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Saturday 31 January 2015

Your daily selection of IRIN Africa English reports, 1/30/2015

 
humanitarian news and analysis


Sexual violence in conflict – what use is the law?

LONDON, 30 January 2015 (IRIN) - Through conflict after conflict, sexual violence persists, not just as individual crimes but as a weapon of war. In short, sexual violence persists because it is effective.
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In photos: A decade on, effects of Uganda's war linger

NAIROBI, 30 January 2015 (IRIN) - A senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, made his first appearance at the International Criminal Court this week to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Although the LRA has not been active in northern Uganda for a decade, the effects of their 20-year war with the government linger on.
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Aid under fire: A timeline of MSF's withdrawal

NAIROBI, 30 January 2015 (IRIN) - Médecins Sans Frontières has been among the highest risk-taking NGOs since it was founded in 1971, with its staff routinely putting their lives on the line in the midst of hostilities. Yet sometimes they have to withdraw - either to protect their independence or security.
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Friday 30 January 2015

[AfricaRealities.com] DRC: Martin Kobler welcomes military operation against FDLR by radiyoyacuvoa on SoundCloud

 




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[AfricaRealities.com] USA: Open letter to Bloomberg News re Lorettta Lynch and the ICTR

 


Open letter to Bloomberg News re Lorettta Lynch and the ICTR

TO: Bloomberg News and Bloomberg News writer Del Quentin Wilber

RE: Bloomberg News Report:  Rwanda Tribunal Taught Loretta Lynch Real Power of Prosecutors 
News outlets have been praising Loretta Lynch's credentials as a former Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Whatever else Loretta Lynch's qualifications may be, this is not a credential to praise or take pride in. Those who know the disgraceful history of victor's justice at the ICTR, and its service to the predatory US/NATO agenda in the Global South, are aware of this. See my KPFA News produced with CIUT-Toronto host Phil Taylor and published on the San Francisco Bay View website, for a start, "Phil Taylor: ICTR celebrates 20 years of establising impunity."
 
For in-depth documentation and analysis, read "Justice Belied: The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice," by ICTR defense attorneys Sébastien Chartrand and John Philpot, from Baraka Books. 
 
Thanks for your attention and I hope you may take this into account in future reporting on the ICTR and/or Loretta Lynch's role there. 
 
No justice, no peace, 
Ann Garrison, Independent Journalist
 
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No transcript; that's all I wrote to Bloomberg News reporter Del Quentin Wilbur. Anyone else who cares to communicate with him about this can write to dwilber@bloomberg.net.

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"Aho kwanga no guhora dutuka Abakotanyi n'Umutware wabo, dukwiriye kubasabira ngo Imana ibavane mu bikohwa by'Ibinyabubasha (ibyo ku isi n'iby'ikuzimu) byabigaruriye bikabagira abacakara babyo", Mwarimu Rewoporidi MUNYAKAZI.

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I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles; now they have the land and we have the bibles.
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Thursday 29 January 2015

News and Events from the Centre of African Studies Cambridge

 

News and Events from the Centre of African Studies

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Dear all
This year we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Centre of African Studies Cambridge, for our programme of events click here. Registration for our annual lecture given by Professor James Ferguson of Stanford University is now open and places are filling up quickly! To reserve a seat click here.

 

News from the Centre of African Studies

 

The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies 2015

 

Professor James Ferguson

Stanford University


Give a Man a Fish: From Patriarchal Productionism to the Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and Beyond)


For the abstract of the lecture click here.

Thursday 26 March 2015 at 5pm

Rooms SG1 & SG2, Alison Richard Building
7 West Road, Cambridge

Followed by a reception in the atrium



Eventbrite - The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies 2015
 

James Ferguson is the Susan S and William H Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. His research has focused on southern Africa (especially Lesotho, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia), and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. These include the politics of "development", rural-urban migration, changing topographies of property and wealth, constructions of space and place, urban culture in mining towns, experiences of modernity, the spatialization of states, the place of "Africa" in a real and imagined world, and the theory and politics of ethnography. Professor Ferguson is the author of The Anti-Politics Machine (1990), Expectations of Modernity (1999), Global Shadows (2006), and Give a Man a Fish (2015).

 

CAS Lent Term Seminar Series

Gender in Africa

 

Monday 2 Feburary 2015 at 5pm
Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge


Professor Caroline Rooney

University of Sussex

Dr Julia Borossa

Middlesex University

 

Same Sex Cultures and Pariah Formations in North Africa


Abstracts for all the seminars can be found here.


 

Centre of African Studies

Occasional Talk


Martin Klein

University of Toronto


Slavery in the Cities of the Slave Trade


Wednesday 4 February 2015 at 2pm
Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge
Chaired by Professor John Lonsdale

Professor Klein has been one of the driving forces behind research into slavery and the slave trade in West Africa for decades. His work put the 'slave exodus' in early colonial French West Africa on the map, and has been crucial in establishing the politics of slaving and slavery in the nineteenth-century Sahel and Senegambia. He has been involved also in the study of resistance to enslavement and self-emancipation, and has facilitated a great deal of work by African-based scholars.

 

Africa Research Forum

Seminar


Daniel Wroe

Universit of East Anglia


"It's a Heavy Thing": Being a Man in Rural Central Malawi


Wednesday 11 February 2015, 1-2 pm
Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge
For pre-circulated papers and details on the Africa Research Forum click here.

 

Africa Research Forum

PhD Students' Workshop

Friday 6 February 2015
Elton-Bowring Room, Clare College, Cambridge


The aim of this day-long event is to provide a forum for Cambridge PhD students working on Africa-related topics to present their research and share ideas, and indeed to meet one another!
Anyone is welcome to attend the Workshop as a member of the audience, but since space is limited we request that you register via the button below. Presenters will be registered automatically.

