Thursday 28 January 2016

• 11:00 - “Terrorism in Africa Workshop”
  Jonathon Earle, Andrea Grant, Andrea Purdeková
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Forever slaves? Inequality, hypodescent and the distributed memory of ‘origins’ among the southern Betsileo of Madagascar”
  Denis Regnier (LSE)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2016

• 17:00 - Book launch: “Trade is War”
  Yash Tandon
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Newspapers and the ‘colonial public sphere’ in interwar Africa”
  Emma Hunter (University of Edinburgh)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2016

• 17:00 - African animation (title tbc)
  Paula Callus (Bournemouth University)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 3 March 2016

• 17:00 - “Relocating the Market: Spatial and Economic Logics of Evicted Malian Market Traders in Dakar"
  Gunvor Jonsson (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2016

• 17:00 - Book launch: “The Shadow of Kenyan Democracy: Widespread Expectations of Widespread Corruption”
  Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 January 2017

• 17:00 - A Forum for Reason: South Africa’s Constitutional Court
  Kate O’Regan (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 19 January 2017

• 17:00 - Understanding Zimbabwe: from Liberation to Authoritarianism
  Dr Sara Dorman (University of Edinburgh)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 January 2017

• 17:00 - Another Country: Everyday Social Restitution in South Africa
  Sharlene Swartz (Human Sciences Research Council)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 26 January 2017

• 17:00 - “Clean my Chinese wife”: Intimacy and identity politics of Nigerian migrants in Southern China
  Yu Qiu (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 January 2017

• 17:00 - The Lawyers Denied: How black lawyers of the late 19th century and early 20th century laid the foundations for human rights law in South Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (Legal Resources Centre and Johannesburg Bar)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 2 February 2017

• 17:00 - [Book launch] Writing a new history for South Sudan: whose history and for whom?
  Dr Douglas Johnson
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 February 2017

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist
  Sean Morrow (University of Fort Hare)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 17:00 - Lagos temporalities: Negotiating urban mobilities in an age of mobile telephony
  Naluwembe Binaisa (University College London)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Youth Waithood, Forced Migration, and the Transnational Negotiation of “Fortress” Europe: Case Studies of Congolese Migrants
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Kankonde Bukasa (University of the Witwatersrand and University of Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 February 2017

• 17:00 - History, biography - and how do you solve a problem like Mandela?
  Colin Bundy (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 16 February 2017

• 17:00 - Same Love: A Kenyan Gay Music Video as an African Queer Imaginary
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 February 2017

• 17:00 - Defining the Middle Class in South Africa - a vulnerability-based approach
  Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 23 February 2017

• 17:00 - Lagos Girl Power: Performing Postfeminism in Nigeria
  Dr Simidele Dosekun (University of Sussex)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 2 March 2017

• 17:00 - Anthropology as Vulnerology? Reading Possibility into the City's Sutures
  Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven (Belgium))
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 9 March 2017

• 17:00 - Decolonial Citizenship: African Women’s Political Practices in Contested Spaces
  Dr Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Arizona )
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 27 April 2017

• 17:00 - How to Rig an Election: Reflections on Ten Years of Studying Democracy
  Nic Cheeseman
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 17:00 - The State of South Africa: A Discussion
  William Beinart (University of Oxford), Colin Bundy (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 4 May 2017

• 17:00 - An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
  Paul Ocobock (Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 17:00 - Laughing about Corruption in Chinese-Ethiopian Encounters
  Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 17:00 - Race and Non-Racialism in the Making of South Africa’s Democratic Order
  Deborah Posel (University of Cape Town)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 17:00 - Bars, Branches, Stereos and Choppers: Innovation in Election Campaign Technologies in Tanzania
  Dan Paget (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 17:00 - From Party to Alliance: The Making of South Africa’s Opposition
  Jason Robinson (Oxford Analytica)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 17:00 - From the Zariba to the Museum: Violence, Globalisation and Material Culture in Nineteenth Century South Sudan
  Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 17:00 - Panel discussion: State Formation & Decay in the Horn of Africa
  Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh), Michael Walls (UCL), Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - “The Least Successful Guerrilla Army of all time”? Umkhonto we Sizwe and its historians
  Thula Simpson (University of Pretoria)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 17:00 - Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
  Ngala Chome (Durham)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - How to steal a city - factionalism and state capture in a metropolitan municipality
  Crispian Olver (Public Affairs Research Institute, Wits University)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 17:00 - Ndinga i Sinsu: A Quest for Kongo Art
  Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Stanford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 October 2017

