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We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the Workshop on “Fertility Transition in Africa”, taking place on 23 – 25 April 2014, in Oxford, and for the Training School to follow, on 28 April – 1 May. This Workshop will gather researchers, policy makers and practitioners from

Deadline: 30th May 2014 General conference theme: “Africa and the New World Order” Conference venue: Kisii University, Main Campus, Kisii Town, Kenya The rise of China and India as global economic powers has created new development dynamics, synergies and imperatives for Africa. Many African countries are looking for new global partners in order

Department of Philosophy, in conjunction with the Fort Hare Institute for Social and Economic Research (FHISER), Fort Hare University, Eastern Cape, Chintsa, South Africa. Conference organisers: Dr Rianna Oelofsen, Prof Leslie Bank, Dr Luvuyo Ntombana, Prof Charles Verharen & Motsamai Molefe. What is ‘Africa’, and who is ‘African’? How do identity and

Deadlines:First call for papers: December 15th 2013Second call for papers: March 15th 2014 Introduction The Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) was founded in 1989 in Yaoundé, Cameroon as a national and international organisation of academics and practitioners. As an institution that looks to applied anthropology the PAAA has emphasised the distinction between

Founded in September, 2007, the Institute of African Studies at Zhejiang Normal University (IASZNU) is currently the biggest institute in Chinese higher education institutions dedicated to the comprehensive study of Africa. The institute has Prof. Liu Hongwu, a prominent expert in African studies, as its director, and now has 32

Deadline: 1 April 2014 (iippe.org) The Crisis: Scholarship, Policies, Conflicts and Alternatives 16-18 September 2014 Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, Naples, Italy The economic crisis that started in 2007 has become the deepest global contraction since the Great Depression, and the economic recovery has been the slowest and weakest on record. The costs of

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

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

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