Dr. Berit Olsson: A Truly Formidable Woman of Courage and Vision.
The Council for the Development of Social Sciences Research in Africa (CODESRIA) received of the news of the passing on of Dr Berit Olsson, former Director of SAREC, Sida’s Department for Research Cooperation on Thursday 31st March 2022. We were happy to have been allowed to send a confidential note
5th CODESRIA/CASB Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa
Theme: How Political is Knowledge? Venue: Dakar, Senegal Date: 8-12 August 2022 Applications deadline: 30th June 2022 The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and The Centre for African Studies in Basel (CASB) call for applications for their 5th Summer School in African Studies and Area Studies in Africa.
Sovereign Reason: Issues in African Studies
SPEAKERProfessor Elisio Macamo Professor of African Studies and Sociology at the University of Basel, Switzerland.DATE: 25 May 2022 TIME: 17:00 – 19:00 (SAST)RSVP on https://forms.gle/3udJLopEGGrP6NVJ6 to receive the Zoom details. Email vanessak@uj.ac.za if you encounter problems The Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South with Emphasis on Africa at the University of Bayreuth
Note to the Community: Launch of the New CODESRIA Website
Over the last few years, CODESRIA has had to deliver on its mandate in increasingly creative ways so as to take into account the digital trajectory of our current knowledge economies. This was especially made urgent at the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic where the Council, like most institutions,
CALL FOR PROPOSALS : Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA)
The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana, with funding support from the Open Society Institutes of Africa, is calling for proposals for multi-country research that investigates the trajectories, processes and outcomes of social policymaking in Africa since the colonial period. Social policies have over the years
Call text: 13th JPIAMR transnational co-funded call for research projects within the ERA-NET JPIAMR-ACTION: “One Health interventions to prevent or reduce the development and transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)”
Short title: “HARISSA”: One HeAlth InteRventIon and TransmiSSion in AMRAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) does not recognise geographic borders or species barriers. Progress on AMR is necessary to achieve the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with AMR being deeply rooted into attainment of SDGs promoting no poverty, good health and
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 3pmThe full monograph Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation can be read hereRadical Disenchantment’ with Fadi Bardawil -Poster Final