- Religious Fundamentalisms Impact on Women’s Rights in Africa
- ‘From Buckets to Rain Barrels’ Gala Evening
- Conférence Bénéfice @ Gatineau: « Enjeux Et Contexte De Paix Et De Securité Dans La Région De L’afrique Des Grands Lacs »
- Brighter Futures for East African Youth
- Drumming Your Dreams – Rwanda Movie & Live Drumming & Dancing
- Big data and the digital divide
- Call for Abstracts now open- 22nd Canadian Conference on Global Health
- L’appel à résumés est maintenant ouvert-Conférence canadienne sur la santé mondiale 2015
- Call for Papers: Conference on Resource Sovereignty, Nature Conservation and Livelihood in Southern Africa
- Call for Papers Conference “Gender, household labour relations and (post)colonialism, 1800-present”
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Religious Fundamentalisms Impact on Women’s Rights in Africa
April 21, 2015
Carleton University. Humanities Theatre, 303 Paterson Hall
The Africa-Canada Forum (ACF), one of the working groups of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), in collaboration with the Institute of African Studies from Carlton University, is organizing a one day learning event on religious fundamentalists and their impact on women’s rights in Africa.
This forum will discuss the impact of different forms of religious fundamentalism on women’s rights in Africa from the perspectives of academia, African civil society and Canadian civil society organizations (CSO). A highlight will be our guest speakers, including Shareen Gokal, Manager, Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID); Dr. Pius Adesanmi, Professor of English and African Studies, Carleton University; Dr. Paul Mkandawire, Assistant Professor of Human Rights and African Studies, Carleton University; and Fahima Hashim, Director of the Salmmah Women’s Resource Centre and an Inter Pares collaborator.
The day will open with an overview of religious fundamentalisms and their specific impact on women’s rights. Then we will move towards analyzing the issues through case studies examining Islam and Christianity. Much emphasis will be placed on discussion. Participants will be encouraged to bring in their own perspectives on a way forward to tackling these issues and on working as a collaborative community to do so.
The objectives of this event are as follows:
To develop a greater understanding of religious fundamentalisms and how different forms impact women’s rights in affected nations, regions and communities.
To generate insight into some of the historical, cultural, political conditions which have led to the rise of different forms of religious fundamentalisms occurring in parts of sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences they are having on women’s rights.
To fill in the knowledge gap of practical possibilities and challenges CSOs have in working in nations or regions where they encounter religious fundamentalisms.
Presentations will be in English only, however participants are welcome to speak in the language of their choice. Please note, interpretation will not be available for this event.
Read the concept paper in preparation for the learning event at: https://www.ccic.ca/_files/en/working_groups/2015_03_17_acf_religious_fundamentalisms.pdf
Register at: https://form.jotformpro.com/form/50681964362966 Investment:
$10 – Admission to full-day event
$25 -Admission to full-day event + Boxed lunch – Tortilla Wrap Cajun Chicken
$25 – Admission to full-day event + Boxed lunch – Grilled veggies with hummus on a tortilla wrap.
2.
‘From Buckets to Rain Barrels’ Gala Evening
When: Thursday, April 9, 2015, Social hour begins at 6:00pm, Dinner at 7:00pm
Where: Rideau Club, 15th Floor, 99 Bank Street, Ottawa ON K1P 1H4
An interdisciplinary group of students from the Sprott School of Business and the Faculty of Engineering and Design at Carleton University are actively partnering to develop economically viable and sustainable water harvesting solutions in the Longido District of Tanzania. During January 2015 the students conducted preliminary research and community outreach to establish long-term relationships with local stakeholders. The students will be hosting a gala evening at the Rideau Club in Ottawa to showcase their final projects and celebrate the hard work and generosity of everyone involved with this project. The gala will alsoserve as an opportunity to reveal the selected projects that will be carried forward and the four students who will be chosen totravel back to Tanzania in June to lead the implementation of these projects. For more information on the event and to purchase tickets visit https://forms.carleton.ca/sprott/from-rain-buckets-to-rain-barrels-fundraiser/ . If y! ou would like additional information about our project moving forward, we invite you to visit https://futurefunder.carleton.ca/projects/from-buckets-to-rain-barrels-2-go/.
