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201 Creative Commons Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa Dr Susan Williams (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London)gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series on 19 January. Susan Williams 23 Jan 2012
202 Creative Commons The Killing Fields: The Impact of the Global Arms Trade on Africa Andrew Feinstein gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series on the arms trade and its impact on Africa. Andrew Feinstein 29 Nov 2011
203 Dept Seminar: Spirit in Motion In this Anthropology Dept Seminar, Thomas Kirsch of Konstanz University, discusses the 'Morphology and Mobility of the Holy Spirit in Africa'. 14 October 2011. Thomas Kirsch 29 Nov 2011
204 Creative Commons Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform: Politics, Production and Accumulation Phillan Zamchiya (International Development/St Antonys), gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series. Phillan Zamchiya 18 Nov 2011
205 Creative Commons Potency and the Role of the Environment in KhoeSan medicine Chris Low, African Studies, Oxford, gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series. Chris Low 18 Nov 2011
206 Creative Commons African Local Knowledge: Natural, Biomedical and Supernatural Ideas about Livestock Health Karen Brown (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine) and William Beinart (African Studies/St Antony's) give a talk for the African Studies seminar series. Karen Brown, William Beinart 18 Nov 2011
207 Creative Commons The Shadow of the ICC: Positive Complementarity and the Situation in Kenya Professor Chandra Sriram (SOAS) gives a talk for the Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict/Changing Character of War Seminar Series. Introduced by Jennifer Welsh (Oxford). Chandra Sriram 11 Nov 2011
208 Creative Commons Power, Ambition and Ideas in the political career of Apartheid Prime Minister H F Verwoerd Jonny Steinberg, (African Studies/St Antony's) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series. Jonny Steinberg 08 Nov 2011
209 Creative Commons The Ecology of Conflict: Human-Wildlife Conflict on the Hwange National Park Boundary, Zimbabwe' Andrew Loveridge (Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology) gives a talk for the St John's College Colloquium on Environmental Conflict and its Resolution (joint event with Oxpeace and Human Sciences). Andrew Loveridge 31 Oct 2011
210 Creative Commons Ethnic violence, water scarcity and managing resources to promote peace Karen Witsenburg (Both ENDS and Max Plank Institute for Anthropology) gives a talk for the College Colloquium on Environmental Conflict and its Resolution (joint event with Oxpeace and Human Sciences). Karen Witsenberg 31 Oct 2011
211 Cruising through Uncertainty: Mobile Phone Practices and the Politics of Respect in Southern Mozambique Julie Archambault (African Studies/St Annes College), gives a talk for the African Studies Centre. Julie Archambault 27 Oct 2011
212 ORENGA Special Lecture - Fashola's Lagos: the man, the method, the megacity Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, gives a special lecture for the African Studies Centre. Babatunde Fashola 27 Oct 2011
213 Humanitarian Intervention in Africa: History, Theory, Policy and Practice Meanings, definitions, and problems with humanitarian intervention from international relations and historical perspectives from a British Academy funded workshop on Humanitarian Intervention at Nuffield College, Oxford 21 June 2011. Jennifer Welsh, Bronwen Everill, Josiah Kaplan, Nina Berman 09 Sep 2011
214 Creative Commons Celebrating Gavin Williams: The politics of oil and identity in Nigeria: A political economy of ethnic nationalism Kathryn Nwajiaku, Oxford, gives a talk on The politics of Oil and Ethnic Nationalism in Nigeria's Niger Delta as part of the Nigeria Economy and Society section of the Celebrating Gavin Williams Conference. Kathryn Nwajiaku 23 Aug 2011
215 Medical Anthropology at Oxford: Healing earth and sacred clay among the Mun, SW Ethiopia This presentation by doctoral candidate Kate Fayers-Kerr was delivered at the Medical Anthropogy at Oxford conference, 10 Years at the Intersections, June 2011. Kate Fayers-Kerr 25 Jul 2011
216 Creative Commons Tropical Medicine in Kenya Professor Kevin Marsh tells us about his research on Tropical Medicine in Kenya. Kevin Marsh 19 Jul 2011
