The Advocacy Project (AP) is recruiting graduate students to serve with AP’s partner organizations for 10 weeks in the summer of 2016. All fellows will be provided a $1,000 stipend. The deadline for applying is March 11, 2016.
Screening of Jamal Joseph's new film Chapter & Verse and interdisciplinary conversation on are, justice, and the carceral continuum.
Thursday, February 18 at 6:30pm
Miller Theater, Columbia University
2960 Broadway
For more information, click here.
In a rapidly changing continent in which the states often act insufficiently to meet the needs of their populations, the association of civil society movements are critically important. African governors act like despotic rulers, usually abusing of concentration of power, using violence as an instrument of social control and denying fundamental rights for their citizens and persons under their jurisdiction. In such adverse situation, social activism movements act as demanding movements and so as a resistance to the state action. Acting in different fields, these movements play a crucial role to…
41st Annual Conference of the New York African(a) Studies Association at The City College (CUNY) and Columbia University, 1-2 April 2016
Call for Proposals/Abstracts (Final Deadline: 12 February 2016)
Yale University, New Haven, CT
With more than 2,000 professional and student participants, the Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s largest and leading global health conference as well as the largest social entrepreneurship conference. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and students who may also be interested in attending or presenting. The registration rate increases after January.
Call for Papers
Avenues of Social and Political Change:
Five Years of Contention in the Middle East and North Africa
Location: Drexel University
MacAlister Hall, Rooms 2019 and 2020
(3250 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104)
April 8th 2016, 9am-5 pm
Call for Papers
Hosted by Drexel University; Co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Africana Studies Program at Drexel University and the Department of Africana Studies and the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Recent IAS visiting scholar Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe has published a new ariticle in Anthropological Forum.
Read "Citizenship and Resource Competition in Nigeria" here.
Join WWB contributors Naivo and Allison Charette as they read from Naivo’s stories and discuss Beyond the Rice Fields, the first novel from Madagascar ever translated into English, followed by a discussion of Naivo’s work moderated by editor Eric M. B. Becker. More information on their website: http://frenchculture.org/books/events/conspiracists-new-writing-madagascar
Join curator Alisa LaGamma and journalist Howard French for a conversation on works in Kongo: Power and Majesty that address the relationships between leaders in this region of Central Africa and the world at large. They will reflect on how that engagement has shifted over time, from the earliest moment of trade with Portugal in the late 15th century to the early 20th century and the advent of colonialism. The works assembled in this special exhibition were dispersed through global trade networks that inextricably tied this region
The Tenth Greater New York Area African History Workshop
Africa and the World
Location: Drexel University
MacAlister Hall, Rooms 2019 and 2020
(3250 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19104)
April 8th 2016, 9am-5 pm
The ADIFF is currently underway, with many screenings taking place at Teachers College. Upcoming programs include "African Women on the Move" and "Ethiopia - Past & Present."