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 ›
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 ›
AiW Guest: Rashna Batliwala Singh In his now iconic essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent” T. S. Eliot famously says “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his… Read More ›
African Speculative Fiction Lecture Series SOAS, University of London 1 February – 22 March 2017 The Department of African Languages and Cultures, SOAS, University of London, is hosting a new a lecture series from February 2017 focusing on speculative fiction… 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 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 ›
AiW Guest: Harriet Hughes Fashion Cities Africa, the first major UK exhibition dedicated to presenting contemporary African Fashion design, opened at Brighton museum in April 2016. The aim of the exhibition is to present the fashion cultures of four African… 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 ›
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 ›
AiW Guest: Iolanda Vasile This week, AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe with this guest piece by Iolanda Vasile about the colloquium “In from the Cold War: Eastern Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War”, organized… 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 ›
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