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Event: Burning Issues in African Philosophy with Lewis Gordon, 19 Apr 2017, Columbia University
Burning Issues in African Philosophy with Lewis Gordon Date: April 19, 2017 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location: Heyman Common Room Free and open to the public | ID required Burning Issues in African Philosophy is curated by Drucilla Cornell and… Read More ›
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Event: Legacies of Biafra Conference, 21-22 April 2017, London
The 6th International Igbo Conference Legacies of Biafra – Reflections on the Nigeria-Biafra War 50 years on 21-22 April 2017, SOAS, London The ‘Legacies of Biafra’ conference seeks to explore the on-going impact of the war locally and globally, considering… Read More ›
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CfP: Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters (ACECD 2017), 23-25 Oct 2017, Pretoria, deadline 15 April 2017
Call for Papers Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters (ACECD 2017) The Role of the Private Sector in Disaster Risk Reduction Pretoria, South Africa on 23 – 25 October, 2017 The Africa Conference on Economic Costs of Disasters… Read More ›
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Call for Poetry Submissions / Appel à contributions poétiques: A Song for Burundi, Deadline 15 April 2017.
Call for Poetry Submissions: A Song for Burundi Huza Press in collaboration with Africa Writes and Jalada Africa is pleased to announce a call for submissions for a poetry anthology from Burundians living in exile. Inspired by the creative force… Read More ›
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CfP: ‘Six Mountains on her back’ (Re) thinking African Feminisms Colloquium 2017, 21-22 July 2017, Rhodes University, deadline: 15 May 2017
‘Six Mountains on her back’ (Re) thinking African Feminisms Colloquium 2017 Rhodes University 21-22 July 2017 https://findingafricaseminar.wordpress.com African feminisms have, since their inception over a century ago, been grounded in inclusive and intersectional discourses which seek to challenge and unravel… Read More ›
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Call for Work: Writing on Language, Culture and Development, Africa vs. Asia, deadline 30 April 2017
WRITING ON LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT, VOLUME 1, AFRICA Vs ASIA The two continents Africa and Asia contains over 77% of the world’s population, at least over 80 percent of the world’s languages and cultures, and both have lately witnessed leaps… Read More ›
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CfP: Africa and New Networks of Cultural Mobility, 6-7 Oct 2017, Toronto, deadline: 1 Apr 2017
Call for Papers Africa and the New Networks of Cultural Mobility Opportunities, Strategies and Limitations University of Toronto, October 6-7, 2017 “Issues of culture and identity have come to the forefront of international relations. This is not a passing… Read More ›
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CfP: Festschrift for Niyi Osundare at 70, deadline 15 May 2017
STYLISTICS, LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR NIYI OSUNDARE AT 70 Professor Oluwaniyi Osundare – NNOM, scholar, teacher, stylistician, poet, playwright, public intellectual, newspaper columnist, etc. – will be seventy years old on March 12, 2017. The multiple award-winning poet… Read More ›
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CfP: Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa, 1-2 Sept 2017, Madeira, deadline: 1 May 2017
Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa September 1-2, 2017, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Funchal, Portugal Submission deadline: 1 May 2017 http://snta.m-iti.org/ Thematic Overview In 1884, a group of thirteen European policymakers met to negotiate standards for the “effective occupation” of… Read More ›
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Event: Literature and the Humanities in an Age of Autocracy Workshop, 24 March 2017, Bristol
Literature and the Humanities in an Age of Autocracy Workshop 24 March 2017 |University of Bristol 10.00-18.00 This third and final workshop in the ‘Ethics, Affect and Responsiblity: Global Citizenship and the Act of Reading’ will take place… Read More ›
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Review – Film about South African struggle hero Solomon Mahlangu opens in local cinemas
AiW author: Heather Walker. A long-awaited South African film about struggle icon Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu opened in cinemas across South Africa this weekend. It will also be screened in London at the BFI on Thursday 6th April. Kalushi: The Story of… Read More ›
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CfP: Africa’s Informal Transport Workers: Reconfiguring the Margins, deadline: 10 April 2017
Call for chapter proposals AFRICA’S INFORMAL TRANSPORT WORKERS: RECONFIGURING THE MARGINS With its micro-level approach towards one of the most pressing urban agenda in Africa today – that of public transport – this collection of field-based studies is a timely… Read More ›
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Event: Conversations in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh, 10 March 2017, SOAS, London
Conversations in Bloomsbury: Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Nineveh 10 March 2017, SOAS, London Hosted by the Centre for English Studies, SOAS, together with the Southern Africa Seminar Series, University of London, the next edition of the Conversations in Bloomsbury events will… Read More ›
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CfP: Cahiers d’études africaines – Contestatory/Contested Images, deadline 15 June 2017
Call for Papers Cahiers d’études africaines – Contestatory/Contested Images (English below) Nous vous invitons à répondre en grand nombre à cet appel à contributions pour le numéro thématique bilingue « Images contestataires, images contestées » que nous coordonnons pour les… Read More ›
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Anietie Isong’s Radio Sunrise shortlisted for the Kingston University Big Read 2017
Radio Sunrise by Anietie Isong has been shortlisted for the Kingston University Big Read project. The novel is one of the six shortlisted titles to be considered for staff and students to read before the 2017 academic year begins. … Read More ›
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Event: Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival, 3-31 March 2017, East Africa
Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival 3 – 31 March 2017 12 cities across East Africa Jalada Mobile Literary & Arts Festival is a hybrid between a traditional festival and a bus literary and art tour, covering 12 cities/towns… Read More ›
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Event: Lagos Theatre Festival, 28 Feb – 05 March 2017, Lagos
Lagos Theatre Festival 28 February – 05 March 2017 Lagos Theatre Festival founded by British Council in 2013, is a festival to present performing arts from Nigeria and the UK every february in Lagos. It has a part focus… Read More ›
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CfP: Asixoxe – Let’s Talk: Africa of the Past, Africa of the Future, 5-6 May 2017; SOAS, London, deadline: 1 April 2017
Africa of the past, Africa of the future: The dynamics of time in Africanist scholarship and art SOAS Lecture Series on African Science Fiction 1st February 5-7pm (S320) 22nd February 6-8pm (S314) 1 March 5-8pm (MB563) 8th March 4-8pm (22 … Read More ›
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CfP: Global Africa Month – the Ngugi Workshop, 2 – 4 May 2017, Vienna, deadline: 15 March 2017
Call for Papers: Global Africa Month – the Ngugi Workshop Prof Adams Bodomo Workshop on Strategies for the Promotion of African Language Literature University of Vienna Global African Diaspora Studies (GADS) Research Platform And Department of African Studies May 2… Read More ›
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Event: The Global Soul: Imagining the Cosmopolitan, 27-28 March 2017, Washington D.C.
The Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice Presents THE GLOBAL SOUL Imagining the Cosmopolitan March 27-28, 2017 Washington D.C. Presented in collaboration with the Bath Spa Centre for Transnational Creativity and Education “The assumption that people will live their lives… Read More ›
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