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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
30 May 2017
The student protest movements to decolonise universities and to bring about free education in South Africa have produced some of the most striking images that capture the zeitgeist of the post-apartheid state. During the seminar on 15 June Kylie Thomas (University of the Free State, South Africa) will focus on photographs taken by the students, and will argue that their images draw on the philosophy of black consciousness and form part of the movement to decolonise both institutions and ways of thinking.
29 May 2017
Fifty years ago, one of the bloodiest wars in modern human history was fought on the African continent. On the occasion of this anniversary the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970), also known as the Biafran War. Far from being an exhaustive or even representative overview of the record of scholarship that has appeared on this topic, this dossier is an attempt to highlight different discourses reflected in the ASCL Library’s collection. Check out the web dossier.
29 May 2017
29 May 2017
This book by ASCL Honorary fellows Martin Doornbos and Wim van Binsbergen illuminates key aspects of how, historically, the dynamics of power and identity interact in the African context, generating the kind of political structures and collective actions that have often appeared characteristic for the continent. It examines some salient dimensions of the broader frameworks of hegemony and power imposed upon African societies in the context of larger geopolitical and historical processes.
22 May 2017
Coming Thursday David Ratner (Israel) will give a seminar on the involvement of Ethiopian-born Israelis in the turbulent period of the 1974 revolution and the civil war that followed. His study is based on 18 in-depth interviews with Ethiopian Jews, formerly known as "Beta Israel". They were political activists and/or military rebels in one of two major political parties: the TPLF and the EPRP.
22 May 2017
This seminar has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled for another date. LeidenASA and Voice4Thought present the seminar ‘Visualising political change: cartoons from the Chadian diaspora’. This seminar will revolve around a presentation and discussion about cartoons as a means for political engagement. Invited are Abel Maina, blogger and activist, and the cartoonists Adjim Danngar, Freddy Djerra and Samy Daina.
Adjim, Freddy and Samy are cartoonists whose work has been identified as radical, as they do not hesitate to criticise the (Chadian) political establishment. In Chad, their cartoons have caused them some trouble. Cartoons have been an important means for them to express their discontent with the Chadian situation. From their residency in Paris, they act as important sources of information for Chadians and the French alike on the political situation in Chad, France and elsewhere. With ‘radicalisation’ as the overarching theme for Voice4Thought in 2017, their work forms an interesting point of departure for discussions about citizenship, diasporic political engagement and the place that cultural expressions such as cartoons have therein. Ultimately, the question of how such work comes to be seen as radical arises.
19 May 2017
On 16 May Prof. Fatima Suleman gave her inaugural lecture as the new Professor to the Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity at Utrecht University, entitled: Affordability and equitable access to (bio)therapeutics for public health. Prof. Suleman works at the University of Kwazulu Natal in South Africa and connects the theme of development and equity with accessibility of medicine, pharmacy and health economics.
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