217 Creative Commons Beyond Kampala: Taking Stock of the ICC: Current Issues and Future Prospects Third and final panel session of the Beyond Kampala conference. Darryl Robinson, Phil Clark, Donald Ferencz 20 Jun 2011
218 Creative Commons Beyond Kampala: The State of State Practice on Aggression Second Panel session of the Beyond Kampala conference. Astrid Reisinger Coracini, Robbie Manson, Bill Wilson, Deborah Ruiz Verduzco 20 Jun 2011
219 Creative Commons Beyond Kampala: What Happened in Kampala? First Panel session of the Beyond Kampala: The ICC, the Crime of Aggression, and the Future of the Court, held in St Anne's college on 13th May 2011. William Schabas, Noah Weisbord, Stefan Barriga, Jackson Maogoto 20 Jun 2011
220 Creative Commons Beyond Kampala: The ICC, the Crime of Aggression, and the Future of the Court - Keynote talk Keynote by Vice President Hans-Peter Kaul, Judge of the ICC, introduced by Benjamin Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen case at the Nuremberg Trials. Part of the Beyond Kampala conference held in St Anne's College on 13th May 2011. Hans-Peter Kaul 20 Jun 2011
221 The Contribution of African Research to Migration Theory- Territory, Subjectivity and the Power of Movement The third IMI African Migrations Workshop was organised by IMI with the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN) at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. Loren Landau 15 Jun 2011
222 Using Scenarios in Academic Research to Study the Future: Introduction The Global Migration Futures team will introduce some of its key findings on future migration in North Africa and Europe, arising from the project's recent second stakeholders workshop in Cairo. Hein de Haas 02 Jun 2011
223 Worldliness, Citiness, Postcolonial Life and Thinking from the South Achille Mbembe, Professor of Social Theory, University of Stellenbosch, gives the second 2011 Africa Studies Annual lecture on 26th May 2011. Achille Mbembe 01 Jun 2011
224 'City, Art, Motion: Rethinking the "Now" in Johannesburg' (Annual Lecture 2011) Sarah Nuttal, Research Professor, Department of English, University of Stellenbosch, gives the first 2011 African Studies Annual Lecture on 26th May 2011. Sarah Nuttal 01 Jun 2011
225 Creative Commons Ethnicity, Power and Kinship. Female Chiefs in Tanzania, 1870-1940 Heide Schmidt, Professor of African Studies, University of Vienna, gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series on 16th May, 2011. Heike Schmidt 23 May 2011
226 Creative Commons Re-framing peace building and controlling the state: The case if Ethiopia. OxPeace 2011 Iginio Gagliardone, Research Assistant, Centre for Government and Human Rights, Cambridge, gives the third talk in session three of the 2011 OxPeace Conference. Iginio Gagliardone 17 May 2011
227 Creative Commons Drugs, Destabilisation and UN policy in Guinea-Bissau: The role of Investigative Journalism. OxPeace 2011 Daniel Ruiz, PhD Candidate, Instituto Gutierrez Mellado, Madrid, gives the first talk in session three in the 2011 OxPeace Conference. Daniel Ruiz 17 May 2011
228 Women, Sports and Societies in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (African History and Politics Seminar) As part of the Women's Sport in Africa conference (University of Oxford, 7 Mar 2011), Prof. Nauright (George Mason Univeristy) presents on historical research looking at sports in Africa, with a particular view to women's sport and his own work. John Nauright 13 May 2011
229 Affective hunger: bread and famine in ethiopian christian spirituality Cressida Marcus gives a talk for the Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) seminar series. Cressida Marcus 06 Apr 2011
230 Dept Seminar: Why do Bayaka Pygmies sing so much? In this Anthropology Dept seminar (28 January 2011), Dr Jerome Lewis (University College London) examines the place and cultural transmission of music and sound to the Bayaka Pygmies of the Central African Republic and Congo. Includes examples. Jerome Lewis 18 Mar 2011
231 Support Democracy Abroad: The Record in Africa Prof Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Nuffield College, gives a talk for the Rothmere American Institute on 2nd Feb 2011. Thomas Carothers 14 Mar 2011
