Events
The Centre of African Studies organises and supports a great many events.
We run a weekly seminar series during the semester, inviting Africanist researchers from the UK and beyond to share their work with our staff and students. We organise periodic PhD researchers seminars and workshops. We host conferences and workshops under the banner of the European networks of African studies, we have hosted both an AEGIS conference and workshop in recent years.
Finally, we host an annual thematic African Studies conference that has been running for over 30 years. This conference attracts Africanists from across the world and a particular feature of the conference is the fact we sponsor all Africa-based participants to attend.
More information on these events can be found by navigating through the links to the left.
Upcoming events
| Date / Time | Details | Where |
|---|---|---|
| 20th Sep 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: Living by the Gun in Chad: Combatants, Impunity and State Formation Speaker: Dr Marielle Debos # University of Paris Nanterre |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 27th Sep 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: The Messy Actualities of Resource Governmentality: The Case of Tanzania’s SAGCOT Initiative Speaker: Dr Stefan Ouma # University of Frankfurt |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 4th Oct 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: Street Fight: Toponymy and Multiracialism in Urban Post-Apartheid South Africa Speaker: Professor Wale Adebanwi # University of Oxford |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 11th Oct 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: India and the BRICS in Africa: Promoting development or dependency? Speaker: Dr Pádraig Carmody # Trinity College Dublin and the University of Johannesburg |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 18th Oct 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: States of uncertainty: middle class accumulation in suburban Dar es Salaam Speaker: Dr Claire Mercer # London School of Economics |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 25th Oct 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: Reflections on the application of the principle of Inviolability of African Boundaries and the rise of secessionist flags in Africa Speaker: Professor Wafula Okumu # Kenya International Boundaries Office |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 1st Nov 2017 16:00 (3 hours and 30 minutes) | Seminar: Gender and Enslavement in Atlantic Africa Seminar and John Akomfrah Exhibition Speaker: Professor Lisa Lindsay # UNC |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD and then Talbot Rice Gallery |
| 8th Nov 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: Book Launch for Soldiers in Revolt: Army Mutinies in Africa Speaker: Dr Maggie Dwyer # UoE |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 15th Nov 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: New perspectives on the dynamics of participation in armed groups (provisional) Speaker: Dr. Gauthier Marchais # Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 22nd Nov 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: When Slime Sticks on Clean Deeds: The Political Opportunism of E.H. Duckworth's Clean-Up Lagos Campaigns Speaker: Dr Terri Ochiagha # Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 29th Nov 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: Migration, love and the value of absence in contemporary Senegal Speaker: Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach # University College London |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
| 6th Dec 2017 16:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes) | Seminar: The Death of the ICC? The Politics of International Justice in Africa Speaker: Dr Phil Clark # SOAS |
Seminar Room 1 & 2, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, EH8 9LD |
