Agenda 29 November - 05 December 2015

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

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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.

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Spraakmakende gesprekken met mensen als Gloria Wekker en Charl Landvreugd. In samenwerking met het Netwerk Slavernijverleden worden er pakketjes van kennis aangereikt in de vorm van verschillende gastsprekers. De aanleiding is de Afro-Nederlandse Encyclopedie, die Zwart zijn in Nederland belicht vanuit verschillende perspectieven, en die in 2016 online komt. Sprekers: Markus Balkenhol, Charl Landvreugd, Wayne Modest en Gloria Wekker. Met speciale artistieke bijdrage van Simone Zeefuik. Moderator: Quinsy Gario. Aansluitend panelgesprek met Stephanie Afrifa, Simone Zeefuik, Jessica D’Abreu en Kiza Magandane.

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