Past events

02 July 2015
Seminar: Africa Europe Migration: Lampedusa caught between shipwreck and tourism
Speaker: Anna Arnone, SOAS

11 June 2015
Seminar: Data as the new oil? The developmental potential of big data for African countries
Speaker: Laura Mann, African Studies Centre Leiden

08 June 2015
Seminar: Africa’s digital dividend - mapping the shift from tech transfer to indigenous innovation
Speaker: Gregg Pascal Zachary, Arizona State University

04 June 2015
Seminar: Can African countries successfully implement industrial policy?
Speaker: Lindsay Whitfield, Roskilde University, Denmark

03 June 2015
Lunch seminar ASC/IIAS: Chinese labour on the French Congo-Océan railway in 1929
Speaker: Dr Julia Martinez

28 May 2015
Seminar: Religious business and the violation of human rights in Africa today
Speaker: Dieudonné Zognong, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon

21 May 2015
Seminar: Dangote Cement Plc: An African Success Story?
Speaker: Chibuike Uche, African Studies Centre,
Speaker: Akinyinka Akinyoade, African Studies Centre

13 May 2015
Lunch seminar: Capital, Citizens and Ruling Elites: Asia and the West in the Red Sea Littoral
Speaker: Samson A. Bezabeh, Visiting Fellow, ASC and IIAS

23 April 2015
Seminar: Knowledge = Power. Politics and formal education in the precolonial Kongo kingdom
Speaker: Inge Brinkman, History Department, Ghent University

22 April 2015
Nigeria Country Meeting: The incoming government and its implication for Nigeria’s growth and economic transformation 2015-2019

16 April 2015
Seminar: Message in a bottle: Race, consumption and advertising in the twentieth century South African wine industry
Speaker: Paul Nugent, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh

09 April 2015
Seminar: Society and change in Northern Ghana: Dagomba, Gonja, and the regional perspective on Ghanaian history
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Ntewusu, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana at Legon,
Speaker: Dr. Michel Doortmont, African Studies Centre and University of Groningen

02 April 2015
Seminar: Reassessing fortress conservation? New media and the politics of distinction in Kruger National Park
Speaker: Bram Büscher, Wageningen University

26 March 2015
ASC seminar: Unreasonable histories: Nativism, multiracial lives, and the genealogical imagination in British Africa
Speaker: Christopher Lee, University of the Witwatersrand

25 March 2015
Film seminar: The Supreme Price (Movies that Matter) in presence of Nigerian human rights activist Hafsat Abiola
Speaker: Hafsat Abiola

12 March 2015
Seminar: Post-colonial cultural relations and the return of art objects
Speaker: Jos van Beurden

10 March 2015
15.30: Seminar: Histories of the Present - A Painter, a Filmmaker, and a Researcher Reflect on Visualizing the Past in Kinshasa
Speaker: Cécile Michel,
Speaker: Sapin Makengele

06 March 2015
Community Country meeting "Namibia: 25 years of independence"

19 February 2015
Seminar: Do African elites really want to emulate a Chinese 'model' of development?
Speaker: Elsje Fourie, Maastricht University

29 January 2015
Seminar: Anticipating the revolt: A new view of military mutinies in West and Central Africa
Speaker: Maggie Dwyer, University of Saint Andrews and University of Edinburgh

22 January 2015
Seminar by Stephen Ellis: A history of Nigerian organized crime
Speaker: Stephen Ellis, African Studies Centre / VU University Amsterdam

16 December 2014
Seminar: Disability in South Africa: from research to practice and policy, and back again
Speaker: Kate Sherry, visiting PhD student from the University of Cape Town, occupational therapist and chair of Rural Rehab SA (RuReSA).

08 December 2014
Performance by Phillippa Yaa de Villiers (South Africa) big success
Speaker: Phillippa Yaa de Villiers

25 November 2014
Seminar: Stigma and Culture. Ethnological Schadenfreude and Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
Speaker: J. Lorand Matory, Duke University

21 November 2014
Book presentation: Peter Tse Angwafo: Cameroon's Predicaments
Speaker: Verina Ingram, Wageningen University

20 November 2014
Seminar: Enhancing the narrative resources of the Kenyan Trade Union movement
Speaker: Collins Miruka

13 November 2014
Seminar: ‘I love my phone more than my girlfriend’: Locating the mobile phone in relationships of young Malawians
Speaker: Elsbeth Robson, University of Hull

06 November 2014
Seminar: Guilty secrets: Torture, Abuse and the British in Africa
Speaker: David Anderson, University of Warwick

05 November 2014
PARTOS-ASC Seminar Inclusive Micro Insurance
Speaker: Marleen Dekker,
Speaker: Annegien Langedijk-Wilms - PharmAccess

30 October 2014
Seminar ‘Show me the Money’
Speaker: André Loozekoot (MSc), Erasmus University Rotterdam and Ministry of Foreign Affairs