232 Creative Commons Politics and Genocide: Rwanda (African Studies Seminar) Dr Omar McDoom (London School of Economics) looks at a single community in southern Rwanda, using spatial mapping, in order to understand why some people chose to kill during the violence and others did not. Omar McDoom 06 Mar 2011
233 Creative Commons Government and press relations in South Africa Seminar delivered by Professor Anton Harber, Caxton Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and visiting fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. Anton Harber 04 Mar 2011
234 Climate change and cultural transitions over the last 160,000 years in NW Africa Angela Vaughan, School of Archaeology, Oxford, talks at the 1st Oxford Interdisciplinary Desert Conference hosted by the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, on the 15-16 April 2010. Angela Vaughan 24 Feb 2011
235 Creative Commons Using 1950s-1960s sources: the case of Soviet Policy in west Africa Fourth presentation of the Research Approaches to Former Soviet States: A Practical Introduction conference. Introduction by Jon Waterlow. Alessandro Iandolo 22 Feb 2011
236 The Consequences of Violent Politics in Zimbabwe: Norton in 2009 Jocelyn alexander gives a talk for the Hilary Term 2011 Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series on the 16th February 2011. Jocelyn Alexander 21 Feb 2011
237 The Future of Africa: Challenges and Opportunities Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, gives the first in the 700th Exeter College Anniversary lecture series at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on Africa; the challenges it faces and the opportunities it has. Kofi Annan 21 Feb 2011
238 Blood Disorders and Human Malaria Professor Sunetra Gupta explains the surprising relationship between blood disorders and malaria in humans. Could two blood disorders ever be better than one? Part of the Oxford Abridged series of short talks. Sunetra Gupta 10 Feb 2011
239 Creative Commons The case of the slave ship Progresso: the Royal Navy, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Cape (African Studies Centre Seminar) Prof. Harries examines the surprising role the Cape played in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the challenges the Royal Navy was forced to deal with in stopping slave ships. Patrick Harries 09 Feb 2011
240 Creative Commons RSC Astor Lecture: Gendered Violence and the Politics of Memory in Sudan's Conflict Zones This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's 2nd Astor Lecture which was on Tuesday 25th January 2011 at The Taylor Institute, University of Oxford. Sondra Hale 26 Jan 2011
241 Creative Commons Malaria and Global Health Dr Climent Casals-Pascual tells us how new tools can help us diagnose and manage malaria more effectively. Climent Casals-Pascual 02 Nov 2010
242 Creative Commons Malaria and Global Health Dr Climent Casals-Pascual explains how the development of new tools to diagnose and manage malaria more effectively will allow us to decrease the mortality of this condition. Climent Casals-Pascual 02 Nov 2010
243 Creative Commons Malaria Vaccines Professor Adrian Hill talks about recent developments of vaccines against malaria. Adrian Hill 18 Oct 2010
244 Creative Commons Malaria Vaccines Professor Adrian Hill has been studying the immune system and malaria susceptibility in African children for years. We asked him about his latest findings in the development of vaccines against malaria. Adrian Hill 18 Oct 2010
245 Creative Commons Dr. Brian Angus on Tropical Medicine Writer and medical historian Conrad Keating talks to Dr. Brian Angus, Director of the Wellcome Trust UK Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine in Oxford, about his interest in science and how this inspired him to work with infectious diseases in Africa. Brain Angus, Conrad Keating 14 Sep 2010
246 An Africanist's Legacy: Responsibilised citizens? - Discourses and practices around care of the self among HIV positive people in Tanzania Presented by Dr Nadine Beckmann (Leeds) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workshop in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin', held at the School of Anthropology, Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. Nadine Beckmann 24 Aug 2010
247 Credit societies and the search for school fees in Uganda Presented at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workshop in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin' held at Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. Co-authored by Richard Vokes. David Mills 24 Aug 2010
