Events

The African Studies Centre organises a lively programme of seminars, workshops and international conferences. At least three research seminars on Africa meet each week during Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms:

We host a variety of annual events including:

Podcasts of past seminars and events hosted by the African Studies Centre are available both on the Oxford University Podcasts Website and on iTuneU.

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African History & Politics Seminar: 'Africa's Illiberal State-Builders: Life beyond the Washington Consensus and Neo-Patrimonialism'

Monday, 27 May, 2013 - 17:00

Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road

Speakers: Will Jones, Harry Verhoeven & Ricardo Soares de Oliveira (Oxford)

South Africa Discussion Group: 'The Rise of the Taxi Industry: De-industrialisation, New Forms of Migration and the End of Apartheid'

Tuesday, 28 May, 2013 - 17:00

Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College

Speaker: Tim Gibbs (Cambridge)

African Studies Seminar: ‘Making Ubumwe: Power, State and the Forging of Unity in Post-Genocide Rwanda’

Thursday, 30 May, 2013 - 17:00

Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College

Speaker: Andrea Purdeková (Oxford)

South Africa Discussion Group: 'Poor Spirits: Rethinking Religion and Political Economy in South Africa'

Friday, 31 May, 2013 - 17:15

Seminar Room, African Studies Centre

Speaker: Hylton White (Wits University)

South Africa Discussion Group: 'Writing the ANC in Exile in Zambia'

Tuesday, 4 June, 2013 - 17:00

Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College

Speaker: Hugh MacMillan (Oxford)

South Africa Discussion Group: 'Provinces, Proportional Representation and Legacies of the Transition'

Tuesday, 11 June, 2013 - 17:00

Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College

Speaker: Jason Robinson (Oxford)

Past Events

African Studies Seminar: ‘Custom, Normativity and Authority in South Africa.’

Thursday, 23 May, 2013 - 16:30

Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College

Speaker: Hylton White (Witwatersrand)

This talk will be followed by:

‘Betrayal in South African history: The case of Glory Sedibe, ANC combatant-turned-security policeman.’

Speaker: Jacob Dlamini (Open Society Foundations)

South Africa Discussion Group: 'False Fathers and False Sons: Immigration Authorities in Cape Town and Identifying the Indian Son in the early Twentieth Century'

Tuesday, 21 May, 2013 - 17:00

Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College

Speaker: Uma Mesthrie (University of the Western Cape)

African History & Politics Seminar: 'Rethinking African States: Welfare State-Building in Africa'

Monday, 20 May, 2013 - 17:00

Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road

Speaker: Jeremy Seekings (Cape Town)

CANCELLED African Studies Seminar: ‘Madiba magic: politics as enchantment'

Thursday, 16 May, 2013 - 17:00

This seminar has been cancelled

Speaker: Deborah Posel (University of Cape Town)

African Studies Annual Lecture:‘What are Friends For? The Fatality of Affinity in the Postcolony’

Tuesday, 14 May, 2013 - 17:00

Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College

Speaker: Wale Adebanwi (UC-Davis)

African History & Politics Seminar: 'Fact and Fiction in African Development Statistics'

Monday, 13 May, 2013 - 17:00

Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road

Speaker: Morten Jereven (Simon Fraser)

OxPeace Conference 2013: The Future of Peacebuilding

Saturday, 11 May, 2013 - 09:00 to 17:30

St John's College, Oxford

African Studies Seminar: "Dropping Weapons for Peace in the Niger Delta:" The politics of an oil-fuelled peace-from-above.

Thursday, 9 May, 2013 - 17:00

Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road

Speaker: Cyril Obi (African Peacebuilding Network)

South Africa Discussion Group: 'Policing Intellectual Property in South Africa'

Tuesday, 7 May, 2013 - 17:00

Dahrendorf Room, St Antony's College

Speaker: Julia Hornberger (Wits University)

African History & Politics Seminar: 'Black Consciousness' Lost Leader: Abraham Tiro, the University of the North, and the seeds of South Africa's Student Movement in the 1970s'

Monday, 6 May, 2013 - 17:00

Seminar Room 1, Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road

Speaker: Anne Heffernan (Oxford)

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Upcoming Events

African History & Politics Seminar: 'Africa's Illiberal State-Builders: Life beyond the Washington Consensus and Neo-Patrimonialism'

South Africa Discussion Group: 'The Rise of the Taxi Industry: De-industrialisation, New Forms of Migration and the End of Apartheid'

African Studies Seminar: ‘Making Ubumwe: Power, State and the Forging of Unity in Post-Genocide Rwanda’

South Africa Discussion Group: 'Poor Spirits: Rethinking Religion and Political Economy in South Africa'

South Africa Discussion Group: 'Writing the ANC in Exile in Zambia'

South Africa Discussion Group: 'Provinces, Proportional Representation and Legacies of the Transition'

Past Events

African Studies Seminar: ‘Custom, Normativity and Authority in South Africa.’

South Africa Discussion Group: 'False Fathers and False Sons: Immigration Authorities in Cape Town and Identifying the Indian Son in the early Twentieth Century'

African History & Politics Seminar: 'Rethinking African States: Welfare State-Building in Africa'

CANCELLED African Studies Seminar: ‘Madiba magic: politics as enchantment'

African Studies Annual Lecture:‘What are Friends For? The Fatality of Affinity in the Postcolony’

African History & Politics Seminar: 'Fact and Fiction in African Development Statistics'

OxPeace Conference 2013: The Future of Peacebuilding

African Studies Seminar: "Dropping Weapons for Peace in the Niger Delta:" The politics of an oil-fuelled peace-from-above.

South Africa Discussion Group: 'Policing Intellectual Property in South Africa'

African History & Politics Seminar: 'Black Consciousness' Lost Leader: Abraham Tiro, the University of the North, and the seeds of South Africa's Student Movement in the 1970s'

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