We are delighted to share the following information about Finding Africa’s fourth and concluding seminar of the term! Finding Africa is an independent postcolonial African studies platform that facilitates interdisciplinary dialogue by various agents, mainly in the form of seminars, both in academia and beyond. This… Read More ›
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 ›
University of Leeds, Center for African Studies (LUCAS) Conference 2019 April 4-5, 2019 The call for papers for the conference next year at Leeds is entitled: Contemporary Africas, Creative Africas: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in African Studies How does one… Read More ›
LUCAS Annual Lecture We are delighted to announce details of the LUCAS Annual Lecture for this academic year: Conscripts of Colonial Modernity in Chinua Achebe’s Rural Novels Professor Ato Quayson (New York University)
Image via The National Archives UK Archives of Resistance: Cosmopolitanism, Memory and World Literature Three-Day International Conference University of Leeds, June 20-22 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
Black and Minority Ethnic Historians’ Workshop Call for Participants 20 April 2017, Grant Room (3.11), Michael Sadler Building University of Leeds People from black and minority ethnic communities are underrepresented in history as a discipline and across the Higher Education sector in general. As… 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 ›
Date TBC May 2016 University of Sheffield, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS) ‘The Battle of Algiers at 50: Legacies in Film and Literature’ is a one-day symposium organised by postgraduate students from the University of Leeds and Sheffield… Read More ›
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