Events archive

African Studies Seminar: Bullets over Ballots: Electoral Exclusion, Coups and Civil Wars in Africa

Brian Klaas, Oxford University
13 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's College

Horn of Africa Seminar: Security in the Absence of a State: Traditional Authority, Livestock Trading, and Maritime Piracy in Somalia

Andy Harris (Oxford)
11 February 2014 - 5:00pm
ASC Seminar Room

Constructing Community in Early Twentieth Century South Africa: II

11 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Prof Beinart's room, ASC
Michael Ndlovu (MSc, African Studies) with/and/or Khumisho Moguerane (DPhil, History)) will discuss an aspect of his/their/her dissertation(s). The presentation will explore how some members of the... Read more

African Studies and OCAF Seminar: Staying Out of Place: The Dialectics of Being and Becoming in Exceptional Spaces

Simon Turner, Aalborg University, Denmark
6 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's College
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two exceptional spaces, namely among Burundian refugees living clandestinely in Nairobi and living in a refugee camp in Tanzania, the article argues that... Read more

Horn of Africa Seminar: Sacred Space and Urban Geography: the Body Politics of Muhammad Ahmed al-Mahdi and General Charles Gordon, 1885-1956

Katie Hickerson (University of Pennsylvania)
4 February 2014 - 5:00pm
ASC Seminar Room

The Making of Nelson Mandela II

4 February 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's
This discussion will explore a moment during which the African National Congress decided to focus on one individual, i.e. Nelson Mandela, as the face of the anti-apartheid campaign, and thus the... Read more

*CANCELLED* OCAF Seminar: Screening of Demokarasi (a documentary on the 2010 elections in Burundi) & Discussion

Marie-Claude Dupont (CBC journalist and filmmaker)
31 January 2014 - 5:00pm
Clay Room, Nuffield College
This event has been cancelled.

African Studies and Horn of Africa Seminar: South Sudan Crisis Roundtable

Chair: Jason Mosley, Chatham House and African Studies Centre, Speakers: Annette Weber, SWP Berlin, Douglas Johnson, author of "the Root Causes of Sudan'd Civil Wars, Peter Biar Ajak, Cambridge University, Discussant: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi, Middle East Centre, Oxford University
30 January 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's College

Constructing Community in Early Twentieth Century South Africa: I

Jamie Cockfield (DPhil, History)
28 January 2014 - 5:00pm
Prof Beinart's room, ASC
Jamie Cockfield (DPhil, History) will talk through one aspect of his doctoral dissertation. The presentation will explore the making of Bushbuckridge (now a town in Mpumalanga) during the late... Read more

OCAF Seminar: The Black, the Marginalised, and the New Sudan: Old Ideas and New Discussions in South Sudan

Nicki Kindersley (Durham University)
24 January 2014 - 5:00pm
Clay Room, Nuffield College

African Studies Seminar: Live Dangerously, Brothers: Liberia's Ex-combatants and Their Place in the Post-war City

Danny Hoffman, University of Washington
23 January 2014 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf, St Antony's College

Horn of Africa Seminar: Hybridizing modernity: reformism and its failure in Ethiopian political thought from Adwa to the 1960s

Sara Marzagora (SOAS)
21 January 2014 - 5:00pm
ASC Seminar Room

CPP event in Kenya - 3rd Regional Conference

9 December 2013 - 10:15am
Nairobi Safari Club, Kenya
Programme (coming soon)

CPP event in Kenya - 3rd Regional Conference

9 December 2013 - 10:15am
Nairobi Safari Club, Kenya
Programme (coming soon)

OCAF Seminar: Understanding Contemporary Conflict: International Relations Theory and the Changed Nature of Warfare

Michael Williams (University of London)
6 December 2013 - 5:00pm
Clay Room, Nuffield College

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