AiW Guest: Nicola Ashmore. AiW note: this post is the last continuing our AiW series about the project, book, and exhibition Guernica Remakings (University of Brighton, July 31 – August 23). Curated by our Guest Author Dr Nicola Ashmore,… Read More ›
Call for Papers: African Global Experiences Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (formerly The Journal of Pan African Studies; JPAS), a trans-disciplinary on-line peer reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the African… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Nicola Ashmore. AiW note: This post continues our AiW series about the project, book, and exhibition Guernica Remakings. Curated by our Guest Author Dr Nicola Ashmore (University of Brighton, July 31 – August 23), the exhibition features visual… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Nicola Ashmore. This post continues our AiW series about the project and upcoming exhibition Guernica Remakings, curated by our Guest Author Dr Nicola Ashmore (University of Brighton, July 31 – August 23). The exhibition features visual artworks from across the… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Carli Coetzee The second conference of the Lagos Studies Association has just taken place, at the University of Lagos. The conference had many memorable moments, but the one that stands out for me was when the panel was… Read More ›
CFP: Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (edited collection, Bloomsbury Publishing) deadline 1 August 2017 Afropolitanism currently inflects many academic and popular conversations about African literature. The term is mobilized to celebrate African influence in the world and to characterize… Read More ›
Digital Blackness Culture, Theory and Technology in the Network Ecology 30 June 2017 The Digital Blackness Conference June 30th 2017 is open for registration. Themes on the day include black content creation, black feminist and queer discourses online, emerging… Read More ›
The Renaissance in Africa, Renaissance Society of America NOLA 2018 CFP: Interdisciplinary panel at Renaissance Society of America, New Orleans, 22-24 March 2018: deadline: 01 June 2017 “The Renaissance in Africa”: While the Renaissance has been regarded as a… Read More ›
Call for Papers Life Narratives: Self-Representation in an Age of Human Rights A One-Day Symposium for Postgraduate Students and Early-Career Researchers at the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC), Wednesday 14th June 2017 Featuring a keynote address from Mark Gevisser,… Read More ›
Postcolonialism in Interdisciplinary Perspective. Wednesday 17th of May 2017 The Danford Room, Dept. of African Studies and Anthropology, Second Floor, Arts Building, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT 9:00 – 9:30 Registration/ Tea and Coffee (Fage Library) 9:30 – 9:45 Welcome… Read More ›
CfP: Public Service and Community Interpreting in Africa Workshop on 6 October 2017 in Freiburg, Germany deadline: 30 April 2017 On the 6 October 2017, the Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, will host a 1-day… Read More ›
Call for Papers European University Institute (EUI, Florence) Workshop ‘Colonialism and education in a comparative perspective: analysing gendered civilizing missions (ca. 1850-1970)’ 26 October 2017, Florence deadline: 20 April 2017 In recent years, education has received renewed attention from… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
‘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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
