Past events

30 May 2013
Seminar: Colonial administration, native taxation and fiscal subjects in former Portuguese Africa
Speaker: Philip J. Havik, Tropical Research Institute IICT Lisbon

16 May 2013
Africa Today Seminar: Let's Be Friends: The US, Post-Genocide Rwanda and Victor's Justice in Arusha
Speaker: Luc Reydams, Dept of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

15 May 2013
Students workshop: Africa, from poverty to creativity

25 April 2013
Seminar: Film culture and Rwanda: A historical-anthropological view
Speaker: Guido Convents

18 April 2013
Seminar: The War Ate the Rains: Transnational Civil War and Environmental Destruction in Southern Africa, 1960s-1990s
Speaker: Emmanuel Kreike, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and Princeton University

09 April 2013
Seminar: ‘The Englishman’s Game’. Cricket and Colonial Identity in South Africa, 1880-1910
Speaker: Dr Dean Allen, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town

28 March 2013
Seminar: The Bungha Building as a Site for the Contestation of History
Speaker: Brenton A. Maart, University of Cape Town, visiting fellow African Studies Centre

28 March 2013
Workshop: Energy access and climate finance in Africa
Speaker: Nthabiseng Mohlakoana, CSTM/University of Twente,
Speaker: Wim Jonker Klunne, CSIR, South Africa,
Speaker: Jonathan Quartey, University of Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

14 March 2013
Seminar: The BRICS and the “New Scramble for Africa"
Speaker: Ian Taylor, Professor in International Relations and African Politics at St Andrews, Scotland, UK

07 March 2013
Crisis Watch #4: Gewapend conflict in Mali
Speaker: Han van Dijk, Afrika-Studiecentrum,
Speaker: en verder: Ludo de Brabander (Vrede vzw), Rosan Smits (Clingendael) en een noodhulpspecialist vanuit ICCO en Kerk in Actie

05 March 2013
Seminar: The Yearning for Relief: The History of the Sawaba Movement and its Rebellion in Niger (1954-1974)
Speaker: Dr Klaas van Walraven, African Studies Centre

28 February 2013
Séminaire: Les entrepreneurs militaires et la démocratisation à Madagascar
Speaker: Juvence Ramasy, University of Toamasina, Madagascar

31 January 2013
Seminar: Het conflict in oostelijk Congo en mijnbouw: zijn er lokale oplossingen mogelijk?
Speaker: Koen Vlassenroot, Universiteit Gent,
Speaker: Joost van Puijenbroek, IKV Pax Christi,
Speaker: Sara Geenen, Universiteit Antwerpen,
Speaker: Jaime de Bourbon Parme

25 January 2013
Seminar: External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Stephen Ellis, African Studies Centre

24 January 2013
Seminar: Lewanika's Workshop and the Vision of Lozi Arts: Establishing and Maintaining an Identity in Western Zambia, 1880 - 1980
Speaker: Karen E. Milbourne, PhD, curator National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution

12 December 2012
Lunch Seminar: On Being Fire-fighters: Insights on Curriculum Transformation in Contexts of HIV and AIDS
Speaker: Musa W. Dube, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies University of Botswana

29 November 2012
Seminar: Youth in “Waithood”: Transitions and Social Change
Speaker: Alcinda Honwana, Visiting professor Open University UK

22 November 2012
Seminar: Powers, Territory and Politics of Personal Dependency in the Western Gold Coast (Ghana-Ivory Coast)
Speaker: Prof. Pierluigi Valsecchi, University of Pavia

17 October 2012
The crisis in Mali: Political instability and regional radicalization
Speaker: Prof. Mirjam de Bruijn,
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Soares,
Speaker: Martin van Vliet

11 October 2012
‘Order doesn't come by itself’. Chinese facilitators of order and disorder in Accra
Speaker: Alena Thiel, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg,
Speaker: Dr Karsten Giese, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg

09 October 2012
Seminar: Kenyan Land Reform: From Paper to Practice (and the Role of Civil Society)
Speaker: David Barissa Ringa, ActionAid Kenya

27 September 2012
Seminar: The Impact of Tax Havens on Development
Speaker: Prof. Ronen Palan, City University London

13 September 2012
Violence, Informal Authority and Conflict Resolution in Kano, Nigeria
Speaker: Dr David Ehrhardt

09 July 2012
Mining-sector reforms in Ghana: Institutionalizing and Legitimizing Large-Scale Land Deals and Acquisitions in Rural Communities of Western Ghana

05 July 2012
Seminar: Archaeology, Delafosse and the States of the West African Sahel
Speaker: Prof. Kevin C. MacDonald, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

21 June 2012
Seminar: In Defence of ‘Useless’ Research in African Studies
Speaker: Elisio Macamo, Professor in African Studies, University of Basel

07 June 2012
Seminar: Do Elections Matter? Democratization in the DRC at a Crossroads
Speaker: Théodore Trefon, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren

31 May 2012
Seminar: Violence, Urbanization and Rationalization in Cape Town's Taxi Industry (1990-2010)
Speaker: Dr Erik Bähre, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University

24 May 2012
Seminar: Rethinking China-Africa Relations during the Cold War: Military Modernization and the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Project
Speaker: Jamie Monson, Humboldt University, Berlin

15 May 2012
Seminar: "These Bitches are Witches": Chinese Prostitution and the Popular Invention of ‘Witch-Other’ in Cameroon
Speaker: Dr Basile Ndjio (University of Douala, Fellow at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)