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African History, Politics and Geography Seminar Series - Hilary Term 2008
Please Note: This seminar series has finished. For information on our current seminar series please see our Seminar Series.
All seminars will be held on Mondays at 5pm, in the Seminar Room, History Faculty, George Street unless indicated otherwise below. For further information contact Dr Patricia Daley or Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch.
Week 1: Monday 14 January 2008
"Cheap but Plentiful" Providing for Labour in the South African Wine Industry, 1918-1988.
Gavin Williams, University of Oxford.
Week 2: Monday 21 January 2008
Hope and Oil: Politics of Transparency and the Management of Expectations in São Tomé and Príncipe.
Gisa Weszkalnys, University of Oxford.
Week 3: Monday 28 January 2008
A History of (Imagined) Secularism in Zambia: Catholic 'Modernist' Expectations of Social and Political Change in the 20th century.
Marja Hinfelaar, University of Cambridge.
Week 4: Monday 4 February 2008
Beyond Greed and Grievance: What Next for the Study of African Wars.
Paul Richards, Wageningen University.
Week 5: Monday 11 February 2008
Reflections on the Symbolic Superiority of Political Representatives: sub-Saharan Africa in Comparative Perspective.
Jean-Pascal Daloz, CNRS Paris, MFO.
Week 6: Monday 18 February 2008
First-comers and Late-comers: Land, Mobility and Belonging in the West African Savanna.
Carola Lentz, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Week 7: Monday 25 February 2008
The Politics and Publics of Early Print Culture in Lagos.
Karin Barber, University of Birmingham.
Week 8: Monday 3 March 2008
The Political Evolution of Angola since Savimbi.
Armando Marques Guedes, ID, FDL, Lisbon.
Week 9: Monday 10 March 2008
The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors.
Gervase Maipose, University of Botswana, and Lindsay Whitfield, University of Oxford.