• 17:00 - The Eritrean National Service: a great idea that never made it?
  Gaim Kibreab (London South Bank University)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 17:00 - Words and Deeds: African Migrants in Europe
  Michael Jackson (Harvard)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 17:00 - The Glory Days of Morris Isaacson: The Rise and Decline of Soweto High Schools under Bantu Education
  Clive Glaser (Wits University)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 17:00 - China and Africa: a Diplomatic Perspective
  Ambassador Jianhua Zhong, Yuzhou Sun (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 October 2017

• 17:00 - Pathways in Thought, Career, and Changing Times
  Professor Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins University)

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 17:00 - Astor Lecture 2017: ‘Toward a Post-Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties’
  Jean Allman (Washington)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 17:00 - Comrades and Casspirs: Township Violence on the Rand, 1990-94
  Gary Kynoch (Dalhousie University)
  South Africa Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Ordering the security arena: peace and conflict in the world’s most failing states
  Tim Glawion (GIGA, Hamburg)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 17:00 - Economic globalisation, poverty and human trafficking in Nigeria
  Daisy Onyige (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 November 2017

• 17:00 - The role of Eritrean Weekly News in the construction of dual nationalisms
  Dawit Mesfin
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 17:00 - The Social Dimensions of Land Rights Reform in Liberia
  David Brown (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 17:00 - Citizens for Justice; struggles against violence and predation in wartorn South Sudan
  Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 17:00 - Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
  Idil Osman (SOAS)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Transformative Tensions: The Possibilities and Limitations of Transforming the Lives of South Africa's Poor through the Constitution
  Nomfundo Ramalekana (University of Oxford), Jason Brickhill (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 17:00 - Book Launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'
  Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 17:00 - Why is the Horn different?
  Professor Christopher Clapham (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 17:00 - The role of infrastructure in Ethiopia's developmental trajectory
  Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Update and discussion on land reform in South Africa with reflections on Zimbabwe
  William Beinart (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 17:00 - Negotiating with China: African agency and challenges
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Monday 29 January 2018

• 17:00 - Discussion & book launch for We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
  Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 17:00 - Discussion on Zimbabwean politics
  TBC
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 17:00 - Taking normative politics in Africa seriously: can we conceptualize "accessibility" as a political value? Case studies from Southwest Nigeria
  Portia Roelofs (London School of Economics)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 17:00 - The security sector and contemporary Ethiopian politics
  Sandy Wade (Independent)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - The struggle for human rights in Zimbabwean mining
  Farai Maguwu (Zimbabwe Centre for Natural Resource Governance), in association with Initiatives of Change & Human Rights Watch
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 17:00 - From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola
  Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 17:00 - Discussion on South African politics
  Jason Robinson (Oxford Analytica)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2018

• 17:00 - The productivity of unemployment in urban South Africa
  Hannah Dawson (ISCS/ODID)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 17:00 - Affective Communities: Letter Writing and Politics in Independent Kenya, 1963-75
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: State of Mind’, a film and discussion on mental health in Zimbabwe – produced and led by Hopewell Chin'ono
  TBA
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 17:00 - ‘The politics of things’: digital media, urban space and the materiality of civic engagement
  Wendy Willems (London School of Economics)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 17:00 - Assessing the African human subject through social science experimentation and Randomized Control Trials
  Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 April 2018

• 17:00 - Constitutionalism, ‘developmentalism’ and popular demands in Ethiopia: exploring the common denominator
  Henok Gabisa (Washington and Lee)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 8 May 2018

