Centre of African Studies at 50June 6-8, 2012
University of Edinburgh
Theme: Cutting Edges and Retrospectives.
Emerging out of the Hayter enquiry into Area Studies in the United Kingdom, CAS was established with an explicitly interdisciplinary brief.
Since 1962, our researchers have maintained one foot in a core discipline – such as Social Anthropology, History, Geography, Education, Economics, Development Studies, and Politics – and the other in African Studies more broadly.
Over the past 50 years, CAS has generated (...)