The Northeast Africa Forum brings together students and scholars interested in examining the region from a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. Our remit runs from the Great Lakes, through East Africa to the Horn of Africa. By hosting lectures by experienced researchers alongside post-graduates, and by mixing academic and policy research, we hope to come to a shared, factually informed and politically relevant understanding of trends in the region.
This term, the seminar will look at a variety of issues, including the historical context and implications of divisions between Sudan’s military and other armed groups, the relationships between war, displacement and city-making in Somali cities, contestation in the history of a Tanzanian river basin, and the role Tigrinya-speakers have played and are still playing in the history of Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The seminar will be taking place Wednesdays at 4.00 pm UK time, at the African Studies Centre*, 13 Bevington Road, OX2 6NB, unless otherwise noted below**.
| 11 October – Willow Berridge (Newcastle) Western Sudanese marginalization, coups in Khartoum and the structural legacies of colonial military divide and rule, 1924-present |
| 1 November – MJ Chuhila (University of Dar es Salaam) Contested waters: negotiating multiple actors on the Rufiji basin – Tanzania, 1960 to the Present |
| 8 November – Peter Chonka (KCL) & Jutta Bakonyi (Durham) **NEW DATE** Book launch & discussion: Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities Discussant: Gayatri Sahgal (Oxford) |
| **CANCELLED** 15 November – Haggai Erlich (Tel Aviv University) Book launch & discussion: Greater Tigray and the Mysterious Magnetism of Ethiopia (Discussant tbc) |
*Where possible, events will be held in hybrid format. Unless otherwise noted, no prior registration is required to participate in the seminar, but please check the seminar page on Oxford Talks for the log-in details of each call.
If you would like to present your own research at a future seminar, please contact one of the conveners.