Events archive
African Studies Seminar
Alex Beresford (University of Leeds)
28 April 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Alex Beresford (University of Leeds) discusses the unfinished libertation and fractured class strugge factors in South Africa's political crisis.
Alex de Waal
26 April 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
The Horn of Africa Seminar Series hosts a book launch and discussion with author, Alex de Waal, on his book "The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa - Money, War and the Business of Power " .
South Africa Discussion Group
Simon Freemantle
25 April 2016 - 12:45pm to 2:15pm
African Studies Seminar Room, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford
Simon Freemantle (Senior Political Analyst, Standard Bank) joins the South Africa Discussion Group to discuss the firing of Nhlanhla Nene and the Future of South African Politics.
African Studies Seminar
10 March 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Why has democracy failed to reduce corruption in Kenya? Framing the challenge in game theoretical terms, Dominic Burbidge examines how mutual expectations between citizens dictate the success or... Read more
Asfa-Wossen Asserate (Independent)
9 March 2016 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Fellows Dining Room, St Antony's College
King of Kings: the triumph and the tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie 1 of Ethiopia Book launch and reception
African Studies Seminar
Gunvor Jonsson (University of Oxford)
3 March 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Gunvor teaches on the Migration Studies MSc. She specialises in migration and mobility in Africa, and the anthropology of West Africa (Mali/Senegal). Gunvor’s doctoral thesis in anthropology, 'The... Read more
James Chamberlain (PhD student in Politics, University of Sheffield)
2 March 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Development, Neoliberalism, and the Zambian State: A Strategic-Relational Approach Abstract From the 1980s onwards, the development agenda of the Zambian State was driven by a neoliberal paradigm... Read more
Professor Miles Larmer, University of Oxford; Dr Christabelle Peters, University of Warwick
1 March 2016 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Calvert 22, 22 Calvert Avenue, London, E2 7JP
**Part of the Red Africa season** Following the success of the Utopian visions and the art of the Red Africa event,Calvert 22 is delighted to join forces again with the Royal African Society to... Read more
Naomi Chazan and Yossi Melman
29 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Lecture Theatre, DPIR, Manor Road Building
This event will be co-sponsored with DPIR.
Wolde Tadesse (Oxford)
23 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
The Horn of Africa Seminar brings together students and scholars interested in examining the region from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. This term, the seminar will look at a variety... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Emma Hunter (University of Edinburgh)
18 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Emma has an undergraduate degree, an MPhil and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge. She spent a year at the Centre of African Studies in Oxford before returning again to Cambridge, this... Read more
Sishuwa Sishuwa (DPhil student in History, University of Oxford)
17 February 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
"The making of Michael Sata: ethno-language identities and trade union networks in late-colonial Zambia"
African Studies Seminar
11 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Trade Is War shows how the WTO and the Economic Partnership Agreements like the EU-Africa EPA and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are camouflaged in a rhetoric that hides... Read more
10 February 2016 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Discussion of the text ‘The Colour of Class Revisited’ written by Michael Burawoy Reference: Michael Burawoy (2014) The Colour of Class Revisited: Four Decades of Postcolonialism in Zambia, Journal... Read more
African Studies Seminar
Denis Regnier (Université Libre de Bruxelles & LSE)
4 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
Dr Denis Regnier has a background in philosophy, a subject he has taught for several years in French secondary schools before returning to university to undertake anthropological research. He came to... Read more