Event @ Carleton: Kenyan Academics in Canada: Frameworks for Intervention in Kenyan Higher Education
Event @ Carleton: Ambassadors Speakers Series: Jamaica
Event @ Carleton: Ugandan Asian Archives Collection at the MacOdrum Library
Thursday, September 29, 2016-7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Main Reading Room MacOdrum Library-1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON
About this Event
Host Organization: MacOdrum Library
Carleton University and the MacOdrum Library are pleased showcase the Ugandan Asian Archive Collection on September 29, 2016.
The Ugandan Asian Archive Collection gives insight into the 1972 South Asian expulsion from Uganda and the subsequent resettlement in Canada. The event will showcase extensive archival material as well as oral histories that have been donated to the archival collection in the MacOdrum Library.
This is opportunity to view the collection and to connect and hear from those who came from Uganda and settled in Canada.
Special guest Michael Molloy, former Ambassador of Canada to Jordan, will speak. Mr. Molloy was sent by the Canadian Government to Uganda in 1972 to work under the direction of Roger St. Vincent. Mr. Molloy was second in command at the Kampala office of the Canadian Mission during the time of the expulsion.
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One World Film Festival
At the One World Film Festival:
Saturday October 1st: Politics, Protest, and People Power
Hosted by Adrian Harewood (CBC)
Doors open at 5:00PM
5:30PM Q&A with The Ghomeshi Effect
6:00PM Welcome and Introduction
6:15PM Quitte le Pouvoir (Step Down) (Netherlands/Senegal)
7:00PM BREAK
7:15PM The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (U.S.)
9:15 Panel Discussion with anti-racism activist Chelby Marie Daigle and political activist Khalid Haneef-Jabari, moderated by Adrian Harewood
For further information about these films and other films showing at the Festival, please go to here
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Panel on Challenging Gender-Based Violence through Family Law Reform NPSIA Admins
When: October 7, 2016, 8:30 -13:00
Where: International Development Research Centre, 150 Kent Street, 8th floor, Ottawa, Canada
Challenging Gender-Based Violence through Family Law Reform:
A Panel Discussion
Around the world, women are impacted by laws that determine their rights to marry, travel, hold a job, choose their place of residence, or make decisions about their children’s rights. Conservative fundamentalist interpretations of laws often result in violence against women by permitting practices such as honour killings and child marriages. Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) and the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) are launching a joint initiative to reform discriminatory family laws in order to challenge gender-based violence in 11 different countries. Through locally-led initiatives, culturally specific strategies and national advocacy campaigns, this project will empower local communities and organizations to fight gender-based violence by highlighting the diversity of religious and legal approaches on questions of law.
To launch this project, on Friday October 7, WLP and IDRC will co-host a panel discussion that will highlight lessons learned and best practices from around the world that have been effective in countering gender-based violence. Held at IDRC headquarters, the event will focus on how Canada and other countries from the Global North can support family law reform at the national and international level. Six internationally renowned speakers will highlight initial findings of case studies and will showcase effective strategies by women and local communities to reform discriminatory religious family laws. The event will also feature a book launch and discussion of WLP’s new publication Violence without Borders: Paradigm, Policies and Praxis Concerning Violence Against Women.
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Reminder
Book Launch: “Facets of Power: Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe’s Blood Diamonds”
When: Friday, September 30, 2016 at 3:00 PM
Where: 2017 Dunton Tower
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“The end of relational justice? ‘Ubuntu capitalism’ and the rhetoric of reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa”
When: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 at 1:00 PM
Where: 433 Paterson Hall
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Book Launch: Obama and Kenya
When: Friday, October 14, 2016 at 2:30 PM
Where: 2017 Dunton Tower
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Job Opportunity: Three Permanent Positions at History Department (University of Cape Town)
Applications are invited for three full-time permanent appointments at Lecturer (1 post) and Senior Lecturer (2 posts) levels in the Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town. The Department is a leading centre for critical historical scholarship in Africa. Information about the Department can be found at https://www.historicalstudies.uct.ac.za/
. Preference may be given to candidates whose research and teaching interests complement those already in the department.Expectations:
We particularly encourage application from scholars pursuing innovative research in any field of intellectual, cultural, political and social history of modern Africa; histories of gender and sexuality; histories of violence and racism; critical economic histories; and connected and comparative histories of colonial and postcolonial global south. Candidates would be expected to have strong empirical grounding in their fields of specialization, a collaborative spirit, theoretical fluency, and ability and willingness to develop and teach critical and imaginative courses beyond their immediate research fields. Experience in critically using non-English sources in their own research will be considered a strength.
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Job Opportunity: Program Officer – Collaborative Research
The Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), Canada’s national coalition of civil society organizations (CSOs) working globally to achieve sustainable human development, is hiring.
We are looking for an experienced bilingual Program Officer, with strong research and writing skills, excellent program management and organizational skills, successful experience in multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder collaborations, and solid knowledge of the civil society and academic communities in Canada.
Over a three-year period (2016—2019), CCIC plans to implement, in partnership with the Canadian Association for the Study of International Development (CASID), a collaborative research program entitled “Next Generation Leadership for the New Development Paradigm”. The program will position Canada as a leader in innovative multi-stakeholder approaches to global development research, practice and policy development, by supporting enhanced and sustained collaboration between Canadian civil society and academia. The program will use a range of different models of collaboration to stimulate new thinking and generate timely and policy-relevant joint research on inclusive economies.
This is an exciting time for the international cooperation sector in Canada and the world. A year ago, world leaders adopted a new set of sustainable development goals for the world at the UN in New York. In the coming months, the Canadian government should have a new vision for global development cooperation and for Canada’s role in the world. And ahead of our 50th anniversary, CCIC has initiated a strategic visioning process to rethink how we engage at home and overseas in the context of this changing global development landscape. And what a great time to join our dynamic team! The successful candidate will work with CCIC’s team in Ottawa.
Please send résumé and letter of interest to recruitment@ccic.ca<mailto:recruitment@ccic.ca>
Deadline to apply is Monday, October 10, 2016.
For further details, please see the full job description →
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Call for Applications-Developing African academics to approach health challenges in Africa
HEARD’s Scholarship Programme
aims to emphasise the mastery of quantitative and qualitative methods for understanding policy problems and for devising, evaluating and/or implementing policy solutions. The aim of providing PhD scholarships is to produce expertly qualified graduates to advise or to be part of influential policy making organisations in Africa.Under the supervision of Professor Nana Poku
and with the generous support of Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, HEARD is offering up to five PhD Research Scholarships (full time) in any of the following key areas of strategic focus commencing in February 2017:
- Health Governance and Finance
- Health Systems Strengthening
- Gender Equality and Health
Applications are invited from citizens of all African countries. Female candidates and, in the case of South Africa, those from previously disadvantaged backgrounds, are especially encouraged to apply.
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