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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Africa in Words is recruiting a volunteer to join our team as a Reviews Editor. Africa in Words has an average of 6500 readers each month from over 100 countries, with our largest readerships based in the UK, US, South… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Journal of West African History Founding Editor-in-chief: Nwando Achebe Associate Editors: Hilary Jones and John Thabiti Willis Book Review Editor: Harry Odamtten The Journal of West African History (JWAH) is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed research journal that publishes the highest… Read More ›
Decolonizing Communicative Praxis with ‘Words that Remake Life’[1] A Two-Part Workspace 9 -10 April 2017 Clark University In this two-part workspace, a collective of transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary scholars will come together to deliberate on and practice new modes of communicative… Read More ›
Cadbury Conference: Marriage in Africa 1-2 June 2017, Birmingham deadline: 10 March 2017 The Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham invites proposals for papers at its annual Cadbury conference, to be held on 1 and… Read More ›
Call for papers: ‘Social Media in Africa: Beyond the hashtag’ ‘Social Media in Africa: Beyond the hashtag’ Call for papers that address the diverse uses and affects of social media in Africa. Workshop: 27th April 2017; CAS, University of Edinburgh;… Read More ›
Paper, airwaves, screen: from text to audience in African popular culture CALL FOR PAPERS University of Bristol, UK 12-13 July 2017 deadline: 15 February 2017 Confirmed keynotes: Lydie Moudileno (University of Pennsylvania), Tsitsi Jaji (Duke University) Recent artworks,… Read More ›
Dynamics of Global Inequality: New Thinking in Global Affairs 2017 Annual Global Affairs Graduate Student Conference Rutgers Division of Global Affairs, Newark, NJ, April 21, 2017 Current events across the globe have demonstrated the urgent need for new ways… Read More ›
Call for Submissions Dwart’s Issue No. 3 Theme: Uprooting deadline: 2nd March 2017 The theme for Dwart’s third issue is Uprooting. We are looking for original and compelling pieces that touch on this through such subthemes as death, spiritual… Read More ›
Dynamics of Global Inequality: New Thinking in Global Affairs 2017 Annual Global Affairs Conference Rutgers Division of Global Affairs, Newark, NJ, April 21, 2017 Current events across the globe have demonstrated the urgent need for new ways of thinking about… Read More ›
Call for Papers Law and Social Order in Africa 3rd – 4th April 2017 Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh The creation and enforcement of law and the maintenance of social order are key concerns for states, societies, and individuals across Africa. However, the way in… Read More ›
Black and Minority Ethnic Historians’ Workshop Call for Participants 20 April 2017, Grant Room (3.11), Michael Sadler Building University of Leeds People from black and minority ethnic communities are underrepresented in history as a discipline and across the Higher Education sector in general. As… Read More ›
Call for Papers: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 14-15 October 2017, to mark the centenary… Read More ›
The 3rd Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) Conference University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 24th -26th August, 2017 Theme: Cartographies of War and Peace in Eastern Africa Call for Papers, extended deadline: 08 January 2017… Read More ›
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