In this seminar we hosted Antonia Witt of the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Their lecture is titled The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar.

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The African Union and Post-Coup Intervention in Madagascar

In this seminar we hosted David Anderson of Warwick University as he presented on "The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands".

The Dead Speak: Identity, Autochthony and the Occult in Kenya’s Western Highlands

In this seminar we hosted Professor Francis Nyamnjoh as he presented his lecture titled Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs.

Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs

In this seminar we hosted Jennifer Riggan as she gave a lecture entitled: The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution

The Intimate State: Teachers as Fault Line Between Repression and Revolution

In this podcast we hear from Selina Molteno, Publisher, Oxford & Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, as they discuss their lecture titled An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War.

An Expatriate Family in the Nigerian Civil War (Book Presentation and Discussion)

In this seminar, Rogers Orock (University of Witwatersrand) and Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) jointly provide a lecture titled: Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa.

Anusocratie? Freemasonry, Sexual Transgression and Illicit Enrichment in Postcolonial Africa

For this podcast, we co-hosted Tim Allen of LSE with Oxford's Anthropology Department.

Colonial encounters in Acholiland and Oxford: The Anthropology of F.K.Girling and Okot p'Bitek

Jonny Brooks-Bartlett, Senior machine learning engineer at Spotify, gives a talk on his experiences as a data scientist and as machine learning engineer in top rated companies around the world. It's been almost 4 years since I left academia to work as a data scientist in industry. In that time I've worked in several teams at a couple of companies. I've also spoken to many other data scientists and consulted literature to get a better picture of the current landscape. In this presentation I take you on my journey from the point at which I decided to become a data scientist to now becoming a senior machine learning engineer at a global music streaming service, Spotify. I'll describe the projects I've worked on and do a bit of a deep dive into a ranking system that I built whilst working at Deliveroo. Finally I'll discuss some observations that I have about data science in general that I hope will give a better idea about how data science works in industry and how it differs from what one might do in an academic setting. Brief bio: Jonny Brooks-Bartlett is a senior machine learning engineer at Spotify working on improving the search experience for customers. Outside of work Jonny is a keen science communicator delivering public talks on science maths and AI. He also enjoys sports and taking part in functional fitness competitions

Looking back on 4 years in data science

The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa. In every Faculty and Division across the University there are active research programmes focused on the continent. The African Studies Centre, within the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, acts as a focal point for graduate level work and faculty research on Africa. Alongside the vibrant doctoral programmes, the MSc in African Studies, inaugurated in 2006, is already recognised as Europe's most prestigious and successful training programme in its field.

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