AiW note: Rebecca Jones was at the 2014 Africa Writes Festival in London. We republish her coverage of the African & Diaspora Travel Writing panel here as part of our Africa Writes #PastAndPresent weekender, anticipating the online conversations of the… Read More ›
The Costume Institute of the African Diaspora’s (CIAD) 2nd Biennial Conference London College of Fashion New date: 10 October, 2020 Bringing together academics and researchers from across the world who are working within the field of Material Culture, African Fashion,… Read More ›
The Black Book Festival London Saturday 14 March, 2020 11am-7pm The Black Book Festival is a celebration and showcase of African-Caribbean writing and global Black writing in general. This is an event that presents the work of old and new… Read More ›
We are pleased to share the Call for Papers and Panels for a two-day Conference on ‘Racialisation and Publicness in Africa and the African Diaspora’ which will be held at the University of Oxford, from 27-28 June, 2019. From the… Read More ›
Call for Papers: African Global Experiences Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (formerly The Journal of Pan African Studies; JPAS), a trans-disciplinary on-line peer reviewed scholarly journal devoted to the intellectual synthesis of research, scholarship and critical thought on the African… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Margaret Amaka Ohia AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Margaret Amaka Ohia. My studies of discursive representations of Black people in the Polish language employ a critical, applied research… Read More ›
AiW Guest Mamadou Diouf AiW Guest Katarzyna Kubin continues her series examining the relationship between Africa and Eastern/Central Europe, with this guest piece by Mamadou Diouf. I have lived in Warsaw for over thirty years, but I still remember January 1983. There was an on-going… Read More ›
Cultural Compounds – Conference 1 19 November 2016, SOAS, London ‘WHAT IS THIS [NEW] “BLACK” IN BLACK POPULAR CULTURE?’ Stuart Hall, Social Justice (1993) We take as our starting point, the title of Stuart Hall’s essay, ‘What Is This “Black”… Read More ›
CAAR MALAGA JUNE 13-16 2017 Diasporic Encounters, Subjectivities in Transit: Race, Gender, Religion and Sexualities in the African Diasporas CALL FOR PAPERS From June 13-16, 2017, the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) meets for its biannual conference in… Read More ›
WAGADU: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies CFP: African and Diasporic Women’s Literature: Transitions, Transformations and Transnationalism With the new wave of African and African Diasporic women writers, the transnational sphere has enlarged to encompass voices that were… Read More ›
1st Call for Sessions Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe Sixth biennial network conference University of Tampere, Finland 6 – 8 July 2017 African European Studies and Black European Studies explore social spaces and cultural practices that are characterised… Read More ›
41st ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the NEW YORK AFRICAN(A) STUDIES ASSOCIATION at The City College (CUNY) and Columbia University 1-2 April 2016 CALL FOR PROPOSALS / ABSTRACTS FINAL DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS IS 12 February 2016 THEME: MUSIC AND THE ARTS OF… Read More ›
African Connections Panel Debate / Film Screening / Poetry Workshop Bristol The 2015 Being Human – Festival of the Humanities has events happening all over the UK from 12 – 22 November and includes three events on “African Connections”.
Film Africa 2015 London 30 October – 8 November 2015 The programme for Film Africa 2015 is now out! Running in cinemas and other venues across London from 30 October-8 November, the festival will show over 60 films from 26 African countries…. Read More ›
41st Annual Conference of the African Literature Association (ALA) Theme: African Futures and Beyond, Visions in Transition University of Bayreuth, Germany June 3rd – June 6th Colonial fantasies have imagined the African continent as the incarnation of the past, banning… Read More ›
With a remit to explore how African art and ideas can change the world for the better: how Africa can lead the way in thinking about culture, community, technology, fashion, sustainability and ethical wealth creation, Africa Utopia was a three-day… Read More ›
Opening a panel on travel writing at the Royal Africa Society’s Africa Writes festival in London, panel chair Fatimah Kelleher observed that travel writing has often been a narrow genre in the past, dominated by Western perspectives on the world…. Read More ›
Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 1993. This year, Gilroy’s Black Atlantic completed twenty years of its publication. This book has been used by many scholars in history, anthropology, literature and sociology, and… Read More ›
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