• 17:00 - Support or subvert? Assessing devolution’s effect on central power during Kenya’s 2017 presidential rerun
  Hannah Waddilove (Warwick)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 15 May 2018

• 17:00 - Under construction: struggles over governance, labor, and technology in urban Ethiopia
  Dan Mains (Oklahoma)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 16:00 - Regional pastoral livestock trade and trends in the Horn of Africa
  Please note earlier starting time of 4pm
  Hussein Abdullahi Mahmoud (Technical University of Mombasa)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 29 May 2018

• 17:00 - Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics
  Mohamed Hersi (Independent)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 5 June 2018

• 09:00 - Oxford Pastoralist Research Day | Reflections on Resilience: A conversation with policy makers and practitioners on new research and emerging trends in the Horn of Africa
  Researchers and practitioners are invited to share their experiences on this day. Please contact either: Jason.mosley@africa.ox.ac.uk, angelaravenrobebrts@gmail.com or bcbromwich@gmail.com
  Various Speakers
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 12 June 2018

• 17:00 - Reflections on the recent Oromo Protest: Root causes and implication to the Ethiopian federal arrangement
  Yinebeb Nigatu (Leiden)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 15:00 - Discussion & book launch for Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally
  Harun Maruf (VOA)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:00 - Developmentalism and the politics of exercising citizenship among young people in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  Eyob B. Gebremariam (LSE)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:00 - Discussion & book launch for Performances of Injustice: The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya
  Gabrielle Lynch (Warwick University), Daisy Ogembo (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 17 January 2019

• 17:00 - African Studies Centre Seminar - Special Issue Launch - Student Activism in an Era of Decolonisation
  Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford), Luke Melchiorre (Universidad de los Andes), Marcia Schenck (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Friday 1 February 2019

• 17:00 - Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya
  Nanjala Nyabola, Professor Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 17:00 - Invisible peace: divine authority, and the remaking of peace and war in South Sudan
  This seminar has been postponed due to illness. Apologies! We will relist with a new date.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Naomi Pendle (LSE)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Friday 8 February 2019

• 15:00 - Sudan’s political crisis: what next?
  Yasir Arman (SPLM/N & Sudan Call), Rosalind Marsden (Chatham House)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 11 February 2019

• 17:00 - Nairobi’s digital death-worlds and the geo-corpographies of extra-judicial killings
  Duncan Omanga (Moi University/Cambridge University)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 14 February 2019

• 17:00 - The Politics of Distribution in Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’
  Co-hosted with the African Studies seminar series
  Thomas Lavers (Manchester University)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 4 March 2019

• 17:00 - Ethiopian Warriorhood: Defence, Land & Society 1800-1941
  Dr Tsehai Berhane-Selassie (Independent), Richard Reid (St Cross, Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 12:30 - Political transitions in Ethiopia and Sudan: implications for security in the Horn of Africa
  Abdeta D. Beyene (Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation, Ethiopia)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 29 May 2019

• 17:00 - An Experiment in Devolution: National Unity and the Deconstruction of the Kenyan State
  Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford), Hannah Waddilove (Warwick)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 22 January 2020

• 17:00 - Taking an African Empire to its own Court: Rethinking Tools and Methods of State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (1944-1974)
  Dr Etana H. Dinka (Oberlin)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 3 February 2020

• 17:00 - The politics of literary promotion & cultural activism in the Horn of Africa: Book Fairs & the Somali digital public
  Peter Chonka (King's College London)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 24 February 2020

• 17:00 - Peace and public authority: contesting power by making peace in Gogrial and Leer (South Sudan)
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Naomi Pendle (LSE)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 9 March 2020

• 17:00 - Panel discussion -- Ethiopia 2020: In Plight or Prosperity?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 17:00 - Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 February 2021

