Since its inception in 2011, the Africa Centre’s Artist in Residency Programme (AIR) has successfully awarded 39 African artists the chance to take up residencies across the globe. Through continued partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Spain, China and the United… Read More ›
Aké Review Call for Submissions Beneath this Skin Deadline 29 August 2016 In anticipation of its 2016 edition, the Ake Arts and Book Festival is delighted to announce a call for entries for Ake Review, our annual journal…. Read More ›
Call for Papers Student movements and (post-)colonial emancipations : transnational itineraries, dialogues and programmes 9 December 2016, Université Paris Diderot Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2016 This one-day conference investigates the role of student movements in individual and collective emancipations, from… Read More ›
Call for Papers Literature and Postcolonial Capitalism ARIEL Special Issue Deadline 1 October 2016 This special issue explores the relationship between literary representation and contemporary, postcolonial capitalism. We suspect that many of today’s “new” capitalist formations emerge from… Read More ›
The African Literature Association is currently accepting nominations for the following awards. Please note the deadlines and the specified individual to whom and all nominations and materials should be addressed. The awards will be presented at the ALA 43rd Annual… Read More ›
Call for Book Chapters CULTURAL ARCHIVES OF ATROCITY: ESSAYS ON THE PROTEST TRADITION IN KENYAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY New deadline for abstract submission: 21st August 2016 INTRODUCTION In Kenya, studies on atrocity have taken different discursive dimensions from history, political… Read More ›
CALL FOR SPECIAL ISSUE PROPOSALS At the Crossroads of Art and Society: Niyi Osundare and Poetry in Nigeria The seventieth birthday of Nigerian poet and professor of comparative literature, Niyi Osundare, invites deeper reflection on the poet-scholar’s life and contributions… Read More ›
“WILD” International Call for Artists and Writers by Artascent Deadline 31 August 2016 Theme: The untamed, free and undeveloped. The turbulent, unrestrained, emotional and extreme. Animals, people and places that are wild. It can be expressed in symbolic, literal, modern, traditional,… Read More ›
DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR 3 DAYS to midnight (GMT+1) Friday 29 July 2016 Call for Applications / Appel à candidature: Arts Management and Literary Entrepreneurship Workshop at the 4th Annual Writivism Festival 22-25 August 2016 Kampala, Uganda Have you set up or… Read More ›
CFP: African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism WAGADU special issue Deadline for abstracts: 27 September 2016 With the new wave of African and African Diasporic women writers, the transnational sphere has enlarged to encompass voices that were… Read More ›
Trespassing the Borders: Redefining Postcolonialism from Peripheral Experiences University of Warwick – 11 March 2017 Keynote speakers: Professor Gurminder Bhambra (Warwick/Linnaeus) Professor Lucy Riall (EUI/Birkbeck College) Postcolonialism, conceived of as a critique of colonial empires in their political, social, and… Read More ›
1st Call for Sessions Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe Sixth biennial network conference University of Tampere, Finland 6 – 8 July 2017 African European Studies and Black European Studies explore social spaces and cultural practices that are characterised… Read More ›
1st World Festival of Negro Arts: Past and Present(1966-2016), 8-10 November 2016, Dakar FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1ST WORLD FESTIVAL OF NEGRO ARTS I – ARGUMENTS At the invitation of Poet President Leopold Sedar Senghor, from 1 to 24 April 1966,… Read More ›
LAGOS: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroads LAGOS: From the Pepperfarm to the Megacity (and Beyond) An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Society, and the Imagination of an African Crossroads Faculty of Arts University… Read More ›
The 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize is now open! Submissions are welcome in three categories: Poetry, Fiction and Life Writing. Ensure that you submit your entry/entries by the deadline: 5pm BST on 15 July 2016. Winners will receive £300 and… Read More ›
Call for Papers Struggles for Liberation in Contemporary Southern African Literatures and Cultural Spaces Symposium at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa 10-11 November 2016 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Achille Mbembe Authors: Mandla Langa and Niq Mhlongo The year 2015… Read More ›
Exploring the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History, 24-25 March 2017, Nashville, Tennessee Deadline 15 November 2016 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) invites proposals for its second annual conference scheduled to take place at Vanderbilt University on March 24-25, 2017…. Read More ›
Call for Papers Second Call Tydskrif vir Letterkunde and the Southern Modernities Project present a conference on “African and Diasporan African Literature: Imaginings, Modernities and Visions” 5-6 October 2016 University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Deadline for Proposals: 30 May… Read More ›
International Conference “Circulations: the (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders” Johannesburg, 3-4 November 2016 Venue: Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Wits University, East Campus Deadline: 30 May 2016 While transnational approaches have flourished in history and… Read More ›
Saraba Magazine welcomes submissions for 2016. Saraba will explore the theme of “Power” for its nineteenth issue, and the theme of “Money” for its twentieth issue. Issue 19: POWER Power is everywhere, diffused and embodied. What is Power? Where is Power?… Read More ›
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