Name: Jason Mosley
University of Oxford

Events this person is hosting:

Tuesday 30 May 2017

Panel discussion: State Formation & Decay in the Horn of Africa
Date: 30 May 2017, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
Date: 6 June 2017, 17:00 - 18:00
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

The Eritrean National Service: a great idea that never made it?
Date: 17 October 2017, 17:00 - 19:00
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

Ordering the security arena: peace and conflict in the world’s most failing states
Date: 7 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00
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

The role of Eritrean Weekly News in the construction of dual nationalisms
Date: 14 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00
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

Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
Date: 28 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00
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

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
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

The security sector and contemporary Ethiopian politics
Date: 6 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Petitions, Round Tables & the Limits of Political Space: Sudan’s Second Parliamentary Period, 1964-1969
Date: 9 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Rebecca Glade (Columbia), Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia
Date: 16 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
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

The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin
Date: 23 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
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)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Gen Z protests and prospects for political change in Africa: A longitudinal analysis
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Gedion Onyango (LSE)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 30 May 2017

Panel discussion: State Formation & Decay in the Horn of Africa
Date: 30 May 2017, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Religious ideas and cultures of violence: the case of Kenya's violent Islamists
Date: 6 June 2017, 17:00 - 18:00
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

The Eritrean National Service: a great idea that never made it?
Date: 17 October 2017, 17:00 - 19:00
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

Ordering the security arena: peace and conflict in the world’s most failing states
Date: 7 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00
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

The role of Eritrean Weekly News in the construction of dual nationalisms
Date: 14 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00
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

Media, diaspora and the transnationalisation of conflict
Date: 28 November 2017, 17:00 - 19:00
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

The role of infrastructure in Ethiopia's developmental trajectory
Date: 23 January 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
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

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
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

The security sector and contemporary Ethiopian politics
Date: 6 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Constitutionalism, ‘developmentalism’ and popular demands in Ethiopia: exploring the common denominator
Date: 24 April 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Support or subvert? Assessing devolution’s effect on central power during Kenya’s 2017 presidential rerun
Date: 8 May 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Under construction: struggles over governance, labor, and technology in urban Ethiopia
Date: 15 May 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Regional pastoral livestock trade and trends in the Horn of Africa
Date: 22 May 2018, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Shelter from the storm: Somali migrant networks in Uganda between international business and regional geopolitics
Date: 29 May 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
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

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
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

Reflections on the recent Oromo Protest: Root causes and implication to the Ethiopian federal arrangement
Date: 12 June 2018, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya
Date: 1 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30
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

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
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

Sudan’s political crisis: what next?
Date: 8 February 2019, 15:00 - 17:00
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

Nairobi’s digital death-worlds and the geo-corpographies of extra-judicial killings
Date: 11 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30
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

The Politics of Distribution in Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’
Date: 14 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Ethiopian Warriorhood: Defence, Land & Society 1800-1941
Date: 4 March 2019, 17:00 - 18:30
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

Political transitions in Ethiopia and Sudan: implications for security in the Horn of Africa
Date: 22 May 2019, 12:30 - 14:00
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

An Experiment in Devolution: National Unity and the Deconstruction of the Kenyan State
Date: 29 May 2019, 17:00 - 18:30
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

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
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

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
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

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
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

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
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

John Garang on air: Radio battles in Sudan’s second civil war
Date: 20 October 2021, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Danielle Del Vicario (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Virtual
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 17 November 2021

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
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

Petitions, Round Tables & the Limits of Political Space: Sudan’s Second Parliamentary Period, 1964-1969
Date: 9 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Rebecca Glade (Columbia), Willow Berridge (Newcastle)
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 23 February 2022

Land, Investment & Politics: Reconfiguring Eastern Africa's Pastoral Drylands
Date: 23 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker s: Doris Okenwa (University of Oxford), Jeremy Lind (IDS)
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 9 March 2022

Amhara backlash: Nationalism and the 'Wolqayt question' in the Ethiopian civil war
Date: 9 March 2022, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Mehdi Labzaé (CEDEJ Egypt)
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 June 2022

Who governs? State versus jihadist political order in Somalia
Date: 14 June 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Sudan’s Unfinished Democracy: The Promise and Betrayal of a People's Revolution
Date: 21 June 2022, 16:00 - 18:00
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

Sports & Modernity in Late Imperial Ethiopia
Date: 16 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
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

The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin
Date: 23 November 2022, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Monopolists or Mavericks: Tax Relations of the Telecom Sector in Somalia
Date: 8 February 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
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

**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
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

Book launch & discussion: Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War
Date: 1 March 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Book launch & discussion: Politics & the Urban Frontier: Transformation & Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa
Date: 7 March 2023, 12:00 - 13:30
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

Between two fires: Turkana chiefs in the colonial ‘contact zone’ c. 1910 to 1960
Date: 26 April 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Mads Yding (African Studies Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Seminar Room
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 3 May 2023

