- Events @ Carleton: Collaborative Filmmaking with Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa
- The Africa Study Group Presents “Decentralization progress in Africa at the scale of local municipalities”
- Le Groupe de Réflexion sur l’Afrique présente “Les avancées de la décentralisation en Afrique à l’échelle des collectivités locales”
- Film Screening-Ebola frontline:examining the epidemic one year on
- Drumming Your Dreams – Rwanda Movie & Live Drumming & Dancing
- CODESRIA Gender Institute (2015)
- Institut sur le genre du CODESRIA (2015)
- CALL FOR PAPERS- The Unfinished Project of the Arab Spring:Why the “Middle East Exceptionalism” is Still Wrong
- Call for Abstracts:Canada-Quebec-Caribbean: Trans-American Connections
- CFP: Human Economy postdocs and PhD scholarships, Pretoria
- IAS News: Video and some papers of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 conference
- IAS News: Postponement of African Studies Brownbag Talk
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Events @ Carleton: Collaborative Filmmaking with Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa
THE INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES AND THE MIGRATION AND DIASPORA STUDIES INITIATIVE PRESENT Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi
Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi was born in New York and has lived in Harare and Johannesburg since the early 1990s. She is a painter, video artist and filmmaker who divides her time between studio work and navigating the field of art as social practice. Her work investigates power and its political, social and architectural structures. Implicit in her examination of these structures is an interrogation of the invisible forces that create them, and an imagining of alternatives (https://thenjiwenkosi.com/).
She will be visiting Ottawa from March 25th to April 1st.
In a series of events, she will introduce and discuss a screening of Border Farm, a multimedia project on the South African/Zimbabwean border that she produced in collaboration with Zimbabwean migrant farm workers (https://borderfarm.blogspot.ca/).
She will do so in two Carleton classes that will be open to the wider public as well as in a larger public event
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* Thursday, March 26th, 8:35-9:55am; 10:05-11:25am
In the following two classes, Ms. Nkosi will look at the Border Farm project and situate the project, as well as the film Border Farm, within a few broader discussions, including:
– the challenges and opportunities of collaborative/participatory art or research projects
– film (and photography) as both an end and means in creative or research-based projects that seek to have a social impact
– the realities of south-south migration, in this case, Zimbabwe to South Africa.
The classes are:
-FILM 3608 B, Topics in Film History, Topic: African Cinema, Prof. Aboubakar Sanogo, ST. Patrick’s Building #417, 8:35-9:55
– AFRI 3001A, Globalization and Popular Culture in Africa, , Prof. Nduka Otiono, Southam Hall #413, 10:05-11:25
* Tuesday, March 31st, 7-9pm
“Camera obscura: The promise and the perils of collaborative filmmaking”
A public talk & screening of Border Farm, a 30 min. film
Carleton University Art Gallery ,St. Patrick’s Building, Carleton University*
For more information, please contact the Institute of African Studies at 613-520-2600 ext. 2220or African_Studies@carleton.ca
*For a campus map, please see: https://carleton.ca/campus/map/
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The Africa Study Group Presents “Decentralization progress in Africa at the scale of local municipalities”
DATE: Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
TIME: 17:00 pm – 19:00 pm
LOCATION: St. Paul’s university, Alumni amphitheater, Guigues Hall, 223 Main street, Room 1124
“Decentralization progress in Africa at the scale of local municipalities” with Edith Gingras
Bio of Edith Gingras
Ms. Gingras, is a local government program manager and municipal planner specialized in local governance and decentralization issues. She has over 23 years of experience working in local government. Her experience includes working in both Canadian and African municipalities on management issues (council and service management), in citizen involvement in participatory decision-making processes, in development planning /urban management strategies, lobbying and advocacy central government towards increasing decentralization of municipal competencies, in the implementation of urban and rural development policies, as well as in local and regional economic development. Her latest position at the Federation of Canadian municipalities (2003-ongoing) has enabled her to further develop and manage innovating governance projects for local and regional governments in Africa and to develop municipal capacity building training modules in management of municipal urban services.