• 17:00 - Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 17:00 - An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 17:00 - The History of Public Preaching and Public Sound in Northern Nigeria
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 17:00 - The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 17:00 - Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 17:00 - The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 16:00 - John Garang on air: Radio battles in Sudan’s second civil war
  RSVP to Jason Mosley in order to be sent the link for the call.
  Danielle Del Vicario (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 16:00 - Loss as affects in local politics: the role of committees in the governance of marketplaces of Mogadishu
  RSVP to Jason Mosley in order to be sent the link for the call.
  Faduma Abukar Mursal (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 15:00 - Petitions, Round Tables & the Limits of Political Space: Sudan’s Second Parliamentary Period, 1964-1969
  RSVP to Jason Mosley in order to be sent the link for the call.
  Rebecca Glade (Columbia), Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 15:00 - Land, Investment & Politics: Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands
  RSVP to Jason Mosley for videocall log in details
  Doris Okenwa (University of Oxford), Jeremy Lind (IDS)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 15:00 - Amhara backlash: Nationalism and the 'Wolqayt question' in the Ethiopian civil war
  RSVP: jason.mosley@africa.ox.ac.uk for videocall log in details
  Dr Mehdi Labzaé (CEDEJ Egypt)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 14 June 2022

• 16:00 - Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia
  Contact organiser to RSVP for call details - email below.
  Aisha Ahmad (University of Toronto), Tanya Bandula-Irwin (University of Toronto), Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 21 June 2022

• 16:00 - Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution
  Hybrid event: RSVP to Jason Mosley (email below) for call log-in details, or to attend in person (*space is limited).
  Willow Berridge (Newcastle), Raga Makawi (African Arguments), Alex de Waal (World Peace Foundation), Magdi El Gizouli (Rift Valley Institute), Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge University)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 15:30 - Is Africa Ready for Alternative Politics? What and Who are the Alternatives?
  TBA
  Redesigning Democracy

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 16:00 - Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia
  Hybrid event: please RSVP to Jason Mosley for call log in details.
  Dr Katrin Bromber (ZMO-Berlin)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 16:00 - The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin
  Hybrid event: Please RSVP below for videocall details.
  Dr Richard Vokes (University of Western Australia)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 15:30 - Curating Contemporary African Art in the Public Space in Saint-Denis (Paris)
  Riason Naidoo (Independant)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 16:00 - Monopolists or Mavericks: Tax Relations of the Telecom Sector in Somalia
  Hybrid event: Please contact the organiser for log in details.
  Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 16:00 - **POSTPONED** Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor, South Sudan
  Unfortunately, this event has been postponed.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Diana Felix da Costa (SOAS)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 16:15 - CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN WEST AFRICA: GHANA’S ROLE IN REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
  Please register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challenges-to-democracy-in-west-africa-ghanas-role-tickets-536012456687
  Albert Kan-Dapaah (Hon. Minister of National Security)

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War
  Hybrid event: Please contact organiser for log in details.
  Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh), Martin Plaut (ICwS), Eyob B Gebremariam (University of Bristol)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 12:00 - Book launch & discussion: Politics & the Urban Frontier: Transformation & Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
  **Please note new time & location**. Hybrid event: co-hosted with the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3v-l9_B3T8Ci3MDfb6OJcw
  Tom Goodfellow (Sheffield), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 16:00 - Between two fires: Turkana chiefs in the colonial ‘contact zone’ c. 1910 to 1960
  Hybrid meeting: please register using the link below to join online.
  Mads Yding (African Studies Centre, Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 15:30 - Book launch: Good Governance in Nigeria
  Doris Okenwa (University of Oxford), Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford), Portia Roelofs

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 16:00 - Sudan’s Crisis: Origins, Triggers & Prospects
  Online panel discussion (Zoom): Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82648963957?pwd=ZHFzSmdxdTFyTlZCU0ZJRmVscGRBUT09 | Meeting ID: 826 4896 3957 | Passcode: 337458
  Mai Hassan (MIT), Harry Verhoeven (SIPA, Columbia University), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 10 May 2023