To download the workshop programme click here

Eventbrite - Africa Research Forum: PhD Students' Workshop & Call for Papers

 

Exhibition

Embodied Memories - Another Perspective on Research in Africa

Photographic exhibition by Ashley Ouvier on floors 2 & 3 of  the Alison Richard Building, 29 January to 27 March 2015.

A reception and academic colloquium entitled 'Virulence: Visualising the African Body as a Vector of Epidemics' will take place on 19 February 2015. For more information on the symposium click here.

This exhibition gathers a series of portraits, family stories and social facts collected in 2012 alongside an anthropological study on traces and memories of science in Niakhar. Its intention is to foreground personal points of view of those who work at the ground level of an international health and demographic research site in Africa. It is also a way to visually query the meaning of African bodies and agency in the context of global health and post-independence relations. For further details on Ashley Ouvrier's work click here.

 

News and Events from Elsewhere

 

CRASSH Faculty Research Group

Locating Religion

 

Monday 23 February from 1.30-3.30 pm
Room 204, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge

Please email jmc67@cam.ac.uk to receive pre-circulated paper. For further details click here. For a flyer click here


Andrea Grant, Cambridge

Spiritual Temporalities and the New Pentecostal Churches in Rwanda: Affect, Silence, and Noise

 

CRASSH Conference

Pursuing Justice in Africa


27-28 March 2015
CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge


For registration details, a programme and speaker abstracts click here.

Convenors: Jessica Johnson and George Karekwaivanane
The Keynote address will be given by Kamari Maxine Clarke (Professor of Anthropology, Yale/Pennsylvania).

The focus of the conference is on the many and varied actors pursuing visions of justice in Africa – their aspirations, divergent practices and articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice. We will bring together, in a coherent format, topics of research that are at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines, including activism, resource extraction, international legal institutions, and post-conflict reconciliation. Our engagement will be both empirical and theoretical: we aim to grapple with alternative approaches to the concept of justice and its relationships with law, morality, and rights.

MPhil in African Studies 2015-16

Find out how to apply here. Deadline for applications 30 June 2015.
 

 



The CAS Audio Collection

To listen to our latest seminar 'Contesting Compliance: Tales of 'Women's Empowerment' from Nineteenth-Century SW Nigeria', click here.
 



Further Seminars

 

Cambridgde Centre for Christianity Worldwide

Lecture Series 2015, for further details click here.
 

"Can the Subaltern Speak?"

29 Jan 2015, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge.

For details click here.


Ebola: Experiences in a Global Emergency - the Case of Sierra Leone

9 Feb 2015, University of Bradford, for details click here.


Africa Research Forum Seminars

For details click here, for a flyer click here.


CRASSH Research Seminar

9 March: Militant Masks; Youth and Insecurity in the Niger Delta. For details click here.
 

Scolma Seminar

11 Feb: Southern African Port Towns and the Shaping of Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms in the Early 19th Century
For details click here.
 



Conferences & Calls for Papers

 

P​o​stamble​

Peer-reviewed online journal with a focus on the multidisciplinary study of Africa. Call for papers: Transdisciplinarity, Transformation and the Humanities, for further details click here.


2015 Oxford Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop

A weeklong workshop hosted by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities at Oxford University, 12-18 July 2015. Deadline 15 March 2015, for further details click here, for a flyer click here.


Twelfth Cadbury Conference: Money Judgments

21-22 May 2015, University of Birmingham. Call for papers,
deadline 1 March 2015, for details click here.
 

African Studies in the 20th Century: Past, Present, and Future

13-17 Oct 2015 Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Call for papers, deadline 30 March 2015, for details click here.
 

Africa Research Day 2015

16 March 2015, SOAS. Call for papers, deadline 15 Feb 2015, for details click here.

 

Print Media in the Colonial World

CRASSH Cambridge
16-17 April 2015
For details click here.


Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects in African History: Rethinking Historical Evidence and its Interpretation

University of Birmingham
For details click here, deadline 31 Jan 2015.


The 2nd Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Conference

Textualities of Space: Connections, Intricacies, and Intimacies
20-22 August 2015. Makerere University, Uganda
For details click here, deadline 31 Jan 2015.
 

Environment, Race, and Land Use

13-15 July 2015, Rhodes University. For details click here, deadline 31 January 2015.


African Intellectual Mobilities: Diasporic Travel and Texts, Past and Present

7 Feb 2015, University of York
Further details click here.
 

Nigeria after the 2015 Elections

Africa Confidential Conference
25 March 2015, London
Further details here.
 

2nd International Thematic Conference on Africa and the Indian Ocean

Fluid Networks and Hegemonic Powers in the Western Indian Ocean
9-10 April 2015, Lisbon. For more info click here, deadline 31 January 2015.

 



Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships

 

UAC Nigeria Travel Fund

Grants for Cambridge University graduate students towards field work travel in Africa. Deadline 6 March 2015, for more info click here.
 

Urban Studies Foundation

International Fellowship

For more details click here, for the website click here. Closing date 6 March 2015.

 


 

Opportunities


Public Health & International Development Internships in Uganda - Summer 2015 
For more info click here, deadline 1 February 2015.

Dakar Institute of African Studies
Summer Study Abroad Programme, Dakar, Senegal
More info here.

Oxbridge Africa Mentorship Programme. For info click here and for a leaflet click here.
 



Music



Calabash African Night Revival

First Thursday of every month
La Raza, Cambridge
 


 

 

 

 

 

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