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Le Groupe de Réflexion sur l’Afrique présente “Les avancées de la décentralisation en Afrique à l’échelle des collectivités locales”
DATE: Le mercredi 1 avril, 2015
QUAND: 17:00 – 19:00
LIEU: Université Saint-Paul, Pavillon Guigues, 223 rue Main, Amphithéâtre des Anciens, salle 1124
“Les avancées de la décentralisation en Afrique à l’échelle des collectivités locales” avec Edith Gingras
Bio de Edith Gingras :
Edith Gingras est une gestionnaire de programmes en gouvernance locale et une planificatrice municipale spécialisée en gouvernance locale et décentralisation. Elle a plus de 23 années d’expérience de travail en gouvernance locale. Son expérience couvre à la fois des municipalités canadiennes et africaines sur des questions de : gestion (conseils et gestion des services) ; implication citoyenne dans les processus participatifs de prise de décision; stratégies en planification du développement et gestion urbaine ; lobbying et sollicitation auprès des gouvernements centraux afin d’augmenter la décentralisation de compétences municipales; mise en oeuvre de politiques de développement urbain et rural ; et développement économique local et régional. Son plus récent emploi, avec la Fédération Canadienne des Municipalités, depuis 2003, lui a permis de renforcer et de gérer des projets innovants de gouvernante locale et régionale en Afrique et de développer des modules de formatio! n pour renforcer les capacités en gestion des services urbains municipaux
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Film Screening-Ebola frontline:examining the epidemic one year on
When: March 26,2015
Where: Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank St, Ottawa, ON
Doctors Without Borders Canada is presenting Ebola frontline: examining the epidemic one year on, a free documentary screening and expert presentation about the largest Ebola epidemic in history as it officially passes the one year mark in West Africa. The Ebola Frontline documentary delivers somber insight into the raw tragedy of the Ebola epidemic and the human cost of inaction by the international community. The 45-minute film follows a Doctors Without Borders physician using goggle-mounted cameras as he dons full-body personal protective gear and treats Ebola patients inside the high risk zone of an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone at the peak of the epidemic. After the 45 minute film, Canadian doctor Bruce Lampard, recently returned from Sierra Leone, will speak about his on the ground experience treating Ebola patients. Also presenting will be Stephen Cornish, executive director of Doctors Without Borders Canada, about lessons the international community must ! learn from the largest Ebola epidemic in history.
More information: https://www.msf.ca/en/event/ottawa-film-screening-ebola-frontline-examining-the-epidemic-one-year-on
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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). Tickets ($20 includes ice cream) available at:capitalgrannies@rogers.com or info@baobabtree.org or at door.
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CODESRIA Gender Institute (2015)
Deadline: 20th april 2015
Topic: Gender, Land Management and Food Security in Africa
Date: 8th – 26th June, 2015
Venue: Dakar, Senegal
Call for applications: Session 2015
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the 2015 session of its annual Gender Institute. It therefore invites researchers to submit their applications for participation in this Institute to be held from 8th to 26th June, 2015 in Dakar, Senegal. Launched in 1994 by CODESRIA, the Gender Institute is an interdisciplinary forum which brings every year together about fifteen researchers from various parts of the continent and the Diaspora, as well as some non-African scholars who are undertaking innovative research on topics related to the general theme of Gender. Initially aimed at promoting widespread awareness of the concept of gender in the social science research community, the Institute has subsequently been organized around specific themes designed to strengthen the integration of gender analysis into social science research in Africa and encourage the emergence of a community of researchers versed in the field of gender studies. The General Assembly of CODESRIA will be held from 8 to 12 June 2015. In order to give young researchers the opportunity to participate in such an event, the 2015 session of the Gender Institute will exceptionally take place from 8 to 26 June 2015.
