The Institute of African Studies (IAS) : Post-Doctoral Fellowship Announcement
The Institute of African Studies (IAS) is participating in a research project consortium involving the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University, Uganda; The Center for Arab and Middle East Studies (CAMES), at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon; the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India; and
Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs: Time for Africa to again blow its horn
The kudu horn is recognised as one of several traditional ways of summoning distant villagers to attend a community gathering in Africa. Crafted from this basic construct of a kudu horn, came the vuvuzela, a modern day version if you will. Well celebrated at the 2010 World Cup soccer, the
African perspectives on experimentation in the social sciences
Randomised controlled trials have become the research method of choice for scholars in a number of social science disciplines, including development economics, where both the associated methodologies and research findings have become very influential. So while the first randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in social science were pioneered in the United
Radical Disenchantment’ with Fadi Bardawil
Date: 25th September 3pm The full monograph Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation can be read here Radical Disenchantment’ with Fadi Bardawil -Poster Final
Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture – LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA: Lessons from other parts of the continent
4 September 2020 | 10:00 am – 12pm (CAT/SAST) |Online Seminar Zoom link: htps://zoom.us/j/99768946836?pwd=TzRTVmNzQmVpUzU5dmhud0JtVk1rQT09 Archie Mafeje Memorial Lecture - LAND AND AGRARIAN REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA: Lessons from other parts of the continent
3RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL (ONLINE) CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE STUDIES IN AFRICA: CALL FOR PAPERS
AFRICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JAPANESE STUDIES (AAJS):3RD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL (ONLINE) CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE STUDIES IN AFRICATheme: Environment, Technology and COVID-19Date: October 6th & 7th, 2020Submission deadline: August 28, 2020 The African Association for Japanese Studies (AAJS) is an international organization dedicated to promoting scholarship in the comparative fields of African-Japanese interests. The
A Call to Defend Democracy
With more than 500 political leaders and leading pro-democracy institutions from around the world, CODESRIA is a signatory to a joint declaration warning that democracy is under threat and must be defended. Join the movement! https://www.idea.int/news-media/multimedia-reports/call-defend-democracy
Call for Papers: Women in Politics
The struggle for women’s participation in public affairs and the political life of their countries as equal actors has been an enduring feature of the entire period since independence in Africa. From being integral players in the mass mobilisation and campaigns, both civic and armed, that ushered the countries of the
In Search of Africa(s): Postcolonialism and the Univers
SPEAKER:Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a philosopher based at Columbia University. His talk will refect on a new co-authored dialogue between himself and the Africanist anthropologist Jean-Loup Amselle, In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought (2020). Number of visits: 609 The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a series of online seminars
CODESRIA Survey on Women and Young Girls
Survey Focus Areas CODESRIA is currently undertaking research on African Women and Girls in Shrinking Civic Space, and is administering this survey to understand the participation of women in civic spaces, factors and barriers that affect their participation (in particular physical and structural violence) and strategies women and girls employ to
