News & Announcements

The University of Pennsylvania is directing an Immersion Program for Zulu in South Africa for students of Zulu across American institutions to study intermediate-advanced Zulu in South Africa during the summer. The University of Zululand at KwaDlangezwa in KwaZulu-Natal currently serves as the host institution for the program.

Now accepting applications for the Summer 2014 Zulu Immersion Program in South Africa

Deadline: March 31st, 2014

Appel à communications

3e Rencontres des Études africaines en France (REAF) Bordeaux, 30 juin- 2 juillet 2014

Atelier "Biografriques" : L’analyse biographique: production de données et réflexion méthodologique

Cet atelier aura une double vocation :

ASIA AND AFRICA ACROSS DISCIPLINARY AND NATIONAL LINES
Fifth Annual Symposium of the Consortium for Asian and African Studies [CAAS]
Columbia University, October 3-4, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS/ABSTRACTS

International Conference on African Languages and Literatures in the 21st Century

THEME – “From Asmara 2000 to Nairobi 2014: New Horizons and Trends in African Languages and Literatures”

Institute of African Studies, Kenyatta University August 6th-8th, 2014

The deadline for proposal submission is March 15, 2014.

The organizing committee of the 2014 MESAAS Graduate Student Conference at Columbia University is pleased to invite paper and panel submissions addressing themes that broadly relate to the MESAAS regions, including but not limited to the following:

Multiple scholarships ranging from partial to full tuition grants will be offered to incoming students in the Development programs of PSIA, coming from AFD priority countries in Africa.

The application deadline is January 31st, 2014.

Interested applicants should send their paper title, along with a 300 word abstract, to [email protected] by 31 January 2014.

Séverine Autesserre's article "Dangerous Tales: Dominant Narratives on the Congo and their Unintended Consequences" (African Affairs, 2012) has received the Best Article award from the African Politics Conference Group, awarded to the best article on African politics published in 2012.

Director of the Columbia University Institute of African Studies. Dr. Mamadou Diouf, writes for Le Monde's "L'Atlas des Villes"

Shifting identities, changing relations: Ethnicity, Culture and Society in an Emerging Africa