Africa News Jan 2015: CAS 50th Anniversary activities, African History seminars, Ebolanomics, El Anatsui exhibition, Commonwealth Shared Scholarship

Africa News from the Centre of African Studies, University of London, January 2015 View this email in your browser   Welcome to the CAS newsletter for January 2015. Please click view in browser on the red bar above to see the full newsletter. Please see below for the events and seminars included in our 50th anniversary celebrations. We look forward to seeing you in 2015 to celebrate this landmark for the centre! Click the links below to see news about events & seminars at SOAS and other UK universities, as well as several calls for papers in conferences in the UK & abroad. At the bottom you will find listings for funding, job opportunities, and journals and book series on Africa.  News from CAS | CAS Events | SOAS Events | Events & Seminars in the UK | Art, Music & Film Conferences in the UK & Abroad | Funding & Prizes | Jobs | Journals and Book Series CAS 50th Anniversary Activities   CAS Annual Lecture, delivered by Yinka Shonibare (MBE, RA) Save the date: Wednesday 13th May 2015, 6.30pm, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Further details to follow.   Click here to download the Term 2 events calendar as a pdf See details for each event on the section below:   THIS THURSDAY: Holy Hustlers (Botswana, 2009, dir. Richard Werbner) Thursday 15th January, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre Founded in 1955 at a remote northern village in Botswana, the Eloyi Church is commanded by controversial prophets – streetwise, unemployed young men. The film illuminates the creative tension between holiness and hustling by showing how, in a time of crisis, city prophets assert themselves powerfully because they are both 'holy' and 'hustlers'. African Christianity on Film - Screening & Director Q&A with Richard Werber   Exploring the relationship between population mobility & HIV risk in Tanzania Africa Seminar: Kevin Deane (University of Northampton) Monday 19th January, 5.15pm, Room 4429 Albert René: The Father of Modern Seychelles. A Biography  Booklaunch: Kevin Shillington (Author) Monday 26th January, 6pm, Brunei Suite Miners Shot Down (South Africa, 2014, dir. Rehad Desai) Film Screening, part of 'South Africa at 20: The Freedom Tour' Thursday 5th February, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre Creating a Creative Economy in Côte d'Ivoire: The role of new performance spaces for popular music Africa Seminar: Anne Schumann (SOAS / Wits) Monday 9th February, 5.15pm, Room 4429 African Christianity Rising: Stories from Ghana (Ghana, 2013, dir. James Ault)  African Christianity on Film - Screening & Director Q&A with James Ault Thursday 19th February, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre Media Representation and Africa: whose money, whose story? CAS 50th Anniversary Conference - Register in advance via Eventbrite Friday 20th February, 9am-6pm, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Horses, mules and donkeys: Neglected factors in the economic development of Africa? Africa Seminar: William Gervase Clarence-Smith (SOAS) Monday 23rd February, 5.15pm, Room 4429 Yorùbá Names: how they have evolved within a century Africa Seminar: Akin Oyètádé (SOAS) Monday 9th March, 5.15pm, Room 4429 The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana, 2014, dir. Yaba Badoe) Film Screening & Director Q&A with Yaba Badoe Tuesday 10th March, 7pm, Djam Lecture Theatre Fair Trade, Fair Wage? Africa Business Group Seminar: Christopher Cramer, Deborah Johnston & Carlos Oya (SOAS) Tuesday 17th March, 12pm, Room 116   SOAS Events   Inaugural Lecture of Professor Friederike Lüpke: 'Language Diversity, African Style' 11 February 2015, 6:00pm Live Music, 6:30pm Lecture Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of London Africa is one of the hotspots of linguistic diversity. Yet, very little is known about the interplay of its many languages at the level of the individual and of society. The lecture will explore this interplay of multilingualism in West Africa, and reflect on how this helps us to understand linguistic diversity in the wider world. This lecture presents the layered patterns of African multilingualism, focussing on the interaction of spoken and written registers, languages of wider communication and locally confined languages, and multilingual practices and essentialist ideologies.   SOAS AFRICAN HISTORY SEMINAR TERM 2, 2014-15 Seminars will be held in room B101, Brunei Gallery, 17.00 – 18.30   14 January 2015 Benjamin Lawrance (Rochester Institute of Technology): La Amistad, Child Slave Trafficking, and Evading Abolition in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World   21 January 2015 Katie Hickerson (University of Pennsylvania): The Best of Enemies: Vengeful Britons, Defeated Mahdists, and "Regeneration" of Sudan, 1898-1935   4 February 2015 Philip Gooding (SOAS): The Coast and the Lake: Islam, Ritual and Identity in the Lake Tanganyika Basin, c.1830-1890   18 February 2015 Shantelle George (SOAS): Recreating Orisha Worship in Twentieth-Century Grenada   4 March 2015 Cécile Bushidi (SOAS): Dance, Control and Conflicts in the Kikuyu Districts of Kenya, 1880s-1928   18 March 2015 Sumaiya Aboo (SOAS): The Birth of South Africa's Military-Industrial Complex: Pre-Apartheid Public and Private Sector Development   Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) Lecture: Race and Religion, Religion as Race: Muslims in South Africa from Slavery to Post-apartheid Professor Gabeba Baderoon (Stellenbosch University) 24 February 2015, 3pm – 5pm, L67 Since the colonial period, South African popular culture has trained a fascinated gaze on Muslims, but an insistently picturesque view has occluded the history of slavery and displacement through which they first entered the country. In this talk, Professor Baderoon argues that the presence of Muslim slaves during 176 years of slavery at the Cape Colony crucially shaped codes of race and sex in South Africa. She explores the relation of Islam and race from the colonial period to post-apartheid.    Dirty Familiars: Mediated Encounters in African Cities 18 February 2015, 3pm – 5pm, L67 Professor Stephanie Newell (University of Sussex) Focusing on printed/published accounts of strangers and neighbours in African cities, this paper will suggest that the category of dirt has a long history of use in anti-cosmopolitan urban discourses and hate-speech, dating back at least to the colonial period, and that, when used to interpret the tastes and consumption practices of cultural strangers, dirt marks both a failure of interpretation and a visceral acknowledgement of that failure on the part of the beholder.   SOAS SUMMER SCHOOL View the full brochure here The Centre of African Studies is running two courses for the 2015 SOAS Summer School: Understanding Africa: Past and Present This introductory course will provide the participants with an overall understanding of the African continent. With a diverse range of sessions ranging from History and Politics to Languages and Music, the course will give an in-depth knowledge of the main academic areas of study of this vast and diverse continent. Find out more Migration and Diaspora This introductory course will provide the participants with overall understanding of the transnational nature of the modern world as it relates to migration and migrants, and related issues in the field of anthropology, politics, cultural studies, development and globalisation. The programme of study employs a multidisciplinary approach, with both teaching from academics and workshops delivered by diaspora professionals.  