• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Tuesdays at 5pm
• Web Address: http://www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk/events
• Organising department: Centre for African Studies

Tuesday 11 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘The Crisis in South African Higher Education: thoughts from a war zone’
  Shireen Hassim (Wits University))

Tuesday 18 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Mapping Xenophobic Violence: Dangers, Pitfalls and Ways Forward’
  Alexandra Hiropoulos (Wits University)

Tuesday 25 October 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Genealogies of intersectionality: theorising race, class, gender and sexuality in South Africa’
  Shireen Hassim (Wits University))

Tuesday 1 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Is the decline of the ANC really such a good thing? Politics after the end of one-party dominance’
  David Adler (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘An unarmed Struggle: The ANC's battle for health in exile’
  Melissa Armstrong (Carleton University)

Tuesday 15 November 2016

• 17:00 - ‘Is voter turnout higher if people know an election is close? Experimental evidence from the Johannesburg 2016 elections’
  Kate Orkin (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 12:45 - "They go out to be seen": space, place and recognition in Johannesburg nightclubs
  Beth Vale (Wits University)

Tuesday 22 November 2016

• 17:00 - The unravelling of the ANC
  Salim Vally (University of Johannesburg)

Tuesday 17 January 2017

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

Tuesday 24 January 2017

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

Tuesday 31 January 2017

• 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)

Tuesday 7 February 2017

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

Tuesday 14 February 2017

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

Tuesday 21 February 2017

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

Tuesday 2 May 2017

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

Tuesday 16 May 2017

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

Tuesday 23 May 2017

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

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 17:00 - “The Least Successful Guerrilla Army of all time”? Umkhonto we Sizwe and its historians
  Thula Simpson (University of Pretoria)

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 17:00 - How to steal a city - factionalism and state capture in a metropolitan municipality
  Crispian Olver (Public Affairs Research Institute, Wits University)

Tuesday 24 October 2017

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

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 17:00 - Comrades and Casspirs: Township Violence on the Rand, 1990-94
  Gary Kynoch (Dalhousie University)

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 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)

Tuesday 23 January 2018

• 17:00 - Update and discussion on land reform in South Africa with reflections on Zimbabwe
  William Beinart (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 17:00 - Discussion on Zimbabwean politics
  TBC

Tuesday 6 February 2018

• 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

Tuesday 13 February 2018

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

Tuesday 20 February 2018

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

Tuesday 27 February 2018

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