Past events

10 December 2017
Film seminar: Hissein Habré, a Chadian tragedy, with Mirjam de Bruijn and Clément Abaïfouta

07 December 2017
LeidenASA Annual Meeting: Keynote by Elísio Macamo
Speaker: Elísio Macamo (Centre for African Studies, University of Basel)

28 November 2017
LeidenGlobal Step Talk by Ton Dietz: On the move: African Migrants

25 November 2017
Cleveringalezing by Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald: The Morality of Truth: The Importance of Facts in History

31 October 2017
Lunch seminar: Towards a history of the Anglophone “problem” in contemporary Cameroon
Speaker: Walter Gam Nkwi

12 October 2017
Seminar: High Apartheid as Nihilism: Charisma and Bureaucracy in the Leadership of H.F. Verwoerd
Speaker: Jonny Steinberg, University of Oxford

09 October 2017
Presentation new ASCL research programme and new ASCL professors

09 October 2017
Inaugural Lecture Marleen Dekker as Professor of Inclusive Development in Africa

05 October 2017
Seminar: Building a car in Suame Magazine: participating in Ghana’s informal economy

28 September 2017
Film screening: Wùlu, introduced by Vamba Sherif

25 September 2017
Farewell lecture Ton Dietz: 'Africa: Still a silver lining'

23 September 2017 to 29 September 2017
Voice4Thought Festival: Digital Radicalization

21 September 2017
Film screening The African Who Wanted to Fly (together with Yangambi)

18 September 2017
Lunch time discussion (Brussels) with ECDPM: Fostering productive employment in Africa: The Dutch Way

14 September 2017
Seminar: The Orphan Industrial Complex: charitable commodification and its consequences for child protection in Africa
Speaker: Kristen Cheney, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

07 September 2017
Seminar: Simon Witbooi: God praat Afrikaans
Speaker: Simon Witbooi aka Hemelbesem

31 August 2017
Seminar: Intimate borders: the experience of African-Australian marriage migration among African male marriage migrants
Speaker: Henrike Hoogenraad, PhD Candidate at Adelaide University

22 June 2017
Seminar: Memories of revolutionary engagement among Ethiopian-Israelis: Redefining identity and social position
Speaker: David Ratner, visiting fellow African Studies Centre Leiden

15 June 2017
Seminar: “Biko Lives Within Us”: visual activism and student social movements in post-apartheid South Africa
Speaker: Kylie Thomas, University of the Free State

08 June 2017
CANCELLED LeidenASA seminar: Visualising political change. Cartoons from the Chadian diaspora

06 June 2017
LeidenGlobal Lecture by Wayne Modest: 'On The Move: A Mobilities Approach to Heritage’
Speaker: Wayne Modest

01 June 2017
Panel discussion and blog-reading: Being young in times of conflict: Readings from the Central African Republic

18 May 2017
Seminar: Transitional Justice and Reconciliation in Post-colonial Africa: The De-colonial Option
Speaker: Ruth Murambadoro, Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, Pretoria

11 May 2017
Seminar: A Dogon prophet and the UNESCO cultural heritage of Mali
Speaker: Wouter van Beek, African Studies Centre Leiden

20 April 2017
Seminar: Hostages of Empire: The daily life of African prisoners of war interned in Vichy France
Speaker: Sarah Ann Frank, University of the Free State, South Africa

11 April 2017
LeidenASA Lecture: Esclavages, traites et abolitions en Mauritanie. Histoire et actualité

06 April 2017
Seminar: Monument of Nature? An Ethnography of the World Heritage of Mt. Kenya
Speaker: Marlous van den Akker, Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Leiden University

30 March 2017
Film: Missy slagge? (Missie geslaagd?) / Mission accomplie?

29 March 2017
Documentary screening with Movies that Matter: Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy

23 March 2017
Seminar with African Architecture Matters: The Beeker Method: Planning and Working on the Redevelopment of the African City