Makerere Institute of Social Research will be making two hires, a Research Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow, in early 2016. A Research Fellow must have a PhD + 2 published articles in peer reviewed journals by the time of application. A Senior Research Fellow requires a PhD + 4 published articles in peer reviewed journals.
Examine Kongo society's history and artistic traditions in the context of changing relations between Africa and Europe over half a millennium.
Congo in Harlem is a week-long showcase of films, exhibits, panel discussions and special events focused on the history, politics, and culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Students and faculty of the Institute of African Studies are invited to a special screening of The Boy from Geita on October 15th at the UN Headquarters. The film reveals the danger of having albinism in Tanzania.
As part of the Program in World Philology, Karin Barber discusses "Traditions of Exegesis: What Audiences do with Oral and Written texts in Africa."
Tuesday, October 27, 2015 4:30pm
The Heyman Center, Second Floor, Common Room
The African Burial Ground National Monument is the first National Monument dedicated to Africans of early New York and Americans of African descent. The stories of the African Burial Ground teach us how free and enslaved Africans contributed to the physical and spiritual development of Lower Manhattan during the 17th and 18th centuries. Come visit the monument and museum from 10-11:30am on Thursday. RSVP to [email protected].
Africa N'Ko: Africa in the World
Translation: disputing the sense of African social realities
Dakar, 3rd December - 6th December 2015
Africa N'Ko, Africa in the World is a long the plurality of reflections on the production of knowledge in human sciences both in and on Africa. To this end, conferences on a range of themes are regularly organised.
The world is experiencing an unprecedented refugee crisis. As many as 59 million people, responding to the savage increase of global violence and economic oppression are fleeing on foot, in small boats, and in suffocating transport containers in order to make a better life for themselves
Join Carina E. Ray of Brandeis University as she discusses interracial relations in colonial Ghana as explored in her new book, Crossing the Color Line.
Time: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 12:30 PM
Location: King Juan Carlos Center (53 Washington Square South, Rm. 607)
Please join Columbia's University Seminar on Contemporary Africa for:
‘Wealth’, ‘Poverty’ and the Question of Conceptual History in Uganda from c.1000 C.E
Do you want to connect with students, faculty, and staff with common interests and commitments to the fields of Education and African Studies?
The Johns Hopkins University Department of History seeks a full-time tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor of African History, region and period open, beginning July 1, 2016.