Past events

28 June 2018
Lunch seminar by Agnieszka Kazimierczuk: Taking off Against the Wind: the impact of the Wind Mega-Project on Inclusive Development in Kenya
Speaker: Agnieszka Kazimierczuk, African Studies Centre Leiden

14 June 2018
Lunch seminar: House Construction Practices and Social Dynamics in Konso, Southwest Ethiopia
Speaker: Ongaye Orkaydo

12 June 2018
Lunch seminar: The Symbolic Mask: Coded Communication through Ritual Performance Arts in the Cross River Region and its Atlantic Diaspora
Speaker: Ivor Miller

07 June 2018
Seminar by Sandra Swart: The Lion’s Historian: Animal Histories from the South
Speaker: Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University

04 June 2018
Lunch seminar: Whistleblowing in Nigeria’s Unstable Ethical Climate
Speaker: Abel E. Ezeoha

24 May 2018
Seminar by Bill Kinsey: Space and Time: A Long-term Perspective on Land Reform from Zimbabwe’s Experience
Speaker: Bill Kinsey, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, South Africa

14 May 2018
Book launch: Entrepreneurship in Africa

19 April 2018
Seminar by Gareth Austin: The Economics and Politics of Ghana’s Policy Experiments, 1957-2011/2018
Speaker: Gareth Austin, University of Cambridge

17 April 2018
Lunch seminar: Between Rural and Urban- Identity and organizations amongst the Pokot (Kenya)

14 April 2018
Afrikadag Amsterdam 2018 with ASCL workshop 'Mens en dier in Afrikastudies'

22 March 2018
Public lecture Jamie Monson: 'View from the Platform: Moving Global Goods on the TAZARA Railway'
Speaker: Prof. Jamie Monson

15 March 2018
Seminar by Lovise Aalen: Women in the ‘Developmental State’: Female Employment and Empowerment in Ethiopia
Speaker: Lovise Aalen, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen

08 February 2018
Seminar by Thomas Kirsch: Securing security. Thoughts on the Proliferation of ‘Security' in South Africa (and Elsewhere)
Speaker: Prof. Thomas Kirsch, University of Konstanz

19 December 2017
Booklaunch 'Magnifying Perspectives. Contributions to History, a Festschrift for Robert Ross'
Speaker: Wayne Dooling, SOAS, University of London

13 December 2017
Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Camino Kavanagh: Making Good or Breaking Bad? The Impact of Cyberspace and ICTs in Africa
Speaker: Camino Kavanagh

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