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• Conference of the Maghreb Studies Association | L’Association des Études du Maghreb (24-25 June 2013)

  By Africa in Words on 9 March , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Colonial Heritage in the Middle East and the Maghreb: the Shaping of Hopes and Perspectives Mansfield College, Oxford: 24-25 June 2013 The aim of the conference is to examine how European colonialism and great power rivalry in the Middle East and… Read More ›

• Queer Fiction from Africa collected in new magazine Q-zine

  By Africa in Words on 6 March , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  A new fiction collection from the Burkina Faso–based Q-zine aims to “decolonize the mind” by capturing the experiences of LGBTI Africans. The collection was published in February as an edition of Q-zine, a quarterly magazine by the Burkina Faso–based Queer African Youth… Read More ›

• AiW live on SAfm’s ‘Word of Mouth’ feature prompts a revisit of our Q&A (Pt 2) with Jenna Bass – Editor and co-founder of African pulp fiction magazine Jungle Jim.

  By Katie Reid on 5 March , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Chatting to Nancy Richards about AiW on SAfm’s Word of Mouth feature, part of the Literature show, on Sunday (03/03), I was struck once again by the significance of the generative potential of literary and intellectual networks across the continent,… Read More ›

• CFP: Francophone African Writers and Anthropology (March 15)

  By Nara Improta on 4 March , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  “Francophone African Writers and Anthropology” a panel at the 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago, co-sponsored by the African Literature division and the 20th century French Literature division. The engagement of French-speaking African writers with anthropology in the 20th-century is a noticeably widespread… Read More ›

• Preserving for whom? Discussions on the conservation of archives

  By Nara Improta on 28 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The survival of print culture has been in the newspapers recently. Usually restricted to a readership of academics, ways to preserve and make various forms of print culture accessible to the public has become a topic of interest of a wider group…. Read More ›

• CFP: Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, “Under Fire” section

  By Katie Reid on 26 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies CALL for UNDER FIRE ARTICLES The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars and human rights… Read More ›

• Religion, Media and Marginality in Africa since 1800: SOAS, 23-24 March 2013.

  By Africa in Words on 25 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Conference 23-24 March 2013 / 9am-5pm SOAS, University of London Programme and registration details below (online registration closes at noon on March 21). The workshop is inspired by recent scholarship that examines the intersection between forms of communication and the… Read More ›

• CFP: ASAUK Biennial Conference 2014 – Call for Panels and Papers (deadline 20 Sept 13)

  By Africa in Words on 21 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The ASAUK biennial conference will be held at the University of Sussex and will run from 2pm on Tuesday Sept 9th to 3.30 pm on Thursday 11th September 2014. While we are not attempting to give the conference an overarching… Read More ›

• Q&A: Goretti Kyomuhendo – Writer, Co-founder of FEMRITE and Founder-Director of the African Writers Trust

  By Kate Wallis on 17 February , 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  As avid AiW readers will know, last Autumn at the African Studies Association of the UK Biennial Conference, Katie Reid and I co-convened a series of panels on ‘The “post-millennial context” and African writing in English: Writing, production and reception since… Read More ›

• ASAUK @ 50: Events for 2013.

  By Africa in Words on 15 February , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  ASAUK @ 50 1963-2013  To mark the 50th anniversary of the ASAUK, a wide range of events will be taking place throughout 2013.

• CFP: 4th Annual African Languages in the Disciplines Conference (ALD), Harvard University.

  By Africa in Words Guest on 15 February , 2013 • ( 2 )

  AiW Guest Stephanie Bosch Santana. CALL FOR PAPERS  The African Language Program in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University presents the 4th Annual African Languages in the Disciplines Conference (ALD)  Conference date: April 25, 2013 Harvard University, Cambridge,… Read More ›

• Upcoming Africa-related and free exhibitions at the British Museum, both with associated events (Sowei mask event Feb 16).

  By Katie Reid on 15 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

   Sowei mask: spirit of Sierra Leone |14/02 – 28/04 14/02 – 21/04 | Social Fabric: African Textiles today 

• CFA: MOREMI initiative for women’s leadership in Africa (15 March 2013)

  By Nara Improta on 15 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2013 MILEAD FELLOWSHIP. Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa (Moremi Initiative) is pleased to announce its annual call for applications for the 2013 Moremi Leadership Empowerment and Development (MILEAD) Fellows Program. The MILEAD Fellows Program is a long-term leadership development… Read More ›

• NEW PROGRAMME: 2nd Annual African Popular Cultures Workshop (March 25 – 26, Univ of Sussex)

  By Africa in Words on 14 February , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

• Exorcizing Afropolitanism: Binyavanga Wainaina explains why “I am a Pan-Africanist, not an Afropolitan” at ASAUK 2012

  By Stephanie Santana on 8 February , 2013 • ( 53 )

  

  AiW Guest Stephanie Bosch Santana. Traces of Binyavanga Wainaina’s address, “I am a Pan-Africanist, not an Afropolitan”, delivered at September’s African Studies Association UK 2012 conference, have lingered with me over the past few months: the image of invisible digital networks of… Read More ›

• Extended CFP: Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium. University of Cambridge. 08/04/13.

  By Katie Reid on 5 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium. University of Cambridge. Tuesday, July 2nd 2013.writingsouthafricanow.wordpress.com The deadline for proposals is Friday, March 1st 2013 has been extended to:Monday 08 April 2013. Writing South Africa Now is a new collective of research students and scholars based… Read More ›

• CFP: Constructions of Identity – Contemporary Challenges (Cluj-Napoca, 24-26 October 2013)

  By Katie Reid on 2 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  [For those post-millennialists among us?] The Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) announces the 7th edition of its biennial conference: Constructions of Identity – Contemporary Challenges (Cluj-Napoca, 24-26 October 2013). Abstracts should be submitted by September 1,… Read More ›

• ASAUK Open Access meeting 18 March

  By Katie Reid on 2 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Open Access and Research Publication: Making Sense of UK Government Proposals in African Studies.  Monday 18 March 2013, 1-5pm.  Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU.  Since David Willetts, Minister of State… Read More ›

• CFP: On 20 Years of South African Democracy – St Antony’s College and the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford

  By Katie Reid on 31 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• CFP: Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures, PG Study Day

  By Katie Reid on 31 January , 2013 • ( 1 )

  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 ›

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