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Thursday, May 21, 2020

2014-2015 Monthly African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series

The 2014-2015 Monthly African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series All events are public and take place on a Wednesday from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in: Fall: the History Lounge, 433 Paterson Hall (“PA” on the map of Carleton, http://carleton.ca/campus/)  September 10 Eurico Josué Ngunga, Visiting Fellow, IAS, Carleton University Science, Technology... More

Monday, April 6, 2020

10th Anniversary in Pictures

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Friday, February 14, 2020

Shireen Hassim Releases New Book on the Life of Fatima Meer

Feisty and formidable, Fatima Meer, who died in 2010 at age 81, was a trailblazing scholar and anti-apartheid activist with a lot to say. That South African society didn’t always know quite how to deal with her can be gleaned from two of the “firsts” she achieved. She was the first woman in South... More

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Institute of African Studies, Carleton University in the news

Special Report: The role of the diaspora in advancing higher education In a special report on the Forum on the Role of the African Diaspora in the Revitalisation of Higher Education in Africa, held in Ethiopia from 13-14 November 2019, University World News interviews some of the participants and provides an overview of the gathering organised... More

Friday, February 7, 2020

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Friday, February 7, 2020

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A Novelist Finally Finds the Right Words By Kagiso Lesego Molope The first time I discovered that I could travel without my body moving was during a government-imposed state of emergency in my quiet South African township in the late 1980s. Night was falling and so were bullets, outside and all around us. We... More

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Shifting Perspectives

Before coming to Carleton as a graduate student, Akintunde Akinleye was a photographer with Reuters in his native Nigeria, helping people understand the country through powerful images such as this World Press Photo prize-winning shot of a man rinsing soot from his face after a deadly pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Lagos. Read... More

Friday, January 17, 2020

Migration and Diaspora Studies | Funding Opportunities

Migration and Diaspora Studies, Master of Arts and Graduate Diploma Join Carleton’s team of world-renowned Migration and Diaspora researchers for the only degrees of this kind in Canada. Migration and Diaspora Studies (MDS) is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on on the social, economic, cultural and political implications of the... More

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

DJ ROZ Scholarship for Black Academic Excellence

Here is an opportunity for you to gain financial assistance during your studies. DJ ROZ is offering two scholarships for black students: $300 for a student in a non-STEM program $500 for a student in a STEM program “Growing up as a black male in a single-parent household in New York I’m aware of... More

Friday, November 29, 2019

How Do You Help Change a Society? Start by Listening – Professor Logan Cochrane

Whether he’s in Ethiopia, Afghanistan or Canada, Professor Logan Cochrane of the Bachelor of Global and International Studies program always follows the same principle—and encourages his students to do the same. Logan Cochrane made his first trip to Ethiopia not long after receiving a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of... More

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Window Wide Open | Professor Nduka Otiono Tracks Bob Dylan’s Uncharted Influence

Professor Nduka Otiono's just-released and already critically acclaimed book, Polyvocal Bob Dylan: Music, Performance, Literature, which he co-edited is making the news. Produced in collaboration with English Professor at MacEwan University, Josh Toth, Polyvocal Bob Dylan brings together an interdisciplinary series of scholarly essays that... More

Friday, September 6, 2019

Canada to fund non-English overseas study expansion

Over the next five years to help more university students study abroad in countries of political and economic strategic value to the nation. Canada sees its effort as being inspired by Australia’s five-year-old New Colombo Plan that now supports around 10,000 students a year attending higher education in emerging countries across the... More

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