Name: Jason Mosley
University of Oxford
Events this person is hosting:
Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Panel discussion: State Formation & Decay in the Horn of Africa
Date: 30 May 2017, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker
s:
Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh),
Michael Walls (UCL),
Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
Date: 6 June 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker
:
Ngala Chome (Durham)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Eritrean National Service: a great idea that never made it?
Date: 17 October 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker
:
Gaim Kibreab (London South Bank University)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Ordering the security arena: peace and conflict in the world’s most failing states
Date: 7 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker
:
Tim Glawion (GIGA, Hamburg)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
The role of Eritrean Weekly News in the construction of dual nationalisms
Date: 14 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker
:
Dawit Mesfin
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
Date: 28 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker
:
Idil Osman (SOAS)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Discussion & book launch for We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
Date: 29 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker
:
Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
The security sector and contemporary Ethiopian politics
Date: 6 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker
:
Sandy Wade (Independent)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Petitions, Round Tables & the Limits of Political Space: Sudan’s Second Parliamentary Period, 1964-1969
Date: 9 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker
s:
Rebecca Glade (Columbia),
Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia
Date: 16 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker
:
Dr Katrin Bromber (ZMO-Berlin)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin
Date: 23 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker
:
Dr Richard Vokes (University of Western Australia)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Events this person is organising:
Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Panel discussion: State Formation & Decay in the Horn of Africa
Date: 30 May 2017, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker
s:
Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh),
Michael Walls (UCL),
Christopher Clapham (Cambridge)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
Date: 6 June 2017, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2017)
Speaker
:
Ngala Chome (Durham)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 17 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Eritrean National Service: a great idea that never made it?
Date: 17 October 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker
:
Gaim Kibreab (London South Bank University)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 7 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Ordering the security arena: peace and conflict in the world’s most failing states
Date: 7 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker
:
Tim Glawion (GIGA, Hamburg)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 14 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
The role of Eritrean Weekly News in the construction of dual nationalisms
Date: 14 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker
:
Dawit Mesfin
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
Date: 28 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 (Tuesday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Speaker
:
Idil Osman (SOAS)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 23 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
The role of infrastructure in Ethiopia's developmental trajectory
Date: 23 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker
:
Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre Seminar Room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Discussion & book launch for We Do Not Have Borders: Greater Somalia and the Predicaments of Belonging in Kenya
Date: 29 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker
:
Keren Weitzberg (UCL)
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 6 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
The security sector and contemporary Ethiopian politics
Date: 6 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Hilary 2018)
Speaker
:
Sandy Wade (Independent)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 24 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Constitutionalism, ‘developmentalism’ and popular demands in Ethiopia: exploring the common denominator
Date: 24 April 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 1st week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker
:
Henok Gabisa (Washington and Lee)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 8 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Support or subvert? Assessing devolution’s effect on central power during Kenya’s 2017 presidential rerun
Date: 8 May 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker
:
Hannah Waddilove (Warwick)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 15 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Under construction: struggles over governance, labor, and technology in urban Ethiopia
Date: 15 May 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 4th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker
:
Dan Mains (Oklahoma)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Center seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 22 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Regional pastoral livestock trade and trends in the Horn of Africa
Date: 22 May 2018, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker
:
Hussein Abdullahi Mahmoud (Technical University of Mombasa)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Africa Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 29 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics
Date: 29 May 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 6th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker
:
Mohamed Hersi (Independent)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
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
Date: 5 June 2018, 9:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 12 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Reflections on the recent Oromo Protest: Root causes and implication to the Ethiopian federal arrangement
Date: 12 June 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2018)
Speaker
:
Yinebeb Nigatu (Leiden)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 1 February 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya
Date: 1 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
s:
Nanjala Nyabola,
Professor Wale Adebanwi (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Organisers:
Africa Oxford Initiative (University of Oxford),
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Africa Oxford Initiative (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 6 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Invisible peace: divine authority, and the remaking of peace and war in South Sudan
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 6 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Dr Naomi Pendle (LSE)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre Seminar Room
Organisers:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford),
Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Friday 8 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Sudan’s political crisis: what next?