Sudan’s Crisis: Origins, Triggers & Prospects
Date: 3 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:00
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

Towards a Constitution of Peace in Ethiopia: Issues of Process and Substance
Date: 10 May 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
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

‘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
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

Nature and the supernatural: meaning(s) of water and humanities in Ethiopia's Upper Nile
Date: 14 June 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum & the structural legacies of colonial military divide & rule: 1924-present
Date: 11 October 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Contested waters: negotiating multiple actors on the Rufiji basin – Tanzania, 1960 to the Present
Date: 1 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Book launch & discussion: Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities
Date: 8 November 2023, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Oil, trade & state building in the Ethiopian-Somali borderlands
Date: 17 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Book launch & discussion: Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda: Elusive Control before the Genocide
Date: 24 January 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Book launch & discussion: Ethiopia’s ‘Developmental State’: Political Order and Distributive Crisis
Date: 1 February 2024, 15:30 - 17:00
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

Film screening & discussion: Ethiopian Screen Worlds
Date: 7 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Book launch & discussion: Towards Jihad? Muslims and Politics in Postcolonial Mozambique
Date: 28 February 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Youth contestations, age-sets and body art in Pibor, South Sudan
Date: 6 March 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Book launch & discussion: Love Songs in Motion: Voicing Intimacy in Somaliland
Date: 15 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

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
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

Oromo & Somali social & political movements in Ethiopia’s post-Meles era
Date: 29 May 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

The road (not) taken: infrastructure & sovereignty in the Horn of Africa
Date: 5 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Book launch & discussion: The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia
Date: 12 June 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Geopolitical tensions & regional realignments in the wider Horn of Africa
Date: 16 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Political fragmentation in the Horn of Africa: Jubbaland and the transborder Ogaden region
Date: 23 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Infrastructure in formation: the politics and practices of making progress with infrastructure
Date: 30 October 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

The political economy of land data assemblages in informal settlements (Mathare & Kwa Bullo)
Date: 27 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:30
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

Tuesday 28 January 2025

Dams, Power & the Politics of Ethiopia’s Renaissance
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tom Lavers (University of Manchester), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Prof Simukai Chigudu
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 2
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 January 2025

Rural Futures in Eastern Africa
Date: 29 January 2025, 14:00 - 17:30
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

Wednesday 12 February 2025

Research in Displacement: The impact of war on Sudan’s higher education & academic research community
Date: 12 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Rebecca Glade (Makerere)
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 19 February 2025

Protracted displacement, return and remittances: South Sudanese funding exile from home
Date: 19 February 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Yotam Gidron (KU Leuven)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser: Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Host: Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford)

Wednesday 12 March 2025

Classical music in Ethiopia: A discussion with Girma Yifrashewa
Date: 12 March 2025, 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker s: Dr Samuel Boateng, Girma Yifrashewa (Ashenafi Kebede Performing Arts Centre, AAU)
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 7 May 2025

Context matters: A comparative analysis of protracted displacement & livelihoods in the Gambella & Somali regions of Ethiopia
Date: 7 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Fekadu A. Tufa (Addis Ababa 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 14 May 2025

Who Moves & Who Stays? Climate change, mobility & gender in Ethiopia
Date: 14 May 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Jin-Ho Chung (University of 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 4 June 2025

Smugglers, Speculators & the City in the Ethiopia-Somalia Borderlands
Date: 4 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Daniel K. Thompson (UC Merced)
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 11 June 2025

Access to basic services in Northwest Kenya: Comparative analysis between refugees & host communities
Date: 11 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Patrick Mutinda Muthui (AfOx)
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 18 June 2025

Undoing a Revolution: Sudan & the Politics of Debt
Date: 18 June 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Harry Cross (Indepedent)
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 14 October 2025

Hustle Urbanism: Making Life Work in Nairobi
Date: 14 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Tatiana Thieme (University College London), Sangwon Chae (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

Tuesday 28 October 2025

Digital scapes beyond capture? How resistance movements in Africa are shaping the way we think
Date: 28 October 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Prince Guma (Cambridge)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Gen Z protests and prospects for political change in Africa: A longitudinal analysis
Date: 11 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Gedion Onyango (LSE)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Mekelle Stories: Life in Time of War
Date: 18 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Catherine Dom (Independent)
Venue Details: Maison Française d'Oxford, 2-10 Norham Road, OX2 6SE
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Book launch: Historical Dictionary of South Sudan
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker s: Dr Douglas Johnson, Dr Nicki Kindersley (Cardiff University), Dr Scopas Poggo (Ohio State)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

The making of an African tourist destination: Tourism development in post-independent Kenya
Date: 2 December 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Mathias Hack (Universität Leipzig/IEG Mainz)
Venue: 13 Bevington Road, 13 Bevington Road OX2 6NB
Venue Details: Seminar Room, African Studies Centre
Organisers: Norman Aselmeyer (University of Oxford), Mwangi Mwaura (Oxford), Biruk Terrefe (University of Oxford), Jason Mosley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA