Events archive

South Africa Discussion Group

‘The foolish build dams: the paradoxes of South Africa's nuclear disarmament

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Oxford University
20 October 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar

African Asylum Claims, the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, and the Reception of the Supernatural in Refugee Status Determination

Benjamin Lawrance (Rochester Institute of Technology)
15 October 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
In 2009 a Beninese vodou priest’s adherents kidnapped Dopé and brought her to the atikevodou shrine of Sakpata. Dopé, originally from the village of Cové, was an educated, married woman living in... Read more

Annual African Studies Lecture: Is Africa Rising? A personal reflection

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International
19 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St. Antony’s College
Spaces are limited so please contact african.studies@africa.ox.ac.uk

The White Army: an evolution of Nuer community defense mechanisms in South Sudan

Ingrid Marie Breidlid (PRIO)
16 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Kirk-Greene seminar room, African Studies Centre

Panel Discussion: Poll delay in Somaliland: crisis or process?

Michael Walls (UCL), Anna Rader (SOAS), Ridwan Osman (Cambridge), Chair: Giulia Liberatore (COMPAS, Oxford), Mohammed Yusef (Invicta Capital)
15 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Kirk-Greene seminar room, African Studies Centre
* Note: Co-hosted with Somaliland Focus
South Africa Discussion Group

Land rights in the former Bantustans - Mining, Chiefs and the Law

Anninka Claassens (UCT and Oppenheimer visiting fellow)
9 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
African Studies Seminar

Book Launch Democracy in Africa: Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform

Nic Cheeseman (University of Oxford), Tom Young (SOAS)
4 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College

A round table: Reflections on Xenophobic violence in South Africa

2 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
Belinda Dodson (Western Ontario), 'Thinking geographically about xenophobia in South Africa'. Ian Cooper (Cambridge), 'Pack your bags and go home": the Zulu Royal House, ANC electoral mobilisation,... Read more
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

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