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Transformations to Sustainability (T2S) Call for Project Outline Proposals is now open The Belmont Forum and NORFACE launch the Programme ”Transformations to Sustainability” (acronym: T2S). T2S will contribute to re-structuring the broad field of sustainability research by placing social science and humanities at the heart of interdisciplinary research in a step

Background Following the Eighteen African Union Summit of Heads of State and Governments’ meeting held on 23-30 January 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, focusing on the theme of “Boosting Intra-Africa Trade”, the role of Regional Economic Communities (RECs) has become more pronounced in implementing the Abuja Treaty establishing the African Economic

Deadline: 1 MARCH 2017 Agenda 2030: Poverty, Climate Change and SustainabilityPhD Course During Bergen Summer Research School 2017 In June 2017, The Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP), together with local and international partners, will organise one of the parallel PhD level courses that will make up this year’s Bergen Summer Research

Date of announcement: 17 October 2016 Application Deadline: 9 January 2017 The Sam Moyo African Institute for Agrarian Studies(SMAIAS) invites applications to fillthe post of the Executive Director within its Secretariat. About SMAIAS Previously known as the African Institute for Agrarian Studies(AIAS), it was renamed to SMAIAS in 2016 by the Board of Trustees

Postgraduate Scholarship Application Form Re-centring AfroAsia is a multi-pronged research, mapping, and archiving project that aims to not only revolutionise Humanities research in South Africa but also create an AfroAsian community of scholarship. There are three dimensions to this: firstly, as the Charter for the Humanities and the Social Sciences observed,

FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1ST WORLD FESTIVAL OF NEGRO ARTS I – ARGUMENTS At the invitation of Poet President Leopold Sedar Senghor, from 1 to 24 April 1966, Dakar hosted the 1st World Festival on Negro Arts. This momentous event took place in the wake of the Congress of Black Writers and Artists

Iso Lomso, "the Eye of Tomorrow" in isiXhosa, is a new fellowship programme that will boost the careers of some of the brightest minds in African academia. Early career African researchers who have completed their doctoral studies during the preceding eight years are invited to apply for the fellowship. For the

Deadline: 1 April 2016   This scholarship programme is directed at scholars in Africa, engaged in research on the African continent in Sweden, Finland and Iceland, engaged in Africa oriented research. Application form The purpose of the programme The purpose of the Guest Researchers’ Scholarship Programme is to provide opportunities for scholars in Africa to

African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics5th to 16th of September 2016Johannesburg, South AfricaSupported byThe South African Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa (the dti),The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) We are pleased to announce that the tenth edition of the African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) will be held

23 – 24 September 2016 in Uppsala, Sweden Call for Panels The Nordic Africa Days (NAD) is the biennial international conference of the Nordic Africa Institute and it has been organized since 1999 in the Nordic countries. NAD invites panel organizers/researchers working on Africa-related knowledge production and representing the state of the