We are delighted to announce SCOLMA’s forthcoming conference: “Things come together?: literary archives from, in and for Africa” The conference will explore African literary archives, their creation, preservation, digitisation and use in research and teaching. African literature is multi-faceted and… Read More ›
AiW thanks to Mawazo Africa Writing Institute for this info about their upcoming writing workshop… Call for Submissions: Mawazo Novel Writing Workshop Mawazo Africa Writing Institute announces a Call for Submissions for its first writing workshop: Writing the Novel, led by award-winning author Jennifer… Read More ›
Finding Africa 2016/17 (UK) African Feminisms Call for Papers African feminisms have, from the beginning, been grounded in an inclusive and intersectional discourse which seeks to challenge and unravel patriarchal, political, existential, and philosophical imbalances in society. As such they… Read More ›
Guest Editor: Stephanie Newell Since his execution by the Nigerian authorities in 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa has received global recognition as a key figure in the struggle for minority people’s environmental and political rights. This special issue of Research in African… Read More ›
Writing South Africa Now in conjunction with the Southern African Poetry Project University of Cambridge 26-27 June 2015 Venue: The English Faculty, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom CFP deadline: April 15, 2015 Writing South Africa Now is the UK’s foremost… Read More ›
Twelfth Cadbury Conference: Money Judgments 21-22 May 2015 University of Birmingham, UK The Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham invites paper proposals for the 2015 Cadbury Conference, which will focus on research on money. The keynote address… Read More ›
The ASAUK biennial conference will be held at the University of Sussex this year and will run from 2pm on Tuesday Sept 9th to 3.30 pm on Thursday 11th September 2014. The Sussex Africa Centre is scheduled for its official launch… Read More ›
SCOLMA (the UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa) Annual Conference African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive 2 July 2014 University of Birmingham CALL FOR PAPERS “Travel, in the younger sort, is part of education; in the elder,… Read More ›
Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo Edited by Rose A. Sackeyfio and Blessing Diala-Ogamba Akachi Adimora Ezeigbo has emerged as one of Nigeria’s leading female writers. Her distinguished career gained prominence in the early 21st century and continues to evolve… Read More ›
We are organising a conference to commemorate Chinua Achebe’s work and influence, and to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Arrow of God, which many consider Achebe’s greatest novel. The conference will be held at the University of London… Read More ›
Call for Papers Journal of African Cinemas – Special Issue on North African Cinema Guest Editor: Dr Stefanie Van de Peer North African cinema has suffered from neglect in studies on African cinema. It’s hinge-like geographical position – is it… Read More ›
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry – ‘New Topographies of the Postcolonial’ CALL FOR PAPERS (30th September 2012) “Dear Colleague, At a time when disciplines are scrambling to keep up with both the accelerations and upheavals of a global informational… Read More ›
With the passing off on March 22, 2013 of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian prolific writer, one has to admit that the founding father of African literature has forsaken his pen forever. While the reference that Achebe is beheld as the… Read More ›
Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies: Annual Conference 2013 Francophone Postcolonial Studies and Book Culture 22-23 November 2013 Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London The deadline for receipt of abstracts is: 10 June 2013 Amid rapid changes in technologies of… Read More ›
Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: 15 April contact: displacements2013@hum.au.dk website: http://conferences.au.dk/displacements/ Displacements: Forced Migration and the Arts Aarhus University, Denmark October 3-5, 2013 Displacement is and has always been one of the fundamental forms of human existence. Throughout history and all over… Read More ›
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATES: Conference date is Monday 24th June 2013, call for papers closes Friday 10th May 2013. Going Local: African Texts and Cultures. A postgraduate-led conference and workshop at the University of Birmingham, Monday 27th May 2013. Monday… Read More ›
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 ›
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… Read More ›
[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 ›
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