When: Thursday, August 25 – Sunday, 28, 2016 from 5pm

Where:  Dunbar Bridge at House of PainT, Ottawa

Schedule:

Thursday, Aug. 25: OG500 & Beat Battles

Friday, Aug. 26: DMC Ottawa, Dance Battles

Saturday, Aug. 27: Live Graffiti, Seeds Tent, Arts Market

Sunday, Aug. 28: Knowledge Conference, LIVE CONCERT

House of PainT Festival of Arts and Culture brings the four elements of hip hop together – with writers covering concrete walls while DJs and MCs fill the air with beats & rhymes and bboys, bgirls and their crews throw down. Concession stands selling art, clothes and crafts by local artists, a community BBQ serving summer foods, a kids corner (Seeds Tent) and workshops teaching mural painting, breaking, DJing and the history of hip hop and urban life in Canada and the world. The event started in 2003 as a celebration of the creation of Ottawa’s first Free Zone for Legal Art. Since then it’s become a yearly event under the bridge, bringing Ottawa’s grassroots hip hop community together for Ottawa’s dopest old school block party style summer event!

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When: Saturday, August 20, 2016, 12:00 noon – 8:00pm

Where: Jean Piggott Hall, Ottawa City Hall , 110 Laurier Ave, West

An opportunity for Trinidad & Tobago nationals to celebrate their culture and heritage, as well as showcase it to the wider Canadian Community. The event will comprise of varying booths hosted by community based businesses and organizations in Ottawa. Steelpan music, D.J. and authentic “Trini” food and drinks (on sale). Also, free admission to the Arboretum Music Festival! A fun-filled day with entertainment for the entire family. Admission: FREE, however goodwill donations will be accepted.

The Oficina de História-Mozambique is an academic and cultural group whose objective is to share with the academic community scientific research and projects led by academics, experts, students, and local historians. We also welcome international professionals researching Mozambique and African history.

As part of its annual activities, the Oficina de História-Mozambique is organizing its first annual, international, and multidisciplinary conference. The theme for this year’s conference is “Samora Machel in History: Memory, Education & Popular Culture”. The goal of the conference is to reflect on the historical legacy of Samora Machel throughout Mozambique’s contemporary history. The event will be held from October 28th to the 29th in Fortaleza de Maputo, Mozambique.

The deadline for submitting individual papers, thematic panels, and roundtable proposals, is September 20, 2016.

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CODESRIA African Academic Diaspora Support to African Universities Program

Background

The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) with funding support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York is currently implementing an initiative involving African academics in the Diaspora to support academic activities in African universities. The overall objective of the initiative is to contribute to the strengthening of African universities and of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) by encouraging, organizing and facilitating linkages and exchanges between the African academic Diaspora and African universities. Part of the outcome CODESRIA envisages from this initiative is a framework through which the needs of African universities in terms of teachers, teaching materials, library and intellectual resources could be addressed through organised and sustained engagements with the academics in the Diaspora. The project will also enable the academic Diaspora to support the universities by teaching courses, participating in curriculum and program review and development, running joint summer schools with African universities, hosting African post-doctoral fellows and visiting researchers and professors and supervising or mentoring Masters and doctoral students.

The College of Mentors

As part of the activities of the Diaspora program, CODESRIA has constituted a ‘College of Academic Mentors’. The college is composed of senior academics from the Diaspora and within Africa in higher education, the humanities and social sciences. This component will entail linking selected PhD candidates and their supervisors to mentors for purposes of benefiting the candidate in his/her PhD progress. The mentors will be expected to offer advice regarding relevant literature, read and comment draft chapters of theses in preparation, liaise with the official advisors of the doctoral candidates based at African universities and share their views about the work of the students; and where possible, invite and host the student and the official advisor as visiting scholars. The mentors may also be requested to run various activities under this program such as institutes, research methodology workshops and research networks. A joint workshop of the selected students, their supervisors and mentors will be held at the beginning to agree on working modalities. The College of Mentors will both complement and strengthen the support in capacity building in African universities that CODESRIA is engaged in through the Small Grants Programme for Thesis Writing, the institutes and the methodology workshops.

Application Deadline

The deadline for receiving completed applications is 30th September 2016. Candidates will be informed of the results of the selection process by mid – November 2016.

All applications should be sent as electronic mail to the address: diaspora.mentees@codesria.sn

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