248 An Africanist's Legacy: Credit societies and the search for school fees in Uganda Presented by Dr David Mills (Oxford) at 'An Africanist's Legacy - A Workshop in Celebration of the Work of David Parkin' held at Oxford, 8-9 July 2010. Co-authored by Richard Vokes. David Mills 24 Aug 2010
249 Pirates of Somalia Dr Sarah Percy and Dr Anja Shortland give a talk on Pirates of Somalia for the Extra-Legal Governance Institute. Sarah Percy, Anja Shortland 20 Aug 2010
250 Protection for Sale? War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo-Ugandan Border Timothy Raeymakers, University of Ghent gives a talk for the Extra-Legal Governance Institute on War and the Transformation of Regulation on the Congo-Ugandan Border. Timothy Raeymakers 18 Aug 2010
251 Rwanda and the Great Lakes: A personal view from the Oxfam Archive This podcast is the second part of a recording made on 25 August 2005 as part of the Oxfam Archive Oral History project and is an interview with Maurice Herson, he had many interesting and challenging times with Oxfam including in the Great Lakes crisis. John Magrath, Maurice Herson 11 Aug 2010
252 Sudan in the late 1980s: A personal view from the Oxfam Archive This podcast is the first part of a recording made on 25 August 2005 as part of the Oxfam Archive Oral History project and is an interview with Maurice Herson, he had many interesting and challenging times with Oxfam including working in Sudan in the 80s. John Magrath, Maurice Herson 04 Aug 2010
253 Creative Commons Development as an Alien Culture: the purposes of governance in South Africa Dr Jonny Steinberg gives the 2010 Africa Studies Centre Annual lecture held on 11th June 2010, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Oxford University. Jonny Steinberg 26 Jul 2010
254 Managing Transition: the National Peace Accord, South Africa, 1991-94 Delivered by Rev. Dr. Liz Carmichael MBE, Chaplain and Tutor in Theology, St John's College, University of Oxford; and Facilitator and Trainer under the National Peace Accord. Part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series, Trinity 2010. Liz Carmichael 21 Jun 2010
255 A Truth Commission Goes Abroad: Liberian Transitional Justice in New York Delivered by Dr. Jonny Steinberg, Author and Journalist; Visiting Fellow, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford. Part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series, Trinity 2010. Jonny Steinberg 21 Jun 2010
256 Uganda Roundtable: Researching the movements of and Ugandan military campaign against the Lord's Resistance Army in eastern Congo, southern Sudan and Central African Republic. A round table discussion led by Professor Ron Atkinson, Director of African Studies, University of South Carolina. Part of the Oxford Transitional Justice Research Seminar Series, Trinity 2010. Ron Atkinson 21 Jun 2010
257 Creative Commons Intelligence and the Dhofar Insurgency: New Perspectives Prof Clive Jones (Leeds University) gives a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series. Clive Jones 14 Jun 2010
258 Strategic Shortfall: The Somalia Syndrome and the March to 9/11 Prof Robert Patman (Otago, New Zealand) gives a talk for the Centre for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict seminar series. Robert Patman 14 Jun 2010
259 Creative Commons Medicine without Frontiers: An Oxford physician-scientist working in Kenya. On one of Kevin Marsh's regular visits to Oxford, the historian Conrad Keating caught up with the world-renowned malariologist and asked him what initially drew him to tropical medicine... Kevin Marsh, Conrad Keating 04 Jun 2010
260 Creative Commons Forging a New Frontier in Oxford Medicine The historian Conrad Keating continues his history of Oxford's groundbreaking contribution to health in the tropics by asking David Warrell what motivated him to work in Africa... David Warrell, Conrad Keating 12 May 2010
261 Creative Commons The UN's role in Overcoming Development Challenges Special Lecture given by former Prime Minister of New Zealand and now Administrator of the United Nations Development Program the Rt Hon. Helen Clark. She is introduced by Director of the Global Economic Governance Program, Professor Ngaire Woods. Helen Clark, Ngaire Woods 11 Mar 2010
