Date: April 12, 2012
Venue: BIEA
Entry: RSVP (020 2613996, 0787608719, 0723110471)
Time: 5pm
Topic: Fostering Entrepreneurship -the role of enterprise in economic development
Facilitator: Prof. Richard Harrison (Professor of Entrepreneurship & Management)
Date: March 21, 2012
Venue: BIEA Seminar Room – Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 1.30 – 3.30pm
Entry: RSVP seminars@biea.ac.uk
Presenter: Dr. Patrick Mbataru, Department of Agribusiness Management and Trade, Kenyatta University
This will be followed by a debate on: The Gains and Challenges on Land Reforms in Kenya with Mr. Ibrahim Mwathane (Director of Land Development and Governance Institute)
This discussion will help open latitude for updating knowledge on key achievements and associated challenges to date to the reform.
Chair: Dr. Ambreena Manji, BIEA Director and Prof. Christian Thibon, IFRA Director
Synopsis
Land subdivision is one of the processes whose aim is to release land to the market. It allows development of infrastructure in an area. Formal processing of land subdivision also act as a deterrent to emerging informal land markets which lead to urban sprawls and blights. But the process is informed by many factors, resulting to either efficient or dysfunctional land markets.
The land market in Nairobi is distorted. The accelerated subdivision of hitherto prime agricultural land in a time of key debate on land and in the wake of a new constitution calling for land reforms calls us to interrogate the dynamics of land mutation around the country.
The British Institute in East Africa (BIEA) invites you to our upcoming seminar scheduled for 9 Thursday February 2012 at 11.30am-12.30pm. The seminar, based on a collaborative
project between Dr Timothy Clack and Dr Marcus Brittain will focus on the team’s latest archaeological investigations in the Lower Omo Valley.
Dr Clack is a lecturer in archaeology and anthropology at the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. His research interests include archaeological mediation, syncretism and religious fusion, anthropology of conflict, as well as memory and cultural landscapes. Dr Brittain, a researcher with the University of Cambridge is interested in the interaction of landscape, memory, and identity within indigenous communities in the UK and in E. Africa. He is also interested in the socio-politics of cultural heritage and archaeological interpretation and is currently in the process of developing a historiography of the role of the archaeological discourse in post conflict situations.
The Lower Omo Valley is well known as a rich resource for anthropological and ecological studies, and of course for its fossilised record of the evolution of hominin species. However, the archaeological potential for exploring the later prehistory of the region has gone unrecognised. It was therefore the focus of the current project, initiated in 2008, to intensively survey an area of the Mursi tribal-ethnic territory in conjunction with a targeted scheme of excavation. The results have been surprising, revealing a unique landscape of megalithic architecture and lithic assemblages, together spanning a time period from the Middle Stone Age to the later Iron Age. This presentation will provide an overview of these results and a preliminary consideration of their implications.
This seminar is FREE and open to all those interested in the topic.
If you plan on attending, please RSVP by emailing office@biea.ac.uk
Date: January 12, 2011
Venue: British Institute of Eastern Africa (BIEA)
Time: 3 -4.30pm
Entry: Prior Reservation with Kerry (kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk)
This presentation will be given by Dr Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi. Dr Kinyanjui has been a guest scholar at various international institutions such as United Nations Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland and more recently Nordiska African Institute, Uppsala , Sweden. She is also an established author of books such as Social Capital, Micro and Small Enterprise and Poverty Alleviation and Women, Informal Economy and Urban Dynamism, the latter of which she will be drawing her presentation from.
The seminar will be chaired by Professor Patrick Adero Alila, a research professor and the former director of the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi (UoN). Besides his teaching and research engagements at UoN, Professor Alila is also a leading specialist in sustainable development and an advisor to the government and the United Nations organisations.
Download the Thurs 12 January 2012 Seminar programme (pdf)
Date: December 7, 2011
Venue: British Institute of Eastern Africa (BIEA)
Time: 11am -12.30pm
Entry: Prior Reservation with Kerry (kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk)
This presentation will be given by Dr Radha Upadhyaya, an economist with extensive teaching experience at the Department of Finance and Management Studies at SOAS, University of London.
In Kenya, Dr Upadhyaya has been involved in policy reform, the restructuring of a failed Kenyan bank, and has also served on the board of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
The seminar will be chaired by Dr Ambreena Manji who is the Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.
Download the The Shallowness and Fragility of Kenya’s Banking Sector programme
The BIEA invites you to a seminar this October on the development of a pan-African writing system. The presentation is scheduled for;
Date: Friday October 28, 2011
Venue: BIEA
Time: 2-3.30pm
Entry: RSVP if you plan to attend (kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk)
Titled: Language, Cultural Symbolism, and Values-The Case for an AfroScript
This presentation will be given by Phillip Keane, an international educator and linguist whose research interests into ancient African script led to the development of a proto-type African writing system called the AfroScript – a writing system which can be used to write almost any African language.
