INCEPTION MEETING PROGRAMME: Sub-Committee on Reviewing the Kampala Declaration

CODESRIA in collaboration with the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) is currently hosting the Inception Meeting of the Sub-Committee on Reviewing the Kampala Declaration on Intellectual Freedom and Social Responsibility (1990) UDSM, Tanzania 21-23 January 2025.

Programme of the Meeting

Day 1: Tuesday, 21 January 2025

  TIME 

SESSION 

SPEAKER(S) 

9:00 – 10:00 

Welcome and introductory session 

  • Christine Noe: Principal, College of Social Sciences, UDSM. 
  • Godwin Murunga: Executive Secretary, CODESRIA. 

10:00 – 10:30 

The context and evolution of Pan-African thinking on Academic and Intellectual Freedoms 

Adebayo Olukoshi: Chair, CODESRIA Scientific Committee/ Distinguished Professor Wits School of Governance, Wits University. 

10:30 – 11:00    Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30 

Plenary Discussion 

  All participants 

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 

The Dar es Salaam and Kampala Declarations: Progress, Challenges and Gaps 

Issa Shivji: Chair, Kampala Declaration (KD) Sub-Committee/Emeritus Professor, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 

14:30 – 15:00 

The Dar es Salaam and Kampala Declarations through a Gendered Lens 

Onalenna Selolwane: Member, KD Sub-Committee/ Professor of Sociology, Botswana. 

15:00 – 15.30

The changing contexts of academic and intellectual freedom since the Kampala Declaration.

Jimi Adesina: Member, KD Sub-Committee/ Professor and DST/NRF SARChi Chair in Social Policy, UNISA.

15:30 – 17:00 

Plenary Discussion 

All participants 

 17:00: Tea Break | END OF DAY 1 

Day 2: Wednesday, 22 January 2025

TIME 

SESSION 

SPEAKER(S) 

9:00 – 11:00 

What compelling academic and intellectual freedom imperatives do diversity concerns raise? 

  • Penda Mbow: Member, KD Sub-Committee/ President, Citizens Movement, Senegal. 
  • Ng’wanza Kamata: Senior lecturer, College of Social Sciences, UDSM. 
  • Mshai Mwangola: Chair, Sub-Committee on Programmes (Executive Committee)/Chair, Uraia Trust, Kenya. 

11:00 – 11:30 Tea Break 

11:30 – 12:30 

Imagining a CODESRIA tracking and ranking system on Academic Freedom in Africa 

Angela Ambitho: Founder & CEO, Infrotrack Research & Consulting, Kenya. 

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 

14:00 – 15:30 

Plenary interventions on prospects for establishing a CODESRIA tracking and ranking system on Academic Freedom in Africa 

 All participants 

 

15:30 – 16:30

A response on prospects

  • Angela Ambitho: Founder & CEO, Infrotrack Research & Consulting, Kenya.
  • Lyn Ossome: President, CODESRIA /Associate Professor & Director, MISR, Uganda.

 

16:30: Tea Break | END OF DAY 2 

7:30pm GROUP DINNER 

Day 3: Thursday, 23 January 2025

TIME 

SESSION 

SPEAKER(S) 

9:30 – 11:00 

Reviewing the KD: Way forward A discussion by the Sub-Committee led by the Chair 

Issa Shivji: Chair, KD Sub-Committee/ Emeritus Professor, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 

11:00 -11:30 Tea Break 

11:30 – 12:30 

Conclusion and farewell 

  • Godwin Murunga: Executive Secretary, CODESRIA. 
  • Ng’wanza Kamata: Senior lecturer, College of Social Sciences, UDSM. 

12:30 Lunch

END OF INCEPTION MEETING

List of Participants

  No. 

Name 

Gender 

Affiliation 

1

Issa Shivji 

M 

Emeritus Professor, UDSM, Tanzania. 

Chair, Kampala Declaration (KD) Sub-Committee 

2

Jimi Adesina 

M 

Professor and DST/NRF SARChi Chair in Social Policy, University of South Africa. 

Member, KD Sub-Committee 

3

Penda Mbow 

F 

President, Citizens Movement, Senegal. 

Member, KD Sub-Committee 

4

Onalenna Selolwane 

F 

Professor of Sociology, Botswana. 

Member, KD Sub-Committee 

5

Josephine Ahikire 

F 

Associate Professor, School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, Uganda. 

Member, KD Sub-Committee 

6

Lyn Ossome 

F 

Associate Professor & Director, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Uganda. 

