Events archive

African Studies Centre
African Studies Seminar

Send war in our time, O Lord!' Liberal violence and its afterlives: towards a cultural history of the African Resistance Movement (ARM)

David Attwell (University of York)
27 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
David Attwell (University of York) discusses the African Resistance Movement in this week's African Studies Seminar.
African Studies Centre
South Africa Discussion Group

Genealogies of intersectionality: theorising race, class, gender and sexuality in South Africa

Shireen Hassim (Wits University)
25 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The South Africa Discussion Group are pleased to welcome Shireen Hassim (Wits University) to discuss the genealogies of intersectionality in South Africa.
African Studies Centre
African Studies Seminar

Between Rootedness and Rootlessness: How Sedentarist and Nomadic Metaphysics Simultaneously Challenge and Reinforce (Dual) Citizenship Claims for Liberia

Robtel Pailey (University of Oxford)
20 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Robtel Pailey (University of Oxford) discusses how sedentarist and nomadic metaphyiscs affects citizenship claims for Liberia.
African Studies Centre

Lunchtime event: Monrovia Football Academy

Will Smith (African Studies alumnus)
19 October 2016 - 12:45pm to 2:00pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Upon graduating last year, African Studies alumnus Will Smith went out and single-handedly raised money to found a unique initiative, an academy in Monrovia, Liberia that drew young people into... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group

Mapping Xenophobic Violence: Dangers, Pitfalls and Ways Forward

Alexandra Hiropoulos (Wits University)
18 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Alexandra Hiropoulos (Wits University) discusses xenophobic violence in this week's South Africa Discussion Group.
African Studies Seminar

Teaching Africa

Tamar Garb (University of London), Shireen Hassim (Wits University), Helene Neveu Kringelbach (University of London)
13 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar on the topic 'Teaching Africa', co-hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of London .

The politics of performative violence in Mogadishu: new media and spatial struggles for Somali sovereignty

Pete Chonka (Edinburgh)
11 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Pete Chonka (Edinburgh) discusses Somalia in the first of this term's Horn of Africa seminar series.
South Africa Discussion Group

The Crisis in South African Higher Education: thoughts from a war zone

Shireen Hassim (Wits University)
11 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The South Africa Discussion Group welcome Shireen Hassim (Wits University) to discuss South African Higher Education.