Events archive

African Studies Seminar

Deep Rural Workshop

Marina P. Temudo (CEF/ISA, University of Lisbon), Ramon Sarro (Oxford)
3 December 2015 - 2:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar

'New Paths to Capitalist Agricultural Production in Africa: Experiences of Ghanaian Pineapple Producer-Exporters'.

Lindsay Whitfield (Roskilde University)
26 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
To listen to a podcast of the event follow this link http://bit.ly/1OKmQWS
African Studies Seminar

Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia

Eloi Ficquet (EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales) & Gerard Prunier (Atlantic Council)
19 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar

Borders and Territory in Borno, Nigeria (1810-present)

Vincent Hiribarren (Kings College, London)
12 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar

Conflict and political identity in Central Angola 1975-2002

Justin Pearce (Cambridge University)
5 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar

Governance of a West African marketplace: Understanding the political struggles at the Dantokpa Market in Cotonou, Benin taking a wider historical and West African perspective

Ebbe Prag (Roskilde University)
29 October 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
African Studies Seminar

Security and Justice in Cote d'Ivoire: A Study of Women's Responses to Sexual Violence

Peace Medie (University of Ghana)
22 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
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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
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
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 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
African Studies Seminar

Gender power, desire and civilization: Controversies around the national ban on FGM in Fouta Toro, Senegal

Sarah O’Neill, Institute of Tropical Medicine (Antwerp).
7 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
African Studies Seminar

Quantities in Multiple Currency Systems: Thoughts from African History

Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins University)
30 April 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion - St. Antony’s College
African Studies Seminar

Wild settlers, tame wildlife and the movies in Kenya

Professor William Beinart and Dr Neil Carrier (Oxford)
12 March 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion - St. Antony’s College

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