Past events

View all previous Africa-related events here. Events are sorted in reverse chronological order.

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016

2021

30 October 2021: Print Style Evolution in Sierra Leone
28 October 2021: PPV #22: The Aesthetics of Revolution: Broadcasts from Accra
1 September 2021: Kenya Uprisings, Through the Leopard's Gaze
27 July 2021: HYENAS
16 June 2021: US Human Rights Violations and the Soweto Uprisings
12 June 2021: The Dangers of Sweetened Beverages in the African Diaspora
4 May 2021: IAS Festival: The Fragility of the Archive

2020

24 September 2020: Africa in the Time of Coronavirus - Malawi: Colloquialism, Myths and Popular Responses
27 July 2020: Africa in the Time of Coronavirus - Fighting COVID-19 in Freetown: the value of community
19 June 2020: Africa in the Time of Coronavirus - Senegal: the role of international NGOs and the state
5 March 2020: Nairobi in the Making Landscapes of Time and Urban Belonging
6 February 2020: Picturing the Past: African photographic collections at the British Museum
23 January 2020: The Origins of Islam in Morocco: New Evidence from Volubilis and the Sahara

2019

5 December 2019: African Studies Seminar: The rise and fall of African socialist thought in the global 20th century
21 November 2019: African Studies Seminar: Language change & evolution: dynamism of Sheng, a variety of Kenyan Swahili
6 November 2019: Chasing Shadows (Roger Canals, 2019)
31 October 2019: African Studies Seminar: Congolese Independence, Shared Memories
30 October 2019: Long Emancipation: Black Freedom as Conundrum
23 October 2019: IAS Waste: Inside-Out Earth - Residues of the Anthropocene in Africa
10 October 2019: African Studies Seminar: Reading the bloods
20 June 2019: African Studies Seminar: Book launch - Africa on the Contemporary London Stage
06 June 2019: African Studies Seminar: Social Capital, Inequality and Risk for Chronic Disease in South Africa
23 May 2019: African Studies Seminar: A Fistful of Shells
30 May 2019: African Studies Seminar: Cultural resistance and struggle in colonial and post-colonial Africa
21 March 2019: African Studies Seminar: Schools as Change Agents?
07 March 2019: African Studies Seminar: Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia
21 February 2019: African Studies Seminar: The arts of oil - dis/enchantment and popular culture in Port Harcourt
31 January 2019: African Studies Seminar: To Invoke the Invisible
17 January 2019: African Studies Seminar: The New Slave Narrative and the Transitive Property of African Suffering
11 January 2019: Bridging the Divide Between African Diaspora Studies and African Studies: A Critical Workshop

2018

06 December 2018: African Studies Seminar: Tatiana Thieme on ‘When the day hustle goes down, the night hustle goes up’
22 November 2018: African Studies Seminar: Marie Rodet on The Diambourou - Slavery and Emancipation in Kayes - Mali
25 October 2018: African Studies Seminar: Ini Dele-Adedeji on Known unkwowns and unknown unknowns
11 October 2018: African Studies Seminar: Hannah Höchner on Senegalese migrants’ children, homeland ‘returns’ ...
06 June 2018: African Studies Seminar: Stress in the suburbs - good selves versus safe selves in Johannesburg
21 March 2018: African Studies Seminar: The African Continental Free Trade Area and Economic Integration in Africa - the role of law
07 March 2018: African Studies Seminar: Film Screening and Q&A - The Diambourou: slavery and emancipation in Kayes - Mali
28 February 2018: African Studies Seminar: Boda Boda Rage - Economies of affection in the motorbike taxis of Kenya
21 February 2018: African Studies Seminar: The Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Project - A 15-year retrospective
31 January 2018: African Studies Seminar: Taken for a Ride - Grounding neoliberalism, precarious labour, and public transport in an African metropolis
18 January 2018: African Peoples and Pasts: Tracing the Trans-Saharan Gold Route from Morocco to Mali
17 January 2018: African Studies Seminar: Making Concessions - Power and ecstasis in the Congolese rainforest

2017

06 December 2017: African Studies Interdisciplinary Seminar: Higher education & the public good in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria & South Africa
23 November 2017: Narrative of Desire: The Politics of Exhibiting Culture and Displaying African Art
22 November 2017: African Studies Interdisciplinary Seminar: Sustaining one another - enset, animals, and people in the southern highlands of Ethiopia
02 November 2017: African Studies Research Centre: South Africa's Domestic Political Economy and its Foreign Policy Implications
01 November 2017: African Studies Interdisciplinary Seminar: Political work beyond the archives
25 October 2017: African Studies Interdisciplinary Seminar: Quinine, malarial fevers and mobility in South-Central Africa
11 October 2017: African Studies Interdisciplinary Seminar: The economics of insurgencies in pre- and post-colonial northern Nigeria
16 March 2017: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: Development planning and performance targets - the case of energy access and solar home systems users in Rwanda
25 May 2017: African Studies Seminar Series: On the question of non-racialism in South Africa
11 May 2017: Birthplace, Bloodline and Beyond: How 'Liberian Citizenship' Is Currently Constructed in Liberia and Abroad'
04 May 2017: Taxation and Development: From The Peasants' Revolt to the post-apartheid delivery service protests'
16 March 2017: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: Development planning and performance targets - the case of energy access and solar home systems users in Rwanda
02 March 2017: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: School Absenteeism in Northern Malawi
16 February 2017: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: Cobalt Blues - The Half Life of Oncology's Technologies in Uganda
09 February 2017: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: Painting/Photography/Politics - Marlene Dumas and the Figuration of Difference
19 January 2017: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: A central African civilisation without hierarchy? Stylistic clues suggestive of an enduring 'Pygmy' civilisation

2016

15 December 2016: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: Childhood pneumonia in Malawi
01 December 2016: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: 'Better Men'
17 November 2016: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: Gender, elections and representation - political settlement in Somaliland
27 October 2016: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: The gendered trajectory to old age in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
20 October 2016: African Studies Lunchtime Seminar: Cross-country analysis of youth opportunities and aspirations for TVET in sub-Saharan Africa
07 June 2016: Special African Studies Seminar: Local Resistance to an International Norm
10 May 2016: UCL-Royal African Society Joint Seminar on Heritage and Politics in Africa
10 May 2016: UCL-Royal African Society Seminar Series: The Heritage Implications of Infrastructural and Mining Sector Projects in Africa
27 April 2016: The African Diaspora, the Afro-Question and the Moving Image in the Americas
10 March 2016: UCL-Royal African Society Seminar Series: Historicising Afro-European Experiences - Heritage and politics of memory
29 January 2016: African Voices - Whose Agenda Is It? How African scientists struggle to contribute to innovation in the global health arena
28 January 2016: African Voices - Africa's Urban Paradox: Mobilities, economies and aspirations
22 January 2016: African Voices - Heritage, Marginality and Hybridity in the Gold Fields of Southeastern Senegal
20 January 2016: African Voices - Transport Systems and Well-being in Nigeria: Socio-economic development and environmental change