Prof. Inge Brinkman has been confirmed as a guest speaker during Research Week 2020. She will speak during the virtual 3rd Annual Conference on Status of African Women. The theme of the conference is “Women, Climate Change, Environment and Develompment”.
Prof., Brinkman is a Professor in African Studies at Ghent University in Belgium. From the start her trajectory was an interdisciplinary one: she finished her studies in History and African Studies, after which she received a Ph.D. degree from Leiden University (The Netherlands) in 1996 with a thesis on oral and written literature, identity and gender in Central Kenya.
Brinkman’s postdoctoral project from Cologne University (Germany) resulted in the publication of: A War for People:Civilians, Mobility, and Legitimacy in South-East Angola during the MPLA’s War for Independence (2005). After a study into the development organisation SNV (monograph: Bricks, Mortar and Capacity Building (2010), she became engaged.in a programme on communication technologies, mobility and social relations in Africa (https://mobileafricarevisited.wordpress.com/ ). One of the publications was the edition with Francis Nyamnjoh and Mirjam de Bruijn of Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa (2009).
For more information visit the conference page: https://uonresearch.org/current-events/rw-saw2020/