3.
Conférence Bénéfice @ Gatineau: « Enjeux Et Contexte De Paix Et De Securité Dans La Région De L’afrique Des Grands Lacs »
Collectif des Survivants & Victimes du Génocide Hutu de 1972, Région de Gatineau-Ottawa vous invitons à venir participer à Conférence bénéfice avec Maitre John Philpot
« Enjeux Et Contexte De Paix Et De Securité Dans La Région De L’afrique Des Grands Lacs »
Me John Philpot est un avocat criminaliste membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 1984. Pionnier des procès en droit pénal international, il a agi devant la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) dans le dossier Kenya et au Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR). John est co-auteur du Livre « Justice belied: The Unbalanced Scales of International Criminal Justice ». L’exposé fait part d’une visite récente dans la région des Grands Lacs (Burundi) et élabore sur un certain nombre d’observations et de donnéees sur les mécanismes de paix et sécurité qui s’y jouent en insistant sur trois pays (Burundi, R.D.Congo et Rwanda) et, attire l’attention sur deux points majeures: 1) L’interconnexion des conflits; 2) La nécessité d’une vision régionale de la paix dans cette region.
Introduction: Fréderic Nzeyimana, Anthropologue, Coordonnateur International du Collectif des Survivants…
Places limitées La Conférence aura lieu le Samedi 11 Avril 2015 à la Salle Des Chênes de l’Hôtel V de Gatineau, au 585 Boulevard de la Gappe, de 18H à 20H.
Le prix d’entrée est de $20 ($15 si payé à l’avance)
Pour Contact:
Innocent Nsavyimana, Coordonnateur, Tel. (819) 328-8242
Tharcisse Ndabarinze, Secrétaire, (819) 208-4976
Perpetua Evans, Trésorière, (819) 893-4029
David Niyonsaba, Tel. (819) 664-5358
Ernest Mbanzendore, Tel, (819) 208-4976
4.
Brighter Futures for East African Youth
Where:Cube Gallery, 1285 Wellington Street West
When:April 9, 2015, 6pm
Brighter Futures for East African Youth is a fun community event with a serious goal: helping young people in east Africa overcome tremendous challenges to build a better future through education and enterprise.
On Thursday April 9th we are hosting a fundraising event at the CUBE Gallery in Westboro. The evening will begin at 6pm and will feature art, live music, hors d’oeuvres prepared by a local chef, a silent auction, and other fun activities.
Tickets are $50.00 and can be purchased online at https://capaids.org/get-involved/events/.
Proceeds will benefit CAP/AIDS, a registered Canadian charity established in 2003 with the aim of extending a hand to grassroots African organizations that are on the front lines in providing care and support to people affected by or vulnerable to AIDS. Through these organizations, our goal is to help youth who have been orphaned and/or abandoned to the street by helping them to complete their education and training, start small community businesses, and gain vital work experience.
5.
Drumming Your Dreams – Rwanda Movie & Live Drumming & Dancing
Sunday, April 12, 2 p.m.
The Capital Grannies and the Baobab Youth Performers invite you to a fundraiser for The Stephen Lewis Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign and the Baobab Community to the screening of “Sweet Dreams – Rwanda” and the Baobab Youth will drum and dance at the Ashbury College Theatre, 362 Mariposa Avenue, Rockcliffe, (Bus No. 1). For more information about the film, please go to: www.sweetdreamsrwanda.com .
Tickets ($20 includes ice cream) available at:capitalgrannies@rogers.com or info@baobabtree.org or at door.
6.
Big data and the digital divide
Saturday 15 – Saturday 22 August 2015
University of Waterloo, Western University, and Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
The Commonwealth Summer School was instigated by the ACU in 2011. It aims to provide a forum to bring together high quality students from every corner of the Commonwealth to discuss multidisciplinary issues of global importance.
