Events
2019 - 2020 Calendar
Formal launch of Africa Group
Date: 11th December 2019
Time: 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Location: Conference Room, LIAS (Leicester Innovation Hub), 128 Regent Road
- Opening remarks – still working on who will present these (possibly an external)
- Next, one co-chair will present our brief – tell people who we are, what we do, why we need funding and why the group is vital to the academic environment in the university (30 mins)
- Second co-chair will deliver our Inaugural Chair Lecture: Race and Racialisation in International Politics (45 minutes)
- Drinks, refreshments and networking (30 mins)
Book Launch: Insurgency and War in Nigeria
Date: December / January
Event / Research Talks
Date: February
Some event ideas
Date: February - May 2020
- ‘Rethinking youth resistance’: with some collaborators in South Africa (Co-lead Prof Gavin Brown and Dr Diane Levine)
- Projected collaboration with International Law and Policy in Africa Network (ILPAN). Electoral Violence in West Africa Project (Dr Eki Omoregbe). Possible collaborators: ’Funmi Iyanda, Professor ‘Funmi Olonisakin.
- Host one of the College’s “Research Salons” – widely advertised free launches, this time specific to an Africa-relevant theme.