Agenda 09 - 15 April 2017

Zondag 9 april gaat Bart Luirink (ZAM) om 15.30 uur in gesprek met de Beninese kunstenaar Thierry Oussou bij Cargo in Context, een nieuwe schitterende kunstplek aan de Haparandadam in de Houthaven, tegenover het Amsterdam Theater. Praten over zijn achtergrond, zijn kunstenaarschap en zijn laatste werk, 'Une Histoire: Le Miel aux Levres.' Wat hebben taal, houten palen, Benin en de veranderingen in onze leefwereld met elkaar te maken? Daarna gaan Pauline Burmann, Emmelie Koster en Priscilla Macintosh onder leiding van Arno van Roosmalen met elkaar in gesprek over de rol van kunstenaars in bewustwording van maatschappelijke kwesties.

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The speaker, Biram Dah Abeid, is a Mauritanian politician and advocate for the abolition of slavery. He was listed as one of "10 People Who Changed the World You Might Not Have Heard Of" by PeaceLinkLive in 2014. He has also been called the Mauritanian Nelson Mandela by online news organisation Middleeasteye.net. Biram Dah Abeid received the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 2013. The lecture itself will be in French (see the abstract below). After the lecture a 20 minute film (in English) will be shown on contemporary slavery. The lecture will be introduced by Dr Mayke Kaag and Dr Mamoudou Sy. There will be time for questions and discussion. Please register

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PhD defence: Market Orientation in Ethiopian Seed Producer Cooperatives: Implications for Performance and Members' Livelihood Improvement. PhD candidate:DT (Dawit) Sisay. Promotor: prof.dr.ir. JCM (Hans) van Trijp. Co-promotor: dr.ir. FJHM (Frans) Verhees. Organisation: Wageningen University, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour

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Hendrik Verwoerds Apartheidsbeleid was volgens de Verenigde Naties een misdaad tegen de menselijkheid. Voor miljoenen Zuid-Afrikanen was hij het gehate gezicht van de dagelijkse onderdrukking. Er was echter één groep die hem door dik en dun bleef steunen: zijn blanke kiezers. Wat zagen zij in Verwoerd? Hoe overtuigde Verwoerd zijn kiezers en zichzelf ervan dat Apartheid moreel verdedigbaar was en dat niet zij, maar de rest van de wereld gek was? Historicus Bas Kromhout werkt aan een biografie over Verwoerd en zal in deze lezing proberen het mysterie op te lossen. Toegang: € 7,50  Reserveren: evenementen@zuidafrikahuis.nl

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Lecture by Aili Mari Tripp (Professor of Political Science and Evjue Bascom Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison). The talk is based on Tripp’s award winning Women and Power in Postconflict Africa, which looks at a gender-related consequences of the decline of major conflict in 17 countries in Africa over the past 20 years. The lecture explains why post-conflict countries in Africa have significantly higher rates of women’s political representation compared with countries that have not undergone major conflict. The lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Room E0.22 @ Roeterseilandcampus - gebouw E

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The 1994 genocide in Rwanda has been the central subject of many works of fiction including films, plays, and novels, to mention a few. This seminar focuses on novels and is built on the assumption that writing a novel about events as tragic as the genocide and the war implies that the novelists have to constantly make selections amongst events from the past and fill the blanks using their imagination. In so doing, they consciously or unconsciously engage in promoting one perspective on the past rather than the other. Speaker: Olivier Nyirubugara, The Hague University of Applied Science. Please register

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