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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
18 June 2015
The ASC congratulates Prof. Dzodzi Tsikata as the newly elected president of CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa). Prof. Tsikata holds a PhD in Social Science from Leiden University and was visiting fellow at the ASC in 2002. Prof. Tsikata is the Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA) and Associate Professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana.
16 June 2015
This seminar, which accompanies the new exhibition at the ASC of photographs taken by Akintunde Akinleye, maps the conversion of Nigeria’s former capital, Lagos (often described as an ‘apocalyptic megacity’) into a Prayer City. Since the late 1980s, numerous Christian and Muslim prayer camps have sprung up along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. Subsequently, this highway has grown into a stage for the performance of public religiosity, earning it the moniker, the ‘Spiritual Highway’. Speaker: Dr Marloes Janson, SOAS (London).
PhD defence Margot Leegwater: Sharing Scarcity: Land Access and Social Relations in Southeast Rwanda
15 June 2015
Margot Leegwater will defend her PhD thesis 'Sharing Scarcity: Land Access and Social Relations in Southeast Rwanda' at the VU University Amsterdam on 16 September in the afternoon. Her study examines the effects of land policies on local community relations, including ethnicity, and land conflicts in post-conflict rural Rwanda. Promotor: Prof. Jan Abbink. In the morning, Leegwater will organize a seminar, also at the VU, where internationally renowned scholars will discuss post-genocide recovery, social relations, transitional justice, land scarcity, and violence in Rwanda.
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