Africa Talks Autumn 2024

Programme

If you would like information for how to join a talk online, please email the convenor, Fuad Musallam (f.musallam@bham.ac.uk).

Wed 9 October

Value and violence in the making of Ukraine’s war economy 

Taras Fedirko, University of Glasgow

Wed 16 October

Silence as Presence: Care and Limits of Voice

Iza Kavedžija, University of Cambridge

A collaboration with the Centre for Urban Wellbeing

Wed 23 October

 'There’s No Place for Us to Run to Now’: Mind and Ecology on an Oil Palm Frontier

Alice Rudge, SOAS

Wed 30 October

Controlling the Capital City: State, Power and Urban Land in Africa

Tom Goodfellow, University of Sheffield

A collaboration with the International Development Department

Wed 13 November

Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman

Alice Wilson, Sussex University

A collaboration with the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC)

Wed 20 November

The Winds That Brought Us Here: Hurricane, Caribbean History, Capitalist World Ecology

Adom Philogene Heron, University of Bristol

Wed 27 November

The Everyday Politics of Food Co-op : Care, Aid, and Community in Austerity Britain

Celia Plender, University of Exeter

Wed 4 December

Speaking of Trust: Religion and Mutual Aid in Southwest Kenya

Teodor Zidaru, London School of Economics