African Studies @ Carleton Digest: Issue of November 25, 2016

Location: 130 George Street Ottawa, Ontario

Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Time: 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm

BACKGROUND

The Young Leaders Advisory Council

(YLAC) is dedicated to ensuring the future of young people in Canada. We advocate for that future through empowering young people of African, Indigenous, and other racialized communities while building relationships with our allies along the way. The council focuses on increasing civic engagement through mentorship and volunteerism, promoting awareness of self by encouraging knowledge of heritage and cultural traditions; and providing a platform for young people to become the leaders of tomorrow – TODAY.YLAC establishes and sustains an environment built on inclusion, accessibility, l eadership, and engagement. Our core values foster lifelong connections among young people while enhancing the quality of life for people of the African diaspora in Canada. At YLAC, leadership is built on action. Each action is an opportunity to amplify the voice of young leaders within their community, strengthen the collective power of our members, and multiply their impact as the next generation of global influencers.

“A Samaritan State” Revisited

is a two-day conference on 12-13 December 2016 that will explore aspects of the history of official Canadian development assistance, a field of rapidly growing interest and sophistication among young scholars in Canada. The conference, which represents a mix of junior and senior academics, will trace the broad ideological and institutional origins of Canada’s ODA in the 1950s, as well as specific themes in its evolution and professionalization after 1960. A final session will explore the contemporary history of Canadian aid from the early 1990s to the present. Taken together, these new papers represent the most comprehensive overview available of the current historiography on this subject. A conference program is available here

Location:

Robertson Room, Lester B. Pearson Building , 125 Sussex Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0G2

Date: Mon 12/12/16 to Tue 12/13/16

Price: This event is free, but seating is limited. Therefore, it is required that you register for the conference on the Eventbrite page

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Two of the world’s leading HIV/AIDS experts are among the 2016 Gairdner Award recipients. Join Dr Frank Plummer and Dr Anthony Fauci for an engaging discussion about global efforts to end the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

Dr Frank Plummer received the 2016 Canada Gairdner Wightman Award for his groundbreaking research in HIV transmission in Africa and his leadership at the Canadian National Microbiological Laboratory, with pivotal roles in SARS, influenza, and Ebola epidemics.

Dr Plummer is Special Advisor to the Chief Public Health Officer at the Public Health Agency of Canada, Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba, and the former Scientific Director of the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, where he played a leading role in its emergence as a leading public health laboratory. He led the development of the “Kenya AIDS control program”, established by the University of Manitoba and the University of Nairobi. This experience will be the focus of Dr Plummer’s presentation “Three decades of North-South collaboration: The Nairobi-Manitoba collaboration”.

Dr Anthony Fauci received the 2016 Canada Gairdner Global Health Award for his many pioneering contributions to our understanding of HIV infections and his extraordinary leadership in bringing successful treatment to the developing world.

Dr Fauci is Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In his more than three decades in this role, he has overseen pioneering research devoted to preventing, diagnosing, and treating infectious and immune-mediated diseases.

In his presentation, “Ending the HIV/AIDS pandemic: An achievable goal”, Dr Fauci will discuss the extraordinary progress in the 35-year global fight against HIV/AIDS, notably the development of powerful tools for HIV prevention and treatment, as well as the remaining challenges that must be met to achieve an end to the global pandemic.

For more information, visit idrc.ca

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For over 40 years, The MATCH Fund has partnered with grassroots organizations in over 71 countries to bring about lasting change, helping women and girls improve their lives and their communities. From Rosemary Brown’s tenacious and fearless leadership to Madonna Larbi’s vigilant advocacy for women and racial minorities, we continue to stand on these courageous shoulders.

Join us to celebrate their powerful legacies on
Wednesday, November 30th, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at the Ottawa Police Association Hall, 141 Catherine St, Ottawa ON, K2P 1C3.

Tickets: $50
Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, Cash Bar

All proceeds will go to The MATCH Fund.

Buy tickets here →

The Centre for African Studies Basel and the Swiss Society for African Studies on behalf of AEGIS (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies) invite you to submit paper proposals for the 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017 with the theme: Urban Africa – Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban.

African urbanization trends raise several issues that are of interest to scholars. These range from politics, through economics, all the way to social and cultural issues. The key issue, however, is how urbanization processes in Africa transform conventional objects of African Studies and how do scholars of Africa gear up to face such changes? These are the questions which we have invited scholars of Africa to engage with in a more conscious and systematic manner.

While among the 223 accepted panels the urban is prominent, many also look into the entanglements of the rural with the urban, especially with a view to addressing an implicit assumption underlying the study of Africa and which concerns the supposed rural ‘nature’ of the continent as well as the constitutive nature of the tension between tradition and modernity. Over the past few decades a self-critical attitude within many disciplines has led to a weakening of these assumptions, the urban continues arguably to be seen as the exception or, at any rate, as analytically less consequential than the rural. ECAS 2017 “Urban Africa – Urban Africans” will, therefore, be an occasion for rethinking African Studies, but also for exploring and deepening research avenues that many researchers working on urban and rural issues have taken up over recent years. There is a critical mass to be harnessed in the effort to push the frontiers of critical European knowledge production on Africa.

