CAS Seminar: Dr Sarah Longair: 'The "colonial moment" in the lives of Swahili objects'
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Episodes (38)
'The Long Southern African Past: Enfolded Time and the Challenges of Archive'
A talk by Prof Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town, given as part of the 'Object Lessons' seminar series in Michaelmas 2016.
'Mau Mau: The Face of International Terrorism in the 1950's in the Contemporary Perspective'
A talk by Prof Bruce Berman, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies and History at Queen’s. He was the director and principal investigator of the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Program from 2006 to 2012 In 2012-13 he was the Smuts University Research Fellow at Cambridge and is a continuing Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College. He is the author of Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya (Gregory Prize, 1991 and, with John Lonsdale, Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa (Reese Prize. 1995). His most recent books are Secular States and Religious Diversity, edited with Andre Laliberte and Rajeev Bhargava (UBC Press 2013), and Moral Economies and Ethnic and Nationalist Claims, edited with Andre Laliberte and Stephen Larin (UBC Press, forthcoming in 2016). He and John Lonsdale are completing The House of Custom: Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta and the Modern Kikuyu.
'South Africa's Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles'
A book launch by Dr Alexander Beresford, University of Leeds
CAS seminar: Limits of Ethnic Engineering: Rebuilding Nigerian Unity by Building Abuja - Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha, Associate Professor of African Politics, University of Oxford
A talk given by Dr Abdul Raufu Mustapha , part of the 'African Cities' seminar series.
CAS seminar: “If there were no black people wandering about, you'd 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)
A talk given by Dr Johan Lagae, part of the 'African Cities' seminar series.
CAS Seminar: 'Zimbabwe is my Home': Political Exclusion, Citizenship and Belonging in Urban Zimbabwe - Dr Zoe Groves (Lecturer in African History, University of Cambridge)
A talk by Dr Zoe Groves, part of the 'African Cities' seminar series.
CAS seminar: 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)
A talk by Dr Miles Larmer, part of the 'African Cities' seminar series.
CAS seminar: Urban change and rural continuity in gender ideologies and practices - Dr Alice Evans (Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Cambridge)
A talk by Dr Alice Evans, part of the 'African Cities' seminar series.
CAS Seminar: Labels and definitions: reflections on urban dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa - Dr Deborah Potts (Reader in Human Geography, KCL)
A talk by Dr Deborah Potts, part of the 'African Cities' seminar series.
Social media and the making of the New-Baraza: mediatisation of Kenya’s local administration
A talk by Dr Duncan Omanga of Moi University Kenya and University of Cambridge CAS Visiting Fellow 2015-16
Professor James Ferguson - Give A Man A Fish
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
Professor James Ferguson (Stanford University)
Give A Man A Fish : From Patriachal Productionism to the Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and beyond)
26 March 2015
Fertility, Gender and the Family in Twentieth-Century East Africa
A talk by Dr Shane Doyle of the University of Leeds.
At the Cutting Edge of Transformations in Gender Relations in Zambia
This Talk, by Dr Tony Simpson of the University of Manchester, is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term Seminar Series: Gender in Africa
Intimacy and Inequality; Conceptualising Care Labour in Kenya
This talk, given by Dr Ambreena Manji, is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term seminar series, 'Gender in Africa'
Post-Slavery Societies in East Africa
Workshop held on 16 December 2014 (part 4), organised by Felicitas Becker
Post-Slavery Societies in East Africa
A workshop held on 16 December 2014 (part 3), organised by Felicitas Becker
Post-Slavery Societies in East Africa
A workshop held on 16 December 2014 (part 2), organised by Felicitas Becker
Post-Slavery Societies in East Africa
A workshop held on 16 December 2014, organised by Felicitas Becker
Female Sexuality as Capacity and Power? Re-Conceptualizing Sexualities in Africa
Talk by Dr Signe Arnfred, Roskile University. This seminar is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term 2015 series 'Gender in Africa'