TODAY- Event @ Carleton: The refugee crisis: teach-in & community meeting
Please find enclosed information regarding an upcoming teach-in & community meeting about the refugee crisis, which will be held on Friday, October 2 at 2:30pm in Southam Hall (Room 516), Carleton University.
Speakers:
Nadia Abu-Zahra
International Development, University of Ottawa
Decky Kipuka Kabongi
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
James Milner
Political Science & Migration & Diaspora Studies, Carleton University
Jen Ridgley
Geography & Environmental Studies, Carleton University
Safiyah Rochelle
Law & Legal Studies, Carleton University
Moderator: Fiona Jeffries
An active discussion will follow the information session.
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Event @ Carleton: First Carleton University Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Conference
The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton University is hosting its first Undergraduate research conference on 17th of October 2015. This event is organized by the Institute of African Studies Students Association (IASSA).
The goal of this one-day interdisciplinary conference is to provide a platform for future researchers in the field of African Studies. Topics that will be presented on that day will include:
- Globalization, Popular and Youth Culture
- Population, Displacement, Migration and Land
- Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality
- Critiques of Imperialism, Colonialism and the Slave Trade
- Natural Resources and International Development
- Race, Identity, and Diaspora
- Crime, Security, and Political Leadership
- Environment and Conservation
There will be guest-speakers, cultural components, and an environment that fosters the kind of support and encouragement that undergraduate students treasure. It will also include lunch and coffee breaks will be provided throughout the day.
The conference will take place in the Carleton University’s Discover Centre on the fourth floor of the MacOdrum Library.
For directions, here is a link to our campus map
For general information, please email the organizing committee at: carleton.iassa@gmail.com
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Lawrence Hill: the Illegal In Conversation with CBC’s Waubgeshig Rice
We are thrilled to announce Lawarence Hill will be in Ottawa to discuss his new, highly anticipated novel The Illegal on November 24 and we are hosting it!
Lawrence Hill will be in conversation with CBC’s Waubgeshig Rice, author of Midnight Sweatlodge and Legacy. Guaranteed to be a stimulating evening!
Tickets will be available for sale soon in early October. Please check this page for updates!
7PM
Tuesday, November 24 2015
Centretown United Church
507 Bank St.
TICKETS IN ADVANCE AT THE STORE (both locations):
$10 general admission / $5 students & low-income
ONLINE TICKETS IN ADVANCE:
$11 general admission / $6 students & low-income
TICKETS AT THE DOOR:
$15 general admission / $10 students & low-income
About the Book
Keita Ali is on the run.
Like every boy on the mountainous island of Zantoroland, running is all Keita’s ever wanted to do. In one of the poorest nations in the world, running means respect. Running means riches—until Keita is targeted for his father’s outspoken political views and discovers he must run for his family’s survival.
He signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, but when Keita fails to place among the top finishers in his first race, he escapes into Freedom State—a wealthy island nation that has elected a government bent on deporting the refugees living within its borders in the community of AfricTown. Keita can stay safe only if he keeps moving and eludes Hamm and the officials who would deport him to his own country, where he would face almost certain death.
This is the new underground: a place where tens of thousands of people deemed to be “illegal” live below the radar of the police and government officials. As Keita surfaces from time to time to earn cash prizes by running local road races, he has to assess whether the people he meets are friends or enemies: John Falconer, a gifted student struggling to escape the limits of his AfricTown upbringing; Ivernia Beech, a spirited old woman at risk of being forced into an assisted living facility; Rocco Calder, a recreational marathoner and the immigration minister; Lula DiStefano, self-declared queen of AfricTown and madam of the community’s infamous brothel; and Viola Hill, a reporter who is investigating the lengths to which her government will go to stop illegal immigration.
Keita’s very existence in Freedom State is illegal. As he trains in secret, eluding capture, the stakes keep getting higher. Soon, he is running not only for his life, but for his sister’s life, too.
Fast moving and compelling, The Illegal casts a satirical eye on people who have turned their backs on undocumented refugees struggling to survive in a nation that does not want them. Hill’s depiction of life on the borderlands of society urges us to consider the plight of the unseen and the forgotten who live among us.
Watch book trailer: https://youtu.be/yulscKn-FW4.
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CanUgan 4th Annual Evening of Celebration
Where: 1026 Baseline Road, Ottawa-Marconi Centre
When:October 16 at 5:30pm
An evening of food and fun, live music, dinner, a silent auction or more!
Ticket:$55 per person ($20 tax receipt) and $35 for students
For tickets, email: muhamadadatia@gmail.com or Margie at 613-820-9595
Making a difference in Uganda! |
3rd Annual Tonight’s for Tanzania
The Tanzania Chapter of the Canadian World Education Foundation (CWEF TZ) presents its 3rd Annual Tonight’s for Tanzania evening! Please join us on Saturday, October 24, 2015 for a social, cultural and networking event in support of education sponsorship for orphaned and vulnerable children across Tanzania.
About the Canadian World Education Foundation (CWEF Tanzania)
This is a tax-exempt registered charity run by volunteers. Our program strives to help children faced with difficult circumstances due to severe poverty and being orphaned.
We focus on education sponsorship but also address other determinants of health such as shelter, access to clean water, healthcare, hygiene, and the provision of consistent care and nourishment. Since our establishment in 2011, we have found long term sponsorship for over 40 children and are supporting 3 children on a year to year basis through fundraisers and general donations.
