African Studies @ Carleton Digest: Issue of October 28, 2016

October 28, 2016 at 8:30 AM to 7:00 PM

Migration and Diaspora Studies (Carleton University) and African Centre for Migration & Society (University of the Witwatersrand) proudly support our collaborative symposium on Intersectionality and Migration

Keynote speakers: Daiva Stasiulis (Carleton University) & Luin Goldring (York University)

Exhibition: Metropolitan nomads: a journey through Johannesburg’s little Mogadishu by Salym Fayad and Nereida Ripero-Muñiz

Wine & Cheese Book launch (5:30 – 7:00 p.m.): Gender and Multiculturalism: North-South Perspectives (Kwazulu-Natal University Press, 2016) Featured authors / speakers: Gopika Solanki, Jill Vickers and Daiva Stasiulis

The continuous (re)construction of multiple social identities which informs migrants’ everyday experiences in host countries has been poorly understood in some forms of migration and diaspora studies, while richly explored in others. While there is an expansive literature on migrant domestic workers and caregivers that carefully analyses intersectionality in both power relations and social identities that structure their experiences of migration, studies of labour migration in regions like southern Africa have tended to regard the experience as temporary and male dominated. When aspects of gender have been included in some literatures of labour migration these have been limited to one-dimensional models of understanding sectoral conditions, effects of migration on family life or economic outcomes. Little attention has been paid to how migrants’ multiple identities, informed by class, age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, and citizenship status have interested and affected their choices and experiences of work. This symposium aims to provide a critical understanding of how social identities shape migrants’ work experiences in South Africa and Canada.

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Umeme: Institute of African Studies Flashpoint Series

Panel Discussion: Diaspora Engagements in Africa: What Role for Canada?

On the occasion of a tour of Ottawa by the African Union’s Citizens and Diaspora Organizations (CIDO) team, Carleton’s Institute of African Studies and Cuso International are organizing an interactive panel with the team. It will be an auspicious occasion for CIDO to discuss and share highlights of its strategic partnerships in Canada in support of diaspora engagement objectives under the first 10 -Year Plan of Agenda 2063. The panel will be joined by Carleton faculty and members of the African diplomatic corps to examine possibilities for Canada’s engagement in Africa’s diaspora frameworks.

Panelists:

Mr. Kyeretwie Osei, Desk Officer, Diaspora Division, CIDO, the African Union Commission.

Mr. Ernest Adjei, Diaspora Officer, the High Commission of Ghana. (TBD)

Professor Pius Adesanmi, Director, Institute of African Studies.

Ainalem Tebeje, Vice-president of the Association for Higher Education and Development

(AHEAD)

Mr. Ahmed El Basheer, Head of Diaspora division at AU will be available in the hall for questions and comments.

Date: Wednesday November 2^nd at 10:15 am

Time: 10:15 am – 12:30 pm

Venue: Patterson Hall PA 303. Meter Parking at P1 or along University Drive

Opening remarks and Moderator: Prof Tag Elkhazin, Institute of African Studies.

Closure and thanks: Chiara Marcazzan, Cuso International

Who should attend?

• Students and scholars
• Migration and diaspora specialists
• Vibrant diaspora communities and organizations looking to grow their network
• Diaspora looking to participate in international co-operation and development
• Individuals looking to network with diaspora organizations and the African Union
• African Diplomatic Missions

The panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A session and networking. This is free for all event

Refreshments will be provided.

As seating is limited, please RSVP before Monday October 31^st (RSVP by responding to this email) tagelkhazin@cunet.carleton.ca. 613 834 7817

CTCA (Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis) is pleased to invite you to several events featuring internationally-renowned novelist and activist Cynthia McLeod who will share her creative and scholarly work on the Dutch Caribbean and the history of slavery in her native Suriname.

Thursday Nov. 10^th

3 Special Events

Carleton University Art Gallery, St. Patrick’s Building

3:30 Public Lecture and Q&A: “The Free Negress Elisabeth”

4:45-5:30 Reception

5:30-8:00 Film Screening and Q&A: The Cost of Sugar (based on McLeod’s acclaimed novel)

All events are free, accessible, open to the public, and co-sponsored by CTCA, CUAG, and the Institute for African Studies.

Friday Nov. 11^th

Workshop for Graduate Students

201D St. Pat’s ICSLAC Seminar Room

11:30-12:30 History of Slavery in Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean

To register and for more information please contact sarah.waisvisz@carleton.ca

CTCA is a research hub that brings together scholars and students working with transnational approaches to studies in the humanities. Our research theme for 2016/2017 is the intersection between indigeneity, migration, and diaspora. https://carleton.ca/ctca/

We invite you to join us for a fundraising soirée, filled with African cuisine and music, a silent auction and presentations from Isaac Osuoka from Social Action in Nigeria, and Howard Mann from the International Institute for Sustainable Development. All funds raised will help provide the resources needed to expand our current activities and develop important new ones.

The dinner will take place on November 19, 2016 from 5PM to 11PM. Tickets are available for $25 either via eventbrite or at key locations around Ottawa.

If you would like to advertise the event through your networks, please feel free to download and use our event flyer, and/or use the eventbrite link.

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Monday December 5, 2016, from 9:00 am-4:00 pm

University of Ottawa, Desmarais Hall, Room 12151, 55 Laurier Ave E, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5

On behalf of the Grandmothers Advocacy Network, the International Longevity Centre Canada and the University of Ottawa, Centre on Governance and Faculty of Arts, we are writing to invite you to participate in a special Forum on December 5, 2016: OLDER WOMEN COUNT! Advocating for Human Rights in Africa, Canada and the World.

At this one-day participatory Forum, we will learn more about the rights and living situations of older women in sub-Saharan Africa and Canada, and explore ways to enhance and protect the rights of older people. You will have the opportunity to hear and interact with panels of experts and with our keynote speaker: The Honourable Patricia A. Hajdu, Minister of the Status of Women. We will discuss the proposed Convention on the Rights of Older People and how this and other measures can be used for the betterment of older people around the world.

You will have the opportunity to meet and talk with other volunteers, advocates and scholars who are working in the areas of aging, support for grandmothers in Africa, and human rights related to freedom from violence, health, education and lifelong learning, social security and participation.

The OLDER WOMEN COUNT! forum, which falls within the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, just after World AIDS Day and just prior to Human Rights Day provides a unique opportunity to share reflections and action plans as we explore how all of these issues pertain to older women and grandmothers in Canada and sub-Saharan Africa.

We hope you will accept this invitation and register now as space is limited. As shown above there are two ways to register: online with payment by PayPal (Go to www.grandmothersadvocacy.org and click on the Older Women Count tab at the top of the home page OR by sending the attached registration form and a cheque made out to GRAN and mailed to Mia Overduin, 76 Anjou Street, Gatineau QC J9H 6C1.

“The Story of a Pump: Life, Death and Afterlives within an Urban Planning of ‘Divide and Rule’ in Nairobi, Kenya”

When: Wednesday, November 02, 2016 – Thursday, January 01, 1970
Where: 433 Paterson Hall

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