Find out more Applications are open to all, and the courses are suited to professionals who want to gain more knowledge of the region and for students interested in studying at SOAS, or who are interested in visiting Africa in the future.    Events and Seminars in the UK   Oxford African Studies Seminars   The African Studies Centre organises a lively programme of seminars, workshops and international conferences. At least three research seminars on Africa meet each week during Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity Terms: ·         African Studies Seminars ·         African History and Politics Seminars ·         South Africa Discussion Group Horn of Africa Seminars, Tuesdays at 5pm, African Studies Centre, MT 2014 Download the Termcard Annual events include: ·         Oxford Africa Annual Lecture ·         Researching Africa Day ·         Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture at Rhodes House Podcasts of past seminars and events hosted by the African Studies Centre are available both on the Oxford University Podcasts Website and on iTuneU. Upcoming Events: Conference on Darfur 21st February 2015 in the Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Anthony's College. Download further information South Africa Discussion Group - Tuesdays, 5pm 27 January    Reading: Albert Hirschman, 'The Changing Tolerance For Income Inequality In The Course of Economic Development,' Quarterly Journal of Economics, 8(4), 1973, pp. 544-566. (This classic essay, published years before South Africa's democratic transition, seems uncannily to illuminate the wellsprings of legitimacy in South Africa's young democracy. We discuss its applicability to the South African situation. Those who attend should read it beforehand.) Deakin Room, St Antony's College 10 February    Reading: Samantha Vice, 'How Do I Live In This Strange Place?' Journal of Social Philosophy 41(3), 2010, pp. 324-242.  (In 2010 South African philosopher Samantha Vice published a provocative essay on the ethics of being a white South African. The seminar consists of a discussion of the essay and those who attend should read it beforehand.) Deakin Room, St Antony's College Enquiries: jonny.steinberg@africa.ox.ac.uk Cambridge Centre of African Studies Seminars View  full listings  Gender in Africa seminar series: Monday 19 January, starting with 'Fathers and Sons: Masculinity, Intergenerational Shifts and Routes of Becoming' given by Dr Rachel Spronk from the University of Amsterdam. More information and abstracts for all the seminars can be found here.    Leeds Centre of African Studies Seminars View full listings London School of Economics View full listings Shifting African digital landscapes Tuesday 17 March 2015, 6.30-8pm, New Theatre, East Building, LSE Speaker: Dr Sean Jacobs, The New School Chair: Dr Wendy Willems, Department of Media and Communications, LSE   Developments and changes to the online media sphere point to interesting possibilities for how Africans are engaging in the global public sphere.  Whether via irreverent Youtube prank videos, blogs, Instagram, song remixes, or producing independent online media (such as the Nigerian-focused Sahara Reporters), among others, and addressing topics such as homosexuality, gender relations, economic relations, African subjects are taking their place more and more as audiences and agents, rather than as receivers of aid and information. Sean Jacobs is on the faculty of The New School in New York City and the founder of the popular Africa is a Country blog (http://africasacountry.com/). He holds a PhD in Politics from Birkbeck College, University of London. His research focuses on the relationship between politics and popular culture. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of African Media Studies and African Journalism Studies. A former Fulbright and Commonwealth Scholar, he has held fellowships at The New School, Harvard University and New York University. Jacobs was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and spent his formative years under Apartheid. Find out more    King's College London View full listings Birkbeck College View full listings Royal African Society Events The Africa APPG  &  APPG on Global Health panel discussion on:  'Ebolanomics' – a pharmaceutical question Monday 19th January, 5pm - 6.15pm, Committee Room 11, House of Commons Speakers: Dr. Adesina Iluyemi PhD, Executive Board Member, NEPAD Council Dr Egeruan Babatunde Imoukhuede, Clinical Vaccinologist & Project Manager,The Jenner Institute at Oxford University Mr Jon Pender, Vice President, Government Affairs, GlaxoSmithKline Mr Adrian Thomas, Vice President of Global Market Access and Head of Global Public Health Johnson & Johnson Chair: Meg Hillier MP Find out more Graduate Symposium: Documentary, Politics, Philosophy Tuesday 13 January 2015, 2pm - 6pm McCrum Theatre, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge Keynote speaker - Gideon Koppel, Professor of Film, Aberystwyth University, filmmaker, artist. Documentary is moving to the fore of the critical conversation around screen media. In the broader public sphere, debates around the uses, limits and legitimacy of this mode proliferate with the availability of technology for the production and consumption of images. Nevertheless, theoretical frameworks in which to interrogate this slippery filmic object – which pertains to the non-fictional world of knowledge whilst employing the resources of fiction – remain in need of development, not least given the move from analogue to digital media. This half-day symposium aims to evaluate the current status of documentary as a means of engaging with the world, via expanded notions of the political and its intertwinement with film and aesthetics, as well as a broader range of film-philosophical and theoretical approaches. *Attendance for the symposium and following wine reception is free. Sign up at  http://goo.gl/forms/JPRqPHUz8y     Art, Music & Film   El Anatsui SELECTED WORKS 12 February - 28 March 2015  Private View on Wednesday, 11th of February, 2015, 6.30pm Find out more   Prints in Counterpoint: An exhibition by Atta Kwami 13 November 2014 - 31 May 2015 World Museum Liverpool A vibrant and colourful display of sixteen lino prints by theGhanaian artist Atta Kwami. Kwami is an artist, scholar and curator based in Ghana and the UK. Find out more   '1:54 Pop-Up' in New York City 15 – 17 May 2015. Led by Koyo Kouoh, 1:54 NY Forum will, as usual, comprise of a full programme of talks and panel discussions to explore critical topics pertinent to contemporary African art today. Parallel to the fair and forum, 1:54 NY Public Programme will offer a wide range of social events and engagements – more details to be announced shortly. Find out more   Announcements   AfNet's 2015 Africa Research Day Conference is happening on March 19th 2015 and we are holding a meeting this Thursday,18th Dec at 5 pm to start the preparations for the event. At the meeting we will be discussing issues such as format of the conference, keynote speakers, panel/session themes. Please come along if you want to be involved in organising the conference or would like to organise or co-organise a session. It would be great to have many of you involved! The meeting will take place in room G07, Pearson Building, UCL Campus, Gower street. Further info Reinvigorating the Humanities in Africa 'On June 7, 2014, the ACLS African Humanities Program convened a Forum on the Humanities in Africa at the University of South Africa in Pretoria.  