A three-year renewable position in the AAS Department at the College at Brockport (SUNY), to start August 2016. Successful candidates must hold a PhD in Africana studies or a related field, with demonstrated experience in either Modern African/Caribbean History and Culture or Contemporary African-American Social Issues.
How can African societies benefit from intensified economic and political ties with China? How can China benefit from socially and politically sustainable investments into African economies? To mobilize novel ideas, arguments, and solutions to key issues in Africa-China relations, Yale University is partnering with leading business schools in Africa and China to host a series of high-profile, interdisciplinary conferences on Africa-China relations.
This week, Columbia University Professor Gregory Mann co-authored an article with Columbia University PhD student Andrew Lebovich. Check out the publication in the Washington Post here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/22/can-we-compare-the-recent-terrorist-attacks-in-paris-and-bamako/.
Please join the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights and the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability for their annual conference, The Politics of Memory: Victimization, Violence and Contested Narratives of the Past.
Call for contributors: Race in the World: A Comparative Exploration
The UN Association of New York presents the Ambassador Series, Special Edition Fall Panel. This week, ambassadors discuss the topic "Prevent, Combat, and Eradicate: Illegal Trade in Wildlife." Come see Ambassador Charles Thembani Ntwaagae, Permanent Representative of Botswana to the UN, and Ambassador Heiko Thoms and Minister Counsellor Do Hung Viet. All non-members must register online in advance only. See here for details.
The 2016 WARA Fellowship competition is open for applications. This year WARA will be funding awards for research at pre- and post-doctoral levels, a Diaspora graduate internship in West Africa, the WARC Library Fellowship, and, for Institutional members, the WARA Residency Fellowship.
Boston University's Graduate Student Conference in African Studies will be celebrating its 24th consecutive event. This year's conference will feature the work of emerging graduate scholars engaging Africa from a variety of disciplines and focusing on the themes of innovation, syncretism, and appropriation. The 2016 conference will be held at Boston University, March 25-26th. The application deadline will be January 15, 2016.
Boston University's Graduate Student Conference in African Studies will be celebrating its 24th consecutive event. This year's conference will feature the work of emerging graduate scholars engaging Africa from a variety of disciplines and focusing on the themes of innovation, syncretism, and appropriation. The 2016 conference will be held at Boston University, March 25-26th. The application deadline will be January 15, 2016.
The Princeton African Humanities Colloquium is presenting this year on November 14th, 2015 from 9:30am to 5:30pm under the theme of "African Memory and the Crisis of the Present."
Film scholar Michael Cramer joins director Abderrahmane Sissake to discuss his award-winning film Timbuktu, his career, and cinema's importance as a force for hope in a volatile world. In English. Free and open to the public; no RSVP necessary.