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Monday 23 June 2025 9am

Join us for a two-day event of learning and celebrating the people and the work conducted by the Africa Research Network at York

Tuesday 21 May 2024 9am

To feature African Week, a series of events is being organised by Winnifred Bedigen.

Friday 17 May 2024 6.30pm

Join us to raise funds for Ana Onse Mpata Umodzi (AOMU), a charity that helps children access education in Malawi. There will be great African music, a raffle draw, snacks and much more.

Wednesday 1 May 2024 10am

Dr Olayinka Ajala of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Leeds Beckett University invites you to join his first African Research Initiative (ARI) Workshop.

Thursday 28 March 2024 12am

Join us for an engaging online event on 27 March where Dr Jo Rose, an academic and researcher in humanitarianism, and Ala Kheir, an accomplished photojournalist from Sudan, come together for an insightful discussion.

Friday 22 March 2024 9am

What is dignity in research? Whose dignity do we value, and whose do we neglect, in the design, implementation and impact agendas of our research? How do we study dignity as lived experience and why is this important?

Wednesday 28 February 2024 4pm

Phil Burnett will be talking about missions in South Africa using archives in the Borthwick

Thursday 22 February 2024 1pm

Learning, remembering and correctly pronouncing one’s name are important steps to ensure respect and inclusion, particularly in our diverse community.

Monday 23 October 2023 9am

Bringing people together internationally for training, capacity sharing, interdisciplinary data integration to discuss pressing co-identified scientific, practical, or policy questions addressing climate change challenges across African Mountains.

Monday 18 September 2023 9am

The African Conference on Linear Infrastructure and Ecology 2023 will be held in Nairobi from the 18th to the 21st of September 2023. Registration and abstract submissions are now open.

Thursday 27 July 2023 10am

Security and development in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel

Thursday 27 July 2023 9am

Security in the Lake Chad Basin and Sahel

Monday 3 July 2023 9am

STFC Food Network+ is organising its 5th Annual Conference on 3-4 July 2023 in York, UK, with the theme of 'Innovations for Smart, Sustainable, and Safe Food Systems'.

Friday 2 June 2023 7pm

Our experts explore the complex dynamics between the two continents and the deeply-rooted social and political challenges that, if better understood, could pave the way for better collaborations and dialogue in the future.

Tuesday 4 April 2023 9am

Dr Nyumba will be speaking at the Nature Positive Solutions for Climate Resilience webinar co-hosted by Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), USA showcasing nature-positive innovative work of early career researchers from across the globe.

Tuesday 28 February 2023 8.45am

Supporting the realisation of the African Leadership Meeting

Saturday 7 March 2020 1pm

The Lord Mayor of York, Cllr Janet Looker, would love you to join her at this celebration of African food and culture, with Africans resident in York sharing with you their national foods and drinks.

Tuesday 18 February 2020 1pm

Centre for Historical Economics and Related Research at York (CHERRY) workshop. All welcome!

Tuesday 21 January 2020 12pm

Everyone knows about the impact of smoking tobacco on health, but what about where it comes from, how it is produced and who grows it?

Friday 8 November 2019 6.30pm

A talk and panel debate to explore some of these challenges facing pastoralists, and discuss the value, and future development, of research from the REAL project.

Friday 8 November 2019 3pm

An exhibition on research into climate change at York

Tuesday 8 October 2019 12pm

This seminar addresses how ideas of collective forms of property ownership, in the form of 'Community Trusts' and ‘Communal Property Associations’ (CPAs) came about legally, politically and socially in South Africa.

Monday 7 October 2019 6pm

This public lecture showcases some of the projects being conducted as part of the GCRF-funded 'Rising from the Depths' network.

Friday 26 July 2019 9.30am

Part of the activities of the IGDC Finance For Development (FFD) network

Thursday 11 July 2019 10.30am

Come and listen to this seminar and take the opportunity to meet and chat with a group of scholars from South Africa

Thursday 11 July 2019 9am

Workshop focusing on disaster planning, climate adaptation and energy infrastructure networks

Friday 7 June 2019 9am

This Africanist Research and Training Day at the University of York will provide training and discussion of African fieldwork and research

Thursday 6 June 2019 5pm

Seminar jointly hosted with IGDC, University of York.

Friday 31 May 2019 12pm

This event focuses on Protected Areas and covers a range of topics relevant to Africa

Wednesday 15 May 2019 6pm

Public lecture on completed excavations at this 15th-century Swahili stone town