Phillip has worked in various parts of East Africa, Europe, the Middle East, as well as the Caribbean.
This session will be chaired by Professor Humphrey Ojwang’. Prof. Humphrey is a lecturer at the Institute of African Studies at the University of Nairobi.
Download the Afroscript Program
Date: Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Venue: The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) seminar room
Location: Laikipia Road, Kileleshwa
Time: 11.00am-12.30pm
Entry: Prior registration
To register email: humphrey.mathenge@biea.ac.uk
Speaker: Prof. John Mack, President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
Chair: Dr. Hassan Wario Arero, Director of Museums, Sites, & Monuments – National Museums of Kenya (NMK)
Abstract: Different seas, different histories? Reflections on the western Indian Ocean
The seminar discusses some of the arguments in the speaker’s recent book The Sea, A Cultural History. It begins by suggesting that seas have different characteristics which need to be taken into account in assessing the human engagement with them. Interpretations based on the Mediterranean or the North Sea have dominated interpretation of wider histories as have terrestrial understandings of what it means to be at sea.
Topics discussed will include navigational practices, conceptions of the sea, trading practices and piracy. The occupation of Madagascar and the Swahili islands is instructive in terms of the implications of moving across the Equator. The mismatch between astrological systems and navigational knowledge, both based on observations of the stars, provides a suggestive conclusion.
Download Map and Directions
July 15, 2011
Venue: BIEA seminar room
Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm.
Entry: register with Kerry (kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk)
The talk, titled the context of primate evolution on Rusinga and Mfangano Islands, forms part of ongoing research focused on understanding the evolution and adaptations of the earliest fossil apes.
The presentation will be made by Dr Kieran McNulty, an associate anthropology professor at the University of Minnesota and chaired by, Dr Fredrick Manthi, a senior Palaeontologist at the National Museums of Kenya (NMK).
Download further details on the talk. Primate Evolution on Rusinga & Mfangano Islands
Due to unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances, Professor John Mack has with deep regret had to cancel his trip to Kenya and therefore his Seminar too (Different Seas, Different Histories?), which was scheduled for
Date: July 6, 2011
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) Seminar Room, Laikippia Road, Kileleshwa
Speaker: Prof. John Mack, President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
Chair: Dr. Hassan Wario, Director of Museums, Sites & Monuments-National Museum of Kenya (NMK)
Entry: RSVP with Kerry (Kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk)
Tel. Contacts: 0735 260 004 or 0724 576 600
This seminar has been rescheduled to a later date and details will be communicated once we get them. Please accept apologies from BIEA.
The seminar discusses some of the arguments in the speaker’s recent book The Sea, A Cultural History. It begins by suggesting that seas have different characteristics which need to be taken into account in assessing the human engagement with them. Interpretations based on the Mediterranean or the North Sea have dominated interpretation of wider histories as have terrestrial understandings of what it means to be at sea. Topics discussed will include navigational practices, conceptions of the sea, trading practices and piracy. The occupation of Madagascar and the Swahili islands is instructive in terms of the implications of moving across the Equator. The mismatch between astrological systems and navigational knowledge, both based on observations of the stars, provides a suggestive conclusion.
Download Different seas, different histories poster and Map and Directions (pdf)
Due to unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances, Professor John Mack has with deep regret had to cancel his trip to Kenya and therefore his Seminar too (Different Seas, Different Histories?), which was scheduled for
Date: July 6, 2011
Venue: British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) Seminar Room, Laikippia Road, Kileleshwa
Speaker: Prof. John Mack, President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA)
Chair: Dr. Hassan Wario, Director of Museums, Sites & Monuments-National Museum of Kenya (NMK)
Entry: RSVP with Kerry (Kerry.kyaa@biea.ac.uk)
Tel. Contacts: 0735 260 004 or 0724 576 600
This seminar has been rescheduled to a later date and details will be communicated once we get them. Please accept apologies from BIEA.
The seminar discusses some of the arguments in the speaker’s recent book The Sea, A Cultural History. It begins by suggesting that seas have different characteristics which need to be taken into account in assessing the human engagement with them. Interpretations based on the Mediterranean or the North Sea have dominated interpretation of wider histories as have terrestrial understandings of what it means to be at sea. Topics discussed will include navigational practices, conceptions of the sea, trading practices and piracy. The occupation of Madagascar and the Swahili islands is instructive in terms of the implications of moving across the Equator. The mismatch between astrological systems and navigational knowledge, both based on observations of the stars, provides a suggestive conclusion.
Download Different seas, different histories poster and Map and Directions (pdf)
