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Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya
Nanjala Nyabola, Professor Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Invisible peace: divine authority, and the remaking of peace and war in South Sudan
This seminar has been postponed due to illness. Apologies! We will relist with a new date.
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Naomi Pendle (LSE)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Sudan’s political crisis: what next?
Yasir Arman (SPLM/N & Sudan Call), Rosalind Marsden (Chatham House)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Nairobi’s digital death-worlds and the geo-corpographies of extra-judicial killings
Duncan Omanga (Moi University/Cambridge University)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - The Politics of Distribution in Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’
Co-hosted with the African Studies seminar series
Thomas Lavers (Manchester University)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Ethiopian Warriorhood: Defence, Land & Society 1800-1941
Dr Tsehai Berhane-Selassie (Independent), Richard Reid (St Cross, Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

12:30 - Political transitions in Ethiopia and Sudan: implications for security in the Horn of Africa
Abdeta D. Beyene (Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation, Ethiopia)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - An Experiment in Devolution: National Unity and the Deconstruction of the Kenyan State
Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford), Hannah Waddilove (Warwick)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Taking an African Empire to its own Court: Rethinking Tools and Methods of State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (1944-1974)
Dr Etana H. Dinka (Oberlin)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - The politics of literary promotion & cultural activism in the Horn of Africa: Book Fairs & the Somali digital public
Peter Chonka (King's College London)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Peace and public authority: contesting power by making peace in Gogrial and Leer (South Sudan)
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Dr Naomi Pendle (LSE)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

17:00 - Panel discussion -- Ethiopia 2020: In Plight or Prosperity?
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Various Speakers
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - John Garang on air: Radio battles in Sudan’s second civil war
RSVP to Jason Mosley in order to be sent the link for the call.
Danielle Del Vicario (University of Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Loss as affects in local politics: the role of committees in the governance of marketplaces of Mogadishu
RSVP to Jason Mosley in order to be sent the link for the call.
Faduma Abukar Mursal (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Petitions, Round Tables & the Limits of Political Space: Sudan’s Second Parliamentary Period, 1964-1969
RSVP to Jason Mosley in order to be sent the link for the call.
Rebecca Glade (Columbia), Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Land, Investment & Politics: Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands
RSVP to Jason Mosley for videocall log in details
Doris Okenwa (University of Oxford), Jeremy Lind (IDS)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

15:00 - Amhara backlash: Nationalism and the 'Wolqayt question' in the Ethiopian civil war
RSVP: jason.mosley@africa.ox.ac.uk for videocall log in details
Dr Mehdi Labzaé (CEDEJ Egypt)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 14 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia
Contact organiser to RSVP for call details - email below.
Aisha Ahmad (University of Toronto), Tanya Bandula-Irwin (University of Toronto), Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 21 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

16:00 - Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution
Hybrid event: RSVP to Jason Mosley (email below) for call log-in details, or to attend in person (*space is limited).
Willow Berridge (Newcastle), Raga Makawi (African Arguments), Alex de Waal (World Peace Foundation), Magdi El Gizouli (Rift Valley Institute), Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge University)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

16:00 - Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia
Hybrid event: please RSVP to Jason Mosley for call log in details.
Dr Katrin Bromber (ZMO-Berlin)
Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

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