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Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Monopolists or Mavericks: Tax Relations of the Telecom Sector in Somalia
Hybrid event: Please contact the organiser for log in details.
Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - **POSTPONED** Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor, South Sudan
Unfortunately, this event has been postponed.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Diana Felix da Costa (SOAS)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War
Hybrid event: Please contact organiser for log in details.
Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh), Martin Plaut (ICwS), Eyob B Gebremariam (University of Bristol)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

12:00 - Book launch & discussion: Politics & the Urban Frontier: Transformation & Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
**Please note new time & location**. Hybrid event: co-hosted with the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3v-l9_B3T8Ci3MDfb6OJcw
Tom Goodfellow (Sheffield), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Between two fires: Turkana chiefs in the colonial ‘contact zone’ c. 1910 to 1960
Hybrid meeting: please register using the link below to join online.
Mads Yding (African Studies Centre, Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Sudan’s Crisis: Origins, Triggers & Prospects
Online panel discussion (Zoom): Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82648963957?pwd=ZHFzSmdxdTFyTlZCU0ZJRmVscGRBUT09 | Meeting ID: 826 4896 3957 | Passcode: 337458
Mai Hassan (MIT), Harry Verhoeven (SIPA, Columbia University), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Towards a Constitution of Peace in Ethiopia: Issues of Process and Substance
Hybrid event: please register using the link below.
Berihun Adugna Gebeye (UCL)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - ‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north
Hybrid event: register for webinar at booking link below.
Flora McCrone (LSE)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Nature and the supernatural: meaning(s) of water and humanities in Ethiopia's Upper Nile
Hybrid event: please register using the link below for joining instructions.
James McCann (Boston University), Izabela Orlowska (ZMO Berlin)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum & the structural legacies of colonial military divide & rule: 1924-present
Hybrid event. Register to join online: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/9b57c8db-1a90-4e6a-ae47-15f9761d0bb2@cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Contested waters: negotiating multiple actors on the Rufiji basin – Tanzania, 1960 to the Present
Hybrid event: to attend via the webinar, please register using the booking link below.
MJ Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities
**POSTPONED** Please note new date of 8 November. Hybrid event. Register to attend online via the link below.
Peter Chonka (King's College London), Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - *CANCELLED* Book launch & discussion: Greater Tigray and the Mysterious Magnetism of Ethiopia
UNFORTUNATELY THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Haggai Erlich (Tel Aviv University)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 17 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Oil, trade & state building in the Ethiopian-Somali borderlands
Hybrid event: register to attend webinar using link below.
Luca Puddu (University of Palermo)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide
Hybrid event: to participate via the webinar please use the registration link below.
Andrea Purdekova ((University of Bath)), Marie-Eve Desrosiers (University of Ottawa)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

15:30 - Book launch & discussion: Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis
Co-hosted with the African Studies Seminar.
Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Tom Lavers (University of Manchester)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Film screening & discussion: Ethiopian Screen Worlds
Michael Thomas (SOAS)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Book launch & discussion: Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
Hybrid event: to participate via the webinar please use the registration link below.
Eric Morier-Genoud (Queen's University Belfast), James Barnett (Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

16:00 - Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor, South Sudan
Hybrid event: to participate in the webinar, please use the registration link below.
Diana Felix da Costa (SOAS)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

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