Agenda 01 - 07 December 2019

Titel: In search of repair: critical white responses to whiteness as a theological problem – a South African contribution. Promovendus:  G. van Wyngaard. Promotor: prof.dr. E.A.J.G. van der Borght, prof.dr. R. Tshaka. Onderdeel: Faculteit Religie en Theologie. Categorie: Theologie

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In his work Stephen Ellis probed the continuing influence of indigenous religions and cultural idioms and understandings of power on contemporary politics in West Africa. In this memorial lecture named after Stephen Ellis, Prof. Emmanuel Akyeampong draws on his insights to explore the nexus of spirituality, culture, and political power in the connected lives of three first generation African nationalist leaders: Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sekou Touré of Guinea, and Leopold Senghor of Senegal. Mission-educated (Catholic) in the cases of Nkrumah and Senghor, with the former even considering a priestly vocation and the latter deeply influenced by his Catholic faith, the exigencies of political power and nation-building necessitated reaching out to different religious constituencies. Imagining the African nation-state opened doors to various ethnic cultural influences. These processes were not unambiguous, unsurprisingly, and this first generation of nationalist political leaders – in their experiments with secular, modern African nation-states – would bequeath multiple registers that continue to shape modern politics in contemporary Africa. Emmanuel Akyeampong is the Ellen Gurney Professor of History and of African and African American Studies and Oppenheimer Faculty Director of the Center for African Studies at Harvard University. Please register

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Promovendus: Francis Lesilau
Promotoren: Prof.dr. G.R. De Snoo & Prof.dr. G. A. Persoon

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A Comparative Study of the tax System of Tanzania and The United Kingdom on The Promotion of Taxpayers Rights Especially with Respect to Legal Persons Subjected To Corporate Income Tax
PhD ceremony: mr. T.S. (Talib) Zahor. Supervisors: prof. dr. J.N. Bouwman, Prof. L.W. Gormley. Faculty: Law

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Op donderdag 5 december 2019 verdedigt S.P. Shihomeka zijn proefschrift, getiteld: ‘Citizen Engagement. Politics and Digital Media in Namibia’.
Promotor: Prof. dr. M.S.S.E. Janssen. Co-promotor: dr. P. Arora.
Ruimte: Senaatszaal; Gebouw: Erasmus Building; Locatie: Campus Woudestein

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This public lecture is hosted by the CRG 'Politics, Governance and Law in Africa' at the African Studies Centre Leiden. It is part of the Paulin Hountondji Tour initiated by the Globalisation Studies Groningen (GSG) programme at the University of Groningen, the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development (PCF) and the University of Münster. Paulin Hountondji is one of the most prominent African philosophers of the last fifty years. With his sharp and argumentative style of writing and with his outspoken position on the tasks of philosophising in Africa he has made friends and enemies. Most famous is his devastating critique of so-called ‘ethnophilosophy’ that takes African philosophy to be the collective worldviews of African peoples. He wrote his dissertation in Paris with Althusser and Derrida, and his book Philosophie africaine: critique de l'ethnophilosophie (Paris, Maspero 1976) (African philosophy, Myth and Reality, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983) was awarded the Herskovits Prize, and was selected as one of the 100 best African books of the 20th century; he was also awarded a Prince Claus prize and Mohamed El Fasi prize.

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PhD ceremony: S. (Sara) Raj Pant, PhD. Supervisors: prof. dr. ir. J. (Jan) Komdeur, Prof. D.S. Richardson. Co-supervisor: Prof. H.L. Dugdale. Faculty: Science and Engineering

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Op vrijdag 6 december houdt beeldend kunstenaar Marlene Dumas de 48ste Huizingalezing. In de Pieterskerk in Leiden zal Dumas een rede houden met als titel ‘Het Onverantwoordelijke Gebaar - of ga terug naar waar jij vandaan komt’. Dumas’ lezing gaat over gedachten en verschijnselen die zich opdringen wanneer gesproken wordt over beeldende kunst: begrippen zoals oorsprong, cultuur, vrijheid en censuur. En over de onontkoombare relatie tussen beeld en woord. Marlene Dumas (1953) wordt beschouwd als een van meest toonaangevende beeldend kunstenaars van deze tijd. Na haar opleiding aan de Universiteit van Kaapstad (B.A. Schone Kunsten, 1972 -1975) studeerde zij aan de Ateliers ’63 in Haarlem. Sindsdien woont en werkt zij in Amsterdam. Internationale bekendheid verwierf Dumas met haar vernieuwing van het geschilderde portret in ‘close up’ en de uitbeelding van de menselijke figuur. Zij speelt met de meerduidigheid van het beeld en de rol van de beschouwer. Op verschillende continenten zijn solotentoonstellingen te zien geweest: in 2008 in New York (MoMA) en in 2014 in Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum). In 2014 verscheen ook een hernieuwde uitgave van haar publicatie Sweet Nothings. Notes and Texts: een tekstbundel over haar rol als kunstenaar en die van de kunst in het algemeen.

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