Thursday 28 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - “Terrorism in Africa Workshop”
  Jonathon Earle, Andrea Grant, Andrea Purdeková
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Forever slaves? Inequality, hypodescent and the distributed memory of ‘origins’ among the southern Betsileo of Madagascar”
  Denis Regnier (LSE)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: “Trade is War”
  Yash Tandon
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Newspapers and the ‘colonial public sphere’ in interwar Africa”
  Emma Hunter (University of Edinburgh)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - African animation (title tbc)
  Paula Callus (Bournemouth University)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 3 March 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Relocating the Market: Spatial and Economic Logics of Evicted Malian Market Traders in Dakar"
  Gunvor Jonsson (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 10 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book launch: “The Shadow of Kenyan Democracy: Widespread Expectations of Widespread Corruption”
  Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Forum for Reason: South Africa’s Constitutional Court
  Kate O’Regan (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Understanding Zimbabwe: from Liberation to Authoritarianism
  Dr Sara Dorman (University of Edinburgh)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Another Country: Everyday Social Restitution in South Africa
  Sharlene Swartz (Human Sciences Research Council)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Clean my Chinese wife”: Intimacy and identity politics of Nigerian migrants in Southern China
  Yu Qiu (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Lawyers Denied: How black lawyers of the late 19th century and early 20th century laid the foundations for human rights law in South Africa
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Tembeka Ngcukaitobi (Legal Resources Centre and Johannesburg Bar)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - [Book launch] Writing a new history for South Sudan: whose history and for whom?
  Dr Douglas Johnson
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Fires Beneath: The Life of Monica Wilson, South African Anthropologist
  Sean Morrow (University of Fort Hare)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lagos temporalities: Negotiating urban mobilities in an age of mobile telephony
  Naluwembe Binaisa (University College London)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Youth Waithood, Forced Migration, and the Transnational Negotiation of “Fortress” Europe: Case Studies of Congolese Migrants
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter Kankonde Bukasa (University of the Witwatersrand and University of Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - History, biography - and how do you solve a problem like Mandela?
  Colin Bundy (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Same Love: A Kenyan Gay Music Video as an African Queer Imaginary
  Dr Adriaan Van Klinken (University of Leeds)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 21 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Defining the Middle Class in South Africa - a vulnerability-based approach
  Rocco Zizzamia (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lagos Girl Power: Performing Postfeminism in Nigeria
  Dr Simidele Dosekun (University of Sussex)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Anthropology as Vulnerology? Reading Possibility into the City's Sutures
  Filip De Boeck (University of Leuven (Belgium))
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Decolonial Citizenship: African Women’s Political Practices in Contested Spaces
  Dr Annette Joseph-Gabriel (University of Arizona )
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 27 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - How to Rig an Election: Reflections on Ten Years of Studying Democracy
  Nic Cheeseman
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The State of South Africa: A Discussion
  William Beinart (University of Oxford), Colin Bundy (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya
  Paul Ocobock (Notre Dame)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Laughing about Corruption in Chinese-Ethiopian Encounters
  Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Race and Non-Racialism in the Making of South Africa’s Democratic Order
  Deborah Posel (University of Cape Town)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Bars, Branches, Stereos and Choppers: Innovation in Election Campaign Technologies in Tanzania
  Dan Paget (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From Party to Alliance: The Making of South Africa’s Opposition
  Jason Robinson (Oxford Analytica)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - From the Zariba to the Museum: Violence, Globalisation and Material Culture in Nineteenth Century South Sudan
  Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “The Least Successful Guerrilla Army of all time”? Umkhonto we Sizwe and its historians
  Thula Simpson (University of Pretoria)
  South Africa Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Panel discussion: State Formation & Decay in the Horn of Africa
  Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh), Michael Walls (UCL), Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
  Ngala Chome (Durham)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - How to steal a city - factionalism and state capture in a metropolitan municipality
  Crispian Olver (Public Affairs Research Institute, Wits University)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ndinga i Sinsu: A Quest for Kongo Art
  Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (Stanford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Eritrean National Service: a great idea that never made it?
  Gaim Kibreab (London South Bank University)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Words and Deeds: African Migrants in Europe
  Michael Jackson (Harvard)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Glory Days of Morris Isaacson: The Rise and Decline of Soweto High Schools under Bantu Education
  Clive Glaser (Wits University)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - China and Africa: a Diplomatic Perspective
  Ambassador Jianhua Zhong, Yuzhou Sun (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 31 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Pathways in Thought, Career, and Changing Times
  Professor Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins University)

