This event is jointly organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Society for Algerian Studies.
In this lecture and book launch, Professor Hugh Roberts discusses his new book, Berber Government: the Kabyle Polity in Pre-colonial Algeria. Breaking with both Ernest Gellner’s and Pierre Bourdieu’s influential theories, Berber Government explores the character of the institutions which were central to Kabyle political organization and explains how their development was the product of the interaction between the populations of Kabylia and the Ottoman Regency and gave birth to a political tradition which survives to the present day.
Event Details
Speaker: Professor Hugh Roberts, Tufts University
Chair: Dr John King, Society for Algerian Studies
Date: Monday 12 January 2015
Time: 18.30-20.00
Location: Wolfson Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, New Academic Building, LSE
Event Hashtag: #LSERoberts
Attendance: This event is free and open to all on a first come first served basis. Our events are very well attended, please make sure to arrive early. We cannot guarantee entry.
Speaker
Hugh Roberts founded the Society for Algerian Studies in 1992 and is currently Edward Keller Professor of North African and Middle Eastern History at Tufts University. He has lived and worked in Egypt and Algeria, conducting research on Algeria, Egyptian political history and the history of Islamism in North Africa.