At the AHP/Unisa forum, leading academics on the continent assessed the consequences of the marginalization of the humanities and offered suggestions to reverse this trend. Suggestions were of two kinds. The first, addressed to members of the humanities community, recommended actions to be taken by individuals, departments, and cross-institutional networks, without the need for external funding. The second, directed to international stakeholders and national governments, identified policy changes and targets for investment of resources. The resulting Reinvigorating the Humanities in Africa will be presented to national and higher education policymakers at the upcoming African Higher Education Summit in Dakar, Senegal, March 10-12, 2015. The Summit, being convened by TrustAfrica, is planned as a three-day event with the theme "revitalizing higher education for Africa's future." The Summit seeks to build a movement of like-minded institutions to transform the African higher education sector. To download Reinvigorating the Humanities in Africa, click here   SOAS SUMMER SCHOOL 2015 View the full brochure here     Conferences in the UK & Abroad   Africa Connections and Disconnections in the History and Cultures of Eastern Africa 30-31 March 2015, BIEA, Nairobi Confirmed speakers include: Bing Zhao, Monika Udvardy, Chapuruhka Kusimba, Thomas Hakansson, Kathryn De Luna, Daniel Branch, Sarah Longair, Pamila Gupta, Gerard McCann, Salvatory Nyanto This conference will explore the place of Eastern Africa within global approaches to the study of the region's past and present.   The fields of history, archaeology, anthropology and literature have all witnessed a global turn in recent years.  The global paradigm is fast became a common point of entry to study of the region, particularly among European and North American scholars.  This conference will include discussion of such research, but also consider the methodological and intellectual challenges presented by this approach to the study of Eastern African societies in the past and present. Find out more    CFP: Anya Fulu Ugo: African Arts Conference Series of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria 24-27 June 2015, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria Theme:  African Art and Artists After the Millennial Turn (A Conference of the Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria, Nsukka in Honour of El Anatsui and Obiora Udechukwu) We invite panel proposals from Nigerian, African and world scholars that view contemporary African art and artists from multiple, all-inclusive perspectives, especially, but not restricted to, humanistic studies. We seek to challenge the low level of interdisciplinary discourses within Africa itself on the subject of its contemporary cultural production. For example, how might we critically engage African visual art through the multiple lenses of mass communication, theatre and film studies, linguistics, literary studies, music, economics, anthropology, history and international relations, archaeology, tourism and museum studies, political science, etc.?   Download the call Deadline; 15th February 2015 CFP: Postgraduate International Conference at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 10 and 11 August 2015. Theme: Changing Landuse, Resource conflicts and Environmental Implications on African Landscapes. The Department of History, University of Warwick and the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam invite papers across disciplines that engage with concepts of changing land use, resource conflicts, indigenous knowledge, beliefs, and environmental implications. We wish to host a 2-day conference for postgraduate researchers working on African Landscapes. The conference will be held in Dar es salaam, Tanzania on 10th and 11th August 2015. The conference aims to create networks among early stage researchers and bring about discussions across disciplines covering political science, history, archaeology, religion, geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and development studies to mention just a few. The conference will allow participants in their 2nd, 3rd and 4thyears of doctoral research to share part of their works in progress. In so doing, we anticipate that participants will broaden their understandings of multi/interdisciplinary approaches in studying African landscapes. Deadline: 20th March 2015 Download further information   CFP: The Southern African Historical Society, 25th Biennial Conference - "Unsettling Stories and Unstable Subjects" The 25th Biennial Conference, hosted by the Department of History, University of Stellenbosch, 1-3 July 2015. Find out more  Cultures of Struggle: Song, Art, and Performance in Popular Movements" University of Johannesburg on 29-31 May 2015 Download the call Deadline: 19th January 2015   UK CFP: African Intellectual Mobilities: Diasporic Travel and Texts, Past and Present  7 February 2015; 10:30am–5pm, The Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, University of York This one-day colloquium hosted by the Department of English & Related Literature, University of York, UK, with the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Sweden, is dedicated to exploring historical and contemporary African and diasporic 'travel writing' and black travel and textual cultures. The event builds on the growing attention given to the vibrant, but understudied, area of African and diasporic travel texts and contexts, rather than the more established critical arena that interrogates largely white travel accounts about black subjects and territories. Deadline: 19th January Find out more CFP: Researching Africa Day 2015 16th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop on Saturday, 7th March 2015, 09:00 - 17:45, St Antony's College, University of Oxford Every year, Researching Africa Day brings together post-graduate and early career researchers from across a range of disciplines. The Day offers an opportunity to discuss research strategies and approaches, to develop ideas in a constructive, stimulating, and engaging envi-ronment, and to network with other researchers. The 2015 Researching Africa Day will bring together post-graduate and early career researchers to reflect imaginatively on where African welfare is found, who provides it, and why. Theme: Imagining Welfare in Contemporary Africa: Interdisciplinary Reflections There are an inordinate number of institutions involved in sustaining, securing, and improving African lives: international donors, global policymakers, humanitarian interventions, scientists, governments, activists and families.  