Donderdag 03 December 2015
workshop: Perpetual Migrants: Social Media and African Youth’s Search for Utopia
Donderdag 03 December 2015 15:00 - 17:00
The Connecting in Times of Duress research group of the Institute for History has invited Dr. Ayobami Ojebode, senior researcher at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria to present the seminar ‘Perpetual Migrants: Social Media and African Youth’s Search for Utopia’. Lipisius Building, room 1.47, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden
ASC Seminar: Social and technical change in artisanal gold mining in Siguiri, Guinea Conakry
Donderdag 03 December 2015 15:30 - 17:00
Seminar: Digging deeper than before. Social and technical change in artisanal gold mining in Siguiri, Guinea Conakry. In this seminar, Dr Cristiano Lanzano (The Nordic Africa Institute) draws from his ongoing ethnographic work in artisanal mining areas in West Africa to describe how migrant miners from neighboring countries and technological innovations have contributed to the rapid transformation of work conditions and institutional settings of gold mining around the village of Tonso (Upper Guinea, prefecture of Siguiri). This seminar will be organized together with the Department of Cultural Antropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University. Please register.
