Jul 17Architecture as a gift in Sino-Africa relationsby Daniel Mulugeta As part of the African Statehood Architecture (ASA) research project, I have been conducting ethnographic fieldwork in...
Jul 10Architecture and politics in Africa - making, living and imagining identities through buildingsDate: 16 September 2020 Time: 10am - 5pm Convenor: Julia Gallagher (SOAS, University of London) Abstract: This one-day virtual conference...
Jul 1 Call for papers: Built environment, infrastructure and state power in north-east AfricaSOAS University of London - Understanding African Statehood through Architecture (ASA) North-east Africa Webinar: Built environment, infr...
Jun 11State-building in Ethiopia: tracing the state through architectural continuity and disruptionby Atnatewos Melake-Selam, Daniel Mulugeta, Joanne Tomkinson and Julia Gallagher The story of Ethiopia’s state has been told through buil...
Apr 9Dependence in the age of coronavirus: how a global pandemic is unsettling African buildingsBy Dr Joanne Tomkinson In February 2020, I was conducting research in Ethiopia for the African State Architecture (ASA) project. My area ...
Apr 3Professor Julia Gallagher's latest book: Zimbabwe’s International Relations - now in paperbackJulia Gallagher’s latest book, Zimbabwe’s International Relations: fantasy, reality and the making of the state, has just been released i...
Mar 13Who owns the Zimbabwean Parliament building?by Innocent Batsani Ncube Parliament building in Harare, Zimbabwe seen from Nelson Mandela Avenue One of the most enduring legends in Zim...
Feb 21ASA double panel at BISA conference in June 2020 The ASA team is putting on a double panel at the British International Studies Association annual conference 17-19 June 2020. The panel i...
Feb 14ASA Post-doctoral researcher Daniel Mulugeta publishes a book 'The Everyday State in Africa'.This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and ...
Jan 20ASA exhibition on state architecture in South AfricaState-ments, an exhibition that draws on Julia Gallagher’s research on popular ideas of state buildings, has just finished a tour of five...
Dec 9, 2019ASA exhibition on state architecture in South AfricaState-ments, an exhibition that draws on Julia Gallagher’s research on popular ideas of state buildings, has just finished a tour of five...
Dec 9, 2019Politics of Architecture in Africa workshopEighteen scholars working on politics and architecture in Africa met for a week-long workshop at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced ...
Dec 9, 2019Julia Gallagher appointed as Senior Research Fellow at Johannesburg Institute for Advanced StudiesJulia Gallagher has been appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies, part of the University of J...
Nov 25, 2019STATE-MENTS: a public exhibition about South Africa's state buildingsState-ments is a series of exhibitions in and about South African cities, which explores citizens' perceptions of their diverse and histo...
Nov 22, 2019Daniel Mulugeta Gebrie article published in the Journal of Critical African Studies.Daniel Mulugeta has published an article, 'Everyday conceptions of the state in Ethiopia: corruption discourses, moral idioms and the ide...
Nov 15, 2019 Public Lecture: Nation-building: a cloudy view of the pastPublic Lecture: Nation-building: a cloudy view of the past ASA is hosting a public lecture exploring the relationship between politics an...
Nov 8, 2019The Politics of Architecture in Africa - Workshop, Paper Presentations, Exhibition The Politics of Architecture in Africa Workshop, Paper Presentations, Exhibition 1-8 December 2019. The Politics of Architecture in Afric...