Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Contestations for Popular Accountability in the Contemporary Ethiopian Political Transition

Yonas Demisse, Addis Ababa University .

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

Monday 09 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

What Nigeria can teach us about good governance: how ethnography can be used for political theory

Portia Roelofs, University of Oxford .

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

Monday 02 March 2020, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Village identity papers and the production of moral homelands in Uganda

Florence Brisset-Foucault, Université Panthéon Sorbonne .

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

Monday 24 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Long-distance citizenship and external voting: African case studies

Etienne Smith, Sciences Po Bordeaux .

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

Monday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

The Organizational Roots of Persistent Electoral Violence in Africa

Adrienne Lebas, American University.

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

Monday 10 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

War, peace and political representation: An analysis of popular political thinking in Burundi (1993-2015)

Bert Ingelaere, University of Antwerp .

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

Monday 03 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Rebel Lives, photographs from inside the Lord's Resistance Army

Kristof Titeca, University of Antwerp.

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

Monday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Between the Moral and Market Economy: Rebel Taxation as a Technology of Governance

Zachariah Mampilly, Vassar College .

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

Monday 20 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Title TBC

Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Hampshire College, USA.

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

Monday 02 December 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

How do African states think about heritage? Historical and ethnographic views from southern Africa

Dr Rachel King, UCL.

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

Monday 25 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Sermonizing on Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Post Colonial Sub Saharan Africa

Prof Caleb Folorunso, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (Ex-officio World Archaeological Congress).

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

Monday 18 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Decolonise what? Archaeology, heritage and the elusive pursuit of locally centred African past(s)

Prof Shadreck Chirikure, University of Oxford/University of Cape Town.

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

Monday 11 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Decolonising the Missionary Road? An Archaeology of Heritage at the Kuruman Moffat Mission, South Africa

Dr Chris Wingfield, UEA.

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

Monday 04 November 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Archaeology, Hybrid Knowledge and Community Engagement in Africa: Thoughts on Decolonizing Practice

Prof Paul Lane, McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 28 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Co-creating “Effective” Archaeologies: Reflections from a Digital Heritage Initiative in Banda, Ghana

Prof Ann Stahl, University of Victoria, Canada .

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

Monday 21 October 2019, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Anti-Africanism in Twentieth-Century Dominican Republic'

Sabine Cadeau, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 11 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Out of the Shadows, and Towards a New World: The Congress of Black Writers at 50"

David Austin, John Abbott College, Canada.

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

Monday 04 March 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

"Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James"

Leslie James, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Monday 18 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Blindspots: Or, is it ethical for white people to study Africa'

Simukai Chigudu, Department of International Development, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 04 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Memories of Ashura: A photographic essay from Zanzibar before and after the Revolution

Dr Sloan Mahone, University of Oxford .

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Power, authority, and community participation in primary health-care centres: contrasting evidence from health facility committees in South Kivu (DR Congo) and Burundi

Dr Jean-Benoit Falisse, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Atomic Junction: The Road to Nuclear Power (documentary film, 30 mins)

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Problematizing The Ebola Virus Disease in the Mano River Basin: Sierra Leone Health Infrastructure on the Eve of Ebola

Prof Ibrahim Abdullah, University of Sierra Leone.

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

Monday 05 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Towards a Relational Understanding of Participation in Social Health Protection

Prof Brigit Obrist, University of Basel.

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Policy of No Policy: Disability and Technology Translation Dilemmas in Uganda

Dr Herbert Muyinda, Makerere University.

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

Monday 22 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Metabolic disorder, global health and ‘noncommunicable’ disease in Malawi

Prof Megan Vaughan, UCL.

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

Monday 15 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Rethinking African Studies: The Wisdom of the Elders

Dr Joyce Nyairo, Moi University, Kenya.

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

Monday 26 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Activism and scholarship: Fahamu's role in shaping knowledge production in Africa

Prof Patricia Daley, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 19 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

How to know Africa(s) in an age of youth hybridity

Dr Akin Iwilade, University of Leeds .

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

Monday 12 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Reframing African Studies through Languages and Translation: Overcoming Barricades to Knowledge and Knowledge Management

Dr Wangui Wa Goro, SIDENSI.

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

Monday 05 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Book launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'

Dr Matteo Rizzo, SOAS.

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

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

The state-market dichotomy, development and transition in Africa

Dr Eka Ikpe, Kings College London.

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

Monday 22 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Fashion as Transnational Feminist Methodology for African Studies

Dr Simidele Dosekun, University of Sussex.

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

Monday 20 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Can We Decolonise the Academy from Within?

Dr Zoe Marks, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 13 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Henri Breuil and the Imagination of Prehistory in Southern Africa

Saul Dubow (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 06 November 2017, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Youth and generational conflict in South African historiography

Prof Clive Glaser, University of the Witwatersrand.