A key element of the School is its desire to mix local/regional students with those who may have never had the opportunity to leave their own regions.
The inaugural School was held at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in July 2011 followed by the 2012 School hosted by the University of Botswana and in 2013, the ACU hosted the School in United Kingdom to coincide with the our Centenary. The School was held at the University of Nottingham’s Malaysia campus in 2014. In 2015, it will be held across three of Canada’s leading institutions, based in and around the Canada Technology Triangle.
Why big data?
Big data and the digital divide present both challenges and opportunities for our increasingly interdependent and intertwined world. Data and its analysis underpins hypothesis testing, forecasting, and other kinds of decision-making relevant to everyday life. It helps with our ability to shape and manage our world, ranging from evaluation of new medical therapies, wise financial investments, or being able to meet current and future healthcare demands on a personal and national basis.
It is important for today’s students, our future leaders, to gain a broader perspective of – and a deeper insight into – the impact of this critical issue on the world economy, social justice, environment and quality of life of individuals.
Waterloo, Western and Wilfrid Laurier are already doing ground-breaking work in this area. Students will benefit from the institutions’ extensive connections with local companies in the Canada Technology Triangle, with invaluable access to big data trends in industry.
Through a series of workshops, group work, TED-style talks, and field-based learning, students will have a better understanding of big data challenges and the inequality that persists as a result of inadequate access to it across the world.
Delegates will also get to visit the world-famous Niagara Falls.
Who can attend?
Applicants should be engaged in a course of study at an ACU member university; but applications may be made by applicants from non-member Commonwealth universities. At the time of application, he/she must either be studying for a postgraduate degree (full- or part-time), or in the final year of an undergraduate degree, with the expectation of moving to postgraduate study on completion.
Priority will be given to students from member institutions who have not had the opportunity to travel outside their home region.
PLEASE NOTE: Applications should be received by 00.00 BST on Friday 1 May 2015. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. Successful applicants will be notified by (latest) end of June 2014.
If you are having issues filling out the form, please email summer.school@acu.ac.uk
More information at: https://www.acu.ac.uk/events/events/commonwealth-summer-school/commonwealth-summer-school-2015/
7.
Call for Abstracts now open- 22nd Canadian Conference on Global Health
November 5-7, 2015 – Montreal, Canada
Capacity Building for Global Health: Research & Practice
Deadline: Friday, May 29, 2015 by 17:00 hrs EST
New this year, if you wish to have your abstract “pre-evaluated” by volunteer mentors, please submit before April 22, 2015. Feedback from this pre-evaluation will be shared and you will have the option to edit your submission before the official deadline of May 29th.
Abstracts can be for oral and poster presentations, for workshops and symposia, and for documentaries and video capsules. Submissions on any global health topic are welcome but those related to the conference theme or sub-themes are preferred.
For more information and submission instructions: https://www.ccgh-csih.ca/ccgh2015/abstracts/&lang=en
8.
L’appel à résumés est maintenant ouvert-Conférence canadienne sur la santé mondiale 2015
Du 5 au 7 Novembre, 2015 – Montréal, Canada
Renforcement des capacités en santé mondiale: recherche & pratique.
La date limite pour la soumission des résumés est le 29 mai 2015 à 17 h 00 (heure avancée de l’Est) .
Nous offrons cette année, la possibilité que des mentors volontaires fournissent une rétroaction aux auteurs afin qu’ils puissent améliorer leurs propositions avant qu’elles ne soient évaluées par le comité de sélection. Si vous souhaitez vous prévaloir de cette disposition, vous devez soumettre votre résumé avant le 22 avril 2015. D’éventuelles suggestions vous seront communiquées et vous pourrez réviser votre soumission puis la soumettre à nouveau avant date de clôture, le 29 mai.
Les résumés en vue des présentations orales et par voie d’affiches, de même que pour les ateliers ou les symposiums, documentaires et vidéos, sont les bienvenus. Les résumés peuvent traiter de tout sujet touchant la santé mondiale, toutefois, ceux se concentrant sur les thématiques de la conférence seront priorisés.
