• 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 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 18 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 25 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 1 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 15 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Tuesday 22 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

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)

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

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

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

• 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 (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)

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

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

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)

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)

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

• 17:00 - Discussion on Zimbabwean politics
  TBC

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

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

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

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

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