Seminar Room S2, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT


2012-11-16 16:30: The Kat River Settlement, Cape Racism,  and the Origins of  South African Democracy  (Professor Robert Ross Leiden University Institute for History, Humanities)

2012-11-26 13:00: SONGS AND SECRETS South Africa from Liberation to Governance (Barry Gilder)

2014-10-15 13:00: Local Knowledge and the Reintegration of Ex-Combatants in the Democratic Republic of Congo  (Ms Carol Gallo,  PhD student, POLIS)

2014-10-22 13:00: Is There A Developmental State in Rwanda? (Professor Julius Kiiza,  Makerere University, Uganda)

2014-10-29 13:00: 'New Man, New Church, New Nation': The Church of Uganda and the Aftermath of Idi Amin  (Ms Eva Namusoke  PhD Student, Faculty of History)

2014-11-05 13:00: Linguistic Strategies in Luyaaye; Word-play and Conscious Language Manipulation  (Dr Saudah Namyalo,  Makerere University, Uganda)

2014-11-13 18:00: Billy Kahora: In Conversation  (Billy Kahora)

2014-11-19 13:00: How LGBT Debates have been Crafted in Uganda  (Dr Edgar Nabutanyi,  Makerere University, Uganda)

2014-11-26 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Professor Danwood Chirwa,  Visiting Fellow, Centre of African Studies)

2014-12-03 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Ms Mary Davies)

2015-01-21 13:00: Politics, the State and the Limits of Oil-Led Development in Uganda and Ghana (Dr Anthony Okuku-Juma, CAPREx Programme Fellow)

2015-01-28 13:00: Aspirations for Hospital Care and the Emerging Cancer Epidemic in Kenya  (Dr Benson Mulemi, Visiting Fellow, Centre of African Studies)

2015-02-11 13:00: "It is a Heavy Thing"; Being a Big Man in Rural Central Malawi  (Daniel Wroe, PhD candidate at the University of East Anglia)

2015-02-25 13:00: Making Class at Home; Domestic Service and Class Formation in Post-Colonial Zambia  (Sacha Hepburn, PhD student, Oxford)

2015-03-11 13:00: "Sisters' Talk"; Preaching Self-Worth and Success to Single Young Women in Calabar's Pentecostal Movement (Dr Juliet Gilbert, University of Birmingham)

2015-05-12 17:00: Ambedkar in his time and ours (Dr Anupama Rao, Columbia University)

2015-12-02 17:00: South Africa and the Politics of African Polygamy (Prof Natasha Erlank, University of Johannesburg)

2016-01-20 13:00: Racial  Rhetoric  and  Fast  Track  Land  Reform  in Zimbabwe, 2000 to 2001 (Josh Prichard (History Faculty, Cambridge))

2016-02-03 13:00: Imaginary  and Sociology  of the Boko Haram Insurgency (Corentin Cohen, (Sciences  Po, Paris))

2016-02-10 13:00: Ujamaa socialism, the Vietnam war, and the end of the Prague Spring: Cold War interventions and Tanzania’s ‘1968’ (George Roberts, (Warwick))

2016-02-17 13:00: MARX IN CAMPUS: PRINT CULTURES, NATIONALISM AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVISM IN LATE 70’S KENYA (Dr Dan Omanga  (Cambridge))

2016-03-02 13:00: When There’s No Party, Nobody Comes: Campaign Rally Attendance in Rural Tanzania (Dan Paget, (Oxford))

2016-11-22 17:30: The uniqueness of downtown Yangon (Professor Su Su, Charles Wallace Burma Trust Visiting Fellow, CSAS and Department of Architecutre, Mandalay Technological University)

2017-03-01 13:00: Care, Conflict, and Kinship in Botswana's Time of AIDS (Koreen Reece (University of Edinburgh))

2017-03-08 13:00: Re-imagining the Boko Haram sect as a purveyor of public services in northern Nigeria (Ini Dele-Adedji (SOAS))

2017-03-15 13:00: Sotho Masters, San Slaves? War captives and slavery on the precolonial South African Highveld, c.1870 (Ettore Morelli (SOAS))

2019-03-05 17:00: 'Ise Olokun Esin: Self-apprehension and the belligerent poor in colonial Lagos'  (Tunde Decker, University of Oxford/Osun State University, Nigeria)

2019-10-23 12:00: Book Launch: “Transforming Rwanda: Challenges on the Road to Reconstruction”  (Dr Jean-Paul Kimonyo)

2020-01-30 17:00: HISTORIANS’ ALLEGIANCES: NIGERIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND THE POLITICS OF BELONGING (Dr. Samaila Suleiman Department of History Bayero University, Kano  )