Wednesday, September 28, 1:00– 2:30 pm

433 Paterson Hall, Carleton University*

Duncan Scott is a final-year Sociology PhD candidate at Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom. He worked at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa between 2010 and 2012 and received a Master’s in African Studies from Oxford University prior to that.

This talk takes up the issues of post-apartheid transformation and the questionable justice potential of relational ethics such as ubuntu and reconciliation. It discusses the viability of these ethics in contemporary South Africa by critiquing the work of two Christian development organizations that emphasize a relational lifestyle to resolve injustices in the city of Cape Town.

This is part of the African Studies Brownbag Seminar Series

(http://www.carleton.ca/africanstudies/)

For more information, please contact the Institute of African Studies at

613-520-2600 ext. 2220 or African_Studies@carleton.ca

*For a campus map, please see: http://carleton.ca/campus/map/

The Institute of African Studies presents a

Book Launch of Facets of Power Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe’s Blood Diamonds edited by Richard Saunders and Tinashe Nyamunda

on Friday, September 30th at 3:00pm in 2017 Dunton Tower.

Come to a book launch and discussion with contributors

Richard Saunders, York University

Alan Martin, Partnership Africa Canada

Mathew Ruguwa, Trent University &

conflict diamond expert,Ian Smillie, chair, Diamond Development Initiative

About Facets of Power, Politics, Profits and People in the Making of Zimbabwe’s Blood Diamonds

Facets of Power is the first comprehensive account of the emergence, meaning and profound impact of Chiadzwa’s diamonds. Drawing on new fieldwork and published sources, the contributors present a graphic and accessibly written narrative of corruption and greed, as well as resistance by those who have suffered at the hands of the mineral’s secretive and violent benefi ciaries. If the lessons of resistance have been mostly disheartening, they also point towards more effective strategies for managing public resources, and mounting democratic challenges to elites whose power is sustained by preying on them.

Tuesday, September 27

Time: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Location: River Building, room 224, Carleton University.

In recent speeches, Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland has been calling for a “Progressive Trade Agenda” that supports a more inclusive trade policymaking process to promote the international ambitions of Canadian SMEs and address inequalities at all levels that hold back the ability of women, minorities and the poor to participate fully in, and benefit from, international trade.   From both an African and Canadian perspective, Carleton University’s Centre for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL) and the Institute of African Studies (IAS) invite you to join us for this panel discussion on our latest research on this agenda. The event will be moderated by Rosemina Nathoo, CTPL Senior Associate and Trade Law Advisor, ATPC project.

Phil Rourke, Executive Director, CTPL, Carleton University/University of Ottawa. Opening Remarks.

David Luke, Coordinator, Africa Trade Policy Centre (ATPC), UNECA.  Africa’s trade and development agenda.

Bente M. Neufeld, CTPL Senior Associate. Trade and Gender.

Valerie Percival, Assistant Professor, NPSIA, Carleton University. Trade and Health.

Yiagadeesen (Teddy) Samy, Professor, NPSIA, Carleton University. Canada’s trade and development agenda.

Pius Adesanmi, Director, Institute of African Studies (IAS). Closing remarks.

CTPL, the IAS, and the Ethiopia-based Africa Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) wish to thank Global Affairs Canada for their generous financial support for this initiative.

International Financial Reform: Unintended Consequences for International Financial Centres

Please join the School of Public Policy and Administration and the High Commission for Barbados to a public lecture by Dr. DeLisle Worrell, Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados.

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Among the unintended consequences of global financial regulatory reform we find changes in the availability and costs of banking services in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) and small international financial centres (IFCs), which are large and have the potential to distort the international financial market, increase the costs and risks of international commerce, inhibit global transactional and competitive efficiencies, and slow the process of addressing global inequality. The evidence will be presented in this paper, which will be illustrated by how these problems manifest themselves in the Caribbean.

Hosted by Open African Innovation Research – Open AIR

Come see Prof. Ikechi Mgbeoji of Osgoode Hall Law School speak about Intellectual Property Rights and Public-Sponsored Internships in Private Spaces: Lessons from the E4E (Education for Employment) Program in Nigeria!