More information: https://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2292&lang=en
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Institut sur le genre du CODESRIA (2015)
Date limite : 20 avril 2015
Thème : Genre, gestion foncière et sécurité alimentaire en Afrique
Date : 8 – 26 juin 2015
Lieu : Dakar, Sénégal
Appel à candidatures : Session 2015
Le Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA) a le plaisir d’annoncer la session 2015 de son Institut annuel sur le Genre. Il invite les chercheurs à soumettre leurs candidatures afin de participer à cet Institut devant se dérouler du 8 au 26 juin 2015 à Dakar (Sénégal).
Lancé en 1994, l’Institut sur le Genre est un forum pluridisciplinaire qui réunit chaque année une quinzaine de chercheurs venant des différentes régions du continent et de la diaspora, ainsi que quelques chercheurs non africains qui entreprennent des recherches innovantes sur le thème du Genre. Visant à ses débuts la promotion d’une conscience généralisée du genre dans la communauté de recherche en sciences sociales, cet Institut a, par la suite, été organisé autour de thèmes spécifiques destinés à renforcer l’intégration de l’analyse de genre dans la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique et à favoriser l’émergence d’une communauté de chercheurs dans le domaine des études sur le genre. L’Assemblée générale du CODESRIA se tiendra du 8 au 12 juin 2015. Pour donner aux jeunes chercheurs l’opportunité de participer à un tel événement, la session 2015 aura exceptionnellement lieu du 8 au 26 juin 2015.
Plus d’information: https://www.codesria.org/spip.php?article2292&lang=fr
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CALL FOR PAPERS- The Unfinished Project of the Arab Spring:Why the “Middle East Exceptionalism” is Still Wrong
https://upasconference.wordpress.com/call-for-papers
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
September 25-27, 2015
https://upasconference.wordpress.com
KEYNOTE AND DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS:
Khaled M. Abou El Fadl, Saba Mahmood, Asef Bayat, Tariq Ali, Fawaz A. Gerges, Karima Bennoune, Amina Wadud
For more information visit the Keynote and Distinguished Speaker page
Four years after the recent revolutions/social movements (2011-12) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the region is caught between a number of rocks and many hard places. The rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the return of a military regime in Egypt, the breakout of proxy/civil war in Syria and Yemen, and the chaos and collapse of the Libyan polity have largely replaced hope with despair, and excitement with resentment. Is the Middle East exceptionally immune to democratic movements, values and institutions?
This interdisciplinary international conference is an attempt to examine why and how the MENA region is not immune to democratic social movements. We propose that these revolutions were indicative of deep-rooted socio-cultural and structural transformations in contemporary MENA; they symbolized a popular quest for human dignity, social justice and freedom. The genie is out of the bottle and more progressive changes have yet to come. The contemporary social movements in MENA are open-ended and unfinished projects.
The conference and the subsequent publications aim to study these movements and their aftermath with an eye to the socio-political opportunities and potentials for progressive change they left behind. We will examine the local, regional and global impediments to grassroots democracy in the region. We will problematizes the impact of global and regional politics, political economy, post-colonial condition, and socio-cultural factors – gender, ethnicity, class, and religion – on the rise and the current crisis of contemporary social movements in the region. The conference is an attempt for theorizing/problematizing these uprisings and imagining an alternative perspective for the future of popular and progressive social movements in MENA.
Paper proposals may address, but are not limited to, the following themes: 1. “The Quiet Encroachment” of the counterrevolutionary forces: Why the ancient forces are coming back? 2. Social Movements in MENA: Is the “Return of the Repressed” Possible? 3. What liberal and the Left-wing forces could have done to prevent the crisis in the MENA social movements? 4. Problematizing the faults and failure of Islamist forces in MENA social movements 5. The myth and reality of Army as a “midwife” of MENA social movements 6. Is the “Post-Islamist turn” over? 7. Are contemporary social movements in MENA open-ended/unfinished projects? 8. “Muslim/Middle East Exceptionalism”, Islamophobia and the West: Past and present 9. Impact of global/regional politics on the rise and crisis of the MENA social movements 10. Political economy of the MENA social movements (The Arab Spring, Iran’s Green Movement, Turkey’s Gezi Park Movement) 11. Political economy of Islamism 12. Gendering the MENA Social Movements: The question of women, LGTB, etc. 13. The MENA social movements and minorities (religious, ethnic, etc.) 14. Postcolonial critique of the implementation of R2P in Libya 15. Postcolonial critique of the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria
Abstract Submission
Please send abstracts (200-300 words) along with a short biography (100 words) to:. Please include the title of your paper, your name and affiliation.Submissions are due by June 01, 2015. Selected proposals will be notified by June 15, 2015.
