Events archive
African Studies Seminar
Filip De Boeck, University of Leuven (Belgium)
2 March 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The Belgian anthropologist Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven) will speak about some of the ideas underlying Suturing the City. Living Together in Congo’s Urban Worlds (2016), a book he made in... Read more
Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)
28 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This seminar has been postponed. An update will be provided when the seminar has been rescheduled.
African Studies Seminar
Simidele Dosekun, University of Sussex
23 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This paper draws from a research project on class-privileged young women in Lagos who dress in a ‘spectacularly feminine style’ characterised by the extravagant use of normatively feminine elements... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
21 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford) focuses on the middle class in South Africa in the last Hilary term seminar of the South Africa Discussion Group.
Sudanese Seminar Series
Professor Munzoul Assal (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Khartoum), Mr. Bona Malwal (Co-Founder of the Sudanese Programme), Professor Bukhari Al-Ja’ali (Professor of International Law, Al-Nilein University, Khartoum, Republic of Sudan), Dr Richard King (Chief Executive, Concordis International, International Dispute Resolution Centre, London), Mr. Wek Mamer Kuol (M.P., National Legislative Assembly and Deputy Chairman of the Joint Border Commission, Republic of South Sudan)
18 February 2017 - 9:00am to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
African Studies Seminar
Adriaan Van Klinken, University of Leeds
16 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
In February 2016, a group of Nairobi-based artists under the name Art Attack released a music video titled Same Love . They described it as ‘a Kenyan song about same sex rights’, while at the same... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Colin Bundy (University of Oxford)
14 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The South Africa Discussion Group are delighted to welcome back Colin Bundy for the seminar 'History, biography - and how do you solve a problem like Mandela?'.
African Studies Seminar
Naluwembe Binaisa, University College London
9 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Co-hosted with the International Migration Institute Lagos is known for the speed of its vibrant business and trade sector, one of the largest economies in Africa and a magnate for continued... Read more
Hassan Mwakimako (Pwani University College)
7 February 2017 - 5:00pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
The Horn of Africa Seminar brings together students and scholars interested in examining the region from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. This term, the seminar will look at a variety... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Sean Morrow (University of Fort Hare)
7 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Book launch of 'The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist' with Sean Morrow, as part of the South Africa Discussion Group.
African Studies Seminar
Douglas Johnson
2 February 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Africa’s newest nation has a long history. Often considered remote and isolated from the rest of Africa, and usually associated with the violence of slavery and civil war, South Sudan has been an... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (Legal Resources Centre and Johannesburg Bar)
31 January 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The South Africa Discussion Group welcomes Tembeka Ngcukaitobi to discuss how foundations for human right laws in South Africa were laid by black lawyers in the late 19th-early 20th century.
African Studies Seminar
Yu Qiu, University of Cambridge
26 January 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
In the Nigerian community in Guangzhou City (China), a metropolitan city that witnesses the influx of African migrants and the growth of transnational trade between China and Africa, many Nigerian... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Sharlene Swartz (Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria)
24 January 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Prof. Sharlene Swartz discusses social restitution in South Africa in this week's Discussion Group.
Martin Plaut (Institute of Commonwealth Studies)
24 January 2017 - 5:00pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
The Horn of Africa Seminar brings together students and scholars interested in examining the region from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. This term, the seminar will look at a variety... Read more