Date: December 13, 2012
Venue: Riara University
Time: 3-5 pm
Presentation by Justice Albie Sachs
Presentation: by Design Artist Anne Feenstra, Nov. 20 2012 @ Kuona Trust
Venue: Kuona Trust Gallery
Time: 2 pm
Entry: Free
About the Photographer
Anne Feenstra is a Dutch architect living and working in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is the owner of AFIR Architects and also works as a design artist who features the use of thepakul in Afganistan
The pakul is a soft, round-topped men’s hat, typically of wool and found in a variety of earthycolours. It resembles a bag with a round, flat bottom. The wearer rolls up the sides nearly to the top, forming a thick band, which then rests on the head like a beret or cap. In Afghanistan thepakul is particularly popular in the mountainous areas of Badakshan, Nuristan, Panjsher and Konar.
Symposium: the Sidis – Indians of East African origin, Oct. 23 2012 @ BIEA
Date: October 23, 2012
Venue: the British Institute In Eastern Africa
Time: 10 am – 12.30 pm
Entry: RSVP on seminars@biea.ac.uk
Symposium by Dr. Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dr. Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi (b. 1945, Zanzibar) is Professor of Swahili and Comparative Bantu at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Uppsala University in Sweden.
This symposium focuses on the Sidis of Gujarat who are an interesting example of early globalization in the Indian Ocean lands, and the impact of modern globalization on diaspora communities. He has written a publication on the Sidis which will be on sale at the symposium for only Kshs 200.
Respondent: Prof Kithaka wa Mberia – Dept of Linguistics and Languages, University of Nairobi
Moderator: Tom Odhiambo – Senior Lecturer, Dept of Literature, University of Nairobi
Lecture/Book Launch: Can the African Neo-patrimonial State be Developmental? Sept. 21 2012 @ IFRA/BIEA Conference room
Date: September 21, 2012
Venue: IFRA/BIEA Conference room
Time: 1.30-3.30pm
Entry: Free [Reservation required: seminars@ifra-nairobi.net]
Lecture by Prof. Daniel Bach moderated by Dominique Connan
Download Lecture – Can the African neopatrimonial state be developmental – 21 Sept
Roundtable: Region building in Europe and East Africa, Sept. 19 2012 @ IFRA
Date: September 19, 2012
Venue: IFRA
Time: 1.30-4.30pm
Topic: Region building in Europe and East Africa – Old templates vs new scripts?
Presentations by: Prof. Daniel Bach (Emile Durkheim Centre, Sciences Po Bordeaux), Prof. Katumanga Musambayi (UoN) and Dr. Wanyama Masinde (CUEA)
To attend kindly register by sending an email to seminars@ifra-nairobi.net
Profiles
Prof. Daniel Bach is a Director of research of the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) at the Emile Durkheim Centre – for Comparative Political Science and Sociology, University of Bordeaux. He has published on Nigerian federalism, the foreign policies of Nigeria and South Africa, regional organisations and regionalisation processes in Africa, as well as on relations between France, the European Union, China, India and Africa.
Prof. Katumanga Musambayi is a professor in Political Science at University of Nairobi. He is an accomplished scholar in the field of insurgency groups having done his Ph.D work on the RPF and NRM in the 1990s. He has consulted extensively for the AU, IGAD, ICGLR and the UN on security sector reforms in Africa. Katumanga is a well published scholar in both local and international journals.
Dr Wanyama Musinde is Director of the Institute for Regional Integration and Development (IRID)which is based at the CUEA (The Catholic University of Eastern Africa). This Graduate Institute is the continent’s pioneer specialist university institute for research and training in regional integration. Wanyama is also founding Director of the African Integration House/ The East Africa Resource House, a regional integration think-do tank. He has worked as an adviser to governments on strategies and policies for regional integration, including working as Regional Integration Policy and Strategy Adviser to the Kenya Government.