Edited Volume
A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in a peer-reviewed edited volume by a prestigious press. We do welcome original research and contributions on the themes of the conference from various academic disciplines.
A final draft of selected papers is to be submitted within two months after the conference – December 01, 2015.
Contact-Should you have any questions or require more information, please contact us at: . Or visit the conference website:
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Call for Abstracts:Canada-Quebec-Caribbean: Trans-American Connections
Canada-Quebec-Caribbean Trans-American Connections
October 8th-10th, 2015
The Canadian Pole of the Institute of the Americas is proud to announce a symposium on “Canada-Quebec-Caribbean: Trans-American Connections” to be held on October 8-10, 2015 in Montreal.
Links between the Caribbean region, the province of Quebec and wider Canada are old and diverse. Tourism, scientific and technical cooperation, resource extraction and migrations have built bridges across the Americas, from the Caribbean islands to the northern reaches of the continent.
Although largely unknown, these trans-American connections are deeply engraved in history, as evidenced by trade relations, banking, the circulation of Canadian Catholic missions and academics in the Caribbean region, and later the creation in 1967 of a Centre for Research on the Caribbean at the Université de Montréal. More recently, these transcontinental relations have come to involve multiple areas such as environmental protection, participation in regional development projects, transnational migrations and narratives on shared memories. These are keys essential to understanding “Our America”.
Exploring these plural relations specific to Quebec, Canada and the Caribbean problematizes the too simple assumption of US hegemony in the Caribbean. Focusing on links between the Caribbean and Quebec and English Canada sheds new light on the Americas beyond the too frequent assertion of binary oppositions between North and South. This conference aims to highlight the contemporary implications and ongoing legacies of such connections and to give voice to researchers, creators and smugglers from the Caribbean, from Quebec and Canada and especially people who live, think and work “between” the Caribbean, Quebec and Canada.
This transdisciplinary conference aims to open spaces for exploration and definition of multiple ties, interactions and networks so as to better make sense of the spatial-temporal roots and routes that create and sustain trans-American relationships. The event will use French as the main language of discussion, but we encourage the presentation of papers in English and Spanish as well as French.
“Caribbean” is to be understood in an enlarged geographic sense to including the Caribbean littoral of the Central American isthmus as well as the islands. The Caribbean and the circum- Caribbean will be analyzed as a crossroads at the heart of the Americas whose identity/ies were shaped through a great variety of mobilities over time and space. We seek to understand the particular kinds and meanings of the many relations – economic, political, social, cultural, artistic – that have brought our wide-flung territories into contact with each other in the past and the present, looking toward the future.
The symposium and the proposals will be organized around the six themes that follow: – Mobility and transnationalism – Integration and regional cooperation – Environment and natural resources – Diplomatic relations – Histories and memories – Arts and Literature
Please send your abstract (title, abstract of 500 words max. and five key-words) before March 31, 2015 to the following electronic mail: caraibecanada@gmail.com. And please indicate the relevant theme/track to which your paper relates.
The authors of abstracts selected for the conference will be notified at the end of May 2015 and must then submit their finished papers, 20 pages in length, before September 1, 2015. The organising committee encourages artistic proposals (graphic and visual arts, literature, music).
