Call for Applications: 3rd Litigation Surgery on Liberty and Security Issues in Africa
Deadline: Friday, 18 October 2013 (28 – 30 January 2014, Nairobi, Kenya) INTERIGHTS aims to enforce human rights through law, providing protection and redress in particular regions and on issues of strategic focus. It has conducted extensive litigation before domestic, regional and international courts and tribunals including the African Commission on Human
2014 APSA Africa Workshop: Call for Proposals
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a call for proposals from political scientists interested in serving as co-leaders for the 7th annual APSA Africa Workshop. This two-week political science workshop will take place in July 2014. Background Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the 2014 workshop is
Announcement of the 5th International Colloquium: Transitions and Transformative Rhetoric (s)
One salient construct has received significant definition in most discourses on Africa: that of a continent perpetually in a state of transition. What, however, has received little attention is the supposed object of transition – that is, the transformation that transition promises. A cursory examination of rhetoric(s) of transformation on
Assistant professor focusing on the anthropology of race and racialization
Deadline: October 1, 2013 The Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor focusing on the anthropology of race and racialization—the processes, practices, and power relations that produce “race” as a social fact and a lived reality.
