Just two i-Player days left to catch up with the film version of the RSC’s production of Julius Caesar – “Shakespeare’s African play”. Set in a modern day African state after independence, with echoes of contemporary events in the Arab… Read More ›
Month: June 2012
CFP – 1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity (February 2013, Sydney, Australia)
1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity (February 2013, Sydney, Australia) 7th to 9th February 2013 Sydney, Australia CFP deadline: Friday 14th September, 2012 The intention of this lively inaugural project is to bring together established and emerging international practitioners and… Read More ›
Fully funded AHRC 3 -year Studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford
Following the award of an AHRC collaborative studentship to Professor David Zeitlyn (ISCA) and Dr Chris Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum) for ‘Photographic cultures in Mbouda, Cameroon’ in conjunction with the British Library, a 3-year fully funded AHRC studentship will be… Read More ›
Debate as a form of art
Hi folks, As you know I am writing a paper/chapter about the intellectual debates in Lagos between 1880 and 1920, in which I argue that the best way to study the dynamic of the Lagosian intellectual network is through their… Read More ›
CFP: Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space
This one is definitively for me!! XxN Location: Illinois, United States Conference Date: April 12-14, 2013 Deadline for submitting abstracts, October 20, 2012 Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by November 5, 2012. It has been two decades since the publication of… Read More ›
CFP: Graduate journal – Counter-cultures in contemporary Africa
This one is for you girls 😉 XxN VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1, 2012: COUNTER-CULTURES IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 August 2012 UCT’s Centre for African Studies and its interdisciplinary postgraduate, peer-reviewed journal, postamble, invite you to submit papers, photographic essays and… Read More ›
CFP: Africa in Policy, Practice, and Popular Representations
I know, it is more like my kind of conference, but I thought you would like to know anyway 😉 XxN Sixth Annual Michigan State University Africanist Graduate Student Conference October 19-20, 2012, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan The 6th annual… Read More ›
Golden Baobab Prize
Email we received: Dear Africa in Words, It’s that time of the year again! Golden Baobab is excited to announce the call for submissions for its annual Golden Baobab Prize. Our literary award invites entries of unpublished African-inspired stories written… Read More ›
CFP – Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
Hi folks, I got this from a history list that I subscribe. I know it is not literature, but the borderline between these two disciplines are blurry and historians are accepting this more and more. XxN The editors of Transactions of… Read More ›
CFP – What is Africa to me now? (July 15th)
What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas International conference University of Liège, Belgium, 21-23 March 2013
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