Activities
Past activities:
30 November - 1 December 2011: "Subjects or Citizens? HIV/AIDS and Rural Communities in Southern Africa", International Conference
21-22 January 2011: "Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1970s: Crises, Conflicts and Transformations", International Conference
12 November 2010: "Rural development and poverty reduction in Ethiopia: strategies and policies" - Giorgio Mizzau International Workshop
23 October 2009: "Resources and security in sub-saharan Africa: competing on the control and exploitation of oil resources", seminar, prof. Gary Littlejohn, University of Bradford
5 June 2009: "Transitions in Central and Southern Africa. Democratisation, Populism and Power Politics in Southern Africa", panel organized for the 3rd AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, Leipzig, in collaboration with University of Sheffield and Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala
4 June 2009: "Disciplining Nature. Continuity and Change in Land and Environment Conservation Policies in sub-Saharan Africa", panel organized for the 3rd AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, Leipzig
13 March 2009: "Understanding Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: Alternative Theories and Practices", international conference organized within the Research Project co-funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR-PRIN 2006)
11 March 2009: "Between Authoritarianism and Democratization: The Challenges of a Transition Process in Zimbabwe", lecture, prof. Lloyd Sachikonye, Institute for Development Studies, University of Zimbabwe. This lecture was held at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Bologna
12 November 2008: "The USSR and Southern Africa during the Cold War", lecture, prof. Vladimir Shubin, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Science
9 May 2008: "AIDS, Poverty and Democracy in Africa", international conference
19 September 2007: "Rural Communities, Systems of Authority and Natural Resources. From Colonial Reforms to Processes of Decentralisation in Contemporary Southern Africa" panel organized for Cantieri di Storia IV, Italian Society for teh Study of Contemporary History, Marsala
11-14 July 2007: "Decentralising Power and Natural Resource Control: Responses and Perspectives", panel organized for the AEGIS European Conference on African Studies, Leiden
2 April 2007: "Myth and Reality: Unpacking Chinese-African Relations", lecture, prof. Chris Alden, London School of Economics
5 May 2006: "Competing Rights. Development, Governance and Access to Natural Resources in Africa", international conference
21 October 2005: "The West and Africa. Democracy and Nationalism from the First to the Second Transition", international conference
22-24 September 2005: "Nation-State and Nationalist Movements in Post-Colonial Southern Africa", panel organized for Cantieri di Storia III, Italian Society for teh Study of Contemporary History, Bologna
7 March 2005: "Frantz Fanon's Legacy in Postcolonial Africa", lecture, prof. Nigel Gibson, Brown University
28 February 2005: "People, Local Governance and Natural Resource Management in Eastern and Southern Africa", international conference organized at the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Department of Geography, King's College London
7-8 May 2004: "Latin America, the Balkans, Middle East and Africa. Legitimacy and Consensus, Crisis of the State and Political Transitions", international conference
3 December 2003: "Land and Politics in Zimbabwe", lecture, prof. Lloyd Sachikonye, University of Zimbabwe
* in this section, beside the activities of the Centre, are listed the initiatives carried out before the establishment of the Centre.