THE DEEP SOUTH IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH “An Interdisciplinary Conference” Sponsored by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, English Graduate Student Association April 6-8, 2017 at The University of Louisiana-Lafayette, Lafayette, LA The Deep South in the Global South Conference… Read More ›
Call for Abstracts African Literature Association Conference 2017 Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies Yale University, 14-17 June 2017 New deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2016 The theme chosen for the June 14-17, 2017 conference at Yale… Read More ›
Call for submissions: AFRICAN CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND THE RHETORIC OF HUMANISM deadline: 15 January 2017 The French social philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, in his book Being Singular Plural, (2000) posits that existence is inherently co-existence. This deeply humanistic vision of… Read More ›
Call For Papers 17th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin (March 31-April 2, 2017 Austin, TX) Convened by: Dr. Toyin Falola, Department of History, UT Austin “Rupturing Colonial Legacies:Colonialisms and Decolonizations in Africa and the… Read More ›
Call for Papers Ọyẹ: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture deadline: 28 February 2017 Ọyẹ: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture is an academic journal domiciled in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the Federal University,… Read More ›
Call for Papers: 23rd ISAPS Conference (International Society for African Philosophy and Studies) 10th and 11th of July 2017 University of Vienna (Austria) African Philosophy in an Intercultural Perspective Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Austria) in conjunction with the IWK… Read More ›
The 6th Annual International Igbo Conference Theme: Legacies of Biafra: Reflections on the Nigeria-Biafra war 50 years on SOAS, University of London, April 21-22, 2017 Call for Papers The Annual Igbo Conference has carved out a unique space, serving as… Read More ›
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS SOAS Africa Conference, 2017 “Imagining Africa’s Future: Language, Culture, Governance, Development” 20th and 21st of July 2017 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS-University of London deadline: 10 December 2016 The SOAS Centre of African studies (CAS) hereby calls… Read More ›
Language in the Media 2017 Mediat(is)ing (Trans)Nationalism 18-20 October 2017 University of the Western Cape, South Africa Call for Papers The University of the Western Cape and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg are pleased to announce the 7th Language… Read More ›
African Literature Today (ALT) 35 Focus on Egypt Call for Submissions Egypt, a historically important and strategically located North African country, is also a leading nation in the Arab world. This special issue of African Literature Today will focus on… Read More ›
Finding Africa 2016/17 (UK) African Feminisms Call for Papers African feminisms have, from the beginning, been grounded in an inclusive and intersectional discourse which seeks to challenge and unravel patriarchal, political, existential, and philosophical imbalances in society. As such they… Read More ›
Call for Submissions Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets deadline 1 December 2016 The African Poetry Book Series is made possible through the generosity of philanthropists Laura and Robert F. X. Sillerman, whose generous contributions have facilitated the establishment… Read More ›
CAAR MALAGA JUNE 13-16 2017 Diasporic Encounters, Subjectivities in Transit: Race, Gender, Religion and Sexualities in the African Diasporas CALL FOR PAPERS From June 13-16, 2017, the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) meets for its biannual conference in… Read More ›
Africa in Words is looking for a volunteer to join our team as a resident Film Reviewer. We have an average of 6500 readers each month from over 100 countries, with our largest readerships based in the UK, US, South… Read More ›
Luxor African Film Festival 16-22 March 2017, Cairo submissions deadline: 15 December 2016 Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) launches the call for its sixth edition due 2017 from the bureau of the Egyptian Culture Ministry The administration of Luxor African… Read More ›
WAGADU: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies CFP: African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism With the new wave of African and African Diasporic women writers, the transnational sphere has enlarged to encompass voices that were… 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, deadline: 31 November 2016 The… Read More ›
“Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ “Ukuzika kukaMendi”: The Mendi Centenary Conference, 28-30 March 2017, Cape Town Deadline: 30 September 2016 This conference, hosted by the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, commemorates the sinking of the SS Mendi that… Read More ›
Call for Abstracts African Literature Association Conference 2017 Africa and the World: Literature, Politics, and Global Geographies The theme chosen for the June 14-17, 2017 conference at Yale seeks to engage with and interrogate recent shifts in critical and theoretical… Read More ›
Call for Submissions My Africa, My City Afridiaspora webzine Deadline: 30th September 2016 Afridiaspora, a pan-African literary webzine focused on showcasing beautiful African stories written by African writers at home and in the diaspora is pleased to announce a call… Read More ›
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