President, CODESRIA 

7

Mshai Mwangola 

F 

Chair of the Board of Trustees, Uraia Trust, Kenya. 

Chair, Sub-Committee on Programmes, CODESRIA Executive Committee 

8

Adebayo Olukoshi 

M 

Distinguished Professor Wits School of Governance, Wits University, South Africa. 

Chair, CODESRIA Scientific Committee 

9

Christine Noe 

F 

Principal, College of Social Sciences, UDSM, Tanzania. 

10

Ng’wanza Kamata 

M 

Senior lecturer, College of Social Sciences, UDSM, Tanzania. 

11

Angela Ambitho 

F 

Founder & CEO, Infrotrak Research & Consulting, Kenya. 

12

Godwin Murunga 

M 

Executive Secretary, CODESRIA. 

13

Bertha Kibona 

F 

Programme Manager, CODESRIA. 

14

Sheila Gitonga 

F 

Programme Manager, CODESRIA. 

ACSS Annual Lecture – The Legacy of Samir Amin and the Future of Critical Political Economy

The Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS) cordially invites you to attend the 2024 Annual Lecture as part of the prestigious Samir Amin Lecture Series.

EVENT DETAILS

Title: “The Legacy of Samir Amin and the Future of Critical Political Economy”

Featured Speaker: Dr. Amr Adly Associate Professor, Department of Political Science American University in Cairo

Date: Tuesday, November 19, 2024 Time: 5:00 PM (Beirut time)
Format: Virtual Event (Zoom and Facebook Live)
Language: Arabic with simultaneous English translation

HOW TO JOIN

Zoom Link: see below or Facebook: Live stream will be available on the ACSS Facebook page
Registration: Required for Zoom participants (not needed for Facebook viewing)

Please register ahead of time using the Zoom link below . When you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

For any inquiries, please contact: Email: info@theacss.org
We’re looking forward to you taking part in this important academic conversation.

Best regards,

Seminar in Memory of Prof. Thandika Mkandawire

Department of International Development

London School of Economics

Thandika Mkandawire’s Model for an African Developmental State, and the Ethiopian Experiment (2001–2018)

This seminar, based on a prize-winning paper by Eyob Gebremariam (University of Bristol), is being live streamed to commemorate the life and work of Thandika Mkandawire, the late Professor of African Development at the LSE, and to introduce Thandika’s iconic work to a new cohort of students interested in African Development.

Join us on October 9th for a seminar in memory of Prof. Thandika Mkandawire, led by Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, discussing Mkandawire’s model for an African Developmental State and the Ethiopian experiment.

Heure: 12.30-2.00 PM (UK Time)

For more information about Prof. Thandika Mkandawire, and an extensive bibliography of his work, please follow the link below:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/international-development/people/Remembering-the-Life-and-Thought-of-Thandika-Mkandawire

CODESRIA Webinar Series: Higher Education as a Site for Struggle in Africa

CODESRIA invites you to a forthcoming webinar on the recently published text Chasing Freedom. This webinar conceptualizes Higher Education as a Site for Struggle in Africa and is inspired by the numerous stories of heroic struggle in the book Chasing Freedom: Histories, Analyses and Voices of Student Activism in South Africa. Taking South Africa as the case study, the authors of the book explore how student movements comprehend and articulate their demands in the process of decolonization and Africanization of the curriculum, their transformative effect on the university and the role that a decolonized and African university should play in the pursuit of freedom.

This webinar will dive into this timeless and timely discussion that has gained expression within CODESRIA through its work on academic freedom. Since 1990, the Council’s academic freedom project sought the continuous intellectual engagement and dialogue among its members on the continent and the diaspora. The webinar intends to re-engage these conversations with young scholars who bring to the forefront the transformation of universities specifically with regard to race, gender, patriarchy, sexuality, and people living with disabilities in relation to student experiences.

 

Date: 16 June 2022

Time: 2-3pm SAST/12-1pm GMT

Register for the zoom event here https://bit.ly/3NWSmCP 

 

Moderator/Chasing Freedom book co-editor

Zukiswa Mqolombo – Commissioner, Public Service Commission of South Africa

Speakers

  • Malaika Mahlatsi – Research Fellow, Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg

Book chapter: On the Other Side of Freedom: Lessons from “FeesMustFall

  • Bandile B. Leopeng – Owner, LEOGOLD Boxing, Psychology and Training Services

Book chapter: Psychopolitical Thoughts on Decolonisation and Conscientisation

  • Jon Hodgson – Consultant, Organisational & Systems Change, Learning & Development.

