Centre of African Studies: Recent Episodes
Cambridge University
A talk by Prof Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town, given as part of the 'Object Lessons' seminar series in Michaelmas 2016.
A talk by Prof Bruce Berman, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies and History at Queen’s. He was the director and principal investigator of the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Program from 2006 to 2012 In 2012-13 he was the Smuts University Research Fellow at Cambridge and is a continuing Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College. He is the author of Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya (Gregory Prize, 1991 and, with John Lonsdale, Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa (Reese Prize. 1995). His most recent books are Secular States and Religious Diversity, edited with Andre Laliberte and Rajeev Bhargava (UBC Press 2013), and Moral Economies and Ethnic and Nationalist Claims, edited with Andre Laliberte and Stephen Larin (UBC Press, forthcoming in 2016). He and John Lonsdale are completing The House of Custom: Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta and the Modern Kikuyu.
A talk by Dr Duncan Omanga of Moi University Kenya and University of Cambridge CAS Visiting Fellow 2015-16
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies
Professor James Ferguson (Stanford University)
Give A Man A Fish : From Patriachal Productionism to the Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and beyond)
26 March 2015
This Talk, by Dr Tony Simpson of the University of Manchester, is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term Seminar Series: Gender in Africa
This talk, given by Dr Ambreena Manji, is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term seminar series, 'Gender in Africa'
Talk by Dr Signe Arnfred, Roskile University. This seminar is part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term 2015 series 'Gender in Africa'
Talk by Professor Caroline Rooney, University of Kent and Dr Julia Borossa, Middlesex University. Part of the Centre of African Studies Lent term seminar series: Gender in Africa
Talk by Professor Andrea Cornwall (Universit of Sussex). Part of the CAS seminar series 'Gender in Africa', Lent Term 2015.
Talk by Dr Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam). Part of the CAS seminar series 'Gender in Africa', Lent Term 2015.
Talk by Pamela Kea (Sussex University), part of the CAS seminar series 'Migration and African Diasporas', Michaelmas Term 2014
Talk by Neil Carrier (Oxford University), part of the CAS seminar series 'Migration and African Diasporas', Michaelmas Term 2014
Talk by Jo Ann McGregor (Sussex University), part of the CAS seminar series 'Migration and African Diasporas', Michaelmas Term 2014
Talk by Maxim Bolt (University of Birmingham) Part of the CAS seminar series 'Migration and African Diasporas', Michaelmas Term 2014
Talk by Nicholas Grant (UEA). Part of the CAS seminar series 'Migration and African Diasporas', Michaelmas Term 2014
The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies 2014 given by Professor Keith Hart
An Occasional Talk by Professor Okello Ogwang, Makerere University & Fellow on the Cambridge-Africa CAPREx Programme. The talk was chaired by Professor John Lonsdale.
A talk by Dr Abdoulaye Sounaye, ZMO Berlin. Part of the Centre of African Studies Seminar Series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents (Lent 2014)
A talk by Bodil Folke Frederiksen, Department of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University. Part of the Centre of African Studies Seminar Series 'Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents' (Lent 2014)
Talk by Jean-Louis Triaud, Professeur émérite, Université de Provence, Aix-Marseille I. Part of the Centre of African Studies Seminar Series: Media and Intellectual Productions in Africa's Pasts and Presents (Lent 2014)
Talk by Gerhard Anders, University of Edinburgh. Part of the Centre of African Studies Series 'Law, Crime & Justice in Africa' (Michaelmas 2013)
Talk by David Anderson, University of Warwick. Part of the Centre of African Studies' Monday Seminar Series: Law, Crime & Justice in Africa (Michaelmas 2013)
Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, introduces his book 'Poor numbers: how we are misled by African development statistics and what to do about it'. This event was held on Monday 20 May 2013 at 5pm, Room S2, Audrey Richards Building, West Road, Cambridge