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This year’s Sub-Saharan Africa Research Network Symposium features a number of different speakers including:

Dr Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala

Emanuelle Santos

Dr David Ellard

Dr Paul Komba (University of Cambridge)

Stephanie Cheng

Damaris K Kinyoki

Dr Saverio Stranges

If you are interested in attending please contact Ahmed Sarki to register: a.m.sarki@warwick.ac.uk

ALL WELCOME! Participants should email M.J.Wakeman@warwick.ac.uk and please let Matthew Wakeman know in case they are unable to stay for all of the day.

The Colloquium welcomes presentations on any aspect of the European Reformation(s) very broadly conceived. Previous talks have ranged from late medieval music via Renaissance food cultures and Reformation theology to seventeenth-century almshouses.

Kevin Butcher: Coin debasement and the decline of Rome

Kate Beats: Smashing and Burning Pots: Ritual Context of Pottery in Athens

John Arnold (Birkbeck)

Heresies and Rhetorics: Looking forwards and backwards from the C13

Seminar paper entitled, 'Heresies and Rhetorics: Looking forwards and backwards from the thirteenth century.'

"Histories of the Novel, Spectres of Empire: Said, Lukacs, Green"

This year's Said Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Joe Cleary, Professor of English at National University of Ireland, Maynooth and at Yale University. He is a leading specialist in postcolonial studies, Irish literature, and the comparative analysis of colonialism. He is the author of Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001); The Cambridge Companion to Modern Irish Culture, co-edited with Claire Connolly, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005); and Outrageous Fortune: Capital and Culture in Modern Ireland, (Dublin: Field Day Publications, 2006, new edition 2007, reprinted 2009).

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Email: Rashmi.Varma@warwick.ac.uk