presenters will give short presentations of their work in progress on understandings and issues of water and environment in African contexts: Anna Mdee (POLIS): “Customary and ‘Modern’…
Documentary film screening and Q&A: ‘Sunset at Dawn’. A film focused on maternal health in Kenya
Documentary film screening: Maternal health in Kenya Wednesday 3 March, 7:30PM (UK time) Online via MS Teams – please click the link to join. Sunset at Dawn is a half hour documentary film, made by a team of African and European film makers (William Nyerere Plastow, Simon Peter Otieno, Jane Plastow and Tina Tschismarov) investigating why…