About Tonight’s for Tanzania (T4T) Event
Launched in 2013, this is a fundraiser in support of education sponsorship for students who have not secured sponsorship. So far, this initiative has raised $5,000 and sponsored deserving students including Eva and Neema – young Masaii girls who were to be married off in exchange for cattle until support was found for them through CWEF TZ to continue their education.
You are cordially invited to join us on October 24 to for an evening full of tradition, culture and networking opportunities!
Enjoy a taste of African Cuisine
Learn from stories from the field by CWEF Tanzania Executive
Silent Auction with African- inspired items
Listen to some East African music, watch awesome performances and more
When: October 24, 2015 from 5pm-8pm
Where: 176 Rideau St (Suite 202)
Tickets: $20 Students: $15
Purchase tickets online or make a donation at Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-3rd-annual-tonights-4-tanzania-t4t-ottawa-event-tickets-18377989060
Contact us at cweft4t@gmail.com or 613-869-4970 to make arrangements to purchase
tickets in person.
Tickets are available at multiple locations including Algonquin College, Carleton
University and Ottawa University.
ALL PROCEEDS PROVIDE A GIFT OF EDUCATION TO A CHILD IN NEED |
FOA 2015- An African Economic Development Conference
Register for the Business Finance Roundtable with Brian Love, Director Business Services and Helen Hillman of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Ontario on October 3, 2015 at the Marriott Hotel and Conference Centre, Toronto.
- Explore new Options to Finance your Business
- Get info on Government Grants for Innovators and Entrepreneurs
- Learn from businesses that have businesses and share from their experiences.
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Youth Job Strategy
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Investment Opportunities in Africa- Power Infrastructure
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Funding Options for Businesses- Ontario Government Presentations
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A Time of Networking, Partnerships, and Fun
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Road Trip Rwanda with Will Ferguson
When:October 7
Where:Centretown United Church • 507 Bank St., 7:00pm
Hope lives in Africa. Twenty years after the genocide that left Rwanda in ruins, author Will Ferguson travels deep into the once-mysterious “Land of a Thousand Hills” with his friend and cohort Jean-Claude Munyezamu, a man who escaped Rwanda just months before the killings began.
From the legendary source of the Nile to Dian Fossey’s famed “gorillas in the mist,” from innovative refugee camps along the Congolese border to the world’s most escapable prison, from tragic genocide sites to open savannahs and a bridge to freedom, from schoolyard soccer pitches to a cunning plan to get rich on passion fruit, Ferguson and Munyezamu discover a country reborn.
Funny, engaging, poignant, and at times heartbreaking, Road Trip Rwanda is the lively tale of two friends, the open road, and the hidden heart of a continent.
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REMINDER:Event @ Carleton: Postcolonial Area Studies
The Institute of African Studies, the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture (ICSLAC) and Sahan Literary Forum present
Two Events on Postcolonial Area Studies:
“Can the Somali Speak?”
Wednesday, 7 October, 4pm, Dunton Tower Room 2017
with
Safia Aidid, PhD Candidate, Harvard University& Hawa Y Mire, MES Candidate, York University
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“After #CadaanStudies: Decolonizing and Democratizing Area Studies” (an ICSLAC Workshop)
Thursday, 8 October, 11:30am, St Patrick’s Building 201D with Safia Aidid, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
About #CadaanStudies: In March 2015, the hashtag #CadaanStudies (translated to #whitestudies) sparked a fierce social media debate around the globe to discuss “questions of power, authority and knowledge production about the Somali territories” and the continued marginalization of Somalis in academic discourse. The conversations generated by #CadaanStudies activism has revealed a new generation of young Somali scholars in the diaspora – multilingual, well versed in Western academia and able to speak back. It has also been a moment which has democratized discussions about knowledge production and the academic field of Somali Studies through social media, as Somalis reacted, responded, engaged and claimed a stake in academic knowledge production about them. These events will reflect on #CadaanStudies and its relevance to decolonizing knowledge production, its future implications for the development of a critical Somali Studies, and the importance of public scholarship and engagement.
Bios:
Safia Aidid is a PhD Candidate in History at Harvard University. Her research interests include empire, decolonization and state-making, national and cultural imaginaries, political geography, and historical ethnography. She is now working on a dissertation titled “Ethiopia, Greater Somalia and the Somali Nationalist Imagination,” which examines Somali nationalism and its interaction with the Ethiopian state between 1943 and 1988.
Hawa Y. Mire is a diasporic Somali storyteller, writer, and strategist who focuses on themes of Blackness and Indigeniety, (dis)connection and (un)belonging. Her writing is seated somewhere between oral tradition and the written word, celestial and myth, past and present, ancestry and spirit. An MES candidate in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, her research incorporates traditional Somali stories with discourses of constructed identity while pulling from archival histories of resistance and radical curatorial practices. |
REMINDER:Event @ Carleton: Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s: Critical Reflections on a Journey
 Dr. Kobena Mercer
History of Art and African American Studies, Yale University
Public Lecture – October 5, 2015
6:00 pm
Lecture Hall
National Gallery of Canada
On-Campus Workshop – October 6, 2015
9:30-11:30 am
“At the Intersection of World Studies and Diaspora Studies”
Multimedia Lab, Discovery Centre
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Call for Application – Fellowship Summer 2016
| Summer 2016 will see our Working Group G: „Future(s) as societal project(s) – actors and their visions in Africa and beyond” take place.All scholars wishing to contribute – senior or junior, domestic or international – are invited to submit an application for a Fellowship in the Working Group for a period of normally one month, between May and July 2016.
Please find all details here.
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