• 16:00 - Towards a Constitution of Peace in Ethiopia: Issues of Process and Substance
  Hybrid event: please register using the link below.
  Berihun Adugna Gebeye (UCL)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 17:00 - Male Health and Wellbeing in Harare, Zimbabwe: A historical and gendered analysis of urban sexual Health
  Kudakwashe Chitofiri

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 16:00 - ‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north
  Hybrid event: register for webinar at booking link below.
  Flora McCrone (LSE)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 16:00 - Nature and the supernatural: meaning(s) of water and humanities in Ethiopia's Upper Nile
  Hybrid event: please register using the link below for joining instructions.
  James McCann (Boston University), Izabela Orlowska (ZMO Berlin)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 15:30 - On the Idea of Freedom in Modern African Political Philosophy
  Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 16:00 - Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum & the structural legacies of colonial military divide & rule: 1924-present
  Hybrid event. Register to join online: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9b57c8db-1a90-4e6a-ae47-15f9761d0bb2@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
  Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 16:00 - Contested waters: negotiating multiple actors on the Rufiji basin – Tanzania, 1960 to the Present
  Hybrid event: to attend via the webinar, please register using the booking link below.
  MJ Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities
  **POSTPONED** Please note new date of 8 November. Hybrid event. Register to attend online via the link below.
  Peter Chonka (King's College London), Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 16:00 - Oil, trade & state building in the Ethiopian-Somali borderlands
  Hybrid event: register to attend webinar using link below.
  Luca Puddu (University of Palermo)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide
  Hybrid event: to participate via the webinar please use the registration link below.
  Andrea Purdekova ((University of Bath)), Marie-Eve Desrosiers (University of Ottawa)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 15:30 - Book launch & discussion: Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis
  Co-hosted with the African Studies Seminar.
  Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Tom Lavers (University of Manchester)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 16:00 - Film screening & discussion: Ethiopian Screen Worlds
  Michael Thomas (SOAS)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 15:30 - The Politics of Past Visions: Decolonization, historical praxis and Ghana’s celluloid film archive
  Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 15:30 - African Diplomacy: Past and Present
  Mohamed Cassimjee (University of Oxford), Jonathan Jackson (University of Cologne)
  African Studies Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 15:30 - Winnie and Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage
  Prof Jonny Steinberg (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
  Hybrid event: to participate via the webinar please use the registration link below.
  Eric Morier-Genoud (Queen's University Belfast), James Barnett (Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 15:30 - African Literature and Cancel Culture: The Algorithmic Age of Personality
  James Yékú (University of Kansas)
  African Studies Seminar

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 16:00 - Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor, South Sudan
  Hybrid event: to participate in the webinar, please use the registration link below.
  Diana Felix da Costa (SOAS)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 15:30 - Testing for 'Genuine Revolutionary Leaderships': China's Support of Liberation Struggles in Congo and Angola (1960-1966)
  Jodie Yuzhou Sun (Fudan University)
  African Studies Seminar

Tuesday 2 April 2024

• 10:00 - 2-Day Conference - Broadcasting Colonialism: Sight, Sound and Media Technologies in the Colonial World
  Deadline for submissions: 2 April 2024
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 15:00 - African Studies Centre Annual Lecture - Transnational Feminism in an Age of Genocide
  Professor Amina Mama (University of California, Davis)

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
  Hybrid event: to attend via webinar, please register using the link below.
  Christina Woolner (Cambridge), Amina-Bahja Ekman (UCL)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 10:30 - Broadcasting Colonialism: Conference
  Various Speakers
• 10:30 - Conference Day 1 - Broadcasting Colonialism: Sight, Sound and Media Technologies in the Colonial World
  Various Speakers
  African Studies Centre events

Friday 17 May 2024

• 10:00 - Conference Day 2 - Broadcasting Colonialism: Sight, Sound and Media Technologies in the Colonial World
  Various Speakers
  African Studies Centre events

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 16:00 - Borderlands in focus: insights & reflections on the Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia borderlands through the lens of a peace & stability programme
  Hybrid event: to join the webinar, please register using the link below.
  Martine Zeuthen (RUSI/UCL)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 16:00 - Oromo & Somali social & political movements in Ethiopia’s post-Meles era
  Hybrid event: to join the webinar, please register using the link below.
  Hallelujah Lulie (Oxford), Juweria Ali (Westminster)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 5 June 2024

