Events

8 February: Seminar together with Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department for Development Policy, on "Bridging development policy and research in 'Democratic Development and Human Rights". 14.30 hrs, at the Nordic Africa Institute. Invitations only.

9-10 February: NAI participates in 'Citizenship transformations in a global world', a conference on development research, that takes place in Helsinki, Finland. NAI will attend the conference, displaying publications and providing information about the Institute's research. Keynote speakers at the conference include Pekka Haavisto and Professor Mervat Hatem. Read about the conference here.

23 February, Nuffield College, England: Mats Utas is a speaker at a workshop on 'Sierra Leone Elections 2012: Between Democracy and Violence'. Read about the workshop at Centre for International Studies' website.

1-2 March at Uppsala University: NAI will co-organise the conference on “Water systems and urbanization in Africa and beyond”. The workshop will be open for everyone. No fees or registration. More information can be found here (pdf). Programme (pdf).

7 March, 9.00-13.00 Public Lectures “ Remaking the city: Life and planning at the informal/formal interface”. Speakers: Vanessa Watson, University of Cape Town, Amin Kamete, Bangor University, UK, Carole Rakodi, University of Birmingham, and Alan Mabin, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Venue: Missionskyrkan, S:t Olofsgatan 40, Uppsala. Organized by the Urban Cluster at NAI, the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University and the African Centre for Cities, South Africa.   See the annoucement here (pdf).

7-8 March, International conference: "Changing socio-spatial configurations of inclusion and exclusion: planning and counter-planning in the African city". Organized by the Urban Cluster at NAI, the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University and the African Centre for Cities, South Africa. (Includes public lectures on 7 March, see above). Find more information about the conference here (pdf).

These events are part of the Urbanity Week which is organized in collaboration with the Department of Human Geography at Stockholm University, DevNet (the Development Research Network on Nature, Poverty and Power), and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. Another eventduring Urbanity Week is the symposium “Emergent cities: conflicting claims and the politics of informality”. See the annoucement here (pdf).