Africa Research Forum

The Africa Research Forum is an interdisciplinary discussion group for postgraduate students, visiting academics and Cambridge University faculty members working on Africa-related topics. Participants from any discipline are welcome. Rather than polished seminar papers, we prefer rough ‘works in progress’, which are pre-circulated a week ahead of the group discussion to enable participants to have time to develop constructive comments.

Please sign up here: https://camtools.cam.ac.uk/join/africa-research-forum. 

If you do not have an @cam address please contact Dr. Felicitas Becker (fmb26@cam.ac.uk) to request access to the CamTools website that supports the Forum.

Convenors:  Felicitas Becker (fmb26),  Emma Hunter (elh35)

Easter Term 2012

In Easter term 2012, meetings will take place in the Green Room at Gonville and Caius College, on Wednesdays at 1pm.

The programme is as follows:

9/05 Dr Tim Gibbs, Cambridge

New Patterns of migration in South Africa and the rise of the minibus-taxi industry

16/05 Richard Anderson,

Yale Liberated African Voyages to Emancipation in Sierra Leone, 1808-1862

23/05 Jamie Miller, Cambridge

Desperate Times: South Africa's Intervention in the Angolan Civil War, 1975

All welcome!

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Lent Term 2012

In Lent term 2012, meetings will take place in the Green Room at Gonville and Caius College, on Wednesdays at 1pm.

(NB Change of day this term from Tuesday to Wednesday)

The programme is as follows (titles still preliminary):

1/02 Isayvani Naicker, Geography: 
Science and policy in biodiversity research in South Africa

15/02
Malika Rebai Maamri, Centre of African Studies:
Algeria in the context of the Arab Spring: an Insider's perspective

29/02
Matteo Rizzo, Department of Economics, SOAS: 
tba (on informal workers in Tanzania)

14/03
Victoria Grebe, Divinity: 
Borrowings between new Christian and Muslim movements in Nigeria

All welcome!

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Michaelmas Term 2011

11/10
David Maxwell, Faculties of History and Divinity, Cambridge: Social Mobility and Politics in African Pentecostal Modernity

25/10
Ruth Prince, Department of the History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge: Tarmacking in an East African city. Hopes, desires and trajectories of Kenyan youth.

01/11 , 5:00pm
David Schoenbrun, Northwestern University, Chicago:
Remain Calm: Emotion and the Fictions of Sovereignty in 16th century Bunyoro

08/11
George Karekwaivanane, Faculty of History, Oxford:
'I still maintain that I have not been lawfully tried': Law and Politics in Rhodesia 1950-1980

29/11
Nicole Ulrich, Centre for African Studies, Cambridge:
Counter-culture in the Eighteenth-Century Cape of Good Hope: connections and communities of a multiracial and mobile underclass.