• 16:00 - The road (not) taken: infrastructure & sovereignty in the Horn of Africa
  Hybrid event: to join the webinar, please register using the link below.
  Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Harry Verhoeven (SIPA, Columbia University)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 16:00 - Book launch & discussion: The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia
  Hybrid event: to join the webinar, please register using the link below.
  Tom Gardner (Economist), Terje Østebø (University of Florida)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 16:00 - Geopolitical tensions & regional realignments in the wider Horn of Africa
  Hybrid event. Please register for the webinar using the link below.
  Hannah Waddilove (Warwick/FCDO), Belete Belachew Yihun (Independent), Samira A. Gaid (Balqiis Insight)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 15:30 - Book talk: The African in the Making of Cuban Art
  Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz (Indiana University and University of Cape Town)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 16:00 - Political fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Jubbaland and the transborder Ogaden region
  Hybrid event: please use registration link below.
  Nisar Majid (LSE/PeaceRep), Khalif Abdirahman (LSE/PeaceRep)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 15:30 - Book talk: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the Seventeenth Century
  José Lingna Nafafé (University of Bristol)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 16:00 - Infrastructure in formation: the politics and practices of making progress with infrastructure
  Hybrid event: please use webinar registration link below.
  Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Mary Lawhon (Edinburgh)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 15:30 - Philanthropy, Business Elites and New Forms of Political Contention in West and Central Africa
  Corentin Cohen (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 16:00 - The political economy of land data assemblages in informal settlements (Mathare & Kwa Bullo)
  Hybrid event: Please use webinar registration link below.
  Smith Ouma (Manchester)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 23 January 2025

• 15:30 - ‘Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army: The Loyalties of Professionals’ (Book Launch)
  M.T. Howard
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Tuesday 28 January 2025

• 17:00 - Dams, Power & the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance
  Tom Lavers (University of Manchester), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Prof Simukai Chigudu
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 30 January 2025

• 15:30 - The RDA: the Making of a Transnational Civil Rights Movement in Black French Africa
  Lyn Kouadio (University College, Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 15:30 - Researching Reconciliation and Repression in 1960s Kenya
  Niels Boender
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 16:00 - Research in Displacement: The impact of war on Sudan’s higher education & academic research community
  Hybrid event. Webinar registration via link below.
  Dr Rebecca Glade (Makerere)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 13 February 2025

• 15:30 - “God Can’t Bless You If You Work for Someone Else”: Informality and Entrepreneurship in Urban Zambia
  Kristina Pikovskaia (University of Edinburgh)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 16:00 - Protracted displacement, return and remittances: South Sudanese funding exile from home
  Virtual event. Webinar registration via link below.
  Dr Yotam Gidron (KU Leuven)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 15:30 - Extractives-led Development and state-building in Botswana? A Historical Political Economy of Post-colonial Botswana’s Engagement with De Beers and Regional Geopolitical Insecurity
  Jorich Loubser
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 15:30 - Doing research on, in and around state buildings in Africa: Reflections from Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe
  Innocent Batsani-Ncube (University of London)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Thursday 6 March 2025

• 15:30 - 'The Overthrow of Robert Mugabe: Gender, Coups, and Diplomats’ (Book Launch)
  Dr Miles Tendi (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 15:30 - Classical music in Ethiopia: A discussion with Girma Yifrashewa
  Hybrid event. Please use link below for webinar registration.
  Dr Samuel Boateng, Girma Yifrashewa (Ashenafi Kebede Performing Arts Centre, AAU)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 15:30 - Forging Global Black Identities: Pan-African Consciousness and the Transnational Lives of Second-Generation Africans in the UK
  Mikal Woldu (SOAS)
  African Studies Centre Research Seminars

Monday 12 May 2025

• 15:00 - African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid
  Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape)