Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
  Ngala Chome (Durham)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
  Idil Osman (SOAS)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The security sector and contemporary Ethiopian politics
  Sandy Wade (Independent)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
  Ngala Chome (Durham)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
  Idil Osman (SOAS)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The role of infrastructure in Ethiopia's developmental trajectory
  Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The security sector and contemporary Ethiopian politics
  Sandy Wade (Independent)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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