Implicated in this work are particular constructions of the 'good' life in Africa, as well as ideas about who is responsible for safeguarding and providing it. How is it that African lives become a project for development, democracy or global citizenship? What can we learn from current and past interventions? Deadline: 25th January 2015 Find out more CFP: Landscapes, Sources, and Intellectual Projects in African History: Rethinking Historical Evidence and its Interpretation 12-14 November 2015, Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) and Centre of West African Studies (CWAS), University of Birmingham (UK) View the call Deadline: 31st January 2015   CFP: African Intellectual Mobilities: Diasporic Travel and Texts, Past and Present  7 Feb 2015, University of York Further details here CFP: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage: Heritage, Tourism and Traditions 13-16 July 2015, Liverpool, UK Trans-Atlantic dialogues on cultural heritage began as early as the voyages of Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus and continue through the present day. Each side of the Atlantic offers its own geographical and historical specificities expressed and projected through material and immaterial heritage. However, in geopolitical terms and through everyday mobilities, people, objects and ideas flow backward and forward across the ocean, each shaping the heritage of the other, for better or worse, and each shaping the meanings and values that heritage conveys. Where, and in what ways are these trans-Atlantic heritages connected? Where, and in what ways are they not? What can we learn by reflecting on how the different societies and cultures on each side of the Atlantic Ocean produce, consume, mediate, filter, absorb, resist, and experience the heritage of the other? Find out more Deadline: 15th December 2015   CFP: LSE Africa Summit: Innovative Governance in Africa Friday, 17th  April 2015, London School of Economics and Political Science This one-day intensive Research Conference will explore strategies for and implications of Innovative Governance across the African continent and how new technologies and approaches are shifting the idea of Africa in the world.  This conference will present diversified insights into emerging opportunities  and challenges for Africa and provide a platform for engagement between African and international  researchers, development professionals and policy practitioners concerned with governance today. Download the call Deadline: 29th December 2014 CFP: Congo Research Network 3rd Conference African Studies Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK 11th & 12th June 2015 Download the call CFP: African Heritage Challenges: Development and Sustainability 15 May - 16 May 2015, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT Cambridge 'Heritage in Africa is increasingly employed as a vehicle for development. The desire to make heritage pay is palpable. Can one really put the onus on Africa's past to not only be self-sustaining but also to fuel development? How can Africa's heritage be used to shape and secure a sustainable future for the continent? This conference aims to explore the ways in which heritage can promote, secure or undermine sustainable development in Africa, and in turn, how this development affects conceptions of heritage in Africa' Find out more Call for submissions: The 14th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2015 16 - 19 June 2015, Bristol   Organised by The Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) jointly with The Watershed Cinema in Bristol, The Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol and The Center for Visual Anthropology, USC Dornsife, LA, California   Submissions are invited from any field of ethnographic film. The deadline for submission is 15 January 2015. Find out more Europe CFP:  2nd International Conference Africa and the Indian Ocean - Lisbon, 9-10 April 2015 Fluid Networks and Hegemonic Powers in the Western Indian Ocean   The AEGIS Collaborative Research Group on Africa in the Indian Ocean welcomes applications to participate in the forthcoming Thematic Conference.   Please, send an email with your name, proposed title and short abstract to aioconference2015@gmail.com Deadline: 31 January 2015 CFP: Urban Property, Governance and Citizenship in the Global South 23-26 June 2015, Copenhagen. This conference addresses the dynamic relationships between property, governance and citizenship, and their concrete manifestations in various mutually constitutive processes of property making, state making and citizen making Deadline: 15th February 2015 Find out more CFP: Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa 28th-30th May 2015, Freie Universität Berlin Prof. Dr Filip De Boeck, University of Leuven Prof. Dr Abdoumaliq Simone, Goldsmiths College, University of London Download the call for papers CFP: ECAS 6: 'Collective Mobilisations in Africa: Contestation, Resistance, Revolt' 8th-10th July 2015 Find out more ECAS 2015 (Paris, 8-10 July 2015): Call for Papers (deadline 9 January 2015) Call for Papers ECAS 2015,  out now: http://www.ecas2015.fr/how-to-submit-your-proposal/ List of all ECAS 2015 panels: http://www.ecas2015.fr/all-panels/?nb_post=all - Publish or Perish in African Studies: New Ways to Valorize Research Convenor(s): Hartmut Bergenthum / Africa Department, University Library Frankfurt/Main & Stephanie Kitchen / International African Institute, London Find out more Deadline extended until 15th January Practical information and info on registration can be found here: http://www.ecas2015.fr/practical-information/ - CFP: Contesting African Boundaries: Collective Mobilizations Across 'Borders.' In recent years, the study of borders and borderlands has been a particularly productive area of research in African studies. In particular, political scientists, anthropologists and historians have emphasized the opportunities that are afforded to borderland communities, especially through the mobilization of cross-border kinship or economic networks. They have also shown how borderlands function as zones of political and regulatory creativity. However, much of this work has centered on modern borders between nation states, most of which were imposed by imperial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather less has been done on alternative conceptualizations of borders and borderlands. This is despite the fact that Africans have understood (and continue to understand) borders in a multitude of ways: in terms of natural boundaries such as rivers or lakes, the demarcation of grazing rights, stockades around towns, and the moving frontiers of pioneer migrants. These kinds of boundaries are heavily contested in terms of their nature and validity, and the analysis of them may draw out similar themes of opportunity and constraint. This panel therefore welcomes papers that engage with the dynamics of borders and boundaries in Africa (broadly conceived) from a variety of conceptual viewpoints, and especially those that engage with the ways in which boundaries/borders shape collective mobilizations. Deadline: 9th January 2015. Contact: Phillip Gooding pg19@soas.ac.uk Find out more - CFP: Afriphone Literature: Mobilization for an African Language Literature Agenda in the 21st Century Convenor: Bodomo Adams / University of Vienna Find out more   USA CFP: Africanizing Technology Wesleyan University, March 5-6, 2015 Africa has long been a space of technological innovation and adaptation despite popular Western media depictions to the contrary.  In fact, Africa is at the center of global technology stories such as the history of nuclear proliferation (Hecht, 2012).  Recently scholars have documented novel uses of contemporary media technologies on the continent, as well as older adaptations of hi-fi stereo systems, all of which have had rich and complicated social impacts (Larkin, 2008; Jaji, 2014).  Artisans and industrial workers have also created new technological cultures, while many African medical professionals have responded to technologically 'poor' environments by improvising basic solutions (Livingston, 2012).  