Agenda 08 - 14 November 2015

PhD defence. Eutrophication, Nile perch and food-web interactions in south-east Lake Victoria. PhD candidate: IJM (Ilse) Cornelissen. Promoter: prof.dr. JAJ (Johan) Verreth. Co-promoter: dr.ir. LAJ (Leo) Nagelkerke, dr J Vijverberg. Organisation: Wageningen UR, Aquaculture and Fisheries

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Lunch seminar: International NGOs and African knowledge institutes: Exploring ways for successful collaboration. The Dutch Consortium for Rehabilitation Knowledge Network (DCR-KN) will reflect on its experiences with ‘knowledge networking’ in DR Congo, South Sudan, Burundi and Uganda.  During this lunch seminar we would like to share and specifically reflect on the practices and experiences of the African Studies Centre and DCR-KN regarding the collaboration with national knowledge institutes and to discuss the added value, lessons and challenges of these collaboration structures. Please bring your own lunch. The ASC will provide coffee/tea.  Please register

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Organised by Wageningen Institute of Animal Sciences (WIAS). Location: Zodiac Building, room A0107. Seminar on the occasion of the thesis defense of Ilse Cornelissen, Aquaculture & Fisheries Group, Wageningen University

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Historically, Timbuktu was the central site of intellectual activity in Sahelian Africa. The world held its breath when its libraries were under threat during the Islamist takeover of northern Mali in 2012. But what exactly is in the manuscripts there? And how did Saharan scholarship develop after the 17th century? This has been a mystery shrouded in the hundreds of thousands of documents and books alledgedly awaiting discovery. The final volume of The Arabic Literature of Africa catalogues and comments on the legacy of the libraries of Timbuktu and Mauritania. Speaker: Prof. Charles Stewart, Emeritus Professor University of Illinois Please register

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PhD defence. Ky'osimba Onaanya: Understanding Productivity of East African Highland Banana. PhD candidate: G (Godfrey) Taulya. Promoter: prof.dr. KE (Ken) Giller. Co-promoter: dr.ir. PA (Peter) Leffelaar, dr ir PJA van Asten. Organisation: Wageningen UR, Plant Production Systems

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