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

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Epistemology and the Dance Archive in Colonial Central Kenya

Dr Cécile Feza Bushidi, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 23 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Africa as a “Dissimilar” System? Knowledge Production on Africa in the UK

Prof Wale Adebanwi, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 16 October 2017, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Corporate Social Responsibility and Political Control in Kenya and South Africa

Dr Maha Rahi Atal, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 13 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

arty politics, capital mobilization and the rise of ‘small boys’ capitalists in Ghana’s Fourth Republic

Dr George Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana.

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

Monday 06 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

Party Politics, Capital Mobilization and the Rise of ‘Small Boys’ Capitalists in Ghana’s Fourth Republic

George Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology and CAS Visiting Fellow.

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

Monday 06 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

'It's not my story to tell': ownership, legitimacy, and the politics of history in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique

Dr Ana Margarida Santos, University of Durham.

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

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

'It's Not My Story to Tell': Ownership, Legitimacy, and the Politics of History in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique

Ana Margarida Santos, University of Durham.

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

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

ZANU’s post-1980 legitimation strategies: post-liberation demobilization via development discourse (with book launch)

Dr Sara Rich Dorman, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 20 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

ZANU’s Post-1980 Legitimation Strategies: Post-Liberation Demobilization via Development Discourse (with Book Launch)

Sara Rich Dorman, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 20 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

The politics of moving on: Legitimacy and contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya

Dr Njoki Wamai, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 13 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

The Politics of Moving On: Legitimacy and Contestation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Kenya

Njoki Wamai, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 13 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

From hidden dissent to open renegotiation and contestation: Local actors interacting with agrarian modernisation in rural Rwanda

Dr An Ansoms, Catholic University of Leuven.

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

Monday 06 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

From Hidden Dissent to Open Renegotiation and Contestation: Local Actors Interacting with Agrarian Modernisation in Rural Rwanda

An Ansoms, Catholic University of Leuven.

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

Monday 06 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya

Prof Hassan Mwakimako, Pwani University , Kenya.

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

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

What Is Supreme about the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM)? Challenging the practices of representativeness amongst Muslims in Kenya

Hassan Mwakimako, Pwani University and CAS Visiting Fellow.

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

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola

Dr Justin Pearce, University of Cambridge:.

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

Monday 23 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

All POLIS Department Seminars and Events

From Rebel Movement to Political Party: UNITA's Social Engagement in Post-War Angola

Justin Pearce, University of Cambridge:.

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

Monday 23 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

'Livelihood strategies and signatures of vulnerability and resilience in eastern African landscapes'

Prof Paul Lane, Uppsala University.

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

Monday 28 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

'War, displacement, and heritage: a post-conflict material culture in northern Uganda'

Dr John Giblin, British Museum.

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

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

'Addressing the Spirit of Discernment: Pentecostal transformation of demonic objects into modern heritage in Sierra Leone

Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp, MAA, Cambridge.

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

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

'The "colonial moment" in the lives of Swahili objects'

Dr Sarah Longair, University of Lincoln.

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

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

'The Long Southern African Past: Enfolded Time and the Challenges of Archive'

Prof Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town.

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

Monday 31 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

'Borders, frontiers, crossroads. Making the Sudanese-Ethiopian borderland'

Dr Alfredo González-Ruibal, Incipit-CSIC, Spain.

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

Monday 17 October 2016, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Building Abuja to Rebuild Nigeria

Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha (Associate Professor of African Politics, University of Oxford) .

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

Monday 07 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Suburbs of distinction: middle class boundary work in Dar Es Salaam

Dr Claire Mercer (Associate Professor of Human Geography, LSE) .

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

Monday 29 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

An inverted social contract. Development, political authoritarianism and the production of marginality in inner city Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dr Marco Di Nunzio (FNRS Postdoctoral Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles) .

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

Monday 22 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

“If there were no black people wandering about, you might think you were finding yourself in a European port.” Urban Space, race and society in the colonial port city of Matadi, DR Congo

Professor Johan Lagae (Ghent University) .

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

Monday 15 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

'Zimbabwe is my Home': Political Exclusion, Citizenship and Belonging in Urban Zimbabwe

Dr Zoe Groves (Lecturer in African History, University of Cambridge) .

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

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Comparing the Central African Copperbelts: social history and knowledge production in the Zambian copperbelt and Haut Katanga

Dr Miles Larmer (Associate Professor of African History, University of Oxford) .

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

Monday 01 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices

Dr Alice Evans (Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Cambridge) .

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

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Labels and definitions: reflections on urban dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa

Dr Deborah Potts (Reader in Human Geography, KCL) .

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

Monday 18 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Writing a history of African popular culture

Professor Karin Barber (University of Birmingham).

