Past events

22 September 2020
FULL - Africa 2020: Online Peer-Coaching for PhD students #3

10 September 2020
CRG Webinar: Walking with herders: Animal and plant ontologies in Namaqualand
Speaker: Dr William Ellis, University of the Western Cape

01 July 2020 to 02 July 2020
POSTPONED: Two-day workshop: Travelling Islam: The circulation of ideas in Islamic Africa

29 June 2020
Africa 2020: Online Peer-Coaching for PhD students #2

18 June 2020
FULL - Africa 2020: Online Peer-Coaching for PhD students #1

09 April 2020
POSTPONED: Connect4Women: Uncovering gender norms in practice

04 April 2020
CANCELLED: Afrikadag 2020 with ASCL workshop 'What animals can teach us about African Studies'

12 March 2020
CRG Seminar: From war to peace in Eastern DRC
Speaker: Delphin Rukumbuzi Ntanyoma,
Speaker: Dr Carolien Jacobs

06 March 2020
CRG Seminar: Healing in the wake of mass violence: Grassroots realities of intergenerational continuity and transformation in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

05 March 2020
CRG Seminar: Political vigilante groups and democracy in Ghana: tensions and opportunities
Speaker: Dr. Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei

20 February 2020 to 21 February 2020
Africa 2020 workshop: The Nile: Inclusion and Exclusion over a Trans-boundary Resource (water and land acquisition)

20 February 2020
CRG Seminar: "My Illness is My Power”: a Philosophical Reflection on ‘Divine Madness’ within the Context of Ethiopian Spirit Mediumship
Speaker: Dr. Setargew Kenaw Fantaw

28 January 2020 to 29 January 2020
Africa 2020 workshop: Law, Rights, and Governance in Africa. A Look to the Future

16 January 2020
ASCL Seminar Series: a History That Did Not Happen - Global Peace Movements and Decolonization in Africa, 1959-1962
Speaker: Dr Robert Skinner

09 January 2020
Book launch: The Many Hidden Faces of Extreme Poverty
Speaker: Dr Anika Altaf

11 December 2019
CRG Book Seminar Series: Why Animals Matter & The Emotional Lives of Animals
Speaker: Dr. Harry Wels

05 December 2019
GSG Public Lecture by Paulin Hountondji: Moralising God? - Religions and Politics in Africa Today

03 December 2019
Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Emmanuel Akyeampong: Spirituality, Culture & Political Power in Early Independent West Africa
Speaker: Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong

29 November 2019
Conference: Government Policies, Multinational Businesses and Financial Flows in Africa

27 November 2019
LeidenASA seminar: The world in a sweetshop? Localising the Indian Ocean in Mombasa, Kenya
Speaker: Dr. Zoë Goodman

18 November 2019
LeidenASA seminar: African Muslim Migrants in Secular Europe in the Age of Islamism: Negotiating Belief and Ethnoreligiosity in European Cities
Speaker: Dr Suleiman Chembea

14 November 2019
Book launch: Brewing Identity - The Role of South Africa in the History of Namibian Beer
Speaker: Tycho van der Hoog

11 November 2019
LeidenASA seminar: Les contes kotoko de Makary : une analyse anthropolinguistique
Speaker: Mahamat Adam

07 November 2019
Special event with Charles Foster: Beasts in African Studies? Radical reflections on research methodologies
Speaker: Professor Charles Foster

24 October 2019
CRG seminar: Wilderness, hybridity, livelihoods: Contestations over the Cape Leopard in the Cederberg Mountains, Western Cape
Speaker: Professor Shirley Brooks,
Speaker: Irené van Schalkwyk

22 October 2019
Book launch: Roads through Mwinilunga - Writing Histories of Social Change in Southern and Central Africa
Speaker: Dr. Iva Peša

10 October 2019
Seminar: The Reopened AfricaMuseum Tervuren
Speaker: Bambi Ceuppens, Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren

23 September 2019
CRG Book Seminar Series: Why Animals Matter - Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
Speaker: Dr. Harry Wels

13 September 2019
Book launch (in Dutch): Anthropological Experiences in Rural Senegal, 1986-2003
Speaker: Hans van den Breemer

12 September 2019
Seminar: South Africa to India: Narratives of a Century of Repatriation (1871-1975)
Speaker: Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape