In Conversation with Swahili Singer Maia Lekow
18 September 2015 | 6 pm - 8 pm | Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
SOAS, University of London 
Maia represents a new colour from Kenya's contemporary musical landscape. With a swathe of support slots for artists such as James Blunt (UK), Habib Koite (Mali), Thandiswe (South Africa), and Mafikizolo (South Africa), Maia has also graced major festival stages across Africa including HIFA (Zimbabwe), Visa For Music (Morocco), Sauti za Busara (Zanzibar) and Kigali UP (Rwanda). Her reputation as a highly-engaging live act has emerged from her shows both with a six-piece band, and as an intimate solo-acoustic performer. Maya will discuss her music career with SOAS Swahili expert Dr Chege Gihtiora as well as performing some of her beautiful acoustic songs.
Chair: Chege Githiora, SOAS
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ Book Talk: "The Politics of African Industrial Policy"
5 October | 5:15 pm - 7 pm | Room 4429
in partnership with the Economic Transformation in Africa Working Group
SOAS University of London
Lindsay Whitfield will discuss her new book published by Cambridge University Press
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ Timbuktu Seminar - An Illustrated talk by Alexander Huddleston
15 October | 1 pm - 3 pm | Room 116
SOAS, University of London
Huddleston's photographic project '333 Saints: A Life of Scholarship in Timbuktu' captures a way of life and learning as it was shortly before the militants overran the city. Her photographs show a deeply rooted, ancient Islamic tradition of tolerance, erudition, and faith - and a city that has built its very identity around scholarship and a love of books and learning.
Chair: Professor Louis Brenner (SOAS).
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ SOAS Public Lecture on Africa Film
19 October | 5:15 pm - 7 pm | Room 4429
in collaboration with the SOAS Centre for Film Studies
by Dr Litheko Modisane, based at University of Cape Town
Chair: Dr Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ Why so much interest in China-Africa Links?
23 October | 7 pm - 9 pm | Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
in association with the SOAS China Institute and the Young China Watchers (YCW)
Speaker: Dr. Carlos Oya (SOAS)
Moderator: Raffaello Pantucci (RUSI and founder of YCW)
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ Africa & Renewable Energy
21 October | 7 pm - 9 pm | Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
in association with the Business Council for Africa
An event that will bring together academics, and businesspeople to discuss issues of renewable energies and the environment
Chair: Professor Rosaleen Duffy, SOAS
For more information contact cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ Baraza - Swahili Conference
31 October | 9 am - 6 pm | room 4429
An interdisciplinary conference that will bring together experts on Swahili language, history, and culture.
Call for papers out soon
Followed by musical event and reception in the Djam Lecture Theatre from 6 pm - 9 pm
SOAS, University of London
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ Sudan & South Sudan Seminar Series
The series brings together academic and practitioner experts on contemporary Sudan and South Sudan to deliver a truly interdisciplinary series of seminars. Ranging from legal, economic, political and cultural issues the seminars will challenge current views to provide insight on the future of the Sudans.
All seminars will be in room 4429 from 5:15 pm - 7 pm.
16 November 2015 - Arms and the Men: Who sells weapons, who uses them, who is killed by them
Arms now flow unchecked around both Sudan and South Sudan and they kill thousands of civilians each year in both countries. Conflict has raged in South Sudan for over half a century, both before and after independence from Sudan in 2011, while since the Islamist regime seized power in Khartoum in 1989, it has been at war with its own citizens and has become one of Africa's biggest arms producers, partly thanks to its military pact with Iran. The panel will discuss who is circulating these weapons and why.
Chair: Gill Husk
7 December 2015 - Agricultural Potential in the Sudans: Past experience and future outlook
The prospects for Sudan and South Sudan to become major agricultural producers have been deliberated for over a century. Modern schemes began in the Anglo-Egyptian period. Most have failed or had limited success. Experts from the field will discuss the failures and successes of these projects and evaluate the pros and cons of the continued pursuit of modern intensive crop production. Both countries intend to build more dams along the Nile and to attract foreign producers through competitive land lease and tax breaks. The panellists will highlight the likely social, environmental and economic impacts of these policies.
Chair: Mawan Muortat
25 January 2016 - Telling the Story Their Way: The Arts & Social Action in the Sudans
Culture in the Sudans has for some time been relegated to the scholarly margins, yet the expressive arts play an important role in inspiring reflection, challenging power, promoting identities and restoring individual and community morale. This panel will address the arts in their capacity as critical acts in the forging of citizenly imaginaries and will explore a range of ways that they are used to allegorize personal aspirations, strengthen communities and cultivate political engagement.
Chairs: Angela Impey (SOAS) and Mariya Hassan (SOAS)
15 February 2016 - The Use of Law as an Instrument of Power in Sudan and South Sudan
Multiple regimes, harking back to colonial times, have used law as an instrument of power in Sudan and this tendency has continued. The present regime in Sudan has from the very outset used decrees and legislation to entrench and broaden the power of the state and its agents. It has also employed the law as a means to pursue its project of building an Islamic state by adopting Shari'a law. Gendered personal status and public order laws are an integral part of this project. This seminar examines the extent to which the regime in Sudan has employed the law since 1989, and the underlying rationale and effectiveness of initiatives, including with reference to the role of the judiciary and other actors. It considers emerging parallels in South Sudan, such as the broad National Security Services Law adopted in 2015. The seminar will also reflect on resistance to the use of law as an instrument of power in Sudan and South Sudan, and the challenges faced by those advocating legal reforms and greater rights protection.
Chair: Dr Lutz Oette (SOAS)
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ Book Discussion: "Administration and Taxation in Former Portuguese Africa, 1900-1945"
9 November | 5:15 pm - 7 pm
edited by P J Havik, A Keese, and M Santos | published by Cambridge Scholars
Speaker: Philip J Havik
Chair: Professor William Clarence-Smith, SOAS
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ The English-Everywhere Agenda in Education in a Highly Multilingual Cameroon: towards a recipe for disaster? by Dr Seraphin Kamdem (SOAS)
23 November 2015 | 5:15 pm - 7 pm | Room 4429
SOAS University of London
Dr Seraphin Kamdem holds a PhD from SOAS. His doctoral thesis focused on African languages and education, investigating multilingual adult literacy in the rural areas of Cameroon, in Africa. His initial research into adult literacy as a psycholinguistic skill and an educational activity expanded into investigating issues of social status and identities of adult learners, grassroots agency and institutional development, local ownership and community response, all mediated through literacy as an endogenous and community-based enterprise. Details regarding this event will be provided shortly.
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ China in Africa Workshop
12 - 13 November 2015 | 9 am- 5 pm | Room T101/T102
in association with the SOAS China Institute
SOAS, University of London
The Centre of African studies and the SOAS China Institute will present a high level workshop on the broad theme 'China in Africa'. The two day workshop, by invitation only, will bring together senior scholars from the UK, China, Africa and the US to discuss issues around investments and economic opportunity by Chinese companies in Africa.
The Workshop will be closed by an evening public Keynote lecture, on Wednesday 11 November 2015 given by leading expert on this topic, Dr Deborah Brautigan.
Chair: Carlos Oya, Julia Strauss, & Tim Pringle
For more information and to register contact: cas@soas.ac.uk ____________________________________________________ More information regarding details of Term 1 events will be updated on the CAS website shortly. For any questions please contact ab17@soas.ac.uk or wh6@soas.ac.uk
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