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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
30 October 2015
In their book on homosexuality in Africa, Bart Luirink and Madeleine Maurick offer a journalistic account of African gays and lesbians’ struggle for equal rights. The authors argue that present day waves of intimidation against the African LGBT communities are a response to the immense changes the continent experiences, thus moving away from what they consider as a too isolated approach of the struggles of sexual minorities in Africa. Luirink and Maurick will present their observations on 26 November, followed by a discussion with the audience. Language: English.
29 October 2015
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26 October 2015
We are delighted that award winning journalist and photographer Howard W. French will give the Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture on 10 December. French, an associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, will talk about the processes that began drawing large numbers of new Chinese migrants to Africa in the early to mid 1990s, and address the question of the global geopolitical and economic setting that pushed events in this direction. Also read the Library's new web dossier on Africa-Asia relations!
21 October 2015
ASC senior researcher Wouter van Beek will present his Africa memoirs Thuis in Afrika, een dubbelleven (At home in Africa, a double life) on Friday 6 November at the ASC. The book has become a highly personal account of his life with the Kapsiki in North Cameroon and the Dogon in Mali. Wouter will retire as a Professor of Anthropology of Religion at Tilburg University on 20 November. The first copy of his memoirs will be presented to Erica Terpstra, former State Secretary of Sports.
21 October 2015
The text of the Stephen Ellis Memorial Lecture, delivered by Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State, on 9 October at the Netherlands Embassy in Pretoria, is now online. The lecture, entitled ´A quiet contemplation on the new anger: The state of transformation in South African universities´, was held in tribute to the recently deceased Vrije Universiteit Desmond Tutu Professor and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, Stephen Ellis (1953 - 2015).
16 October 2015
To coincide with the NVAS Africa Day – 'Africa and Technology' – on 17 October in Delft, the ASC Library has compiled a new web dossier, containing a selection of recent titles on Renewable Energy in Africa from the library's online catalogue, published since 2013. The dossier has sections on Renewable Energy Resources, Planning & Policies, and Local Impact stories, illustrating how applied renewable energy technology can change lives, as in the case of improved fuel efficient cook stoves and photovoltaics. Read the web dossier!
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