1994-2014: 20 Years of South African Democracy. St Antony’s College and the African Studies Centre (ASC) at the University of Oxford are planning a conference to be held on 25th/26th April 2014 on 20 Years of South African Democracy. Abstract… Read More ›
Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures. SFPS Postgraduate Study Day. University of Stirling, 20 June 2013. Proposals of 250 words in English or French to be sent by 15 March 2013 (further details below). From France to… Read More ›
The RAS have just circulated a CFP on behalf of the 14th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop, to be held on Saturday, 23rd February 2013, at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Abstracts are due by January 31, 2013. (Further details below). The title of this year’s workshop… Read More ›
Postcolonial Text is an open access, fully online journal, internationally peer-reviewed and accessible to a global audience. A quarterly journal, it is affiliated with the Open Humanities Press (OHP). The editors seek submissions for a special issue on postcolonial trauma studies…. Read More ›
Proposals for papers/abstracts should reach the editors by 1 April, 2013. The editors of Matatu: Journal for African Literature and Society invite contributions for a special issue on “Transatlantic Africa” to be published in 2014. The special issue will focus on recent… Read More ›
Monday 9th September – Thursday 12th September 2013 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 22nd March 2013. Call for Presentations Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience… Read More ›
SITES OF MEMORY – Friday 22 February 2013 Call for Papers – deadline 7th January 2013 How is memory related to physical space, objects and texts? How do different disciplines conceptualise memory? How do we research and write about memory? “Sites of Memory”… Read More ›
The fifth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 2013) will take place at the ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon, Portugal, from 26 to 28 June 2013. It will be organized by Centro de Estudos Africanos – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Centre for African… Read More ›
An AIMS-WARA Conference, in collaboration with the CRASC 22-24 Juin 2013 – Ghardaïa, Algeria This conference is part of a series of activities organized by the West African Research Association (WARA) and the American Institute of Maghribi Studies (AIMS) aimed… Read More ›
Itinerario, the journal of European expansion and global interaction (part of Cambridge University Press journals), is currently seeking reviewers for the titles listed below. If you are interested/willing to review these titles, reviews of 800-1000 words would be due to our office by… Read More ›
Submissions should reach the Editor on or before January 31, 2013. The Editor, African Literature Today, invites articles for ALT 31: WRITING AFRICA IN THE SHORT STORY, described below: Arguably, the African novel came alive through Chinua Achebe’s classic, Things Fall Apart… Read More ›
The British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme – call for applications Grant Date: 2012-11-02 The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library is now accepting grant applications for the next round of funding. Detailed information on the timetable, criteria, eligibility and procedures for… Read More ›
Chapters on “Religious Diversity in Africa and Asia: Discourses and Realities”–an edited volume of collected essays in the BANDUNG 55 book series RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY IN AFRICA AND ASIA: Discourses and realities
The submission period is currently open until Nov. 15. It costs nothing to enter! To read how to submit to the prize, click here or follow the guidelines below
Location: Massachusetts, United States Call for Papers Date: 30 Sept 2012 (!) The year 2013 will mark the fiftieth anniversary of W.E.B. DuBois’ death. As the premier historian, sociologist, and civil rights activist of the twentieth century, DuBois certainly left… Read More ›
This is the second call for papers and discussants for the eleventh North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA). We encourage scholars from all disciplines who are currently working on southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South… Read More ›
Since March of this year, I’ve been working with Billy Kahora at Kwani Trust as Associate Editor on a new literary prize for unpublished fiction manuscripts. Offering cash prizes totaling 525,000 Kenyan Shillings, the Kwani? Manuscript Project calls for the submission… Read More ›
CALL FOR PAPERS Consumer Practices, Media and Landscapes in South Africa: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives A Symposium organized by the Critical Research in Consumer Culture (CRiCC) Network Friday 9 and Saturday 10 November, 2012 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South… Read More ›
Theme: “Everyday Violence(s) and Visualities in Africa” Special Issue, Journal of African Cinemas Due Date for Abstracts: 1 October 2012 Submission of Full Paper: 1 April 2013
Over the last five years, Alice Bellagamba, Carolyn Brown, Sandra Greene and Martin Klein have been involved in a project to find and publish African sources on the history of slavery and the slave trade within Africa. The most recent… Read More ›
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