Events archive
African Studies Seminar
David Brown (Oxford)
16 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This seminar is concerned with policy coherence in a post-conflict society, Liberia. It examines the challenges faced in attempting to develop public policy in ways that both respond to progressive... Read more
Dawit Mesfin (Independent)
14 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Discussion & book launch for Woldeab Woldemariam: A Visionary Eritrean Patriot, A Biography .
African Studies Seminar
Daisy Onyige (Oxford)
9 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This paper seeks to give an exposé on the association between economic globalisation poverty, and human trafficking in Nigeria. It asks the questions; do global economic inequalities facilitate... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Gary Kynoch, Dalhousie University
7 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Tim Glawion (GIGA, Hamburg)
7 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
The Central African Republic, Somalia, and South Sudan share the dubious honour of being ranked the world’s ‘most fragile states’ according to the last four years of the Fragile States Index. Taking... Read more
Jean Allman (Washington University in St. Louis)
2 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Please note that this seminar will take place in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, rather than the usual Pavilion Room. The Faculty of History and the African Studies Centre present the Astor Lecture 2017... Read more
Professor Jane Guyer
31 October 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College, Univeristy of Oxford
Jane Guyer is professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, USA, and author of the acclaimed book, Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa (2004), among... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Ambassador Jianhua Zhong, Yuzhou Sun
26 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Ambassador Zhong was born in 1950, in Jiangsu, China. After spent five years in a village in Danyang as a peasant, he was sent to study in Beijing Institute of Foreign Language in 1973. Joined the... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
The Glory Days of Morris Isaacson: The Rise and Decline of Soweto High Schools under Bantu Education
Clive Glaser, Wits University
24 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar
Michael Jackson (Harvard)
19 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College
Please note that this seminar will take place in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, rather than the usual Pavilion Room.
Sipho M Pityana,
19 October 2017 - 12:30pm
Rhodes House, South Parks Road
This event is hosted and managed by Rhodes House. For queries relating to this event, please contact Rhodes House The Warden of the Rhodes Trust is pleased to invite you to attend the Bram Fischer... Read more
Gaim Kibreab (London South Bank University)
17 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Discussion & book launch for The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for "the common good" and the Youth Exodus .
African Studies Seminar
Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Stanford/Oxford)
12 October 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The seminar will focus on agency in Kongo society, exploring a complex state of social development in which legal, political, religious and visual systems motivate responses to and interpretations of... Read more
Oxford Africa Annual Lecture
Jacob Dlamini (Princeton)
16 June 2017 - 6:00pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, 27 Winchester Road, Oxford
Booking is essential. You must have a ticket to attend this event. Please register at: https://africanstudiesoxford2017.eventbrite.co.uk Please note that the lecture will start at 6pm, not 5pm as... Read more
Stella Gaitano, Sara Hamza Aljack, Najat Idris Ismail Adam and Najlaa Osman Mohammed
10 June 2017 - 9:00am
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College