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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
14 December 2017
Dr Camino Kavanagh (Dept. of War Studies, Kings College London) gave an insightful Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture on the impact of Cyberspace and ICTs in Africa. Dr Kavanagh presented an overview of the benefits of cyberspace, such as greater connectivity thanks to the Internet, and of the challenges, e.g. cost of security, cybercrime, the use of African states as launch pads for illicit activity in other states and human rights challenges. You can now watch or read the presentation online.
12 December 2017
12 December 2017
ASCL director Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald gave the Cleveringa Lecture at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, on 25 November. Title of his lecture: 'The Morality of Truth: The Importance of Facts in History'. In this lecture, Prof. Gewald discussed alternative facts and alternative histories, arguing that historical facts actually do exist and that historians can approach the truth of the past. You can now read the Cleveringa lecture online.
08 December 2017
Prof. Ton Dietz was knighted as an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau at the end of the Annual Meeting of the Leiden African Studies Assembly on 7 December. Prof. Dietz, who retired as the director of the African Studies Centre Leiden on 1 September, was taken by surprise when the mayor of his hometown entered the stage in Museum Volkenkunde Leiden, where the Annual Meeting took place. Read more about this special event.
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