[Civsoc-mw] BZS Research Day 17 June Staying Alive in Zimbabwe

[Diana Cammack]

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Subject: [Bzs-info-l] BZS Research Day 17 June Staying Alive in Zimbabwe

Dear all,

The programme for the 2017 Research Day on 17 June is now complete barring
last minute changes, and full of interest - you can register on line to
secure your place:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/staying-alive-in-zimbabwe-tickets-33048520013

If you prefer to pay by cheque, please print out and use the form at the end
of this email. 

Looking forward to seeing you in Oxford next month.

BRITAIN ZIMBABWE SOCIETY RESEARCH DAY 2017 Staying Alive in Zimbabwe - Food,
Land and Livelihoods 

St. Antony´s College, Nissan Theatre, 62 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6JF

Saturday 17 June 2017, 9.00am - 5.30pm (doors open from 8.30am) In
partnership with the Oxford African Studies Centre, the Journal of Southern
African Studies
(JSAS) and the Britain & Zimbabwe Sustainable Agriculture Network (BAZiSAN)

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/staying-alive-in-zimbabwe-tickets-33048520013

DRAFT PROGRAMME 

8.30-9.15 	Registration in the Nissan Theatre Foyer

9.15-9.30	Welcome and Introduction
Dr Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Chair, Britain Zimbabwe Society Professor Jonny
Steinberg, Director, African Studies Centre, Oxford University

9.30-10.30	Panel 1:  Land and Livelihoods - the Human Rights Context
Speakers:	Dr Charles Laurie, Director, Verisk Maplecroft -  Reaping
What You Sow: The Land Seizure 
Era´s Legacy of Violence and Insecurity
Dr Khanyisela Moyo, Ulster University -  The Right  to Food, Transitional
Justice and Postcolonial Zimbabwe´s Land Seizures
Chair:	Dr Knox Chitiyo 

10.30-11.00	Tea/Coffee break - Buttery, Besse Building 

11.00-12.00	Keynote speaker:  Dr Patience Mutopo, Chinhoyi Institute of
Technology -  Land, Rural 
Livelihoods and Food Security: Understanding the Sustainability Question in
Zimbabwe
Chair	Dr Robin Palmer, Mokoro

12.00-13.00 	Panel 2: The Political Economy of Food
Speakers: 	Dr Phillan Zamchiya, Institute for Poverty, Land and
Agrarian Studies, University of the 
Western Cape (PLAAS) -  Patronage-Politics in Zimbabwe's post-2000 Food
Production Arnold Chamunogwa, University of Oxford - Remaking Political
Order on Commercial Farmlands through Partisan Authority
Chair: 	McDonald Lewanika, LSE

13.00-14.00 	Lunch: St Antony´s cafeteria, Besse Building (or your own
choice)

14.00-15.30	Panel 3: Livelihoods and Entrepreneurship, Sustainability
and the Environment
Speakers:	Tapiwa Chatikobo, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian
Studies, University of the 
Western Cape (PLAAS) - Land Reform and Livestock Production in Matabeleland
South Mbongeni Ngulube, KUL University, Leuven -  Rural Farming, Markets and
Livelihoods (working title) Dr Tony Mutukumira, Massey University Institute
of Food Science and Nutrition (invited) - Contribution of Food Science and
Technology in National Development: the Case of Zimbabwe
Chair:		Na Ncube, The Global Native		 

15.30-16.00	Tea/Coffee break - Buttery, Besse Building

16.00-17.00	Panel 4: Food, Nutrition and Culture
Speakers: 	Pathisa Nyathi, historian - Food as Cultural Expression
Dr Nick James, The Open University -  From `Fly Frontier´ to `Cotton
Country´: Social Change and Agrarian Transformation in the Northwest of
Zimbabwe Dorcas Gwata, Zimbabwe Health Training Support (ZHTS) -  Nutrition
in Clinical Practice
Chair:		Dumi Senda, Oxford University 

17.00-17.30	Summing up
Speaker:		Professor Diana Jeater, Goldsmiths, University of
London

During the Research Day, the BZS will be hosting the launch of Welshman
Hadane Mabhena: A Voice for Matabeleland, written by Marieke Faber Clarke
with Pathisa Nyathi and published by Amagugu Publishers, Bulawayo, in
September 2016. The book is distributed in the UK by African Books
Collective. Copies of the book will be on display in the Besse Building
during the lunch and refreshment breaks, for sale and author signings. 

The Africa Book Centre will have a book exhibition during the breaks, also
in the Besse Building, where a wide range of titles relating to Zimbabwe
will be on sale. 

ONLINE BOOKINGS BY CREDIT/DEBIT CARD TO

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/staying-alive-in-zimbabwe-tickets-33048520013


IF YOU PREFER TO PAY BY CHEQUE, PLEASE PRINT OUT AND USE THIS FORM

Complete and return with your cheque to: Margaret Ling, Treasurer, BZS, 25
Endymion Road, London N4 1EE
Enquiries: margaret.ling at geo2.poptel.org.uk. Please register me/us for the
BZS 2017 Research Day: 

Standard £30  ______ BZS member £20  _______  Unwaged £15  _______
Organisation £50  _______

NAME:  _________________________________  TELEPHONE:
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EMAIL:
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POSTAL ADDRESS:
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I enclose a cheque for £________ made out to `Britain Zimbabwe Society´
Please note: includes refreshments but not lunch. 


Margaret Ling
25 Endymion Road
London N4 1EE
Tel +44 (0)20 8348 8463
<margaret.ling at geo2.poptel.org.uk>
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