Africanizing Technology aims to highlight and interrogate these and other technology stories on the continent from an interdisciplinary perspective. Deadline: January 20, 2015.   Find out more Roots/Heritage Tourism in Africa and the African Diaspora: Case Studies for a Comparative Approach An International Conference organized by FIU's African & African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS)  12th – 14th February 2015 Conference programme now available  Find out more  CFP: ACLA African Language Literature: In the Garden of the Mother Tongue: African Language Literature  The American Comparative Literature Association 2015 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 26-29 March 2015 Find out more  CFP: Africa Conference at the University of Texas- Development, Urban Space, and Human Rights 3rd-5th April 2015, The University of Texas at Austin Deadline: 30th November 2014 Find out more  CFP: University of Chicago African Studies Workshop Spring Conference The Age of Infrastructure - The Infrastructure of Age May 15, 2015 The African Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago invites papers exploring the complexities of age and infrastructure in African studies, with a particular interest in examining the points of intersection between the two. In what way do age and the conflicts that emerge around it structure social forms in African societies? How do such forms and conflicts intersect with the infrastructures of African life? And how does attention to the intersections of age and infrastructure in Africa shed new light on the meaning of citizenship in African societies, the consequences of neoliberal globalization, and the ways in which ordinary people struggle to forge meaningful modes of sociality across the continent? Deadline: January 15th 2015 Find out more    CFP: "Journeys of Reconciliation: The New South, the New South Africa, and Nelson Mandela," SERSAS/SEAN Spring 2015 Conference, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, USA, 6 - 7 February 2015 This CFP is open to any scholarly topic and field in African and Diaspora studies broadly constructed but, following the passing of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) and the opportunity to reflect on the struggles for social justice in both America and South Africa, the organizers would particularly welcome panels and proposals that engage with considerations of how reconciliation can be seen as vital element in the Civil Rights and Anti-Apartheid movements. Reflections on the role and legacy of Nelson Mandela, and those who informed his leadership in the South African liberation struggle as well as the lessons that can be drawn from these for global communities will, no doubt, form an important body of scholarly knowledge for future generations. Deadline: 15th December 2014 Find out more     Funding Opportunities & Prizes   HIGHLIGHTED: Leventis Nigerian Post-Doctoral Fellowship at SOAS  The Centre of African Studies of the University of London invites applications from Nigerian academics to take part in a scheme of collaborative research funded by the Leventis Foundation. Applications now open for academic year 2015/2016. Next deadline to apply: 31 March 2015 Find out more   Call for applications: Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for students from African Commonwealth countries A very rare scholarship available to students from African Commonwealth countries for the MA Music in Development degree at SOAS Further details Find out more about the degree programme  Deadline: 31st January 2015   Call for applications: Scholarships for the MSc African Studies at Oxford University 2015/16 Download further information Deadline: 23rd January 2015   The 2015 Commonwealth Foundation grants    We award funding for sustainable development projects that contribute to effective, responsive and accountable governance with civil society participation. •             Open to civil society organisations (CSOs) •             Up to £30,000 per year •             Multi-year funding available (up to three years) •             Delivered in Commonwealth Foundation eligible member countries Grant projects must focus on one or more of the following: •             Strengthening the ability of CSOs to use creative expression for participatory governance •             Enhancing the capacity of CSOs, networks and alliances to engage in par-ticipatory governance •             Facilitating interaction and constructive engagement in governance •             Building a culture of learning and knowledge sharing •             Applications should be made through the online form on our website, where other resources to assist the process are available to download.   Deadline: 29th January 2015   SOAS Scholarships & Fellowships Governance for Development in Africa Initiative (GDiA) at SOAS PhD Scholarships MSc Scholarships Residential School in Africa (in London, UK) Applications now open for academic year 2015/2016  Find out more and apply Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Studentships  for MRes Politics with Language, MSc Research for International Development, MA Anthropological Research Methods, MA Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali The Canon Collins Scholarships at SOAS – open to Masters students from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for students from African Commonwealth countries applying for: MSc Development Studies, LLM in Law, Development and Governance, MSc Development Economics, MA Social Anthropology of Development, MA Music and Development The Culture of Resistance Scholarships for Masters students in the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, from the following African countries: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe. Ferguson Scholarships for African taught Masters students in African Studies, International Studies and Diplomacy & Social Anthropology of Development Santander Taught Master's Scholarships for African students from Ghana  SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Arts & Humanities  - (for any full-time taught masters programme in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities)  SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Language & Cultures (for the full-time MA Postcolonial Studies, MA Cultural Studies, MA Comparative Literature, MA Linguistics, MA Applied Linguistics & Language Pedagogy, MA Language, Documentation and Description, MA Translation Theory and Practice (Asian and African Languages)  SOAS Master's Scholarships - Faculty of Law and Social Sciences (for any full-time master's programmes in the Department of Development Studies, Economics, Law, Politics, International Studies and Financial & Management Studies, in the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy and in the the Centre for Gender Studies) William Ross Murray Scholarship for an LLM student from a developing country External scholarships British Institute in Eastern Africa Graduate Attachment Scheme for recent graduates with an interest in further studies in Africa    British Council The Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) is an international programme under which member governments offer scholarships and fellowships to citizens of other Commonwealth countries. The CSFP was established at the first Commonwealth education conference in 1959, and over 26,000 individuals have benefited. CSC offers Masters and PhD scholarships as well as Fellowships and distance learning scholarships   Mansion House Scholarships for training and work experience in the United Kingdom's financial services industry, open to postgraduate Nigerian students. Tullow Group scholarship scheme for postgraduates from Ghana, Uganda and Kenya in subjects related to the oil and gas industries. Other Universities University of Sheffield West African Merit Scholarships for students from Benin, Cameroon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea or Guinea Bissau University of Bath Steve Huckvale Scholarships for students in Africa – taught masters students from Africa who are intending to study Engineering or Management Bournemouth University UKEAS Nigeria Scholarship for Nigerian nationals on full-time postgraduate courses     Jobs   The Centre of African Studies is recruiting an intern and volunteers to support its activities in the fields of research, event management and communications.  