Sussex Africa Centre events – Spring term 2019
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Thursday 14th February
Heritage in Southern Africa: decolonizing agendas?
Dr Napandulwe Shiweda (University of Namibia)Dr Winani Thebele (National Museums of Botswana)
Mr Scobie Lekhutile (Khama III Memorial Museum)
4-6 pm, Arts C – Global Studies Resource Centre Seminar Room C175
Thursday 28 February
‘People were dying like flies’: the politics of cholera, crisis and citizenship in urban Zimbabwe
** EVENT CANCELLED **
Dr Simukai Chigudu, University of Oxford, Department for International Development
4-6pm, Arts C – Global Studies Resource Centre Seminar Room C175
Friday 1 March
Extra seminar
Resurgent Authoritarianism: The Politics of the 2019 Violence in Zimbabwe
Shari Eppel from Zimbabwe's Solidarity Peace Trust will give an extra SAC seminar on a new report on political violence in Zimbabwe, based on a report launched last week
2pm Arts C114
Thursday 7 March
PhD research in progress. SAC PhD committee
'Threads of Memory, Identity and the Spectacle of Nigerian Fashion', Harriet Hughes, Global Studies
'Sexuality Education: Meddling with and Fighting over Zambian Youth Gendered Bodies', Agness Mumba, Centre for International Education
'The Birth of an Activist Residents Movement in Harare, Zimbabwe: from Elite Origins to Mass Base', Selina Pasirayi, Geography, Global Studies
4-6pm, Arts C – Global Studies Resource Centre Seminar Room C175
Thursday 14 March
Image and memory in post genocide Rwanda
A screening of documentary film ‘The Faces we Lost’ plus discussion.
Dr Piotr Cieplak, Media Studies, Sussex.
4-6pm, Arts C 333
Listen to a recording of the seminar:
Image and memory in post genocide Rwanda
Thursday 21 March
PhD research in progress. SAC PhD committee
Dede Patterson, Thabani Mutambasere and Angela Haynes
4-6pm, Arts C 333
Thursday 28 March
Ebola, epidemic projections and the politics of reckoning
Dr Adia BentonJoint with American Studies
4-6pm, Arts C 333
Tuesday 30 April
Operation Legacy: documentary and discussion
Screening and panel discussion of documentary about Kenyan war veterans’ 2009 case against the British government, exposing the truth about the Mau Mau emergency and British cover up.
Panellists: documentary makers from the Museum of British Colonialism and others.
Joint with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
4-6pm, Arts A071
Thursday 2 May
Return and circular migration
Presenters include:
Dr. Emma Abotsi (British Sociological Association / The British Library)
Dr. Nauja Kleist (Danish Institute for International Studies)
Dr. Helene Neveu-Kringelbach (African Studies, University College London)
Dr. Dorte Thorsen (The University of Sussex)
4-6pm, Arts C333
Thursday 9 May