When: Thu, 3 Aug 2017, 10:00 PM –Fri, 4 Aug 2017, 2:00 AM EDT

Where: 523 ST. ANTHONY ST. OFF PRESTON. (LITTLE ITALY),Ottawa, ON K1R6Z9

AFRICAN NUMBER HOTTEST ARTIST DAVIDO IS COMING TO OUR CITY.

David Adedeji Adeleke better known by his Stage Name Davido, is an American-born Nigerian recording artist, performer and record producer.

We are proud and delighted to announce that Multiple Awards winning artist DAVIDO will be performing live in the nation’s Capital on Thursday August 3rd, 2017

TICKETS HERE →

Encontram-se abertas as candidaturas para o curso de verão “Ativismos Em África: Estado da Arte, Métodos, Contextos e Casos”. O curso decorrerá entre 4 e 8 de setembro e será coordenado pelos investigadores do CEI-IUL Ana Lúcia Sá, Mojana Vargas e Eduardo Costa Dias. Terá uma duração de 20 horas, decorrendo de segunda a sexta-feira entre as 14:00 e as 19:00 horas. A organização está a cargo do Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-IUL) e do Instituto para as Políticas Públicas e Sociais (IPPS-IUL), do ISCTE-IUL. O curso é direccionado a estudantes universitários, activistas, membros de organizações não-governamentais e profissionais que queiram aprofundar o conhecimento sobre as dinâmicas dos movimentos sociais de ativismo e reflectir sobre o potencial transformador dos activismos no continente africano.

Muitos países africanos vivem um contexto em que a sociedade se defronta constantemente contra o Estado ou corporações privadas. Nessa situação, as organizações da sociedade civil tornam-se peça fundamental no xadrez político do continente. Atuando em campos diversos e quase sempre buscando formas não tradicionais de organização, colocam novos desafios à sua análise e interpretação. No seguimento do enorme sucesso da Conferência Internacional Ativismos em África, este curso visa formar, informar, refletir e debater sobre métodos de investigação para a análise das diversas formas de ativismos no continente africano.

Mais informações aqui .

BLACK PORTRAITURE[S] IV: The Color of Silence is the eighth conference in a series of conversations about imaging the black body. We invite artists, activists, and scholars to reflect on the visual expressions of national imaginaries and political ideologies that negate racial differences and render black subjects invisible. Such ideologies are prevalent in Latin America and the Caribbean, where metaphors of mixture (mestizaje or mestiçagem) and racial harmony ignore inequality and discrimination. Similar formulations are to be found elsewhere, however, as in republican France, or among proponents of a post-racial United States, or in references to a South African “rainbow nation”, or in Jamaica’s well-known “out of many, one people” motto. Presenters will engage a range of historical and contemporary topics such as biennales, exhibitions, movements, individual artists and collectives, art markets, politics, tourism, sites of memory, Afrofuturism, fashion, dance, music, film, art, and photography. We invite papers and panel proposals on relevant topics.

The conference will be held Thursday through Saturday, March 15-17, 2018, in Havana, Cuba.  As the status of the US/Cuba relations are in flux, more information about travel will be available when the new Administration’s policies are enacted.  New policies and information will be posted here, as soon as it is available.

Read More →

The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF), housed in the Climate Change and Green Growth Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB), is launching a call for proposals.

The funding envelope available for this call is US $5 million in the form of grants. The Fund is seeking concept notes for projects and programmes in the range of US $250,000 – US $ 1 million.

Focus Areas and themes:

The ACCF is seeking innovative and impactful proposals that will support African countries to transition to climate resilient, low carbon development, and scale-up access to climate finance. Priority will be given to proposals focused on the thematic areas: supporting direct access to climate finance; and supporting small–scale or pilot adaptation initiatives to build resilience of vulnerable communities.

