Africa Seminar Series
Fridays 4.00-6.00pm
Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Building, 14 Taviton St, Off Gordon Square
Autumn 2012
05 October - Ramon Sarro (Dept. of Anthropology Oxford
University)
'Only Connect'
Kyangyang and the Works of Prophetic Imagination in Guinea-Bissau
12 October - Ruth
Malleson (Dept. of Anthropology UCL)
Minor or Major?:
Understanding variations in the importance of non-wood forest products for
rural people in West Africa
19 October - Mark Infield (Flora and Fauna International)
The
Beautiful Land; The Sacred Mountain; The Spirit Island – cultural values,
protected areas and conservation in Uganda
26 October - Nelson Edewor (Leventis Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies)
Bestriding Traditional and Modern Ekiti/Igbomina Styles: The Wood
Carving Genre of Lamidi Olonaide Fakeye (1928-2009)
02 November - Prof Murray Last (Dept. of Anthropology, UCL)
The legacy of Sokoto: usable history,
polarities of piety, Boko Haram...
09 November - READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
16 November - Julie Snorek (United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human
Security - UNU-EHS)
How changes
in ecosystem services, social vulnerability and water governance are
contributing to tensions or cooperation between herders and farmers in the
context of climate change in Niger.
23 November - Ulrika Trovalla (Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden)
Medicine for Uncertain Futures: A Nigerian
City in the Wake of a Crisis
30 November - Vreni Jean Richard (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Switzerland)
Crowding at Lake Chad:
Demographic and health surveillance of mobile pastoralists and their animals
07 December - Aliya
Adamu (Leventis Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies)
Rupert East and
the publishing of 'native' work in the
1930s
CANCELLED - 14 December Sasha Anothin (Dept. of Anthropology UCL)
The Frameworks of ‘the Association’ in
urban Ethiopia
Contact Ruth Malleson (r.malleson@ucl.ac.uk) for any further information.