September 28th, 11:30 to 13:00
Fauteaux Hall, room 147B
57 Louis-Pasteur, University of Ottawa

Lunch is being provided by Nando’s.

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We are thrilled to be partnering with Nobel Women’s Initiative to launch When We Are Bold: Women Who Turn Our Upsidedown World Right, a collection of 29 short essays by notable women writers and thinkers from around the world. Each essay is an intimate portrait of a woman peacemaker or feminist who has influenced and inspired the author’s own work and life. The launch will use these essays as a starting point for a conversation on the big and small ways women build peace in their communities, how feminism shapes so many women’s thinking about peace and how supporting women is the key to solving the world’s current outstanding conflicts.

Please join us to celebrate the launch of this book and the incredible women who made it possible on September 27th 2016, 7pm at Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks Street)

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DATE: Wednesday, September 28^th, 2016

TIME: 17:30 pm – 19:30 pm

LOCATION:  TBD

1.    Opening remarks

2.    What is the role for Canada in the fragile states of Africa?

Biographies :

Chair: Teddy Samy is a Full Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.  His current research areas include state fragility, aid effectiveness, domestic resource mobilization and income inequality.

Participants:

David Carment is a full professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton and a NATO and a Canadian Foreign Affairs and Defence Institute Fellow. He is the principal investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy project (CIFP). His research interests include the international dimensions of ethnic conflict including diaspora, the role of communication technologies in risk analysis and early warning systems, peacekeeping, conflict prevention and Canadian foreign policy analysis.

James Cohen is an independent practioner working on international anti-corruption, security and development. He has worked with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Transparency International and the United States Academy of Peace. He has contributed to the Centre for Security Governance on the Canadian military and peacekeeping, and wrote OpenCanada.org on Canada’s military options in Africa.

Frank Young is a retired senior official of USAID, with experience in a range of countries and policy areas. He has also advised the State Department on development policy and management and taught at the US Defense Department’s National War College. He will comment on US approaches to development programming in fragile states.

3. Varia – news from members

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La première conférence mensuelle de dixième rentrée scientifique du CERCLECAD 2016/2017, ce samedi 24 septembre 2016, comme d’habitude à 15H00, dans la salle du Sénat de l’Université d’Ottawa, au sous-sol du pavillon Tabaret (Salle 083), 75, Avenue Laurier Est ou 119, Rue Wallers ou 550, Rue Cumberland).

La conférence, intitulée : « La Réaffirmation du tournant phénoménologique et prophétique de la théologie africaine postcoloniale », sera donnée par le Professeur Benoît Awazi Mbambi Kungua, Président du CERCLECAD. Elle sera modérée par Madame Darlène Lozis.

Un moment de convivialité et de réseautage autour de beignets, de brochettes, de liqueurs et du vin, clôturera dans la joie notre conférence.

Notice autobiographique :
Docteur en Philosophie de l’université Paris IV-Sorbonne (avec une thèse en phénoménologie : Donation, Saturation et Compréhension. Phénoménologie de la donation et phénoménologie herméneutique : Une alternative ?, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2005, dirigée par le professeur Jean Luc Marion de l’Académie française) et titulaire d’un DEA en Théologie de l’université de Strasbourg, Benoît AWAZI MBAMBI KUNGUA focalise ses recherches pluridisciplinaires sur la quête d’un leadership éthique, intellectuel, prophétique et réticulaire, pour l’éclosion effective d’une « Autre Afrique », celle qui marche, fière, digne et debout, vers l’édification d’un avenir prospère pour ses populations malmenées par la crise économique dite pompeusement « mondiale ». Il est l’actuel président du Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur les Communautés d’Afrique noire et des diasporas (Cerclecad, www.cerclecad.org) basé à Ottawa, au Canada. Parmi ses ouvrages, signalons : Panorama de la Théologie négro-africaine contemporaine,
L’Harmattan, Paris, 2002 ; Donation, Saturation et Compréhension. Phénoménologie de la donation et phénoménologie herméneutique : Une alternative ?, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2005 ; Panorama des Théologies négro-africaines anglophones, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2008 ; Le Dieu crucifié en Afrique. Esquisse d’une Christologie négro-africaine de la libération holistique, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2008 ; De la Postcolonie à la Mondialisation néolibérale. Radioscopie éthique de la crise négro-africaine contemporaine, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2011. Son dernier ouvrage paru est : Déconstruction phénoménologique et théologique de la modernité occidentale : Michel Henry, Hans Urs von Balthasar et Jean-Luc Marion, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2015.

