African Studies Centre

Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, gives the 2015 Annual Lecture for the African Studies Centre.

Joint Seminar of the African Studies Centre and Reuters Institute. Speakers; Catherine Gichuru (Editor, Nairobi Star, Kenya), Winston Mano (Westminster, editor, Journal of African Media Studies), Nic Cheeseman (African Studies, Oxford), Alexandra Reza (IR, Oxford), Chaired by David Levy (Reuters Institute, Oxford)

Simon Turner, Aalborg University, Denmark, gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Based on ethnographic fieldwork in two exceptional spaces, namely among Burundian refugees living clandestinely in Nairobi and living in a refugee camp in Tanzania, the article argues that displacement can be about staying out of place in order to find a place in the world in the future and is therefore closely linked to temporarily and temporariness. I suggest that the term dis-placement described this sense of not only being out of place but also being en route to a future. Burundians in the camp and the city are doing their best to remain out of place, in transition between a lost past and a future yet to come, and the temporary nature of their sojourn is maintained in everyday practices so that they may remain displaced; on their way to something else. The article argues that such everyday practices are policed by powerful actors in the camp and are ingrained in practices of self-discipline in Nairobi. Comparing the two settings demonstrates that displacement can take on different forms, just as non-places or states of exception are different according to context.

Roundtable discussion looking at the ongoing crisis in South Sudan Chair: Jason Mosley, Chatham House and African Studies Centre, Speakers: Annette Weber, SWP Berlin, Douglas Johnson, author of "the Root Causes of Sudan'd Civil Wars, Peter Biar Ajak, Cambridge University, Discussant: Dr Ahmed Al-Shahi, Middle East Centre, Oxford University

Danny Hoffman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington, gives a talk for the African Studies seminar series

Wale Adebanwi, Associate Professor, African American and African Studies, University of California-Davies, gives the 2013 African Studies Annual Lecture.

Markus Hoehne, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, gives a talk for the Horn of Africa seminar series workshop 'Post-transitional' directions in the Somalias on 30th April 2013.

Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop.

Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop.

Part of the Post-transitional directions in the Somalias, Horn of Africa Seminar Series workshop.