11th Mar
4pm, Violet Laidlaw room, 6th floor CMB.
Rene-Claude Niyonkuru (Centre for Development Studies, UC Louvain): Reshaping Rural Lands: Agrarian Modernisation in Post-Conflict Rwanda.
4th Mar
4pm, Violet Laidlaw Room, 6th floor CMB.
Mirjam de Bruijn (University of Leiden): title tbc.
19th Feb
4pm, Violet Laidlaw room, 6th floor CMB.
David Maxwell (University of Cambridge): Theologies of Continuity and Rupture for the Luba Katanga: The Missionary Journeys of Placide Tempels and William F.P. Burton in Colonial Belgium Congo.
12th Feb
4pm, Violet Laidlaw room, 6th floor CMB.
Harri Englund (University of Cambridge): Africa as an Altar of Sacrifice: The Struggle for Epistemic Justice.
5th Feb
4pm, Violet Laidlaw room, 6th floor CMB
Akinyinka Akinyoade (University of Leiden): Funeral insurance in Ghana: The last respect.
29th Jan
5.30pm, Debating Hall, Teviot Row House.
Africa in 2020: Prospects and Forecasts
Barbara Bompani (University of Edinburgh); Richard Itaman (King's College London); Valerie Asiimwe Amani (Artist); Imraan Valodia (University of the Witwatersrand); Sandra Garwe (University of Edinburgh).
22nd Jan
4pm, Violet Laidlaw room, 6th floor CMB
Robyn d'Avignon (NYU): A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in West Africa.
Tuesday 3 March 2020
6.30pm, LG.09, David Hume Tower. Dr Derek Hook (Duquesne University): District 9 and White Anxiety. [Film Studies and Lacan in Scotland]
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/district-9-and-white-anxiety-tickets-90204021657
Thursday 6 February 2020
12:30pm, G.159 - MacLaren Stuart Room, Old College. Dr Catherine Wheatley (King’s College London): Isabelle Huppert’s Shoes: Thoughts on Cinematic Shoes, inspired by Stanley Cavell. [Film Studies]