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Past events
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Marking African Week
To feature African Week, a series of events is being organised by Winnifred Bedigen.
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Afrobeats party
Join us to raise funds for Ana Onse Mpata Umodzi (AOMU), a charity that helps children access education in Malawi. There will be great African music, a raffle draw, snacks and much more.
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West Africa and the Sahel: Understanding the Changing Landscape
Dr Olayinka Ajala of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Leeds Beckett University invites you to join his first African Research Initiative (ARI) Workshop.
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The forgotten crisis unfolding in Sudan
Join us for an engaging online event on 27 March where Dr Jo Rose, an academic and researcher in humanitarianism, and Ala Kheir, an accomplished photojournalist from Sudan, come together for an insightful discussion.
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Dignity as Decolonial Research Method - conversations across, and beyond, African contexts
What is dignity in research? Whose dignity do we value, and whose do we neglect, in the design, implementation and impact agendas of our research? How do we study dignity as lived experience and why is this important?
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"Mad on Plainsong”
Phil Burnett will be talking about missions in South Africa using archives in the Borthwick
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#MyNameIs Event
Learning, remembering and correctly pronouncing one’s name are important steps to ensure respect and inclusion, particularly in our diverse community.
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WCRP Open Science Conference: Adaptation to Climate Change across African Mountains
Bringing people together internationally for training, capacity sharing, interdisciplinary data integration to discuss pressing co-identified scientific, practical, or policy questions addressing climate change challenges across African Mountains.
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ACLIE 2023
The African Conference on Linear Infrastructure and Ecology 2023 will be held in Nairobi from the 18th to the 21st of September 2023. Registration and abstract submissions are now open.
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IGDC's Early Career Knowledge Exchange Conference
Security and development in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel
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IGDC's Early Career Knowledge Exchange Conference
Security in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel
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STFC Food Network+ 5th Annual Conference 2023
STFC Food Network+ is organising its 5th Annual Conference on 3-4 July 2023 in York, UK, with the theme of 'Innovations for Smart, Sustainable, and Safe Food Systems'.
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Africa and Europe: Reversing points of view
Our experts explore the complex dynamics between the two continents and the deeply-rooted social and political challenges that, if better understood, could pave the way for better collaborations and dialogue in the future.
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Nature Positive Solutions for Climate Resilience
Dr Nyumba will be speaking at the Nature Positive Solutions for Climate Resilience webinar co-hosted by Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), USA showcasing nature-positive innovative work of early career researchers from across the globe.
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Investing in Health declaration: Thanzi Programme Workshop
Supporting the realisation of the African Leadership Meeting
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Pan African Food and Culture Event
The Lord Mayor of York, Cllr Janet Looker, would love you to join her at this celebration of African food and culture, with Africans resident in York sharing with you their national foods and drinks.
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The Changing Use and Importance of Slave-Ship Captains in the Royal African Company
Centre for Historical Economics and Related Research at York (CHERRY) workshop. All welcome!
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IGDC Research Seminar Series: Tobacco Cultivation in Tanzania
Everyone knows about the impact of smoking tobacco on health, but what about where it comes from, how it is produced and who grows it?
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Pastoralists under pressure
A talk and panel debate to explore some of these challenges facing pastoralists, and discuss the value, and future development, of research from the REAL project.
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Getting Closer: Approaches to climate change in eastern Africa
An exhibition on research into climate change at York
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Imaginings of collective property ownership in South Africa: Comparing 1910s land-buying syndicates with 1990s land reform
This seminar addresses how ideas of collective forms of property ownership, in the form of 'Community Trusts' and ‘Communal Property Associations’ (CPAs) came about legally, politically and socially in South Africa.
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Rising from the Depths: Marine Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development on the East Coast of Africa
This public lecture showcases some of the projects being conducted as part of the GCRF-funded 'Rising from the Depths' network.
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Finance For Development
Part of the activities of the IGDC Finance For Development (FFD) network
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The contemporary discourse on climate change and food systems in southern Africa
Come and listen to this seminar and take the opportunity to meet and chat with a group of scholars from South Africa
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Cyclone Idai: response, recovery and future risks
Workshop focusing on disaster planning, climate adaptation and energy infrastructure networks
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Pragmatics, Ethics, and Partnerships
This Africanist Research and Training Day at the University of York will provide training and discussion of African fieldwork and research
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High Modernism, Extraversion & Conflict at the Frontier: Ethiopian Developmental Ideology in a State of Emergency
Seminar jointly hosted with IGDC, University of York.
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Tropical Ecosystem Network: 11th meeting
This event focuses on Protected Areas and covers a range of topics relevant to Africa
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Objects and encounters at Songo Mnara, Tanzania
Public lecture on completed excavations at this 15th-century Swahili stone town
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Playing to the crowd: What election rallies tell us about political parties in Zambia
Free seminar
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The ‘colonial moment’ in the lives of objects in East Africa, 1860–1930
Free talk
Contact us
Africa Research Network at York
africa-network@york.ac.uk
Africa Research Network, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD