Location: Ghana Call for Papers Date: 2012-10-01 Ghana Studies Association Conference Kumasi, Ghana 23-26 May 2013 The Ghana Studies Association welcomes paper and panel proposals for its conference to be held in Kumasi, Ghana, 23-26 May 2013 on… Read More ›
Calls for & opportunities
CFA: Research and PhD grants for people with MAs in some African universities
Africa in Words supporting ‘Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa’: Critical Perspectives in Peace, Security, and Development Issues The program, currently in its second year, responds to a shortage of well-trained faculty now reaching crisis proportions in African higher education…. Read More ›
CFP: Paradoxa – African Science Fiction
Paradoxa <http://www.paradoxa.com> is seeking submissions of previously unpublished essays on subjects related to AFRICAN SCIENCE FICTION. Submissions should be directed to Paradoxa’s guest editor, Mark Bould at mark.bould@gmail.com by March 1, 2013. In 2010, Pumzi, the first Kenyan sf movie, won… Read More ›
CFP: The Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop (IHR)
The Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop is currently inviting abstract submissions for the 2012-13 academic year. Established in 2008, the workshop is designed to provide a forum for postgraduates and new researchers to gather and present their work in an informal… Read More ›
Words Without Borders
Words without Borders, an online magazine of international literature in English translation, seeks submissions of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for an issue of African women’s writing.
CFP – 1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity (February 2013, Sydney, Australia)
1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity (February 2013, Sydney, Australia) 7th to 9th February 2013 Sydney, Australia CFP deadline: Friday 14th September, 2012 The intention of this lively inaugural project is to bring together established and emerging international practitioners and… Read More ›
Fully funded AHRC 3 -year Studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford
Following the award of an AHRC collaborative studentship to Professor David Zeitlyn (ISCA) and Dr Chris Morton (Pitt Rivers Museum) for ‘Photographic cultures in Mbouda, Cameroon’ in conjunction with the British Library, a 3-year fully funded AHRC studentship will be… Read More ›
CFP: Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space
This one is definitively for me!! XxN Location: Illinois, United States Conference Date: April 12-14, 2013 Deadline for submitting abstracts, October 20, 2012 Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by November 5, 2012. It has been two decades since the publication of… Read More ›
CFP: Graduate journal – Counter-cultures in contemporary Africa
This one is for you girls 😉 XxN VOLUME 8, NUMBER 1, 2012: COUNTER-CULTURES IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 August 2012 UCT’s Centre for African Studies and its interdisciplinary postgraduate, peer-reviewed journal, postamble, invite you to submit papers, photographic essays and… Read More ›
CFP: Africa in Policy, Practice, and Popular Representations
I know, it is more like my kind of conference, but I thought you would like to know anyway 😉 XxN Sixth Annual Michigan State University Africanist Graduate Student Conference October 19-20, 2012, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan The 6th annual… Read More ›
Golden Baobab Prize
Email we received: Dear Africa in Words, It’s that time of the year again! Golden Baobab is excited to announce the call for submissions for its annual Golden Baobab Prize. Our literary award invites entries of unpublished African-inspired stories written… Read More ›
CFP – Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana
Hi folks, I got this from a history list that I subscribe. I know it is not literature, but the borderline between these two disciplines are blurry and historians are accepting this more and more. XxN The editors of Transactions of… Read More ›
CFP – What is Africa to me now? (July 15th)
What is Africa to me now? The continent and its literary diasporas International conference University of Liège, Belgium, 21-23 March 2013
CFP: Ethnographic Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork in Contemporary Urban Africa
Hi folks, maybe this could be a chapter of your thesis? Deadline 15 march XxN CALL FOR PAPERS FOR EDITED BOOK: Writing Fieldnotes on the Street: Ethnographic Reflections on Conducting Fieldwork in Contemporary Urban Africa Editors: Anna Jacobsen (Washington University… Read More ›
CFP: TRAVERSEA – Online Journal in Transatlantic History
hi folks, I know I am the ‘transatlantic history’ lover of the group, but maybe if I keep posting opportunities about this, you will eventually get interested. 😉 XxN PS: we missed the deadline of January 4, but don’t panic! There is… Read More ›
ASA – 55th Annual Meeting Call for proposals
Hi folks, I was told once that you can’t call yourself an ‘Africanist’ before attending an ASA meeting. I am not sure they were referring to the academic discussion… Deadlines: March 15 XxN CALL FOR PROPOSALS55th Annual Meeting RESEARCH FRONTIERS IN… Read More ›
Marcus Garvey Foundation Research Fellowship
Hi folks, info about fellowship to support the research in the fields of Africa and African diaspora. Deadline is March 16. XxN This fellowship, named in honor of the Marcus Garvey Foundation, looks to support doctoral candidates doing primary research in the… Read More ›
CFP: Africans in the Americas and African Americans in Africa: the Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in the 21st Century
NYSAS 2012 Conference: Department of African American Studies, the Africana Research Center, the Smeal College of Business, and the Paul Robeson Cultural Center will be hosting the 37th annual conference of the New York African Studies Association (NYASA). Abstracts are… Read More ›
CFP: Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora
Cal for papers: Cultures, Identities, Nationalities, and Modernities in Africa and the African Diaspora Submission of Abstract Due: March 30th, 2012 The Toyin Falola Annual Conference (TOFAC) welcomes submissions of abstracts and outlines of papers for the 2012 conference, which is scheduled to… Read More ›
Become a book or film reviewer of the African Studies Review
New Film Review Editor for the African Studies Review The African Studies Association (US) and the Editors of the African Studies Review announced the appointment of Professor Kenneth Harrow, Michigan State University, as the Film Review Editor of the African Studies Review…. Read More ›
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