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*University of Oxford *
*African Studies Centre*
*7^th Annual Researching Africa Day *
*Venue: St Antony’s College, 62 Woodstock Rd, Oxford*
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*Saturday, 11 March 2006*
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Researching Africa Day provides postgraduates with the opportunity to
meet with fellow researchers, exchange information and experiences and
discuss research strategies. The day is structured around brief
presentations made by postgraduates who have recently engaged in
research on or fieldwork in Africa, followed by discussion. There is a
public lecture open to all participants on the previous evening.
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*Friday 10 March, 5pm*
*Annual African Studies Lecture: Nissan Lecture Theatre*
Professor Francis Nyamnjoh (CODESRIA, Dakar)
'Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa'
*Saturday 11 March 2006*
*Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College*
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Session 1: 9h00 – 10h30
Africa in a Global Context: Neglected concepts and issues
1. Rebecca Hodes 'And the Band Played On' until 'Yesterday':
Representations of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in foreign and local
feature films’ (Oxford)
2. Xerxes Malki ‘The Lebanese in Ghana; researching an elite minority
group’ (Oxford)
3. Mara Leichtman ‘Researching the Lebanese Community in Senegal:
Between French Colonialism and Global Shi’ite Islam’ (Brown
University/Michigan State University)
4. [TBC]
*Coffee/Tea*
Session 2: 11h00 – 12h30
Africa and globalization: Researching Africa outside Africa – methods
and sources
1. Robert Skinner ‘On the trail of ‘turbulent priests’: reflections
on research into British anti-apartheid activism in the 1950s’
(Sussex)
2. James Doubleday ‘The New African Diaspora and the Pentecostal
approach to success in London’ (Cambridge)
3. Ludovic Lado ‘Agency in the global-local dialectics: A case study
of Religious Localization in Cameroon’ (Oxford)
4. Clare Coughlan ‘Researching Solidarity and Solidarity Research:
Lessons from a Study of G8-related Activist Discourse in Scotland
and in Mali’ (Edinburgh)
*Lunch (self service: approx £5)*
Session 3: 13h30 – 15h20
Preparing for fieldwork
1. Rachel Irwin ‘Malaria Amongst the Kisii: A Social Anthropological
Perspective’* *(Oxford)**
2. Michael Ofori-Mensah ‘Evaluating Anti-corruption Reform
Initiatives: Recent Fieldwork Experience from a Ghanaian
Perspective’ (Edinburgh)
3. Sally Matthews ‘But what then can we do? Reflections on the role
of the privileged in responding to poverty and injustice in
Africa’ (Birmingham)
4. Tilde Langevang ‘Researching youth in the city: experiences from
Accra, Ghana’ (Copenhagen/Royal Holloway)
5. [TBC]
Professor Francis Nyamnjoh, Director of Publications, CODESRIA
*Coffee/Tea*
Session 4: 16h00 – 17h50
In the field: Methods, problems and experiences
1. Katrien Pype ‘Female cosmopolitanisms in Kinshasa’ (Leuven)
2. Stacey Hynd 'Murder in Malawi – The Trials and Tribulations of
Researching Capital Punishment in Colonial Africa' (Oxford)
3. Miles Tendi ‘Research in repressive societies: Zimbabwe’ (Oxford)
4. Thula Simpson ‘Openness and secrecy in the oral history records of
the African National Congress of South Africa’ (London)
5. Julie Jenkins ‘The Trokosi Controversy: International
Representations and Ethical Responsibilities’ (Sussex)
Closing remark by Professor William Beinart
*18h00 – Drinks*
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