*Entrance to this roundtable is free BUT prior registration is required by sending an email to seminars@ifra-nairobi.net
Public Lecture: History of Art in Kenya #1 by Dr. Dinna Pido, Sept. 19 2012 @ Goethe-Institut
Date: September 19, 2012
Venue: Goethe-Institut Auditorium
Time: 6 pm
Entry: Free
Kenya’s art history has been far-reaching, rich and vibrant. And yet, this history is little known, not only to a wider art interested public but also to the academic field. There is scant academic literature on art and contemporary art in Kenya.
Heading to the 50th anniversary of Kenya, Goethe Institut are starting a series of conversations and lectures that aims at remembering and discussing aspects, movements and events in the arts from the 60s on.
This series is starting with a presentation by Dr. Dinna Pido.
Editors pick for @Storymoja: British Ambassador to Kenya Dr. Christian Turner – Session at #HayFestKe, Sept. 14 2012 @ National Museum
The British Ambassador to Kenya Dr.Christian Turner will have a session on ‘the cultural and social transformative power of the internet and new technologies’
Date: September 14, 2012
Venue: British Council Court Yard
Time: 11 am
Festival Tickets: Kshs 1000/day and Kshs 1500/season
About
HE Dr. Christian Turner is the recently appointed British High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya. This will be his first time at Storymoja Hay Festival
Dr Turner was previously the Director for the Middle East and North Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he had responsibility for all UK policy and operations in that region. Prior to this he served variously in the British Embassy in Washington, as Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.
For more information read: http://www.hayfestival.com/p-5327-the-google-platform-ory-okolloh-dr-christian-turner-and-john-kampfner.aspx
Lecture: Managing Prehistory Resources in Eastern Africa, Sep 12 2012 @ Leakey Auditorium, National Museum
The National Museums of Kenya in collaboration with the Leakey Foundation, invite you to a special evening:
Title: “Managing Prehistory Resources in Eastern Africa: Opportunities and Challenges”
Presenter: Dr. Idle O. Farah (NMK Director-General)
Date:12th September 2012,
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium,
National Museums of Kenya
Time: 6.00 pm
Entry: FREE
Photographic Exhibition & Lecture: The Milky Way Through Science, History & Art, Sep 6-13 2012 @ Italian Institute of Culture
Presentation by Dr. Paola Platania, the curator of the Istituto di Fisica del Plasma of the Italian National Research Centre (CNR) at the Italian Institute of Culture on Thursday 6th September 2012 at 7.00pm.
The exhibition runs till 13th September 2012
Open from Monday to Thursday from 10.30am to 6.00pm.
On Friday from 10.30am to 4.00pm. – closed on Saturdays, Sundays & public holidays
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WHEREFORE SO MANY LIGHTS?
The spectacle of the arc of the Milky Way in the sky has filled every human generation with wonder, from prehistory to the present day.
Ancient civilizations the world over have built myths and legends attempting to express the intuition of a mysterious relationship between human life and the ineffable celestial nebula.
Throughout history, artists, poets and painters have been inspired by the faint silvery light of the Milky Way.
Starting from the 17th century, modern science has shown us the physical nature of the Milky Way. Today we know that the pale trail of light that we can see in the sky comes from the glow of the Galaxy in which we are immersed: a colossal structure made of hundreds of billions of stars – and we know that our Galaxy is not only made of stars: but also of dark matter, a giant central black hole and that it is in constant upheaval with violent explosions.
Have these new discoveries broken the enchantment? Is there still room for wonder? Have we lost hope for a relationship with the stars?
We will see that, unexpectedly, scientific knowledge itself shows us that life on the Earth has a deep and unforeseen correlation with the history and the structure of the Milky Way.
We will discover a relationship that could be even more intimate than the fabulous pre-scientific visions that were once daringly imagined.
Public Lecture: Rebooting Africa Innovation for Development by @Calestous Juma @ KICC
Date: August 14, 2012
Venue: KICC
Time: 2pm
About
Calestous Juma is a Kenyan Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Belfer Center’s Science, Technology, and Globalization Project.
He holds a Ph.D. in science & technology policy studies and has written widely on science, technology, and the environment.
Calestous is also a former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and Founding Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies.
Recently he was appointed to co-chair the new AU panel on science, technology, and innovation.