Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

The Formula for the 2018 Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace: New Beginning or Resumption of a Suspended Process?

Senai Andemariam School of Law, Asmara, Eritrea .

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Thursday 31 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

TBC

Professor Tanika Sarkar (Jawaharlal Nehru University).

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

Colonist Strategies in the Making of the Oyo Empire (West Africa), ca. 1590-1790

Dr Akin Ogundiran, YIP Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge/ University of North Carolina-Charlotte .

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 12:00-13:30

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Intergenerational mobility in post-liberalisation India

Please note this seminar takes place on a Thursday in Room S1, 1st floor of the ARB

Professor Vegard Iversen (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad).

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Nature's Sovereignty: The Indus Basin and India's Partition

Seminar co-organised with Critical Pakistan

Professor David Gilmartin, NC State University.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Tuesday 05 December 2017, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Unknowable God and knowable women: gender of piety in the Mala Poetics of Malabar

Dr Yasser Arafath Pothukandiyil, Dr L.M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 09 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Rethinking Resilient Healthcare Systems in Contexts of Conflict in Uganda

Drinks and refreshments available after

Dr Sarah Ssali, Makerere University.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 22 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

Mau Mau: The Face of International Terrorism in the 1950's in the Contemporary Perspective'

Prof Bruce Berman, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies and History, Queen’s University, Ontario.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 23 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

'South Africa's Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles'

Dr Alexander Beresford, Lecturer in the Politics of African Development Politics and International Studies (POLIS) University of Leeds.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 09 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

The rifle, the quill, and the rosary: competing sources of political legitimacy in Mali'

Prof Dorothea E. Schulz, University of Cologne.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 25 April 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

The fugitive sojourns of Gurdit Singh, 1914-1922

Professor Renisa Mawani, University of British Columbia.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Seed and nation: understanding divergent political responses to GMOs in Southeas Asia

Dr Tomas Larsson, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

National wealth or national poverty? Economic statistics, citizenship and the emergence of Indian democracy

Dr Eleanor Newbigin, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

SAARC and regional trade integration: a political economy perspective

Dr Khalid Ahmed, Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Visiting Fellow and Sukkur Institute of Business Administration.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Middle-income trap or uneven and dependent inclusion in the East Asian Productive order? the case of Vietnam AND Factory work, dormitory regimes and the making of a transient workforce under FDI-led industrialization in Vietnam: the case of Thang Long Ind

2 speakers with 2 separate titles. To be chaired by Dr Tim Harper

Professor Pietro Masina, University of Naples AND Dr Michela Cerimele, University of Naples.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Constituting environmental modernity: time, place, perspective, power and politics in Bhutan

Dr Riamsara Knapp, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Intimate voices of empire: women and letter writing in eighteenth century India

The Dr B.H. Farmer Seminar

Professor Rosland O'Hanlon, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Old conflicts and new frontiers: the historic origins of the challenge to connectivity in Myanmar's borderlands

Professor Robert Anderson, Simon Fraser University and Martin Smith, Senior Advisor to the Transnational Institute.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies Seminars

Intimate violence: age of consent controversies in colonial Bengal

Professor Tanika Sarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT.

Monday 29 June 2015, 17:00-18:00