The call for papers is now open and closes at midnight on 19 January 2017. Before you propose a paper, please read the theme

of the conference, the rules below, and then browse the list of list of panels

.The accepted panels of ECAS2017 have been divided into thematic streams: Economy and Development (A); Politics and International Relations (B); Social Anthropology (C); Sociology (D); History (E); Arts and Culture (G); Language and Literature (H); Philosophy (I); Religion (J); Health (K); Environment and Geography (L); and Law (M). When browsing through the list of panels, you can alternate between the All panels view that shows all the panels in one list, regardless of the stream and the All streams view that shows the list of streams.

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The African Academy of Sciences – Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AAS-AESA) is launching two new Grand Challenges:

1) Providing new impetus and solutions and strategies to help Africa meet the SDG 3 target for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH). These cover key areas of:

• New technologies to enable rapid identification of exposures that lead to poor outcomes in pregnancy, birth and in the first month of life — these could be exposures to communicable and non-communicable diseases.
• Precision medicine approaches and techniques to identify microbes and other exposures in Africa that may increase susceptibility to non-communicable diseases (cancer, cardiovascular diseases, etc.) in mothers and children under 5 years of age.

2) Creative approaches to engage the public, and inspire policy and decision makers to increase investment in African Research & Development.

These new grand challenge innovation grants will be issued and administered under the banner of Grand Challenges Africa (GC Africa), a program implemented in partnership with the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD Agency)

and theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)

. Round 1 is a joint initiative of the GC Africa partners and Institut Pasteur of Paris (IP)

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Africa and Africans in National, Regional and Global Dimensions
14th International African Studies Conference
(Moscow, October 17-20, 2017)

On October 17-20, 2017 in Moscow the Research Council for the Problems of African Countries and the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hold the 14th African Studies Conference titled “Africa and Africans in National, Regional and Global Dimensions.” The Conference will take place on the premises of the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The working languages are Russian and English.

The Organizing Committee would like to encourage you to submit panel proposals, focusing on any particular topics related to the Conference’s umbrella theme. The deadline for panel proposals submitting is December 1, 2016. The Organizing Committee will be glad to consider any panel proposals (within 500 words in English or both English and Russian) received by this date. The information to be submitted alongside with the proposal includes the proposed panel convenor(s)’ full name(s), title(s), institutional affiliation(s), full mail and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax numbers. The list of prospective papergivers with their particulars is desirable but not compulsory.

The Organizing Committee will inform the applicants about the results of their panel proposals’ consideration on or soon after December 15, 2016. The list of all the Conference participants is to become known by early April, 2017 due to the activities of both the Organizing Committee and panel convenors.

None of the proposals may be accepted or rejected on the basis of its submitter(s)’ previous academic credentials, ethnic or national origin, sex, or otherwise, but only on the basis of the proposal’s relevance to, and importance for, the Conference’s general theme.

During the Conference, each panel will work for one day and will have one or two time slots, with no more than six papers in each (that is, no panel will exceed twelve papers).

In the case the proposal is accepted and you and/or your panel participants need Russian entry visas, the Organizing Committee will send you in April 2017 the list of documents necessary to support the visa application process at a Russian Consulate or Embassy.

The conference registration fee in Russian rubles, equivalent to $150 ($75 in rubles for students and for citizens of African states residing in Africa, except South Africa), is to be paid in cash onsite upon arrival. The registration fee includes the visa application support (Official Invitation), the Conference Book of Abstracts, stationary items, reception and coffee-breaks. The fee for an accompanying person, equivalent to $50 in rubles, includes the visa application support (Official Invitation) and reception. The Conference participants working for the Institute for African Studies official partners are waved from registration fee.**

According to national immigration regulations, only official spouses and children can be considered as accompanying persons. For getting an official invitation for an accompanying person from the Organizing Committee, you must send the Organizing Committee an apostil of the respective person’s marriage (for the spouse) or birth (for the child) certificate. After receiving an official invitation, you will be able to apply for a humanitarian visa for that person. Otherwise, you can apply for a tourist visa for the accompanying person at a Russian Consulate. You will not need to apostil the documents in this case (as well as it is not necessary for the Conference participants to get a humanitarian visa). No accompanying persons can be waved from registration fee.

The Organizing Committee can assist in booking accommodation, but independent reservation is encouraged. Please note that early hotel reservation in strongly recommended, as Moscow hotels and hostels may be full any season. Besides booking.com

, otel.com

and other internationally recognized hotel and hostel search and booking websites, you may try specifically Moscow websites https://www.moscow-hotels.net/

and https://www.moscow-hotels.com/

.All the correspondence should be sent by e-mail for the Conference Organizing Committee, to the attention of Mrs. Natalia Bondar, Head, Center of Information and International Relations, Institute for African Studies (conf2017@gmail.com; tel.: + 7 495 690 2752) – prospective international participants, or to the attention of Dr. Natalia Zherlitsyna, Secretary, Research Council for the Problems of African Countries (ns_inafr@mail.ru; tel.: + 7 495 690 6025) – prospective Russian participants.

Starting date: Feb 1, 2017

You will find the official job advertisement at https://www.uni-freiburg.de/universitaet/organisation/stellenboerse

.Please send your application including the application form provided on that website and the usual documents (application letter, CV, copy of final university certificate) until 20.12.2016 at: gregor.dobler-at-ethno.uni-freiburg.de