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Fellows' seminars

Mind the gap: Women in law and leadership across Africa – Fellows’ seminar by Jarpa Dawuni

10 August 2022
Fellows' seminars

Of oxen, trees, sardines and stones: Writing a multispecies environmental history of the ‘Big Hole’, Kimberley South Africa, 1870-1920

29 July 2022
Fellows' seminars,  Iso Lomso

Unpacking the emergence of black feminist Afrikaans poetry in the 21st century – Fellows’ seminar by Bibi Burger

13 June 2022
Fellows' seminars,  Iso Lomso

Is change good or bad? Highlighting the chemical defence strategy of plants against photo-induced stress – Fellows’ seminar by Edwin Madala

9 June 2022
Fellows' seminars

Why do autocracies in Africa promote women as leaders? – Fellows’ seminar by Aili Mari Tripp

6 June 2022
Fellows' seminars

Can fintech help to close the financing gap for small and medium size enterprises in Africa? – Fellows’ seminar by Marcus Fedder

24 May 2022
Fellows' seminars,  Iso Lomso

Tapping into local soil knowledge to develop sustainable agricultural systems in Madagascar – Fellows’ seminar by Nasandratra Ravonjiarison

19 May 2022
Fellows' seminars

Trespassing as a way of being: Ancestral heritage in South Africa – Fellows’ seminar by Silvia Tomášková

16 May 2022
Fellows' seminars,  Iso Lomso

Analysing the effect of neoliberal restructuring on peasant farmers in southern Africa – Fellows’ seminar by Freedom Mazwi

13 May 2022
Fellows' seminars

The fishy tale of trout: a story about more than trout – Fellows’ seminar by Knut Nustad

11 May 2022
Fellows' seminars

Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge – Fellows’ seminar by Erik Olsson

29 April 2022
Fellows' seminars

Using complexity science to solve practical, important and urgent problems in agriculture – Fellows’ seminar by Mario Giampietro, Aloisius Louie, Ansel Renner and Richard Sikora

21 April 2022