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

Monday 30 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Social media and the making of the New-Baraza; mediatisation of Kenya’s local administration

Dr Duncan Omanga, (Moi University, Kenya).

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

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Media influences in contemporary Rwandan dance performances

Dr Carine Plancke (University of Roehampton).

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

Monday 16 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

On folles, swageurs and other ambiançeurs; popular culture and queer extraversion in urban Congo

Dr Thomas Hendriks (KU Leuven).

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

Monday 09 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

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

Professor Dorothea Schulz (University of Cologne).

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

Monday 02 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Crime fiction, mythomania, and the criminalisation of the South African state

Dr Christopher Warnes (University of Cambridge).

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

Monday 26 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Disruptive listening in times of conflict: the poetics of war and citizenship in Dinka cattle songs in South Sudan

Dr Angela Impey (SOAS) .

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

Monday 19 October 2015, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Fertility, Gender and the Family in Twentieth-Century East Africa

Dr Shane Doyle, University of Leeds.

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

At the Cutting Edge of Transformations in Gender Relations in Zambia

Dr Tony Simpson, University of Manchester.

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

Monday 02 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Intimacy and Inequality; Conceptualising Care Labour in Kenya

Professor Ambreena Manji, Cardiff University.

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

Monday 23 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

‘Women use our Strength in the House’; Savings Clubs and Social Mobility In South Africa

Professor Deborah James, LSE.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Female Sexuality as Capacity and Power? Re-Conceptualizing Sexualities in Africa

Dr Signe Arnfred, Rosklide University.

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

Monday 09 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Same Sex Cultures and Pariah Formations in North Africa

Professor Caroline Rooney & Dr Julia Borossa, University of Kent & Middlesex University.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Contesting Compliance; Tales of ‘Women's Empowerment’ from Nineteenth-Century SW Nigeria

Professor Andrea Cornwall, University of Sussex.

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

Monday 26 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Fathers and Sons; Masculinity, Intergenerational Shifts and Routes of Becoming

Dr Rachel Spronk, University of Amsterdam.

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

Monday 19 January 2015, 17:00-18:30

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Diasporic Romance; Marriage, Consumerism and Ghanaian Experiences in Botswana

Rijk van Dijk, ASC Leiden, AISSR Amsterdam, Centre of Excellence University of Konstanz.

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

Monday 01 December 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

The Paradox of Parallel Lives; Immigration Policy and Transnational Polygyny between Senegal and France

Dr Helene Neveau-Kringelbach, Oxford University.

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

Monday 24 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Cultivating Intergenerational Ideals; The Exchange of Photographs between Migrant Parents in Britain and their Children in The Gambia

Dr Pamela Kea, Sussex University.

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

Monday 17 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

From 'Nairobi East' to 'Little Mogadishu'; Migration and Diaspora in the History of Nairobi's Eastleigh Estate

Dr Neil Carrier, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 10 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Spaces of Exile and Solidarity; Conviviality, Contention and Transnational Activism for Zimbabwe 1965-1980

Professor Jo Ann McGregor, Sussex University.

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

Monday 03 November 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

Decolonisation in Sudan: Development Planning and the End of 'Indirect Rule'

Alden Young, Drexel Univeristy, Philadelphia.

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

Thursday 30 October 2014, 12:00-14:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

The Roots Of Impermanence; Farm Life, Labour, And Migration On The Zimbabwean-South African Border

Dr Maxim Bolt, University of Birmingham.

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

Monday 27 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Zonk! Magazine; Black Modernity and the Marketplace in South Africa

Dr Nicholas Grant, University of East Anglia.

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

Monday 20 October 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

The East African Literature Bureau (EALB) and the Making of Modern East African Literature

Professor Okello Ogwang.

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

Tuesday 29 April 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of South Asian Studies occasional events

Pakistan's Member of the National Assembly (MNA), Shafqat Mahmood, visits Cambridge University

Shafqat Mahmood.

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

Monday 24 March 2014, 18:00-20:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Mediating Voice: Writing Letters to Address the Public at a Local Radio Station in Mopti, Mali

Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Dr Aïssatou Mbodj, Centre d’études des mondes africains (CEMAf).

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

Monday 10 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Hybrid Images of Political Power: The Role of Iconographic Narratives in the Ethiopian Court (1880-1935)

Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Dr Estelle Sohier, University of Geneva.

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

Monday 03 March 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

How to do Resistance with Words: Nationalism, Afrocentrism and Oratory in Abidjan's Street Parliaments

Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Professor Armando Cutolo, University of Siena.

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

Monday 24 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Producing Islamic Reform: Media Practices and the Construction of Religious Authority in Niger

Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Dr Abdoulaye Sounaye, ZMO Berlin.

