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• CALL FOR PAPERS: Symposium on ‘Consumer Practices, Media and Landscapes in South Africa’, University of the Witswaterand, Johannesburg.

  By Katie Reid on 15 August , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Searching for Sugar Man

  By Katie Reid on 14 August , 2012 • ( 4 )

  

  The less you know about the subject matter of this film before seeing it, the better it is on watching – so I’ll steer clear of spoilers here and say you should definitely avoid the trailer beforehand if you can – but check… Read More ›

• CFP: Journal of African Cinemas – Special Issue

  By Nara Improta on 11 August , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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

• African Communication Research: The Image of Women in African Media.

  By Nara Improta on 9 August , 2012 • ( 1 )

  This really interesting journal hit one of my favourites topics regarding gender issues: the image of women in the media. Here it goes the table of contents for those who share similar preferences 😉 African Communication Research 4(3): The Image… Read More ›

• The Cape Town Book Fair 2012 – new directions in fiction (and some recommended reads)

  By Katie Reid on 7 August , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  I was at the Cape Town Book Fair back in June (June 15-17, 2012). I approached a range of publishers and booksellers exhibiting and asked what was ‘new’ for them in South African fiction, and to give me their latest fiction-must-reads –… Read More ›

• CFP: Life histories of African slaves

  By Nara Improta on 6 August , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• ANN: African Poetry Book Fund

  By Nara Improta on 6 August , 2012 • ( 1 )

  NEW AND ESTABLISHED AFRICAN POETS RECOGNIZED BY A NEW FUND Kwame Dawes, Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, is pleased to announce the establishment of the African Poetry Book Fund and Series…. Read More ›

• CFP: Ghana Studies Association Conference

  By Nara Improta on 6 August , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• CFA: Research and PhD grants for people with MAs in some African universities

  By Nara Improta on 6 August , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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

  By Katie Reid on 31 July , 2012 • ( 1 )

  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 ›

• Differences between English and Yoruba intellectual production

  By Nara Improta on 27 July , 2012 • ( 6 )

  Would you say that the type of debate going on in the English-language West African press between the 1880’s and 1920’s was different in any way from the types of debates going on in the local language press, in associational… Read More ›

• CFP: The Colonial/Postcolonial New Researchers’ Workshop (IHR)

  By Katie Reid on 10 July , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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

  By Kate Wallis on 3 July , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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.

• An African play? The RSC’s Julius Caesar, Africa Utopia, and the World Shakespeare Festival

  By Katie Reid on 29 June , 2012 • ( 5 )

  

  Just two i-Player days left to catch up with the film version of the RSC’s production of Julius Caesar – “Shakespeare’s African play”. Set in a modern day African state after independence, with echoes of contemporary events in the Arab… Read More ›

• CFP – 1st Global Conference: Crisis and Opportunity (February 2013, Sydney, Australia)

  By Katie Reid on 29 June , 2012 • ( 4 )

  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

  By Nara Improta on 20 June , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

• Debate as a form of art

  By Nara Improta on 20 June , 2012 • ( 1 )

  Hi folks, As you know I am writing a paper/chapter about the intellectual debates in Lagos between 1880 and 1920, in which I argue that the best way to study the dynamic of the Lagosian intellectual network is through their… Read More ›

• CFP: Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space

  By Nara Improta on 8 June , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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

  By Nara Improta on 8 June , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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

  By Nara Improta on 8 June , 2012 • ( 0 )

  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 ›

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