Events archive
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
African Studies Seminar
Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
15 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The Tanzanian Bunge was long judged one of the weakest parliaments in a region where the legislature is often dismissed as a “sideshow”. Yet between 2005 and 2015, Bunge repeatedly forced then... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group
Jason Robinson (Oxford Analytica)
13 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
African Studies Seminar
Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)
8 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
St Antony's College, Pavilion Room
The endurance and indeed the growing electoral support manifested by the Angolan opposition party UNITA since its defeat as an armed movement in 2002 defies generally gloomy prognoses both for... Read more
Farai Maguwu (Zimbabwe Centre for Natural Resource Governance), in association with Initiatives of Change & Human Rights Watch
6 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
ODID, Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Rd, Music Room
African Studies Seminar
Portia Roelofs (London School of Economics)
1 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
St Antony's College, Pavilion Room
This talk argues for the need for a new approach to the study of African Politics that takes seriously the role of ideas, values and ideology, before offering an example of what this might look like... Read more