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In celebration of the life of our beloved colleague, mentor, teacher and friend, Professor Pius Adesanmi (Institute of African Studies, Department of English & Department of French), Carleton University along with the Institute of African Studies, Departments of English and French are holding a Festival of Life at the Carleton Dominion Chalmers Centre on Tuesday March 26, 2019, at 5:30 pm for members, friends of the Carleton community and members of the larger Ottawa community.
Sarah Onyango and Adrian Harewood will anchor the event. Highlights of the evening include music by the West African Rhythm Ensemble led by Kathy Armstrong of the Department of Music, Carleton University; singing by Neema Mugala, singer and winner, Black History Ottawa Community Builder Award; poetry, readings and tribute from the Carleton and Ottawa community to honour the life of Professor Pius Adesanmi.
To read the many tributes submitted, please follow this link: https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/piusadesanmi-tributes/ .
You may share your memories of Professor Adesanmi by submitting a tribute here: https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/submission-of-tributes-to-pius-adesanmi/
To honour Professor Adesanmi’s memory, a fund has been established to support students continue his life’s work at https://futurefunder.carleton.ca/giving-fund/professor-pius-adesanmi-memorial-fund/
In Honour of all the 157 victims of Flight ET302. We invite members of the African Community, the City of Ottawa, organizations, corporations, media, various government representations and the general public to join us for a Universal Memorial Service
Date: Sunday March 24th, 2019 | 2:00pm to 3:30pm (Doors open at 1:00pm)
Location: Sir John A. MacDonald Building, 144 Wellington Street, Room 100, Ottawa K1P 5T3
Dress: Black, semi-formal
NB: Please bring Photo ID for security check point.
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Dr. Frank Mattheis is a Research Fellow at the Institut d’études européennes at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and Associate Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, University of Pretoria (South Africa). He works on governance structures beyond the nation-state in the fields of comparative regionalism and interregionalism.
Date: Monday April 1st, 2019 | 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: Room 482 (Discovery Centre) MacOdrum Library, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6
“Fringe Regionalism – When Peripheries Become Regions”
A Talk by
Dr. Frank Mattheis
Abstract This new book introduces the concept of fringe regionalism to the field of international studies. It challenges the conventional understanding of regionalism as formal intergovernmental organisations driven by nation-states and examines how regions are practiced by peripheral borderlands rather than centrally planned. Two in depth case studies, the Sahara and the Caucasus, provide the real-life application of the concept. Exploring the overlap of competing demarcations, extra-legal economies and cross-border identities steers the empirical approach towards a regionalism that emerges at the fringes of states. Understanding the central role margins play in producing regions relativises the preeminence of regional organisations but also uncovers how formal and informal practices are intrinsically interwoven.
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Call for Papers | Globalization, Media and the African City
Calling all undergraduate students with a passion for African Studies! The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton University is hosting its 5th annual undergraduate research conference on Saturday, October 5th, 2019 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
This years’ theme, Globalization, Media and the African City, provides students a fascinating interdisciplinary and creative lens to explore the intersections of everyday life, urbanism and the future of Africa the context of globalization. We must not limit our understanding of the city to the physical but extend it to the imaginaries propelled by culture and urban design. The media, globalization, popular culture, and industrialization are continuously influencing the urban space, and this conference seeks to examine the intrinsic and synergic relations between Globalization, Media and the African City.
The organizing committee of the IAS undergraduate conference welcomes well-researched papers addressing any of the above-listed subthemes relating to the African City. Local and international
undergraduate students interested in participating in the conference are encouraged to submit an abstract by July 6th, 2019. The abstract should be between 250 and 400-word for a final paper suitable for a 20-minute presentation.
For more information, please email the organizing committee at communications.iasconference@gmail.com or follow us on Twitter @IASSACarleton or Facebook at the Institute of African Studies Student Association -IASSA for continuous updates.
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Call for Papers | Destinies of Africa in the Modern World 15th International African Studies Conference
Moscow 2020
Moscow the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in co-operation with the Research Council for the Problems of African Countries, holds the 15th African Studies Conference titled Destinies of Africa in the Modern World. The Conference main events 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 have considered all the panel proposals received by it. The list of accepted proposals can be found below. The deadline for paper proposals (in the form of abstracts within 300 words in Russian or English) is November 15, 2019. The proposals should be sent directly to the respective panel convener(s) who is (are) to inform the applicant about his (her) application’s fortune by December 1, 2019 – the date by which the panel conveners are to submit their compiled panels to the Organizing Committee.
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