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2011 

 
  • 13.10: Africa Seminar: Dr. Saul Dubow (University of Sussex): The Human Rights Moment in South Africa. 
  • 30.9: Africa Seminar: Karen Lauterbach (CAS) and André Sonnichsen (CAS): New research at Centre of African Studies. 
  • 22.6: Africa Seminar: Thomas Blom Hansen (Stanford University): (D)urban Africans and Indians. A story of mutual non-recognition.
  • 26.5: Africa Seminar: Professor Brian Raftopoulos (University of Zimbabwe) and Shari Eppel (Director of the Solidarity Peace Trust): Perspectives on Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement.
  • 24.5: Ph.d. Defence: Louise Mubanda Rasmussen (Centre of African Studies): From Dying with Dignity to Living with Rules. 
  • 3.5: Africa Seminar: Frank Mugisha (Director of SMUG - Sexual Minorities Uganda): Homosexuality and Sexual Minorities in Uganda.
  • 1.4: Africa Seminar: Linda Melvern (University of Wales) and Dr. Gérard Prunier (CNRS, Paris): War and conflict in the Great Lakes Region: Rwanda’s role and involvement in the wars in the Eastern DR. Congo. Causes and solutions to a chronic problem?
  • 14.3: Africa Seminar: Jørgen Elklit (Århus Universitet): The Kriegler Report, Institutional Transformation and Democratic Consolidation in Kenya.
  • 10.3: Africa Seminar: Linda Darkwa (University of Ghana, Legon): Beyond Abuja: Enhancing Security in West Africa through operationalizing the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms in West Africa. 

 

2010

  • 8.12: Africa Seminar: Maria Eriksson Baaz (NAI, Uppsala), Robin May Schott (DIIS) and Signe Arnfred (RUC): Gender, Conflict and Violence in Africa: Conceptualizations, Contestations
  • 18.11: Africa Seminar: Brian James (Sierra Leonean short-story Writer): Writing in The Land of Lions and Mountains
  • 11.11: Africa Seminar: Professor Mohamed Salih (Honorary Doctorate at the University of Copenhagen for his approach to African politics): Interpreting Islamic Political Parties
  • 4.11: Africa Now Seminar: Tendai Frank Tagarira (Zimbabwean Writer): Battle for Freedom of Speech and Expression!
  • 14.10: Africa Seminar: Christianity and Development Aid in East Africa
  • 7.10: Africa Seminar: Dr. Lawrence Dritsas (University of Edinburgh) David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition, 1858-64: exploring nature in southeastern Africa
  • 9.9: Inaugural lecture by MSO Professor Amanda Hammar: The Paradoxes of Displacement: Place, Positionality and Productivity in Changing African Contexts
  • 10.6: Africa Seminar: Prof. Ajay Dubey (Director, Area Studies Programme on Africa, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India): Emerging Dimensions of Indo-African Relations
  • 10.5: Africa Seminar: Prof. Rene Lemarchand (professor in political science, University of Florida): Mass Murder in the Great Lakes: Making the Unspeakable Comprehensible
  • 15.4: Seminar and  book launch: M-Banking, an African Financial Revolution: Seminar in cooperation with United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Ms Aida Opoku Mensah (director ICT, Science and Technology Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa), Ms Fatimata Sye Sylla (director Bokk Jang Bokk Jeff, Dakar-Senegal) & Dr Simon Bachelor (consultant on Mobile Government in Africa)
  • 8.4: Africa Seminar: Earnest Mudzengi (the Director of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA)) & Venitia Govender (a social justice and human rights activist): Zimbabwe's Inclusive Government - Breaking Promises or Bringing Progress?
  • 26.2: CAS 25th Anniversary
  • 10.2: Semester start seminar: Aili Mari Tripp (Professor of Political Science and Gender & Women's Studies, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Director of the Women's Studies Research Center): Women, Power, and Peacemaking in Africa

 

2009 

  • 9.12: Climate Wednesday: Special event: To be Hungry and Negotiate Climate Change
  • 3.12: Africa seminar: Kurt Mosgaard (Head of Task force Africa) Task force Africa in perspective 
  • 2.12: Climate Wednesday: Mikkel Funder (DIIS) Low carbon development and poverty alleviation in Africa: The facts, the options and the critique
  • 26.11: Africa seminar: Thorkil Casse (Associate Professor at Department of Society and Globalisation, RUC) Do we understand the linkages between economic growth, poverty targets and poverty reduction?
  • 25.11: Climate Wednesday: Ole Emmik Sørensen: CDM's and prospects for developing countries with special focus on Africa
  • 19.11: Africa seminar: Kakenya Ntayia (education activist from Kenya) The Academy for girls - education for girls in rural Kenya
  • 28.10: Climate Wednesday: Jonas Østergaard Nielsen (MA in anthropology, currently completing a PhD in geography at the Copenhagen University)
  • 22.10: Africa seminar: Charles Kinga (cand.mag., African Studies)
  • 21.10: Climate Wednesday: Heila Lodz-Sisitka (Associated Professor, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa)
  • 15.10: Africa seminar: Martin Brehm Christensen (Copenhagen University and Ibis)
  • 14.10: Climate Wednesday: Stig Jensen (director at Centre of African Studies) 
  • 8.10: Africa seminar: Nuradin Dirie (former presidential candidate in Somalia) 
  • 17.9: Africa seminar: Lindsay Whitfield (Project Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies)
    The Politics of Aid: African Strategies for Dealing with Donors
    Related documents: Aid Dependence Paper, Politics of Aid Presentation 
  • 10.9: Africa Seminar: Maria Ploug Petersen (cand.mag., African Studies)
    Related documents: Microfinance presentation
  • 1.9: Semester start lecture: professor Mohamed Salih (Honorary Doctorate at the University of Copenhagen; Professor of Politics of Development at International Institute of Social Studies, University of Rotterdam) 
  • 15.5: Africa Seminar: Maxi Shoeman (head of the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria)
    The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) - does it value?
  • 12.5: Africa Seminar: Catherine Kennedy (Programme Coordinator, South African History Archive (SAHA))
    Sources of Freedom Struggle - Anti-apartheid archives and the use of history in democratic transition
  • 7.5: African Youth and Copenhagen University
    Young Africans' view on the Africa Commission - A debate meeting with 8 young Africans participating in the Danish Africa Commission
  • 28.4: Africa Seminar: Dr. Dag Henrichsen
    Pastoral modernity, territoriality and the Genocide in German-Southwest Africa (Nambia) 
  • 22.4: Africa Seminar: Matthew Engelke 
    Post Pentecostalism - Notes on the Multi-temporal dimensions of Rupture
  • 24.3: Africa Seminar: Stig Jensen (Director Centre of African Studies) Perspektiver på det nye indisk-afrikanske partnerskab.
  • 17.3. Seminar: Modern Islamic Legal Pluralism in Africa - Focus on authority and the family
  • 10.3: Africa Seminar: Peter Tygesen (journalist) 
    De gode menneskers land - Perspektiver på evaluering af dansk udviklingsbistand med Mozambique som case.
  • Public seminar: Thomas Mandrup (research fellow at the Institute of Strategy, Royal Danish Defence College)
    Is peace in sight? - The recent developments in the conflict in the DR Congo.
  • 10.2: Africa Seminar: Poul Erik Lauridsen (Anthropologist and Programme and Climate Change Manager at CARE Danmark)

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2008

Nordic Africa Day, 9 - 10 October 2008