Book chapter: Asinamali? Freeing Education for a Freer Society!

  • Rekgotsofetse Chikane – Lecturer, Wits School of Governance and Wits Institute for Socio-Economic Research

Book chapter: On the Authority of Black Pain

Book Launch “Gender and Fundamentalisms”

CODESRIA is delighted to invite you to the launch of the book : « Gender and Fundamentalisms »

DATE: 27 June 2019 TIME: 02:30 PM

PLACE: CODESRIA Garden, Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop angle Canal VI

SPEAKERS: Prof. Fatou Sow (Editor), Rosalie Macchia-Samba, Awa Diop, Maimouna Ndoye,(contributors)

R.S.V.P : executive.secretary@codesria.org

International High Level Seminar on Industrialization, Urbanization and China-Africa Cooperation

Jointly organized by
The Council for the Development of Social Sciences in Africa (CODESRIA)
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA),

In Collaboration with Addis Ababa University
Date: Monday 13 March 2017, from 9.am to 17.30pm
Venue: UNECA International Conference Centre
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The seminar will take the form of a series of round tables, each focusing on one of the three main sum-themes:

1. The possibilities for and pathways to industrialization in Africa and China:

What are the possibilities for industrialization in Africa today? What are the pathways through which countries like China have achieved industrialization? What are the internal and external factors that influence countries’ paths toward industrialization? In what ways do industrialized economies evolve and transform themselves? What are the links between industrialization, agriculture and service sectors?

2. Revisiting the industrialization-urbanization nexus: Views from Africa and
China:

What are the trends in urbanization in Africa and China today? What are the links between industrialization and urbanization? In what ways have these links changed with time? Is it possible to achieve one of these phenomena without the other? What are the implications of the achievement of one of these phenomena without the other? How do evolutions in industrial production impact the links between industrialization and urbanization? What can Africa and China learn from each other’s industrialization and urbanization experiences?

3. Fashioning win-win Africa-China Cooperation:

What are the gains that are being generated from Africa-China economic interactions? How are these benefits distributed? What are the implications of these patterns of distribution on economies and societies in Africa and in China? How can Africa and China cooperate to reach higher levels of, and superior quality, sustainable industrialization and urbanization?

CODESRIA, the African Guild of Filmmakers and the Pan African Film & Television Festival (FESPACO): ‘Emergence’ on Screen and on Stage

Deadline: 4th January 2017

Date: February 27-28
Venue: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

CODESRIA’s Program on Humanities seeks to foster work in the Humanities and engender conversations between scholars in the Humanities and the Social Sciences on themes of interest to the Council with the goal of producing insights that often escape lenses peculiar to any one of these two fields of knowledge. The organization of a workshop on the sidelines of the bi-annual Pan-Africa Film and Television Festival, FESPACO in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso has for years served as an opportunity for CODESRIA and its partners to assemble scholars, artists and practitioners to discuss burning themes in African film and theater. For the 2017 workshop, CODESRIA in partnership with la Guilde Africaine des Réalisateurs et Producteurs and the Pan African Film & Television Festival (FESPACO), is pleased to announce a two-day workshop on “‘Emergence’ on Screen and on Stage.” The workshop will be held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, on the 27th and 28th of February 2017 and is an important follow-up to the last one held under the theme “From STAGE to SCREEN: Interface between African Theatre and Film” on the 28th of February and 1st March 2015.

CODESRIA invites artists, scholars and practitioners to reflect on the trope of emergence on screen and on stage in Africa. ‘Emergence’ has come to dominate discussions of political economy in Africa. Whether styled as the various ‘plan(s)emergeant’ that are bandied about in many francophone countries or dressed in other slogans like ‘A better Ghana,’ the ‘Cameroon of Greater Achievements’ or the ‘African renaissance’ for example, the idea of rising out of an abyss into a place and time of glory has come to play multiple roles in African life. ‘Emergence’ and its synonyms have become integral parts of the struggle over the (re)presention, definition, governance, dominance, exploitation and ‘development’ of the continent in ways that recall the storied history of ‘emancipation’ and ‘liberation’ in an earlier era. It has been a defining theme for Pan-Africanism in literature since Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound (1911)

The idea of emergence is also integral to African film and theater as a favored leitmotif around which stories are created and performed. The spouse emerging from an abusive marriage, the student finally emerging from a period of scholarly mediocrity, the former house-help emerging from a life of poverty and hardship, the community finally freeing itself from the oppressive tyrant and the poor society attaining the heights of wealth all embody the idea of the shedding of shackles to achieve better states of being.

