How to Turn Your Thesis Into a Book
Thu 11 Sept
|University of Amsterdam, Room 0.16, BG1
Registration Required The ASCA Global Africa Reading group is delighted to announce our first event for this semester: "How to Turn Your Thesis Into a Book." Thursday, 11 Sep 2025 (3:00-5:30pm CEST) in BGI 0.16 (In Person Only). Speaker: Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen (University of Pretoria)
Time & Location
11 Sept 2025, 15:00 – 17:30 CEST
University of Amsterdam, Room 0.16, BG1, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, Netherlands
About the event
Registration is required. This event is person only.
"How to turn your Thesis into a Manuscript"
Speaker: Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen (University of Pretoria)
Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen will give a course titled ‘How to Turn Your PhD Dissertation into a Book’. He is the director of the Centre for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria, where he also works as a professor in the Department of Sociology. His research focuses on the politics and political economy of democracy and development in the global South, with a particular focus on Asia. He is the author and co-author of multiple books, such as Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage (Routledge, 2010), We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism (Pluto Press, 2014), Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and most Recently Southern Interregnum: Remaking…