Public Lectures 2010
Public lectures about current African developments and research. The lectures are open to all interested. (The programme is continuously updated).
Starting January 2010 NAI will have lectures, conferences etc. at other venues than their own at Kungsgatan 38. Please make sure to always check the location of the event you plan to attend.
LECTURES TO COME
Wednesday 16 June 15-17 hrs
'Politics, War, Collapse and Reconstruction in Rwanda and Uganda'.
Lecturer: Dr. Frederick Golooba-Mutebi, Makerere Institute for Social Research, Kampala, Uganda. Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute, Jacranda Room, Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala. Pre-registration is required.
PREVIOUS LECTURES
Friday 29 January 16.15
”Writing the littoral –
Lecturer: Abdulrazak Gurnah
Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute's library, Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala.
After the lecture, at 18.00 a report from the 2009 conference ”What’s Culture Got to do with it?" (which includes all the four keynote speeches, the rapporteurs’ report and pictures from the conference) will be launched, with a few words by Signe Arnfred and Mai Palmberg.
The limited-edition report will be available to all participants in this event. This launch concludes this conference project, and is the last public event of the Cultural Images in and of Africa programme at the Nordic Africa Institute. Registration is necessary.
Thursday 11 February 15.15-17.00
Women, Power and Peacemaking in Africa.
Lecturer: Aili Tripp, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute's Library, Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala.
Thursday 11 March 14.15-16.00
Inequalities between social groups leading to conflicts.
Lecturer: Professor Frances Stewart, University of Oxford
Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute's Library, Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala.
Thursday 18 March 9.30-11.00
Silent and Lethal: How Quiet Corruption Undermines Africa’s Development Efforts
Lecturer: Shanta Devarajan, Världsbankens chefsekonom för Afrika.
The seminar takes place at NAI, level 3, Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala.
Please register for participation with Göran Holmqvist by 16 March.
Thursday 24 March 10-12 This seminar will be held in the University building at Biskopsgatan 3.
Explorations of 'Afrinesia'. Experimental Approaches to Political and Legal Anthropology in Africa.
Speakers: Harri Englund, Univ. of Cambridge, Niklas Hultin, Swarthmore College, Knut Christian Myhre, NAI, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Boston University and Sita Zougouri, University of Ouagadougou.
Cancelled - Tuesday 20 April 15.00-17.00
South Africa after Apartheid: the failure of delivery of the African elites
Lecturer: Moeletsi Mbeki
Venue: Uppsala University, Department of Government, Brusewitzsalen, Gamla Torget 6, Floor 3, Uppsala.
Wednesday 5 May 16.00-18.00
The Regionalisation of the Lord’s Resistance Army
Lecturer: Associate Professor Ronald Atkinson, University of South Carolina.
Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute's Library, Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala.
If you wish to join the e-mail list and receive continued information about the coming lectures, please send an e-mail with the subject "subscribe" to:
Inga-Britt Isaksson Faris (inga-britt.faris@
nai.uu.se).
Many of our lectures have been filmed. Watch and listen to lectures.
Aili Tripp, Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, together with NAI's Research Director Fantu Cheru, during the lecture at NAI 11 February.
Photo:
Sofia Widforss