Guests of the Bayreuth Academy in the last five years

Our Guests

Miss/es Dr. Lotte Hughes

Inviting institution:	Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Stay:	23. Januar 2014
Email:	looteh2017@gmail.com
Home university:	Open University (Großbritannien)
Personal information:	Lotte Hughes is an historian of Africa, with a Kenya specialism, employed (until 30 Nov 2017) as a Senior Research Fellow at The Open University, UK. She is now an independent scholar. Her recent research (as PI of a team) focused on the exercise of constitutional cultural rights in contemporary Kenya. As part of this larger study, she carried out a case study on FGM/FGC and Alternative Rites of Passage in Kenya.  Her other research interests include heritage, memory and memorialisation (including in relation to Mau Mau), indigenous peoples' rights, and the politics of identity and belonging.  She will be studying community responses to conflict around extractive industry in Kenya for a new consultancy at IDS, University of Sussex. This AHRC-funded project is led by Dr Jeremy Lind. She is also planning to develop more research on Alternative Rites of Passage, in collaboration with Leicester University. Until last September (2017) she was Principal Investigator of a collaborative research project on Cultural Rights and Kenya's New Constitution (2014-17). The project has a website which will remain live until September 2018, but since the project has ended there won't be any new items posted on the site. The research was funded by the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council). The project was affiliated to the University of Nairobi, and less formally to the Katiba Institute and the British Institute in Eastern Africa, Nairobi. It involved  Kenyan scholars, civil society, policy makers, heritage professionals and a wide range of other heritage stakeholders including citizens.   (Taken and abridged from http://independent.academia.edu/HughesLotte)