On another level, talk of the rise of film industries often captured in the terms Nollywood, Ghallywood, and ever new ‘…woods’ is common, and parallels pervasive discourses concerning our national and continental creative economy.

On screen or on stage, understood here to include that of national and international politics, the imagination and performance of ‘emergence’ raises certain questions that participants in the 2017 workshop are invited to explore:

• How is the end point of the process of emergence understood and portrayed? What are the conceptions of the good life, the good place and the good time that we can distil from the staging of ‘emergence’ on screen and on stage in Africa?
• To what extent does the imagination and performance of emergence include a fabrication of a point of departure through an exercise in historical revisionism that permits the future to stand out as a distinct quantitative and qualitative improvement on the past and the present? In what ways are points of departure in the voyage of emergence imagined and performed on screen and on stage in Africa?
• How is the process of change imagined and performed on screen and on stage in Africa?
• What is the role and impact of religion, especially new religious movements, in the performance of emergence on screen and on stage in Africa?
• What are the parallels between the performance of emergence on screen and on stage by actors and performances of emergence on the state/stage of national and international politics by policy makers, political actors, NGOs, and civil society?
• What insights can the performance of emergence on stage and on film hold for discourses on emergence in political economic life in Africa?

Artists, scholars, film and theatre practitioners interested in participating in the workshop are invited to send papers of 5000 to 5500 words and a CV with full contact details including email addresses and phone numbers to CODESRIA no later than January 4th, 2017. All documents should be sent in Word format by email to humanities.programme@codesria.sn. Please use the subject line ‘CODESRIA@FESPACO WORKSHOP 2017’ when sending your email.

Humanities Program
CODESRIA
BP 3304, CP 18524
Dakar, Senegal
Tel: +221 – 33 825 9822/23
Fax: +221- 33 824 1289
E-mail: humanities.programme@codesria.sn

Appel à candidatures du 3ème atelier sur Le développement du curriculum et de l’enseignement innovant de sciences sociales et humaines au Sénégal

Date limite de soumission : 15 juin 2016

APPEL A CANDIDATURES

Saly, Sénégal du 22 au 26 août 2016

Le Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique (CODESRIA) lance un appel à candidature pour la troisième retraite de formation qu’il organise à Saly, du 22 au 26 août 2016, dans le cadre d’un programme sur « Le développement du curriculum et de l’enseignement innovant de sciences sociales et humaines au Sénégal ». Il s’agit là d’une nouvelle initiative du CODESRIA qui bénéficie du soutien du programme d’appui à l’enseignement supérieur mis en place par Open society Fondation (OSF). Le programme vise à mettre en évidence les diverses manières dont l’enseignement supérieur contribue à la construction de systèmes de gouvernance démocratiques en Afrique, à travers des programmes et méthodes d’enseignement novateurs. Le Sénégal a été choisi comme pays francophone pilote pour la mise en œuvre de ce programme. Aussi, cette initiative encourage les perspectives innovantes et les efforts qui visent la révision des curricula dans les universités sénégalaises. Le programme examine comment certaines préoccupations des sociétés démocratiques et ouvertes sont prises en compte dans l’enseignement et la recherche. Il s’agit, entre autres, d’explorer des pistes permettant de soutenir les innovations dans l’enseignement supérieur sénégalais. Enfin, l’initiative vise également la création d’un nouveau réseau d’experts africains et d’enseignants chercheurs travaillant sur ce sujet.

Comme dans beaucoup d’autres pays en Afrique, l’Université publique sénégalaise depuis la fin des années 1980 reste le théâtre d’une crise endémique et multiforme qui s’est traduite notamment par une massification incontrôlée des effectifs des étudiants, une persistance des budgets déficitaires, une indigence infrastructurelle et un personnel insuffisant et de moins en moins motivé. Un tel contexte s’est traduit dans le domaine des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (SHS) par la propension des enseignements classiques, répétitifs et peu innovants, leur déficit d’ancrage dans les réalités sociales, la faiblesse et le manque de visibilité de la production scientifique, la raréfaction des revues, le cloisonnement et l’individualisation de la recherche, la crise de la vocation que l’on pourrait qualifier de « scepticisme des enseignants-chercheurs », l’enfermement dans le monde francophone, la difficulté à absorber les innovations technologiques… L’Université n’est plus un espace de « tension productive et innovante », de recherche collective et collaborative, d’échanges et de partage des savoirs. Pourtant cette période de changement de paradigme avec la nouvelle orientation STEM (Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics), impose une triade de défis aux SHS :

