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Fellows' seminars

Political culture in post-colonial Africa and post-communist Eastern Europe: Towards explaining democratic underdevelopment – Fellows’ seminar by Petr Skalnik

10 December 2019
Fellows' seminars,  Iso Lomso

The audacity of imagining (African) history anew – Fellows’ seminar by Aretha Phiri

2 December 2019
Fellows' seminars

Monumental failures? Memorialisation, authority and disconnect in post-liberation Africa – Fellows’ seminar by Jonathan Fisher

26 November 2019
Fellows' seminars

Archaeology of a hungry mind – Fellows’ seminar by Marlize Lombard, Anders Högberg and Peter Gärdenfors

22 November 2019
Fellows' seminars

Africa must profit from leapfrogging to achieve sustainable transformation in health, education and agriculture – Fellows’ seminar by Reiner Klingholz and Sabine Sütterlin

19 November 2019
Fellows' seminars

White populism: Race and politics in the era of migration – Fellows’ seminar by Dorian Bell

11 November 2019
Fellows' seminars

In search of utopia: a fascinating glimpse into the novelist’s process – Fellows’ seminar by Ilija Trojanow

6 November 2019
Fellows' seminars

Studying the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease in the hope of future treatment – Fellows’ seminar by Carlos Ibanez

28 October 2019
Fellows' seminars,  Iso Lomso

Foregrounding spatiality in analyses of the postcolonial Western Indian Ocean novels – Fellows’ seminar by James Ocita

21 October 2019
Fellows' seminars

From one to many: Parallels between multicellularity and social behaviour – Fellows’ seminar by Vidyanand Nanjundiah

7 October 2019
Fellows' seminars

Demanding a ‘rightful share’? ‘Custom’, law and distributive claims on South Africa’s rural mining frontier – Fellows’ seminar by Sonwabile Mnwana

4 October 2019
Fellows' seminars

Reimagining democracy – Fellows’ seminar by Marcelo Neves

1 October 2019