AiW note: Today we bring you an inspiring Words on the Times – a Q&A series initiated to connect up our experiences of life and work as the pandemic hit – with the publishing house iwalewabooks. iwalewabooks is a publishing… Read More ›
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Call for papers: Journal of Contemporary African Philosophy (Deadline: December 2019)
The new journal, Journal of Contemporary African Philosophy invites you to submit articles for consideration. The distinguishing mark of this journal is its interest in the formulation and presentation of African philosophy in a contemporary form that directs the field… Read More ›
Call for Papers: African Places, African Spaces, University of Leeds (Deadline: 31 January)
Last day to submit your ideas for: ‘African Places, African Spaces’ Finding Africa Seminar Series, 2019 University of Leeds In light of contemporary concerns with decolonisation and meditations on the meaning of the continent of Africa, both within the academy… Read More ›
Call for Papers: Special Issue: Transition Magazine, ‘Black Women/Superheroes’ (Deadline: 30 November)
‘Black Women/Superheroes’ Special Issue: Transition Magazine According to Kimberlé Crenshaw intersectionality theory draws attention to Black women’s experiences of intertwined structures of power and oppression, including racism, misogyny, classism, heterosexism, discrimination based on immigration status, ableism, transmisogyny. That said, Black… Read More ›
Call for Papers: African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society, Special Issue (Deadline for Abstracts: 1 November 2018)
The Journal of Economics, Culture and Society invites you to submit abstracts on: Marxism and African Literatures: New Interventions. This special issue of African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society will survey recent developments at the intersection of Marxist… Read More ›
Call for Applications: The Dakar Thought Workshops Doctoral School (Deadline: 30th September)
THE DAKAR THOUGHT WORKSHOPS DOCTORAL SCHOOL “New knowledge and global issues: epistemology, pedagogy and method” January 21-26, 2019 Applications due September 30, 2018 Responding to new environments in Africa and the demand for new knowledge, the Thought Workshops of… Read More ›
Call for Panels: 2nd Pan African Conference, Dakar, Senegal (Proposal deadline: 30th March)
We are delighted to announce that the 2nd Pan African Conference on the Status and Work Condition of Artists and Cultural Actors in Africa will be held in Dakar, Senegal this year. The conference will take place in May, 7th-13th…. Read More ›
CfP: Theorising Africa: Reviewing a History of Ideas, Finding Africa Seminar Series, 2018
AiW thanks to Finding Africa for this info about their 2018 seminar series… Finding Africa 2017/18 (UK) Theorising Africa: Reviewing a History of Ideas University of Leeds Seminar Series 2018 – Call For Papers
African Study Classics – Walter Rodney
AiW Guest Amber Murrey An influential Pan-Africanist and historian, Walter Rodney’s work provides guidance, invigoration and sustenance to PanAfricanists, scholars of Africa and the African Diaspora, and those interested in the socio-historical roots of social inequality. As a university professor in… Read More ›
Words on Teaching – “Book Review: Teaching Africa”
As a relatively new teacher of African history at universities, I am keen to find publications that will help me reflect upon, and develop my work. Unlike in most American PhD programmes (I understand) teaching isn’t part of the core… Read More ›
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