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

Monday 17 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Non-European Newspaper Culture in Kenya: Mumenyereri, the Daily Chronicle and the Colonial Times, 1945-51

Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Professor Bodil Folke Frederiksen Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University.

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

Monday 10 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Somalia: Media Law in the Absence of a State

Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Dr Nicole Stremlau, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 03 February 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

The Timbuktu Manuscripts: Economic, Political and Scientific Stakes. Some Reflections about a Media Buzz

Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Professor Jean-Louis Triaud, professeur émérite, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I.

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

Monday 27 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Occasional Talks

Restoring Leviathan? The Kenyan Supreme Court, Constitutional Transformation and the Presidential Election of 2013

John Harrington, Professor of Law, Cardiff University Senior Research Fellow, British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi.

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

Monday 20 January 2014, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Somalia: Media Law in the Absence of a State

Part of the seminar series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents

Dr Nicole Stremlau, University of Oxford.

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

Thursday 12 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

The Permeability of Prison: Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia, 1959-1979

Jocelyn Alexander, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 02 December 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Overlapping Sovereignties and the Politics of Legal Pluralism in Mozambique

Helen-Maria Kyed, Danish Institute of International Studies.

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

Monday 25 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Transition and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia

Gerhard Anders, University of Edinburgh.

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

Monday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

The Prosecution of Rape in Wartime: Evidence From Kenya, 1952-1960

David Anderson, University of Warwick.

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

Monday 11 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Narratives of Violence: Historicizing Representations of Child Combatants in African Conflict, c. 1980-2010

Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter.

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

Monday 04 November 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

The Permeability of Prison: Maurice Nyagumbo in Rhodesia, 1959-1979

Canceled

Jocelyn Alexander, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 28 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Culpable Identities: Homicide Jurisdiction and the Politics of Culture in Late-Colonial Northern Nigeria

Steven Pierce, University of Manchester.

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

Monday 21 October 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Segou Fanga – Tamani Kafu: towards an archaeology of Mande political tradition (AD 1200-1850)

Kevin MacDonald, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

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

Monday 04 March 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

From ‘strangers’ to an ‘indigenous people’: the case of the Mbororo in Cameroon

Michaela Pelican, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne.

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

Monday 18 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Joking relationships in West Africa (Senegal): from scientific canonisation to political instrumentalisations

Etienne Smith, Sciences Po, Paris.

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

Monday 11 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Northern Chad: anarchy and social cohesion, or neither?

Judith Scheele, All Souls College, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 04 February 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Colonial boundary making and local communities in the Niger-Nigeria borderland

Camille Lefebvre, Centre d’Études des Mondes Africains, Paris.

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

Monday 28 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

One hundred years of change in Mambila religion

David Zeitlyn, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 21 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Displaying the arts of the Benue River Valley, Nigeria

Richard Fardon, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

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

Monday 14 January 2013, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

The Art of the Bambui fondom/Kingdom

Mathias Alubafi Department of History of Art, University of the Witwatersrand.

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

Monday 26 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

A Museum for Heritage and Culture at Aba Island, Sudan

Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam, Department of Archaeology, Khartoum University.

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

Monday 19 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

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Collecting Mesopotamia in Henry Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum

Ruth Horry (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Thursday 15 November 2012, 13:30-15:30

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Northcote W Thomas and Northern Edo history

Ohioma Pogoson Honorary Curator, Museum of the Centre of African Studies, Ibadan University .

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

Monday 12 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

The Challenge of the Traditional Collection and the possibilities of "Tribing and Untribing the Archive: the Material Record of the Thukela-Mzimkulu region, c. 1750-1910”

Nessa Leibhammer Curator, Traditional Southern African Art at the Johannesburg Art Gallery.

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

Monday 05 November 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Grace Note - a talk by artist ATTA KWAMI

Atta Kwami, Independent Artist, Art Historian and Curator.

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

Monday 29 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Michaelmas Seminars

Origins of the Afro comb Project: 6000 years of African combs

Sally-Ann Ashton, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

Slowly but Surely: Informal Workers' Quest for Labour Rights in Neoliberal Tanzania, 1995-2011

Matteo Rizzo, SOAS.

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

Monday 12 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

“Teach Yourself Citizenship!” Elections in Kenya, 1957-63

Justin Willis, University of Durham.

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

Monday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

The Neopatrimonial State in Africa: Lessons from a Comparative Overview

Daniel Bach, University of Bordeaux.

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

Monday 20 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

The Neopatrimonial State in Africa: Lessons from a Comparative Overview

Daniel Bach, University of Bordeaux.

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

Monday 20 February 2012, 17:00-18:00

Centre of African Studies Lent Seminar Series

The Gbonhi War; Militias, Political Violence and the State in Côte d’Ivoire

Richard Banegas, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

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

Monday 13 February 2012, 17:00-18:00