Event @ Carleton: 2nd Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference
Date and Time:Sat, 15 October 2016, 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: MacOdrum Library (Discovery Center),1125 Colonel By Drive, View Map
The Institute of African Studies Students Association (IASSA) is proud to present the 2nd Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference.
This Year Theme is: “Africa after Africa Rising: Politics, Development, Youth and Innovation in an Era of Globalization: seeks to encourage interdisciplinary engagement with a new generation of continental and diasporic Africans confronting questions such as: Is Africa really rising? What is the future of the continent—politically, economically, and culturally? Are “Afropolitans” the new face of the Diaspora? In what ways are African youth using technology and innovation? What are the new directions for political participation and development? In a time of political, developmental and innovative transition, we ask: Which Way Africa?
This conference encourages students not to simply replicate the usual discourses of victimhood or reproduce information obtained from a variety of sources, but to generate new and innovative ideas that address the challenges and opportunities for the new generation as well as provoke further research.
POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE:
#8211; Globalization, Popular and Youth Culture
#8211; Population, Displacement, Migration and Land
#8211; Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality
#8211; Critiques of Imperialism, Colonialism and the Slave Trade
– Natural Resources and International Development
#8211; Race, Identity, and Diaspora
#8211; Crime, Security, and Political Leadership
#8211; Environment and Conservation
#8211; Afropolitanism
#8211; The International criminal court of Justice
Students are not limited to these themes, however papers must remain within the scope of African Studies.
For all those participating, the IASSA plans to make this a memorable experience for students by incorporating guest-speakers, cultural components, and an environment that fosters the kind of support and encouragement that undergraduate students treasure. Note that lunch and coffee breaks will be provided throughout the day.
River Building Theatre-, 43 Campus Ave.
3rd Floor (Theatre) • 2nd Floor (Box Office)
Following the tremendous success of our inaugural festival last year, Carleton University’s Film
Studies Department and Institute of African Studies, and the Canadian Film Institute are pleased to invite you to the second edition of the African Film Festival of Ottawa (AFFO), held over two weekends, on October 14-15-16 and October 21-22, 2016 in the River Building Theater of the Carleton University Campus.The festival, which opens on Friday, October 14th at 7pm with Leyla Bouzid’s breakthrough film A peine j’ouvre les yeux/ As I Open My Eyes (2015) aims to showcase the best in contemporary African cinema and offer a complex, nuanced and doubly moving image of Africa.It seeks to engage audiences in a conversation on Africa around the moving image by presenting Africa and Africans through the cinematic voices and visions of the continent’s filmmakers themselves.The five films selected this year celebrate both emerging voices and cinematic masters from across the five regions of the African continent represented by the following countries: Chad,
Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. Indeed, according to festival curator and Carleton
University Film Studies Professor Aboubakar Sanogo, ” This year’s selection emphasizes fresh and innovative voices in African cinema with two first features by Leyla Bouzid (Tunisia) and
Sibs Shongwe La-Mer (South Africa), a second feature by Kivu Ruhorahoza (Rwanda), a third feature by Alain Gomis (Senegal) and a rare documentary by Chadian master Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.” The films have been screened and/or have won awards at FESPACO (Pan African Film Festival of Ouagadougou), the Durban International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and the Sundance Film Festival among others.
TICKETS:
General Admission: $13
CFI Members, Seniors, Students, Children: $9
Carleton University Students/Staff: FREE!
Event @ Carleton: “The Story of a Pump: Life, Death and Afterlives within an Urban Planning of ‘Divide and Rule’ in Nairobi, Kenya”
“The Story of a Pump: Life, Death and Afterlives within an Urban Planning of ‘Divide and Rule’ in Nairobi, Kenya”
with
Wangui Kimari
Anthropology PhD candidate, York University
Wangui Kimari is a final year PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at York University. Her larger project historicizes urban planning in Nairobi from the vantage point of ‘slum’ residents and this work draws attention to the connections between formal urban spatial management and police violence in the city.
Abstract: Through a narrative that connects the rhizomatic trajectories of Nairobi, I show how the continuities of an imperial urban spatial management become territorialised in a pump used in a ‘slum’ called Mathare. These events highlight the assembling of empire through ideas about politics, ecology, economics and culture that come together to produce the city in the longue durée. Notwithstanding the persistence of a ‘divide and rule’ spatial management, I show here how residents of slums make incremental changes in their abandoned spaces and through events that connect life and death, but also render afterlives of tragic possibility. In choosing to dwell in these marginal and minor stories, this work also interrogates the mainstream marketing of Nairobi as a hyper-modern ‘world-class’ city ruptured from a colonial past. Rather, I argue that the colonial city persists and principally in poor urban settlements—its ruins. The most visible imperial novelty, however, is that the police are used more frequently to enforce city divisions and in ways that see them become both urban managers and infrastructure. Notwithstanding the persistence of empire, I also call attention to the important and imperfect work of slum residents, which, I argue, potentiates other possibilities for Nairobi.
This is part of the African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series
The Saint Lucia-Ottawa Association invites you to celebrate Jounen Kweyol (Creole Day)
WHEN: October 22, 2016
DOORS OPEN @ 2PM
SHOWCASE @ 4PM
DANCE @ 9PM
WHERE: Jim Durrell Community Centre, 1265 Walkley Rd.
Be prepared for a fun-filled afternoon with performances, the rivalry of La Rose and La Marguerite, traditional creole food, a fashion show, and more! Our feature, GOZILAY, international Soca artist with mega hits like “Koute Manmanw”, “Yo Bwey” and “Pa Check Mwen”, direct from Saint Lucia.
Invite your friends and neighbours, share with your networks and post on your Facebook page.
Reserve your tickets early – General Admission- $15; 16 years & under – FREE.