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CFP: Human Economy postdocs and PhD scholarships, Pretoria
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
THE HUMAN ECONOMY RESEARCH PROGRAMME
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Research Programme has funding for six postdoctoral fellows to undertake research on topics relevant to the following themes · Money in the Making of World Society · Building a Human Economy in southern and central Africa
For more information on these themes, please write to either or both of the Directors (see below). The fellowships will be tenable for at least two years and three at most. Successful applicants will be expected to participate fully in the programme’s academic activities on the University of Pretoria campus for a substantial portion of this period.
Applications for the Human Economy Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are invited from suitably-qualified candidates.
Successful applicants will have completed a doctoral degree within the past seven years on a topic of relevance to the above themes. They will be expected to conduct additional research on an approved topic, and will be eligible for research funding above their stipend to enable this. The Human Economy Research Programme is open to scholars from any discipline in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Applications from African, particularly black South African, scholars are encouraged.
Research Fellows will be expected to make research publications a priority during their association with the programme. They will be required to contribute to its seminars, workshops, conferences and collective publications.
The programme’s current funding cycle, during which the focus will be on the above themes, runs from January 2015 to December 2018. Successful applicants should arrive at the University of Pretoria by the end of August 2015.
The stipend attached to the Fellowships is R 240 000 per annum (tax free).
The closing date for applications is 10 April 2015. Applicants should submit a full curriculum vitae, a synopsis of their doctoral research (not more than three pages), and an indication of the research they envisage should their application be successful (not more than three pages). Applications should be submitted electronically to both
Professor Keith Hart (International Director) johnkeithhart@gmail.com
Professor John Sharp (South Africa Director) john.sharp@up.ac.za
UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA
THE HUMAN ECONOMY RESEARCH PROGRAMME
DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPS – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The University of Pretoria’s Human Economy Research Programme has funds for six doctoral scholarships for research on topics relevant to the following themes · Money in the Making of World Society · Building a Human Economy in southern and central Africa
For more information on these themes, please write to either or both of the Directors (see below). The scholarships will be tenable for three years. Successful applicants will be assigned to doctoral supervisors in appropriate disciplines in the Faculty of Humanities or other faculties in the University of Pretoria, and will be required to participate fully in all Human Economy Research Programme seminars, workshops and conferences.
Applications for the Human Economy Doctoral Scholarships are invited from suitably-qualified candidates. Applicants must hold a Master’s degree in a discipline that provides appropriate preparation for research on the above themes. Such disciplines include, but are not restricted to, Anthropology, Development Studies, Economics, History, Geography, and Sociology.
Applications from African, and particularly black South African, candidates are encouraged.
The amount of the scholarships is R 160 000 per annum, and successful applicants will have access to additional funding for their doctoral research.
Applicants must submit · A full curriculum vitae · Official evidence of their academic record to date · A statement (not more than four pages) of their proposed doctoral research. This must explain how their proposed research relates to one of the themes indicated above, and how their prior study and research prepare them for their chosen topic.
The closing date for applications is 10 April 2015. Successful applicants will be expected to arrive at the University of Pretoria by the end of August 2015.
Applications should be submitted electronically to both
Professor Keith Hart (international Director) johnkeithhart@gmail.com
Professor John Sharp (South Africa Director) john.sharp@up.ac.za
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IAS News: Video and some papers of the African Union’s Agenda 2063 conference
Videos, photos, and some of the presentations from the one day conference, The African Union’s Agenda 2063: Assessing the Development Vision for Africa, co-organized by The African Group of Diplomats to Canada, the African Women Diplomatic Forum, and the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University on March 15, 2015 are now on-line at: https://www.carleton.ca/africanstudies/cu-events/agenda-2063/ . You can also find a news story about it at: https://www.carleton.ca/fpa/2015/diplomats-and-academics-discuss-the-future-of-africa/ .
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IAS News: Postponement of African Studies Brownbag Talk
The last African Studies Brownbag talk for the academic year by Karim Myatt on religious teachings in Morocco that had been scheduled for April 1st has been postponed to the Fall due to unforeseen circumstances.