If you are interested in being involved and are a current SOAS student, please download the job descriptions and send your application by 31st January 2015: CAS Volunteer CAS Intern   Lecturer in African Studies University College London Deadline: 30th January 2015 Find out more   The UN Mission for Emergency Ebola Response (UNMEER) is expanding its anthropology team, and is recruiting three anthropologists to be deployed to West Africa, one each to be based in Freetown, Monrovia and Conakry.  The team will work collaboratively and will be led by Dr Juliet Bedford. The posts will be for 60 days (with possible renewal) and will start by the end of January 2015. Candidates must have an advanced degree in Anthropology (or related social science) and a minimum of 8 years progressively responsible professional experience.  They must be familiar with West Africa and able to work in an operationally challenging environment.  For the Conakry post, the candidate must be fluent in both English and French.  For Freetown and Monrovia, the candidate must be fluent in English.  If you are interested in applying, please email Dr Juliet Bedford to register your candidacy (julietbedford@anthrologica.com).  Please send a CV and short covering statement.  The subject line should read 'UNMEER recruitment' followed by the country office you are applying for.   Three year PhD studentship: Mobile money and young people's wellbeing in Africa University of Bath. Applications are invited for a full-time University studentship to work at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences. This project will develop existing research on mobile money and microfinance within CDS and link this to research on wellbeing and young people within the Centre. It is an exciting opportunity to engage with leading researchers in these fields. Deadline: 12th February 2015 Find out more   OSIWA Sahel Consultant OSIWA is hiring the short term Sahel Consultant in order to increase the relevance of its intervention in the WASR (West Africa Sahel Region) and in the sub-region. The Sahel Consultant work within the Political Governance Program of OSIWA and report to the Unit Manager. The short term appointment is expected to span for 12 months starting from March 2015. Remuneration shall be commensurate with experience. Deadline: 15th January 2015 Download further information     Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Study with the South African Research Chair in Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies Deadline: 23rd January 2015 Download further information   Journals and Book Series on Africa     ♦ Adonis &Abbey Publishers Ltd, P.O. Box 43418, London, SE11 4XZ: 1. African Renaissance: a bi-monthly, multidisciplinary international journal published since 2004, has launched a book programme. Under the programme, the journal, which is a cross between an academic publication and any higher-end policy oriented report, will publish every year 5-6 books based on contributions to the journal. The book programme has already started (see some of the titles in "Forthcoming Titles below). Usually an editor is appointed to edit each volume, and the editor asks authors of selected contributions to update/expand/beef up/revise their contributions -as the case may be.  For previous issues of African Renaissance, see: http://adonisandabbey.com/show_journal1.php?list_journals=1   2. African Journal of Business of Economic Research, a peer-reviewed academic journal, which made its debut in January 2006. The journal is published three times a year. Also 1-2 books are to be published each year from the contributions to the journal. For details of the current edition, please see: http://adonisandabbey.com/show_journal1.php?list_journals=2   3. Review of Nigerian Affairs is a quarterly, multidisciplinary online journal, which is a cross between an academic publication and any quality, policy-oriented features magazine. The journal brings together different perspectives on current issues in Nigerian politics, economy and society.   4. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development (AJSTID)  AJSTID is a multi-disciplinary and refereed international journal with a special focus on science, technology, and innovation in developing economies, with a special reference to Africa. It has been established on the basis of the recognized role of innovation in the development of economies and on the relative absence of research in the area, particularly in the case of Africa. AJSTID seeks to encourage research along three broad streams. This first is the role of science, technology and innovation in the process of industrial growth and development. The second stream concerns the broader area of socio-economic development. The third invites work exploring the inclusion of innovation and knowledge in cross border integration processes particularly in Africa. AJSTID will solicit submissions on both these research streams at various levels: firms, sectors/ industries/clusters, regions and countries.   5. African Performance Review is a triennial  journal of the African Theatre Association (AfTA) dedicated to publishing, disseminating and encouraging high quality research and information on theatres and performance in Africa and the African Diaspora.    ♦ African Affairs, Journal of the Royal African Society African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society. It publishes articles on recent political, social and economic developments in sub-Saharan countries. Also included are historical studies that illuminate current events in the continent. Each issue of African Affairs contains a substantial section of book reviews, with occasional review articles. There is also an invaluable list of recently published books, and a listing of articles on Africa that have appeared in non-Africanist journals. www.afraf.oxfordjournals.org   ♦ Africa Confidential Africa Confidential is one of the longest-established specialist publications on Africa, with a considerable reputation for being first with the in depth news on significant political, economic and security developments across the continent. Our track record owes much to our comprehensive network of local correspondents and the connections that we've built up throughout Africa since we started publishing back in 1960. http://www.africa-confidential.com   Africa-Asia Confidential Africa-Asia Confidential was first published in November 2007, by the same group that owns Africa Confidential, Asempa Limited of Cambridge. The newsletter was founded in response to the growing political and economic relations between Africa and Asia – and by the need to understand the implications for Africa. Using the resources that Africa Confidential has accrued in 50 years of covering the continent, Africa-Asia Confidential is also developing a new network of correspondents to supply the same kind of detailed and exclusive information for which Africa Confidential has won its reputation. www.africa-asia-confidential.com    ♦ African Journal of Political Science The AJPS is published by the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), with the aim of providing a platform for African perspectives on issues of politics, economy and society in Africa. It is published 2 times a year - in June and December, and targeted at the social science community, policy-makers, and university students. Contributions are in either English or French. With effect from the year 2000, it will be published in Arabic by the Institute of African Research and Studies, Cairo University, Egypt.   ♦ African Studies Journals, Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group: 1. African and Black Diaspora This is the first academic journal that directly addresses the needs of scholars working in the important field of African Diaspora studies. It advances the analytical and interrogative discourses that constitute this distinctive interdisciplinary study of the deterritorialised and transnational nature of the African and Black Diaspora. The journal publishes research articles, commentaries and book reviews. All articles will be peer-reviewed. Authors interested in contributing should contact one of the three Editors. A special issue Navigating African Diaspora: Crossing, Belonging and Presence, is in preparation.   2. African Identities, 2 Issues per year, Print ISSN: 1369-6815, Online ISSN: 1469-9346 With an emphasis on gender, class, nation, marginalisation, "otherness" and difference, the journal explores how African identities, either by force of expediency or contingency, create layered terrains of (ex)change, decentre dominant meanings, paradigms and certainties. For more information visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CAFI   3. African Studies, 2 Issues per year, Print ISSN: 0002-0184, Online ISSN: 1469-2872 Rooted in a long tradition of scholarship, African Studies provides an inter-disciplinary forum for conceptual and empirical writing relevant to Africa, and that contributes to international dialogue and debate. For more information visit: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CAST   4. Development Southern Africa Development Southern Africa offers a platform for expressing views and encouraging debate among development specialists, policy decision makers, scholars and students in the wider professional fraternity and especially in southern Africa. The journal publishes articles that reflect innovative thinking on key development challenges and policy issues facing South Africa and other countries in the southern African region.   5. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies ENAJS is the premier international peer-reviewed journal for the critical analysis of journalism scholarship, education and practice in all its facets in Africa. The purpose of the journal is to foster a better understanding of journalism, media studies, and mass communication as research areas in the comparative context of Africa and the Global South, and to build links between these academic fields and the media professions. The journal's focus is on Africa, but its academic interest and scope is transnational.   6. Ethnic and Racial Studies Race, ethnicity and nationalism are at the heart of many of the major social and political issues in the present global environment. New antagonisms have emerged which require a rethinking of traditional theoretical and empirical perspectives. Ethnic and Racial Studies, published ten times a year, is the leading journal for the analysis of these issues throughout the world. The journal provides an interdisciplinary academic forum for the presentation of research and theoretical analysis, drawing on sociology, social policy, anthropology, political science, economics, geography, international relations, history, social psychology and cultural studies.   7. Journal of African Cultural Studies The Journal of African Cultural Studies is an international journal providing a forum for perceptions of African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to African scholarship. It focuses on dimensions of African culture including African literatures both oral and written, performance arts, visual arts, music, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender.   8. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies This journal publishes the results of first-class research on all forms of migration and its consequences, together with articles on ethnic conflict, discrimination, racism, nationalism, citizenship and policies of integration. Submissions: For details on how to submit a paper to Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies go to www.informaworld.com/jems   9. Journal of Contemporary African Studies The Journal of Contemporary African Studies (published four times a year, in January, April, July and October) is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to promote a scholarly understanding of developments and change throughout the African continent, as well as the location of Africa within the global political economy. Its scope extends across the social sciences, as well as encouraging articles relating to the social dimensions of the wider humanities, sciences and the environment. It welcomes contributions reviewing general trends in the academic literature, as well as those offering careful analyses of developments at national, regional and continental level. It also publishes special issues and welcomes proposals for new topics.   10. Journal of Southern African Studies JSAS is an international publication for work of high academic quality on issues of interest and concern in the region of Southern Africa. It aims at generating fresh scholarly enquiry and rigorous exposition in the many different disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, and periodically organises and supports conferences to this end, sometimes in the region. It seeks to encourage inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives and research that reflects new theoretical or methodological approaches. An active advisory board and an editor based in the region demonstrate our close ties with scholars there and our commitment to promoting research in the region.   11. Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies Published since 1974, Politikon is the official journal of the South African Association of Political Studies. It focuses primarily on South African politics, but not exclusively so. Over the years the journal has published articles by some of the world's leading political scientists, including Arend Lijphart, Samuel Huntington, and Philippe Schmitter. It has also featured important contributions from South Africa's leading political philosophers, political scientists and international relations experts. It has proved an influential journal, particularly in debates over the merits of South Africa's constitutional reforms (in 1983 and 1994). In the last few years special issues have focused on women and politics in South Africa, and the South African election of 1999. Recent articles have looked at the negotiated transition from apartheid to democracy, aspects of identity politics in post-apartheid South Africa and issues of democratic consolidation.   