Day 2 of our conference with CeSeR on security in Africa starts with panel 7 focused on gender, culture, and security with presentations by Oluwole Ojewale and Tessa Devereaux Evans chaired by Simeon Koroma.

Edinburgh weather cooperating for our CAS Edinburgh CeSeR conference on security in Africa (starting today!). Suggest attendees find time to take 2 min walk south of conference venue to see stunning Meadows in full bloom.

The 2024 CAS Edinburgh conference has kicked off. Kialee Nyiayaana currently presenting a paper on environmental remediation in Ogoni

Very excited to be welcoming so many fantastic scholars to Edinburgh next week for our CAS Edinburgh CeSeR conference ‘Security in Africa: Actors, logics and futures.’ Full programme here: sps.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/…

Simeon Koroma Yet migrants enact their own mirrored tethered mobilities by anchoring themselves in unwanted colonial spaces and mobilizing in and out of these spaces as necessary to get by Simeon Koroma

AT LONG LAST! Simeon Koroma and first drafted this in 2019 and it is now in print! One of the most challenging papers Ive done but glad we worked thru many iterations of it. Couldnt have done it with a better friend and colleague berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

Tomorrow at 3.30pm: Please join us for the launch of Dr. Laura Martin (Laura Martin )’s book ´Navigating Local Transitional Justice’, Chair & Discussant : Dr. Simeon Koroma (@africanstudies ) cambridge.org/core/books/nav…

It's publication day! So very happy to see this out and about - hopefully navigating its way to a library near you!

A monograph is never really solo-authored. It really does take a village. And for this I say, thank you.

Nottingham Politics Cambridge University Press

Very grateful to be selected as a winner of the 2023 York University Research Award. Big thanks to my mentors, colleagues, and friends who have inspired and supported my work🙏🙏🙏

Fantastic presentation from ⁦Simeon Koroma⁩ in our online African Politics Seminar series. ⁦Tanja Hendriks⁩

Professor Ola Uduku Ola Uduku congratulates Dr Simeon Koroma Simeon Koroma, while Carli Coetzee reads his citation as the winner of the 2022 Audrey Richards Prize for the best dissertation. Congratulations!

Recent political violence in Sierra Leone exposes the country’s post-conflict myth thegenderhub.com/blog/recent-po…/

Finalist:
Simeon KOROMA Simeon Koroma, for a thesis called 'Law Beyond the State: The Makings of Justice in Urban Sierra Leone' completed at School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh.

CAS @EdUniStudent nominations in Outstanding Course category include: George Karekwaivanane GeorgeKarekwaivanane, Thabani Mutambasere Thabani Mutambasere, Simeon Koroma Simeon Koroma and Maggie Dwyer Maggie Dwyer; Personal Tutor of the Year category includes Barbara Bompani Barbara Bompani, (2/3)

CAS @EdiUniStudent nominations in Tutor of the Year category include Simeon Koroma Simeon Koroma and Albert Mkony Albert Mkony and Teacher of the Year category- Nelson Oppong Nelson Oppong, Maggie Dwyer Maggie Dwyer and Albert Mkony Albert Mkony (3/3).

Big thanks to students who nominated me & my course 'Conflict Security and Development' for Edinburgh University Students' Association teaching awards. Such kind messages are extra special when designing & running it for the first time this year. Only possible with fantastic Simeon Koroma on the team.

Awesome news! A big thank you to ISA Northeast for selecting my book as winner of the 2021 Lee Ann Fujii Book Award. Thanks to the the award committee and reviewers. I deeply appreciate this recognition 🙏🏿👌

Alphege Bell (Alphege Bell), who was the first ever barrister to appear in court with dreadlocks, suggested there should be a law that recognises the impact wearing the wigs can have on black barristers.

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#HairDiscrimination

And some wonderful Scottish writers both past and present Writer 📝 More photos to follow on Monday

Stephen Forcer Laura Martin Simeon Koroma C Bradbury-Jones Critical African Studies Journal The article examines key concepts including ‘the vicinity of laughter’, the connections between laughter and memory, and the paradoxical relationship between lived experience, humour and violence.

We were proud to support the pilot project alongside Timap for Justice.