Pour plus d’information et marche à suivre pour la soumission des résumés: https://www.ccgh-csih.ca/ccgh2015/abstracts/&lang=fr
9.
Call for Papers: Conference on Resource Sovereignty, Nature Conservation and Livelihood in Southern Africa
UNIVERSITY OF VENDA (Thohoyandou): 23-25 September 2015
Organizers:
Innocent Sinthumule, University of Venda, innocent.sinthumule@univen.ac.za
Maano Ramutsindela, University of Cape Town, maano.ramutsindela@uct.ac.za
Johannes Tsheola, University of Limpopo, Johannes.Tsheola@ul.ac.za
In their highly acclaimed book Why Nations Fail (2012), Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, argue that post-independence governments are caught in a vicious cycle in which colonial-era extractive institutions are maintained to the disadvantage of the working class and national economies. Similar observations have been made in postcolonial studies. There is a sense that states are crucial for an inquiry into the experiences of people in different parts of the world. States, are however not the only player – local and global actors and the private sector have much influence on the affairs of countries. This raises important questions about the sovereignty of the state. In its classical sense, sovereignty implies the unlimited and indivisible rule by the state over its territory, elements thereupon, and the people therein. Of course there is no such a thing as absolute sovereignty in our day and age. An intriguing question, though, is what makes it difficult to translate ter! ritorial sovereignty into resource sovereignty which is understood as the exercise of state authority over its resources. In a continent such as Africa which is rich in natural resources – and also characterized by pervasive donor-recipient relations, and unequal trade – the disjuncture between authority over territory and resources require continuous scrutiny. This conference seeks to probe three main questions. The first question relates to the ownership and management of resources: what is the current state of resource ownership and management in southern Africa and what accounts for this state of affairs? The second question is: what kinds of state sovereignty are found in the region and elsewhere in Africa and what shapes them? Lastly, the conference examines the typology of resource rights and access and their effects on the livelihood of ordinary citizens.
We invite papers that respond to these main questions from any perspective. The papers could either be detailed case-studies, theoretical debate, or a combination of theory and the empirics.
Possible topics include:
•Sovereingty and natural resources; •Motivation for the private sector, civil society and governments to participate in biodiversity protection; •Closing/opening of livelihood options in southern Africa; •Community struggles and natural resources; and •(Mis)management of natural resources and the consequences thereof
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Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by 31 May, 2015 to Innocent
Sinthumule [innocent.sinthumule@univen.ac.za]; Maano Ramutsindela [maano.ramutsindela@uct.ac.za]; and Johannes Tsheola [Johannes.Tsheola@ul.ac.za]
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Call for Papers Conference “Gender, household labour relations and (post)colonialism, 1800-present”
Date: 25-27 July 2016
Venue: Universitas Gajah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
In recent decades, postcolonial studies have increasingly looked at the role of gender in colonial relations. Inspiring work by scholars such as Catherine Hall, Phillipa Levine, Anne McClintock, and Ann Stoler, has tremendously deepened our knowledge on how gender relations were constituted, and how in turn they shaped colonial relations around the world. While work and household labour relations have surfaced in these studies, they have not been the focus of attention.
This conference aims to change this, by focussing on the division of work between different members of households, and the ways in which gender and colonialism mutually constituted and changed these relationships. Our definition of colonialism is inclusive, in the sense that we are also interested in postcolonial or neocolonial influences on labour relations of households in the past. We want to bring together about 20-25 specialized scholars from different disciplines, such as history, sociology and anthropology provided that they take a long-term historical perspective.
We wish to publish the proceedings of the conference in a peer-reviewed journal or book series, depending on the quality of the contributions.
Please send an abstract (max. 500 words) before 1 May 2015 to: danielle.teeuwen@wur.nl.
If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
The organizers, Daniëlle Teeuwen, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Corinne Boter
Wageningen University (https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/Industriousness-in-an-imperial-economy.htm