262 Cervical Cancer in Africa This podcast features interviews with three of the delegates at the conference on cervical cancer in Africa. They share their views about the problem of cervical cancer in Africa and discuss what the international community can do to help. Princess Nikky Onyeri, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayan, Julian Lob-Levyt 12 Feb 2010
263 Creative Commons Beyond the Bottom Billion Prof. Paul Collier discusses the contradiction of resource rich countries with troubled economies, including how the harnessing of natural assets can go wrong, and what can be done to ensure their correct handling. Paul Collier 30 Nov 2009
264 Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2009 : Beyond Blankets: in search of political deals and durable solutions for the displaced This podcast was recorded at the Refugee Studies Centre's Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture which was on Wednesday 18th November 2009 at the Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford. Jan Egeland 27 Nov 2009
265 4 plus degrees: a drastic reduction in the renewable energy potential of sugarcane Fourth presentation of session 2 (Agriculture, Food and Water Security) of the 4degrees International Climate Conference. Rasack Nayamuth 05 Nov 2009
266 What would happen to barley production in Finland if the global temperature increases above 4 degrees? Third presentation of session 2 (Agriculture, Food and Water Security) of the 4degrees International Climate Conference. Reimund Rotter 05 Nov 2009
267 Adapting African food systems to a 4 degree world Second presentation of session 2 (Agriculture, Food and Water Security) of the 4degrees International Climate Conference. Polly Ericksen 05 Nov 2009
268 4 degrees plus: what might this mean for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa? Second keynote address from session 2 (Agriculture, Food and Water Security) of the 4degrees International Climate Conference. Philip Thornton 05 Nov 2009
269 Creative Commons HIV: Will there ever be a vaccine? This talk looks at the University's work in China and Africa and its attempts to identify the key determinants of protective immunology against HIV infection that should guide future vaccine design. Sarah Rowland-Jones 28 Oct 2009
270 Pathology in Africa Dr Kenneth Fleming discusses the work that Oxford University is doing to help improve pathology services in Africa. Kenneth Fleming 13 Aug 2009
271 Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal Mamadou Diouf from the University of Columbia gives the 2009 African Studies Annual Lecture on the influence of Islam in Post-Colonial Africa, in particular, the public spaces of the former French Colonial City of St Louis in Senegal. Mamadou Diouf 16 Jun 2009
272 Childhood Cancer in the Developing World Professor Tim Eden talks about the challenges faced in curing childhood cancer in the developing world. Tim Eden, Vanita Sharma 16 Jun 2009
273 Detective Fictions: In Pursuit of Sovereignty in the Postcolony Professor Jean Comaroff gives the 2008 African Studies Annual Lecture on the situation in South Africa, the rise of crime and violence as well as the rise private security companies and belief in the supernatural forces of witchcraft. Jean Comaroff 05 May 2009
274 Alan Milburn on Cancer in Africa In this podcast, Alan Milburn, MP for Darlington and former Secretary of State for Health, explains the importance of international support to help improve cancer care in Africa, and talks about the challenges that must to be overcome. Alan Milburn, Vanita Sharma 27 Apr 2009
275 Cancer in Africa Professor David Kerr discusses the cancer burden in Africa, why he became interested in this problem, and how AfrOx is helping to improve the level of cancer care in Africa. David Kerr, Vanita Sharma 05 Feb 2009
276 David Kerr on Cancer Research Professor David Kerr discusses his work on colorectal cancer, the process of how new treatments are developed, the changes in the NHS that he has witnessed over his career, and how cancer care differs in developing countries. David Kerr, Vanita Sharma 05 Feb 2009
277 Interview with Professor Elizabeth Colson In this podcast Professor Elizabeth Colson is in conversation with Dr Anna Schmidt. Elizabeth Florence Colson is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Elizabeth Colson, Anna Schmidt 23 Oct 2007