Events archive
Hannah Waddilove (University of Warwick)
8 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
African Studies Centre Seminar Room
Devolution introduced new local-level political offices in order to transform Kenyan politics by reducing the high stakes around the presidential race. The controversy over the 2017 presidential... Read more
African Studies Seminar
May-Len Skilbrei (University of Oslo), Erlend Paasche (University of Oslo), Jørgen Carling (Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO))
3 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Convened by: COMPAS and African Studies Venue: Pavilion Room, St Antony’s College Date: 5.00-6.30pm on 3 May 2018 For a country of Nigeria’s size and strategic importance, its migration flows are... Read more
1 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College
Chief Afe Babalola, OFR, CON, LL.D (London) , a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) , is arguably the most successful and most respected living lawyer in Nigeria. He is the founder of Afe Babalola... Read more
Political Economy of Financial Markets (PEFM)
Please see programme
25 April 2018 - 12:30pm to 7:00pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6JF
Podcast: Keynote speech by Patrick Njoroge, Podcast: Session One, Podcast: Session Two, Podcast Session Three
Financial sectors across Africa are transforming rapidly, deepening and diversifying, and forging new links across the continent and with global capital markets. Is growing financial integration a... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
NATASHA ERLANK (University of Johannesburg)
24 April 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Most writing on the black press in South African history views Umteteli wa Bantu, established in 1920 and funded by the Native Recruitment Corporation, as a signal for African loss of editorial... Read more
Henok Gabisa (Washington and Lee)
24 April 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
African Studies Centre Seminar Room
This seminar seeks to explain the competing and sometimes conflicting aspirations of the Ethiopian State, and its outcome as it has been displayed in the recent popular protests and demands. It... Read more
13 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
African Studies Centre Seminar Room
Popular mobilization, protest & political change in Ethiopia A roundtable discussion with: Blen T. Gemeda (Oxford) Etana H. Dinka (SOAS) Biniam E. Bedasso (Oxford)
9 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Oxford
How do we approach the questions of governance and development in the context of myriad challenges to human and state security such as the Boko Haram insurgency, lack of access to quality education,... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)
8 March 2018 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Researching Africa Day
3 March 2018 - 9:00am to 6:30pm
Investcorp Building, St Antony's College, Oxford
Researching Africa Day 2018 18th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop African Studies Beyond the Binary: Critical Encounters at the Intersection Saturday 3 March 2018, 09:00 – 18:30 St Antony’s... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Wendy Willems (London School of Economics)
1 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
‘The politics of things’ refers to the way in which objects and physical spaces remain crucial to political communication in a digital age as well as to the manner in which objects such as clothing... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
27 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Seminar Room 2
African Studies Seminar
Daniel Branch (University of Warwick)
22 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This paper sets out to answer two simple questions. First, how did Kenyans connect with government after independence in 1963? And, second, how did they understand independence and the... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Hannah Dawson (Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
20 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
Galia Sabar ( TAU & Ruppin)
20 February 2018 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Ground Floor Seminar Room, SIAS, 11 Bevington Road