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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
09 March 2015
06 March 2015
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Namibia's independence, the ASC organized a Country Meeting on 6 March 2015. Among the speakers were Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald, Leonor Jonker and Dr Stasja Koot. Prof. Gewald spoke about Namibia's achievement of having peace for 25 years now. Leonor Jonker (Utrecht University) talked about the continuing controversy surrounding the return and retention of Namibian skulls from Germany, while Dr Koot dwelled on tourism and the position of Bushmen in contemporary Namibia.
06 March 2015
Diaspora communities and organisations are becoming increasingly influential actors on the international humanitarian stage, often providing assistance in ways that differ from those of the traditional international humanitarian donor community. Diaspora communities provide direct cash transfers, send skilled volunteers that have local knowledge, and compile first-hand crisis information from affected populations. Mobile telephony, e-banking and social media networks have facilitated the establishment of virtual connections between the Diaspora and the populations affected by disasters in their home countries. On 30 March, an expert meeting about the role of these Diaspora actors will take place at the ASC.
02 March 2015
The documentary film The Supreme Price tells the story of Nigerian human rights activist Hafsat Abiola and her family. In 1993, Hafsat Abiola's father M.K.O. Abiola was elected President of Nigeria, but he was shortly after arrested. While he was imprisoned, his wife Kudirat took over leadership of the pro-democracy movement, winning international attention for the human-rights violations perpetrated by the military dictatorship. Hafsat Abiola was about to graduate from Harvard when her mother was murdered. Her father died in prison two years later. Hafsat is now at the forefront of a progressive movement to empower women. She will be present and interviewed at this film seminar on 25 March that is organized in collaboration with Movies That Matter.
02 March 2015
The Leiden University Centre for Islamic Studies (LUCIS) and the ASC are organizing a workshop on 23 April that will bring together scholars working on questions of Muslim intellectual production in Arabic in the past and the present in Africa. The focus is on African Muslim literary production. The workshop will help to understand how scholars and preachers situate their work simultaneously locally, as well as in relation to the broader Islamic traditions and centers of intellectual production.
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