 économiques avec la question de l’innovation et de l’adéquation des formations aux besoins du marché ;
 politiques avec la pacification de l’espace universitaire, la démocratisation de l’accès à l’enseignement supérieur, la question de la qualité de l’enseignement supérieur ;
 culturels avec ce souci qui consiste à savoir quel type d’université pour quel type de citoyen ?
 Ces défis posent en retour un certain nombre de questions cruciales aux sciences humaines et sociales et qu’elles ne peuvent esquiver : Quelles sciences sociales pour les sociétés africaines qui sont aussi des sociétés de la complexité ? Quelles sciences sociales pour les STEM ? Comment faire de l’Afrique « le cœur battant des études sur l’Afrique? ».

Pour répondre à de telles interrogations, le renouvellement ou la régénération des SHS est devenue une impérieuse nécessité pour que celles-ci ne passent pas à côté de leur mission historique qui est de comprendre, de refléter, d’anticiper et d’accompagner les préoccupations de leurs sociétés. L’orientation vers les STEM peut dès lors s’avérer être une opportunité majeure pour les SHS car elle permet à ces dernières de se (re)questionner, de (re)définir leur ambitions à l’aune des mutations rapides que connait l’Afrique, mais aussi de reconsidérer le rapport de l’université à sa société et le rapport des universitaires au savoir.

A l’instar de nombreux pays africain, les universités sénégalaises ont toujours joué un rôle majeur d’accompagnement, ou de pointe dans le processus de transformation sociale. Cependant, les réformes dans les universités et celles de leurs curricula ont, dans de nombreux cas, été le résultat d’un processus plus lent que ceux qui ont changé leur environnement socio-politique, et ce, du fait de la résistance ou de la nature conservatrice des institutions.

C’est fort de tout ce qui précède que le CODESRIA, avec le soutien du Programme d’appui à l’enseignement supérieur de l’OSF, a mis en place ce programme qui vise à impulser une dynamique de revitalisation des enseignements et de la recherche en SHS, à travers la capacitation et l’appui aux modules innovants. L’objectif de cette troisième retraite dédiée essentiellement aux jeunes enseignants chercheurs titulaires dans les universités sénégalaises, est de renforcer leurs capacités, à innover en termes de contenu et d’approches pédagogiques. La finalité de cette activité est de permettre aux lauréats, dans un esprit d’innovation pédagogique, de produire des articles ou des manuels de cours sur les thématiques retenues pour la retraite. Une petite subvention sera accordée à cet effet aux candidats sélectionnés pour faciliter les travaux de terrain.

La thématique choisie pour cette troisième retraite de formation porte sur : « Emergence et mondialisation ». Quelles sont les modalités d’insertion du Sénégal démocratique dans la globalisation? Comment ces dernières affectent-elles les dynamiques internes de développement du pays ? Ce questionnement se fera à partir de différents points d’entrée tels que : – Plan Sénégal émergent (PSE), – Partenariats économiques, – Changement climatique, – Pandémies / Epidémies, – Intégration (s) Régionale (s), – Emigrations, Immigrations et – Diasporas

Les enseignants chercheurs du Sénégal qui souhaiteraient participer à cette retraite de formation sont invités à soumettre leur candidature au CODESRIA. Le dossier de candidature comprendra: – Une demande de candidature ; – Une lettre attestant que le candidat est enseignant titulaire dans une université publique ; – Un curriculum vitae ; – la fiche d’identification ci jointe dûment remplie ; – Un résumé de proposition de recherche de 5 à 8 pages maximum, présentant la motivation, la problématique, l’importance et les objectifs du sujet, la méthodologie de recherche et la contribution scientifique par rapport au thème choisi.

La retraite aura lieu du 22 – 26 Aout 2016 à Saly, Sénégal. Les candidats sélectionnés seront à la charge des organisateurs. La date limite de soumission des candidatures est fixée au 15 Juin 2016. Toutes les candidatures doivent être envoyées en format Word par courrier électronique à l’adresse suivante :

Programme d’appui à l’enseignement supérieur (HESP)
CODESRIA
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop X Canal IV
B.P. 3304, CP 18524, Dakar, Sénégal
Tel. (221) 33 825 98 21/22/23, Fax: (221) 33 824 12 89
E-mail: hesp@codesria.sn

Retraite de formation : Le développement du curriculum et de l’enseignement innovant de sciences humaines et sociales au Sénégal

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