Thandika Mkandawire Memorial Lecture 2024
We are delighted to invite you to the Thandika Mkandawire Memorial Lecture 2024, hosted by CODESRIA and UNISA. This year’s lecture will address “Vision, Value, and Values in the Transformation of Higher Education in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges.” Details of the event are as follows: Date: Thursday, 10 October 2024 Time: 3:00 PM
Meaning-making Research Initiatives Scholarly Writing Workshops
From 16-20 September 2024, Dakar hosts the “Meaning-making Research Initiatives Scholarly Writing Workshops.” This event aims to enhance research methodologies and academic writing skills, bringing together scholars and experts for a week of learning and collaboration. View the MRI 2023-24 Workshop programme
Executive Committee meeting held June 19-21, 2024
The Executive Committee is the second-highest governing organ of CODESRIA after the General Assembly. It provides strategic leadership to the Council and exercises oversight over the Council’s overall activities that are implemented by the Executive Secretariat. The Committee is elected by the General Assembly and has 10 members, with equal
CODESRIA COLLOQUIUM ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM
The Council is organised a colloquium on Academic Freedom and Sustainable Development in Africa. The colloquium is taking place in Maputo, Mozambique, from 15-17 April 2024. Please find attached the program You can also follow the meeting using the Zoom link below. Thank you. Universidade Eduardo Mondlane is inviting you to a
Advanced Senior Research Grants for Higher Education Methodology and Inception Workshop
CODESRIA is organising its Advanced Senior Research Grants for Higher Education Methodology and Inception Workshop. The meeting is held in Nairobi, Kenya from 6th to 08th February, 2024. Programme of Activities DAY 1 9:00 – 9:30 Arrivals and registrations CODESRIA / ALL 9:30 – 10:00 Introductions and welcome Dr. Godwin Murunga 10:00 – 10:15 Overview of workshop: Aim and objectives Dr. Samuel Fongwa 10:15
Policy Convening Session of the 2021 Gender and Democratic Governance Institutes
Starting tomorrow 5th April 2023, CODESRIA will host a policy convening session, the last in its 2021 Gender and Democratic Governance Institutes under the theme "Violence against Women and Girls in Africa's Shrinking Civic Spaces: Nature, Magnitude, and Remedies." The goal of the forum will be to contribute to practices aimed
THE AU@20: PROGRESS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS TOWARDS AGENDA 2063
The Institute for Pan-African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), based at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), and Trust Africa are jointly organising a continental symposium on the theme: “The African Union at 20: Progress, Problems and Prospects” to be
The 15th General Assembly: Africa and the Crisis of Globalisation
(#CODESRIAGA2018) Date: 17th – 21st December, 2018Venue: Dakar, SenegalCall for Abstracts and Panel ProposalsNew Deadline: 20th April, 2018 The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce its 15th General Assembly that will be held in Dakar, Senegal from the 17th to 21st December 2018.
Inaugural CODESRIA Day Lecture: The Struggles for Epistemic Freedom in Africa
Date: 21st February, 2018Time: 2:30 p.m - 5:00 p.mVenue: HOLIDAY INN Harare, Zimbabwe At the centre of African struggles for epistemic freedom is that paradoxical case of Ethiopia an African country that survived direct colonial conquest and direct colonial administration but could not secure its epistemic freedom. This lecture, therefore, begins
