Conferences, seminars and lectures
Forthcoming Events
TBA
Recent Events
One day workshop at the University of Manchester, 1st of June 2006: 'Debating the Namibian State: civil society, citizenship and the public good'
Themes to be explored are:
- State and Civil Society
- Governance
- Citizenship and the Public Good
- The Making of Moral and Political Subjectivities
- Traditional and State Authorities
- Youth and Popular Culture
This event is organized thanks to an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant.
For more information and queries and further details, please contact:
Dr Mattia Fumanti
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Social Anthropology
The University of Manchester
M13 9PL
Tel: 0044-161-2753990
Fax: 0044-161-2753970
Wednesday 3 May, 5-6.45pm approx, in Roscoe Building room 4.7, we will be privileged to be the audience for the World (sneak) Preview of Dick Werbner's new film about a Botswana traditional healer which he and Andy Lawrence are now just putting the final editorial touches to.
Thursday 18th May, (5-7, Bragg Lecture Theatre, Martin Harris) This event is open to those outside the University of Manchester.
Seminar Memorialisation of war in Rwanda'. Professor James Thompson (In Place of War), with Professor Portelli as respondent.
In Place of War is a 3.5 year AHRC funded research project exploring performance responses to war. Rwanda provides an important example of the relationship between performance, memorialisation and post-war 'reconstruction'. James Thompson will reflect on Rwanda to question the relationship between bodies of the dead, memorials and what has been called a project of 'national re-imagining'.'
Distinguished Speaker Event
Following the success of our last 'distinguished speaker' event with Guy Thomas, I am happy to announce our next distinguished speaker will be David Murphy, who is a senior lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Stirling. He has published widely on African - particularly Senegalese - culture, and on the relationship between Francophone and Postcolonial Studies and is the author of Sembene: Imagining Alternatives in Film and Fiction (James Currey, 2000), as well as co-editor of two collections of essays: with Aed'n N' Loingsigh, Thresholds of Otherness (Grant & Cutler, 2002); with Charles Forsdick, Francophone Postcolonial Studies (Arnold, 2003). His talk will be entitled: 'An Alternative Cinema? Or a Cinema of Alternatives? The Films of Ousmane Sembene' and it will take place on Wednesday 1st February in Roscoe 4.7, at 5pm
Jonathan Silberman and Bruce Tilson (visiting journalist from the US) from Pathfinder publications will be presenting a seminar on Oil exploration and Imperialism in the Gulf of Guinea (focus is on Equatorial Guinea) on Tuesday 29th November 2005 in IDPM Room 9.24 between 1230hrs and 1400hrs.
ASN Reading Group
The next meeting of the ASN reading group will take place on Thursday December the 8th at 5pm in Roscoe 4.7 Andrew Irving is going to show us his film about the consequences of HIV in Uganda. If you want a copy of his paper, which we are going to discuss contact Ian Fairweather
Film screening
Tuesday 25th October 5pm
Roscoe Building room 1.22
Jean-Pierre Bekolo's 'Quartier Mozart', A film made in Cameroon, which deals with contemporary urban youth culture, fashion and music in Francophone Africa.
October 12th: The Leeds University Centre for African Studies Start of Term party
Distinguished Lecture Thursday, October 12 th 4-6PM – Guy Thomas Basel Mission 21