12. Review of African Political Economy ROAPE is a refereed journal committed to encouraging high quality research and fostering excellence in the understanding of African political economy. Published quarterly by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group for the ROAPE international collective it has since 1974 provided radical analysis of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of change. It has paid particular attention to the political economy of inequality, exploitation and oppression and struggles against them, whether driven by global forces or local ones such as class, race, community and gender. It sustains a critical analysis of the nature of power and the state in Africa in the context of capitalist globalisation.   13. Journal of Eastern African Studies The Journal of Eastern African Studies is the international publication of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, published three times each year. It aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary boundaries. It seeks to foster inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives, and research employing the most significant theoretical or methodological approaches for the region.   14.  South African Journal of International Affairs The SAJIA is an outward-looking International Relations journal. While taking a South African and African perspective, articles are comparative, and address issues of global importance. Published since 1993, SAJIA has become a leading South African journal publishing original and review articles on international relations involving and affecting Africa. The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is an independent, non-governmental organisation focusing on South Africa's and Africa's international relations. SAIIA provides cutting edge analysis and promotes balanced dialogue, thus contributing to effective policy making on issues critical to Africa and its engagement in a dynamic global context.   15. The Journal of North African Studies The Journal of North African Studies is a forum for scholars of and from the region. Its contents cover both country-based and regional themes, which range from historical topics to sociological, anthropological, economic, diplomatic and other issues. It is the first academic journal in English to analyse the historic and current affairs of what has become an important and coherent region of the Mediterranean basin, which is also linked to the Middle East and Africa. ♦ International African Institute 1. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. Editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. For further details see http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=afr.   2. Africa Bibliography Africa Bibliography has became available as a searchable online database from February 2011. The online bibliography has been developed by the IAI together with Cambridge University Press. Six volumes from 2004/5 to 2009/10 (current volume) were being published initially. It is anticipated that back volumes from 1984 will be added in due course during 2011 and 2012. Subsequent new annual volumes will be published in both online and print formats. For further details see http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFB.   3. International African Library series For updates on new volumes visit: http://www.internationalafricaninstitute.org/publishing/library.html 4. African Arguments the Book Series African Arguments is a series of short books about Africa today. Aimed at the growing number of students and general readers who want to know more about the continent, these books intend to highlight many of the longer-term strategic as well as immediate political issues confronting the African continent. The series is a collaboration between Zed Books, The Royal African Society, The International Africa Institute, The Social Science Research Council and Justice Africa.   ♦ Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 2,600 citizens and organisations - academics, policy makers, social activists, women's organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, and commentators who together produce insightful, sharp and thoughtful analyses and make it one of the largest and most innovative and influential web forums for social justice in Africa. Pambazuka News also publishes podcasts, videocasts and book. To view online, go to http://www.pambazuka.org/.   ♦ Postamble is a postgraduate journal of the Faculty of Humanities located in the Centre for African Studies and published bi-annually online. Postamble is committed to featuring original post graduate student work of a high academic standard which is of value to the promotion of multi-disciplinary study of Africa within the university environment. Postamble is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes general, as well as thematically focussed special issues. For more information visit: http://postamble.org/   ♦ The Africa Report: A monthly Journal, The Africa Report has established itself as the international publication of reference dedicated to African affairs. It is the guide used by decision makers to anticipate economic and political changes in Africa and relied upon for the expertise of an independent editorial team in its surveys, sector reports and country focus published in each issue. Its recognised high-quality coverage of the African business environment is combined with the widest pan-African and international circulation.   EDITORIAL SERIES   ♦ AEGIS/Brill Book Series: Call for proposal With the AEGIS Series (published by Brill) AEGIS provides a venue for the publication of works drawn from the lively and expanding community of scholars with interests in Africa and its Diaspora. The AEGIS Series aims to publish books within the broad fields of study within the humanities and social sciences that would bring new approaches or innovative perspectives to the topics discussed. Titles comprise works that could also reflect established debate within African Studies if they provide new insights. Both individually-authored works and edited collections on focused themes will be considered. The first volume (Is violence inevitable in Africa?) appeared in 2005. The AEGIS series will publish two books a year. Potential authors should first submit a proposal using the guidelines found at http://www.brill.nl/downloads/Manuscript-Preparation.pdf.   ♦ Africa in Development Series (Peter Lang International Academic Publishers) While African Development remains a preoccupation, policy craftsmen and a multiplicity of domestic and international actors have been engaged in the quest for solutions to the myriad problems associated with poverty and underdevelopment. This series is designed to encourage innovative thinking on a broad range of development issues. Thus its remit extends to all fields of intellectual inquiry with the aim to highlight the advantages of interdisciplinary perspective. The series welcome proposals from collected papers as well as monographs from recent PhDs no less than from established scholars.     Back to top   Contact     Facebook Twitter   Follow on Twitter   Friend on Facebook   Forward to Friend  Centre of African Studies, SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

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