Date: 8 February 2019, 15:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 4th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
s:
Yasir Arman (SPLM/N & Sudan Call),
Rosalind Marsden (Chatham House)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford),
Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
Nairobi’s digital death-worlds and the geo-corpographies of extra-judicial killings
Date: 11 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Duncan Omanga (Moi University/Cambridge University)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre, Seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)
The Politics of Distribution in Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’
Date: 14 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
:
Thomas Lavers (Manchester University)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Ethiopian Warriorhood: Defence, Land & Society 1800-1941
Date: 4 March 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker
s:
Dr Tsehai Berhane-Selassie (Independent),
Richard Reid (St Cross, Oxford)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Political transitions in Ethiopia and Sudan: implications for security in the Horn of Africa
Date: 22 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker
:
Abdeta D. Beyene (Centre for Dialogue, Research and Cooperation, Ethiopia)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre, seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 29 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
An Experiment in Devolution: National Unity and the Deconstruction of the Kenyan State
Date: 29 May 2019, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker
s:
Dominic Burbidge (University of Oxford),
Hannah Waddilove (Warwick)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Ghassan Shaker room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
Taking an African Empire to its own Court: Rethinking Tools and Methods of State Construction in Imperial Ethiopia (1944-1974)
Date: 22 January 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Dr Etana H. Dinka (Oberlin)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
The politics of literary promotion & cultural activism in the Horn of Africa: Book Fairs & the Somali digital public
Date: 3 February 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Peter Chonka (King's College London)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford),
Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Peace and public authority: contesting power by making peace in Gogrial and Leer (South Sudan)
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 24 February 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
:
Dr Naomi Pendle (LSE)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford),
Zoe Cormack (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Panel discussion -- Ethiopia 2020: In Plight or Prosperity?
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 9 March 2020, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2020)
Speaker
Various Speakers
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room
Organisers:
Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford),
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
John Garang on air: Radio battles in Sudan’s second civil war
Date: 20 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker
:
Danielle Del Vicario (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Virtual
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Loss as affects in local politics: the role of committees in the governance of marketplaces of Mogadishu
Date: 17 November 2021, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker
:
Faduma Abukar Mursal (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Venue Details: Virtual
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Petitions, Round Tables & the Limits of Political Space: Sudan’s Second Parliamentary Period, 1964-1969
Date: 9 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker
s:
Rebecca Glade (Columbia),
Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
Land, Investment & Politics: Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands
Date: 23 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker
s:
Doris Okenwa (University of Oxford),
Jeremy Lind (IDS)
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Amhara backlash: Nationalism and the 'Wolqayt question' in the Ethiopian civil war
Date: 9 March 2022, 15:00 - 16:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2022)
Speaker
:
Dr Mehdi Labzaé (CEDEJ Egypt)
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 14 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia
Date: 14 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker
s:
Aisha Ahmad (University of Toronto),
Tanya Bandula-Irwin (University of Toronto),
Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 June 2022 (9th Week, Trinity Term)
Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution
Date: 21 June 2022, 16:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Trinity 2022)
Speaker
s:
Willow Berridge (Newcastle),
Raga Makawi (African Arguments),
Alex de Waal (World Peace Foundation),
Magdi El Gizouli (Rift Valley Institute),
Dr Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge University)
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia
Date: 16 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker
:
Dr Katrin Bromber (ZMO-Berlin)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 23 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin
Date: 23 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2022)
Speaker
:
Dr Richard Vokes (University of Western Australia)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Wednesday 8 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Monopolists or Mavericks: Tax Relations of the Telecom Sector in Somalia
Date: 8 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
:
Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)
**POSTPONED** Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor, South Sudan
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 22 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
:
Diana Felix da Costa (SOAS)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
Book launch & discussion: Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War
Date: 1 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
s:
Sarah Vaughan (Edinburgh),
Martin Plaut (ICwS),
Eyob B Gebremariam (University of Bristol)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 7 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Book launch & discussion: Politics & the Urban Frontier: Transformation & Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
Date: 7 March 2023, 12:00 - 13:30 (Tuesday, 8th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
s:
Tom Goodfellow (Sheffield),
Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Pavilion Room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)
Between two fires: Turkana chiefs in the colonial ‘contact zone’ c. 1910 to 1960
Date: 26 April 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
:
Mads Yding (African Studies Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)
Sudan’s Crisis: Origins, Triggers & Prospects
Date: 3 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
s:
Mai Hassan (MIT),
Harry Verhoeven (SIPA, Columbia University),
Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford),
Sharath Srinivasan (Cambridge)
Venue Details: Online only
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Towards a Constitution of Peace in Ethiopia: Issues of Process and Substance
Date: 10 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
:
Berihun Adugna Gebeye (UCL)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
‘I have opened the land for you’: pastoralist politics and election-related violence in Kenya’s arid north
Date: 7 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
:
Flora McCrone (LSE)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Nature and the supernatural: meaning(s) of water and humanities in Ethiopia's Upper Nile
Date: 14 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2023)
Speaker
s:
James McCann (Boston University),
Izabela Orlowska (ZMO Berlin)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 11 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum & the structural legacies of colonial military divide & rule: 1924-present
Date: 11 October 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Contested waters: negotiating multiple actors on the Rufiji basin – Tanzania, 1960 to the Present
Date: 1 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
:
MJ Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Stdies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)
Book launch & discussion: Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities
Date: 8 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker
s:
Peter Chonka (King's College London),
Gayatri Sahgal (University of Oxford)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: African Studies Centre seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 17 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)
Oil, trade & state building in the Ethiopian-Somali borderlands
Date: 17 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Luca Puddu (University of Palermo)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)
Book launch & discussion: Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide
Date: 24 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Andrea Purdekova ((University of Bath)),
Marie-Eve Desrosiers (University of Ottawa)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)
Book launch & discussion: Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis
Date: 1 February 2024, 15:30 - 17:00 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford),
Tom Lavers (University of Manchester)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Kirk-Greene Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)
Film screening & discussion: Ethiopian Screen Worlds
Date: 7 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Michael Thomas (SOAS)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Kirk-Greene Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 28 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)
Book launch & discussion: Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
Date: 28 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
s:
Eric Morier-Genoud (Queen's University Belfast),
James Barnett (Oxford)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Kirk-Greene Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)
Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor, South Sudan
Date: 6 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
:
Diana Felix da Costa (SOAS)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Kirk-Greene Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Book launch & discussion: Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
Date: 15 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Christina Woolner (Cambridge),
Amina-Bahja Ekman (UCL)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Borderlands in focus: insights & reflections on the Kenya-Somalia-Ethiopia borderlands through the lens of a peace & stability programme
Date: 22 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Martine Zeuthen (RUSI/UCL)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Oromo & Somali social & political movements in Ethiopia’s post-Meles era
Date: 29 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Hallelujah Lulie (Oxford),
Juweria Ali (Westminster)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)
The road (not) taken: infrastructure & sovereignty in the Horn of Africa
Date: 5 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford),
Harry Verhoeven (SIPA, Columbia University)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)
Book launch & discussion: The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia
Date: 12 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
s:
Tom Gardner (Economist),
Terje Østebø (University of Florida)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar room, African Studies Centre
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)
Geopolitical tensions & regional realignments in the wider Horn of Africa
Date: 16 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
s:
Hannah Waddilove (Warwick/FCDO),
Belete Belachew Yihun (Independent),
Samira A. Gaid (Balqiis Insight)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: ASC seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 23 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)
Political fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Jubbaland and the transborder Ogaden region
Date: 23 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
s:
Nisar Majid (LSE/PeaceRep),
Khalif Abdirahman (LSE/PeaceRep)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: ASC seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)
Infrastructure in formation: the politics and practices of making progress with infrastructure
Date: 30 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
s:
Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford),
Mary Lawhon (Edinburgh)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: ASC seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)
The political economy of land data assemblages in informal settlements (Mathare & Kwa Bullo)
Date: 27 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
:
Smith Ouma (Manchester)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: ASC seminar room
Organiser:
Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA