Events archive
South Africa Discussion Group
30 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh is a Dphil student in International Relations at Oxford, and he is currently living in South Africa where he is also an author, political analyst and musician
Haim Yacobi (UCL)
30 January 2018 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Ground Floor Seminar Room, SIAS, 11 Bevington Road
African Studies Seminar
Folashadé Soulé
25 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This paper is a cross-disciplinary study of the bureaucratic politics of negotiation by small states engaged in asymmetrical relations with larger states. It studies the negotiating tactics and... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
William Beinart
23 January 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
African Studies Seminar
Professor Christopher Clapham
18 January 2018 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
This talk ascribes the distinctive character of the Horn (taken to encompass Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Somaliland) firstly to its topography, and secondly to its place as the region... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)
30 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Book launch: Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Matteo Rizzo, SOAS, Department of... Read more
Idil Osman (SOAS)
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Discussion & book launch for Media, Diaspora and the Somali Conflict .
South Africa Discussion Group
Nomfundo Ramalekana (University of Oxford) , Jason Brickhill (University of Oxford)
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar
Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths)
23 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Co-hosted with the Horn of Africa seminar. Civic and legal activists navigate and alter the political landscape during conflict, distinguishing themselves from warring parties and victims. Their... Read more
Dr Miriam Driessen
16 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
China Centre Lecture Theatre
Migratory movements of one population can induce and facilitate migratory practices of another population in unintended and unexpected ways. In this talk Miriam Driessen looks at how a growing flow... Read more
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
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
South Africa Discussion Group
Gary Kynoch, Dalhousie University
7 November 2017 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College