 Proposals should be aligned with the priorities of the Bank, including the 10-year strategy (which aims for inclusive growth and a transition to green growth) and the High-Five priorities (which aim to light up and power Africa, feed Africa, industrialize Africa, integrate Africa, and improve the quality of life for the people of Africa), as well as with the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) or related adaptation strategies of the beneficiary countries.

Read More →

The FIRE Africa Awards seek to acknowledge innovative initiatives in Africa that have made concrete contributions through the use of information and communications technologies and have had a proven impact on the region’s social and economic development.

APPLY NOW

Winning initiatives must meet three main requirements. All project proposals must have a technological component through which they seek to solve development issues. Proposed solutions must be innovative, i.e., they must present new strategies, notions, ideas, methods and processes that respond to social needs and can broaden and strengthen communities. Finally, successful initiatives must have a proven impact, i.e., they must submit indicators and evidence that support the creation of value for the target communities.

 Theme: Migrations and Human Rights in Africa and the Diaspora: Vulnerability, Social

Justice, and New Nationalisms

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Okey Ndibe, author of Foreign Gods Inc. and other books

Calling all undergraduate students with a passion for African Studies! The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton University (https://carleton.ca/africanstudies/) is hosting its third international undergraduate research conference organized by the Institute of African Studies Student’s Association (IASSA). The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a platform for emerging researchers in the field of African Studies. It is understood this may be a student’s first time completing a scholarly paper, therefore the timing of this conference has been chosen to allow time for students to complete research over the summer and to present in October.

This year’s conference seeks to encourage interdisciplinary engagement with a new generation of continental and diasporic Africans confronting questions such as: How are global and intra-continental migration patterns impacting the continent and its diasporas? What can be learned from migrant’s individual agency and what tools do they use to actualize justice and social change? How have the rise of New Nationalisms and a global politics of fear shaped the migrant experience? What does the securitization and militarization of the border mean for fabricated national boundaries on the continent? In a time of increasing consequences of climate change, terrorist regimes, and refugees flow, how do we realize a vision of mobility as a human right? This conference encourages students not to simply regurgitate information obtained from a variety of sources, but also to bring forth new and innovative ideas, be it problem solving or avenues for further research.

Papers must remain within the scope of African Studies and may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Human Rights and development
• Security and migration regulation
• Migration and Identity formation
• Resource extraction, sustainability
• Refugeeism, displacement and border politics
• Youth, Culture, Activism and frameworks of social justice
• New Nationalism, global politics and Africa’s role on the world stage
• Globalization, migrant flows and global integration
• Social, political and economic impacts of migration
• Climate change and its social consequences for migration

We also encourage students coming from the following disciplines: Globalization and International Relations, Policy and Political Science, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Law, Art History, Musicology, Religion, Film Studies, Business and Economics, Media and Communication Studies, Technology, Literature and Critical Studies.

Students interested in participating are invited to submit abstracts by August 7, 2017 to the communications team at: communications.iasconference@gmail.com

Abstracts of approximately 300 words in length should include the following:

• Name, institution, field of study, address, email and phone number
• The title of your presentation
• A thesis statement, two or more research questions, and a brief description of the argument the paper seeks to make

Research Papers are due September 1, 2017 and must be a minimum of 3000 words.

For participating students, this conference is an excellent opportunity for improving academic portfolios, especially for those interested in future graduate studies or careers that require writing reports or policy papers for government agencies, NGOs, etc.  There will be prizes for the best papers at the conference, including being awarded publication opportunity in Nokoko, the open-access academic journal of Carleton University’s Institute of African Studies.

The IASSA plans to make this a memorable experience for students by incorporating guest-speakers, cultural components, and an environment that fosters the kind of support and encouragement that undergraduate students treasure. More information on these activities as well as about accommodation, possible travel subsidies, and so forth will be made available in due course to students whose abstracts are accepted.

For more information please email the organizing committee at: communications.iasconference@gmail.com.

Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance of abstracts by August 15, 2017.