Events archive

OCAF and Centre for International Studies: Lecture to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide

H.E. Johan Swinnen (Belgian Ambassador to Rwanda, 1990-94)
7 March 2014 - 5:00pm
Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall

African Studies Seminar: The Permeability of Prison: The Letters of Maurice Nyagumbo, Southern Rhodesia, 1959-79

Jocelyn Alexander, Oxford University
6 March 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's College

Horn of Africa Seminar: State-building and economic expansion in the frontiers: stability, investment and risk in Ethiopia and Kenya

Daniel Branch (Warwick), Jason Mosley (Oxford)
4 March 2014 - 5:00pm
ASC Seminar Room

The Making of Nelson Mandela IV

4 March 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's
The discussion focuses more generally on Mandela’s funeral and the current post-apartheid dynamics, especially the current political fissures and realignments, that informed it. Reading to be... Read more

Bram Fischer and the Democratic Transition in South Africa

Stephen Clingman, University of Massachussetts Amherst & biographer of Bram Fischer
27 February 2014 - 3:30pm
Rhodes House, South Parks Road
There is no need to register for this lecture.

Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-fashioning in Urban Senegal

26 February 2014 - 1:00pm to 1:45pm
Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road
Wednesday 26 February | 13:00 – 13:45 (lunch from 12:45) | Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, Woodstock Road The themes raised by Hélène Neveu Kringelbach's book will be discussed by Dr Ramon Sarro... Read more

Horn of Africa Seminar: Yekatit 12: The Massacre of Addis Ababa, 19 February 1937

Ian Campell (Independent)
25 February 2014 - 5:00pm
ASC Seminar Room

Constructing Community in Early Twentieth Century South Africa: III

25 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Prof Beinart's room, ASC
Dominic Davies (DPhil, English Literature) will talk through an aspect of his dissertation. Presentation title: ‘Geography, Topography and Infrastructure: Mapping the Frontier in the Novels of John... Read more

Additional African Studies Seminar and Book Launch: Dispatcher: Lost and Found in Johannesburg.

Mark Gevisser, author of Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred
25 February 2014 - 1:00pm
African Studies Centre Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road

OCAF and African History and Politics Seminar: Beyond the Horizon: Governance, Legitmacy, and Representation in the Central African Republic

Andreas Mehler (GIGA, Hamburg)
24 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room 2, ODID, 3 Mansfield Road

OCAF Seminar: Force and Right: Money, Violence, and Consent in Kinshasa's Electoral Cycle

Joe Trapido (SOAS)
21 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Clay Room, Nuffield College

African Studies Seminar: Fair Trade, Employment and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia and Uganda

Christopher Cramer, SOAS
20 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's College

Zambia Discussion Group: Discussion on Democratisation in Zambia

19 February 2014 - 4:00pm
Dr Larmer's Office, ASC, 13 Bevington Road

Horn of Africa Seminar: Reconstruction and memorial in Gogrial: managing the difficult past in a small town in South Sudan

Zoe Cormack (Durham)
18 February 2014 - 5:00pm
ASC Seminar Room

The Making of Nelson Mandela III

18 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's
The discussion will explore Mandela’s reconstruction of himself through his autobiography, A Long Walk to Freedom . Amongst other areas of exploration, the discussion will also consider whether this... Read more

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