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Friday, December 15, 2017

Call for Applications: The Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies

  The University of Ghana, Legon, is pleased to invite applications for the position of Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies, to begin August 1, 2018. The Kwame Nkrumah Chair in African Studies was established at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana in honour of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Pan African luminary and Ghana’s first... More

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Professor Pius Adesanmi awarded the 2017 Board of Director’s Leadership Award by the Canadian Bureau for International Education (CBIE)

Professor Pius Adesanmi - Director of Institute of African Studies officially awarded the 2017 Board of Director's Leadership Award by the Canadian Bureau For International Education In Halifax, Canada on Tuesday Nov 21, 2017. The award won by Professor Adesanmi is for an individual who has demonstrated exceptional leadership in... More

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Employment Opportunities Summer 2018

Contract Instructor Positions Summer 2018 The Institute of African Studies is seeking qualified contract instructors for the 2018 summer session. As a general rule, the minimum qualification is an MA in the appropriate field. terms and conditions of employment are set out in the Collective Agreement between Carleton University and CUPE Local 4600,... More

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

View photos from an evening with Alice

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Friday, November 10, 2017

Project Coordinator Position

Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship for Advanced Scholars is seeking a qualified Project Coordinator to assist with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarship award held by Carleton University. The Queen Elizabeth II Scholarship for Advanced Scholars focuses on Societal Transformation and Climate Change: Training the Next Generation of Scholars... More

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

History Professor Publishes Article and Receives a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship

Professor Audra Diptee has recently published an article entitled "The Problem of Modern Day Slavery: Is Critical Applied History the Answer?" in the journal Slavery & Abolition.  Her article proposes a methodology that better enables historians to engage with contemporary issues such as human trafficking.  This is part of her larger project... More

Friday, July 7, 2017

Devoted to Ethiopian Development: Meet Carleton’s New Banting Postdoctoral Fellow

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Monday, June 19, 2017

Aboubakar Sanogo, Martin Scorsese and UNESCO’s Irina Bokova to Restore 50 major African Films

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Monday, May 1, 2017

2017-18 Fall/Winter: Contract Instructor Opportunities

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Friday, April 28, 2017

IAS Course in May 2017: Migration Lives and Livelihoods in South Africa

IAS Course in May 2017: Migration Lives and Livelihoods in South Africa The Institute of African Studies is very pleased that its African Studies Abroad course this May, Migration Lives and Livelihoods in South Africa, will be coordinated with a core course at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of... More

Friday, March 31, 2017

Carleton University Launches Program for Climate Change Scholars in Sub-Saharan Africa and Canada

Carleton University is launching a $1.8-million program to train tomorrow’s climate change research leaders in partnership with three African universities and the Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced Scholars Program. Societal Transformation and Climate Change: Training the Next Generation of Scholars in sub-Sahara Africa and... More

Monday, January 9, 2017

IAS Congratulates Blair Rutherford for his new book, Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe

Blair Rutherford, professor of Anthropology and former director of the Institute of African Studies at Carleton, has a new book published with Indiana University Press. Farm Labor Struggles in Zimbabwe: The Ground of Politics examines the unequal social and power relations shaping the lives, livelihoods, and struggles of some of the farm workers... More

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