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Astor Lecture 2017: ‘Toward a Post-Mortem of the African Revolution: Rethinking the Global Sixties’
  Jean Allman (Washington)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ordering the security arena: peace and conflict in the world’s most failing states
  Tim Glawion (GIGA, Hamburg)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - Comrades and Casspirs: Township Violence on the Rand, 1990-94
  Gary Kynoch (Dalhousie University)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Economic globalisation, poverty and human trafficking in Nigeria
  Daisy Onyige (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The role of Eritrean Weekly News in the construction of dual nationalisms
  Dawit Mesfin
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Social Dimensions of Land Rights Reform in Liberia
  David Brown (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Citizens for Justice; struggles against violence and predation in wartorn South Sudan
  Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Transformative Tensions: The Possibilities and Limitations of Transforming the Lives of South Africa's Poor through the Constitution
  Nomfundo Ramalekana (University of Oxford), Jason Brickhill (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group
• 17:00 - Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
  Idil Osman (SOAS)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Book Launch 'Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour and Public Transport in an African Metropolis'
  Matteo Rizzo (SOAS)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Why is the Horn different?
  Professor Christopher Clapham (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Update and discussion on land reform in South Africa with reflections on Zimbabwe
  William Beinart (University of Oxford)
  South Africa Discussion Group
• 17:00 - The role of infrastructure in Ethiopia's developmental trajectory
  Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Negotiating with China: African agency and challenges
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Discussion & book launch for We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
  Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 30 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Discussion on Zimbabwean politics
  TBC
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Taking normative politics in Africa seriously: can we conceptualize "accessibility" as a political value? Case studies from Southwest Nigeria
  Portia Roelofs (London School of Economics)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The security sector and contemporary Ethiopian politics
  Sandy Wade (Independent)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series
• 17:00 - The struggle for human rights in Zimbabwean mining
  Farai Maguwu (Zimbabwe Centre for Natural Resource Governance), in association with Initiatives of Change & Human Rights Watch
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - From rebel movement to political party: UNITA's social engagement in post-war Angola
  Justin Pearce (University of Cambridge)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 13 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Discussion on South African politics
  Jason Robinson (Oxford Analytica)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series
• 17:00 - Capitalist development and political institutions in Tanzania: Explaining variation in party cohesion and legislative power
  Michaela Collord (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 20 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The productivity of unemployment in urban South Africa
  Hannah Dawson (ISCS/ODID)
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Affective Communities: Letter Writing and Politics in Independent Kenya, 1963-75
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 27 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: State of Mind’, a film and discussion on mental health in Zimbabwe – produced and led by Hopewell Chin'ono
  TBA
  South Africa Discussion Group

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The politics of things’: digital media, urban space and the materiality of civic engagement
  Wendy Willems (London School of Economics)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Assessing the African human subject through social science experimentation and Randomized Control Trials
  Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar Series

Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Constitutionalism, ‘developmentalism’ and popular demands in Ethiopia: exploring the common denominator
  Henok Gabisa (Washington and Lee)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Support or subvert? Assessing devolution’s effect on central power during Kenya’s 2017 presidential rerun
  Hannah Waddilove (Warwick)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Under construction: struggles over governance, labor, and technology in urban Ethiopia
  Dan Mains (Oklahoma)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Regional pastoral livestock trade and trends in the Horn of Africa
  Please note earlier starting time of 4pm
  Hussein Abdullahi Mahmoud (Technical University of Mombasa)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics
  Mohamed Hersi (Independent)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - Oxford Pastoralist Research Day | Reflections on Resilience: A conversation with policy makers and practitioners on new research and emerging trends in the Horn of Africa
  Researchers and practitioners are invited to share their experiences on this day. Please contact either: Jason.mosley@africa.ox.ac.uk, angelaravenrobebrts@gmail.com or bcbromwich@gmail.com
  Various Speakers
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Reflections on the recent Oromo Protest: Root causes and implication to the Ethiopian federal arrangement
  Yinebeb Nigatu (Leiden)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Discussion & book launch for Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally
  Harun Maruf (VOA)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Developmentalism and the politics of exercising citizenship among young people in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  Eyob B. Gebremariam (LSE)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Discussion & book launch for Performances of Injustice: The Politics of Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Kenya
  Gabrielle Lynch (Warwick University), Daisy Ogembo (University of Oxford)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - African Studies Centre Seminar - Special Issue Launch - Student Activism in an Era of Decolonisation
  Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford), Luke Melchiorre (Universidad de los Andes), Marcia Schenck (Freie Universitat Berlin)
  African Studies Seminar Series

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

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Presence and Social Obligation: An Essay on the Share
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The History of Public Preaching and Public Sound in Northern Nigeria
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs
  TBA
  African Studies Seminar Series

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands
  TBA
  African Studies 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 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:30 - Is Africa Ready for Alternative Politics? What and Who are the Alternatives?
  TBA
  Redesigning Democracy

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

Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin
  Hybrid event: Please RSVP below for videocall details.
  Dr Richard Vokes (University of Western Australia)
  Northeast Africa Forum seminar series

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Curating Contemporary African Art in the Public Space in Saint-Denis (Paris)
  Riason Naidoo (Independant)
  African Studies Seminar Series

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
• 16:15 - CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN WEST AFRICA: GHANA’S ROLE IN REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
  Please register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/challenges-to-democracy-in-west-africa-ghanas-role-tickets-536012456687
  Albert Kan-Dapaah (Hon. Minister of National Security)

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

Tuesday 2 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Book launch: Good Governance in Nigeria
  Doris Okenwa (University of Oxford), Dr Robin Harding (University of Oxford), Portia Roelofs

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 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Male Health and Wellbeing in Harare, Zimbabwe: A historical and gendered analysis of urban sexual Health
  Kudakwashe Chitofiri

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

Thursday 15 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - On the Idea of Freedom in Modern African Political Philosophy
  Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University)
  African Studies 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 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

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - The Politics of Past Visions: Decolonization, historical praxis and Ghana’s celluloid film archive
  Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - African Diplomacy: Past and Present
  Mohamed Cassimjee (University of Oxford), Jonathan Jackson (University of Cologne)
  African Studies Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Winnie and Nelson: A Portrait of a Marriage
  Prof Jonny Steinberg (University of Oxford)
  African Studies Seminar

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

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - African Literature and Cancel Culture: The Algorithmic Age of Personality
  James Yékú (University of Kansas)
  African Studies Seminar

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

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Testing for 'Genuine Revolutionary Leaderships': China's Support of Liberation Struggles in Congo and Angola (1960-1966)
  Jodie Yuzhou Sun (Fudan University)
  African Studies Seminar

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - African Studies Centre Annual Lecture - Transnational Feminism in an Age of Genocide
  Professor Amina Mama (University of California, Davis)

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - 2-Day Conference - Broadcasting Colonialism: Sight, Sound and Media Technologies in the Colonial World
  Deadline for submissions: 2 April 2024
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  Various Speakers