Events archive

African Studies Seminar

Historical Ethnography and Ethnographic Fiction: The South African Writings of Hilda Beemer Kuper (1911-1992)

Andrew Bank, University of Western Cape
28 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College

The Lights and the Power: Historical Ecologies of Lake Tana and the Blue Nile Watershed

James McCann (Boston University)
26 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
African Studies Seminar

Insecurity in Kenya: Al-Shabaab’s growing threat and the state’s faltering response

David Anderson (Warwick University), Jacob McKnight (Oxford University), Aden Abdi (Conciliation Resources)
21 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
Horn of Africa panel discussion, in conjunction with the ASC seminar

African History and Politics Seminar: Water, Civilization and Power in Sudan

Harry Verhoeven (Georgetown University Qatar)
18 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room 2, ODID, 3 Mansfield Road
Water, Civilization and Power in Sudan
African Studies Seminar

The Transnational Trade Chain of Second-hand Cars in Africa

Martin Rosenfeld, University of Oxford & Université Libre de Bruxelles , Joost Beuving, Radboud University, Andrew Brooks, King's College London
14 May 2015 - 4:30pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College

The ANC and Social Security: The Good, the Bad and the Unacknowledged

Professor Colin Bundy (University of Oxford)
13 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Department of Social Policy and Intervention, 32 Wellington Square, in the Violet Butler Room
The Annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture - The ANC and Social Security: The Good, the Bad and the Unacknowledged
South Africa Discussion Group

Bernadette Atuahene, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses her recent book We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program

Bernadette Atuahene, Chicago-Kent College of Law
12 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College

African History and Politics Seminar: The Exclusion Trap: electoral exclusion, coups, and civil wars in Madagascar, Zambia, and Cote d'Ivoire

Brian Klaas (New College, Oxford)
11 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room 2, ODID, 3 Mansfield Road
The Exclusion Trap: electoral exclusion, coups, and civil wars in Madagascar, Zambia, and Cote d'Ivoire
African Studies Seminar

Gender power, desire and civilization: Controversies around the national ban on FGM in Fouta Toro, Senegal

Sarah O’Neill, Institute of Tropical Medicine (Antwerp).
7 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
South Africa Discussion Group

South African novelist and crime fiction writer, Margie Orford discusses Grammar of Violence, writing crime as fiction in Current Writing

Margie Orford
5 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College

African History and Politics Seminar: Sisyphus in Central Africa: Managing the Crisis in the Central African Republic

Roland Marchal (CERI-Sciences Po)
4 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room 2, ODID, 3 Mansfield Road
Sisyphus in Central Africa: Managing the Crisis in the Central African Republic