The Africana Research Center invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in any aspect of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, beginning August 2017. During their residency, fellows have no teaching or administrative responsibilities, though they may request a teaching assignment. They will be matched with a mentor, attend professional development sessions and other relevant events, and be expected to be active in Penn State’s community of Africana researchers. Successful applicants must have completed all requirements for the Ph.D. within the previous four academic years. Salary/benefit package is competitive.

To be considered for this position, submit complete application packets including cover letter describing your research and goals for the fellowship year, a curriculum vita (6 page maximum), and a writing sample of no more than 30 double-spaced pages. Apply online at https://psu.jobs/job/66446. Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2016, and continue until the position is filled. Three letters of reference should be addressed to the attention of the ESSS Selection Committee and submitted as e-mail attachments to africanacenter@la.psu.edu. Please direct questions about the process via e-mail to africanacenter@la.psu.edu.

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CAAS Conference Date: May 31, June 1, June 2

Location: The 2017 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ryerson

University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bonjour/Hello fellow African Studies Scholars “Far and Wide”

In 2017 CAAS is convening in Toronto at Ryerson University under the banner “From Far and Wide: the Next 150”. CAAS, in an effort to build this year’s conference from the “bottom up”, and to address themes of greatest importance to its members, is asking you, the conference attendees, to set the agenda by first proposing full panels around themes of interest to you. We are therefore sending out an early call, not for papers, but for panels. If you have a theme or group of scholars who wish to present on a theme or area, please submit your panel proposal by October 31, 2016. Once we have panel proposals and potential panel contributors, we will post the themes around which these are organised on our conference website and then issue a general call for papers.

Paper proposers may then select the themes/panels to which they hope to contribute (from those posted) OR they can propose individual papers and allow us to do the work of organizing papers into panels (as we have done in the past). If your panel theme attracts more than four presenters/papers, we will endeavour to set up a series of panels to be held consecutively so that those interested in these themes can attend all panels on those themes.

Panel Proposal Submission

The deadline for submitting panel proposals is October 31, 2016. Please submit your panel proposal to: CAASACEA2017@arts.ryerson.ca

CAAS has endeavoured to have our conference dates overlap with those of the Canadian Historical Association (CHA), the Canadian Association of International

Development (CASID) and the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA). We strongly encourage panel proposers to liaise with members of these associations in an

effort to create joint panels. Please note this in your panel proposal upon submission and every effort will be made to schedule your panel with this in mind.

Awarded annually, on the recommendation of the Richard J. Van Loon Scholarship Committee, this scholarship is intended for an outstanding international student from an African country. Eligible recipients will be full-time students proceeding from one year to another in any program of study at Carleton University. Consideration will be given to students in financial need.

If an undergraduate student is selected, the scholarship will be awarded by the Director of Undergraduate Awards and Financial Aid, if a graduate student is selected, the scholarship will be awarded by the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs. Two scholarships will be awarded in total.

To apply, complete and submit the 2016-2017 application to the Awards Office by Tuesday, November 15, 2016.

The application and the application is available at →

Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers and policy experts in the area of natural resource governance and management in Africa, this volume addresses the most critical policy issues affecting the continent’s ability to manage and govern its precious resources.

A copy of the book can be found here →

The study abroad course enables students to study a selected topic in African Studies with a Carleton professor in an African country (or countries) in which the professor carries out research. The students also learn from experts on the topic in the African country (or countries).  The course is offered at both the undergraduate (AFRI 3100) and graduate (AFRI 5100) levels.

Information sessions:
Tuesday, September 27^th, 11:30am-1pm, 433 Paterson Hall (the History Lounge)
Monday, October 3^rd, 6pm – 7:30pm, 436 Paterson Hall (the History Seminar room)

Contacts:  African.studies@carleton.ca    OR   Blair.Rutherford@carleton.ca

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