Call for Panels, Roundtables and Papers
Maiden Annual International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Restorative Development in Africa
May 20-23, 2025, Entebbe, Uganda
Important dates:
October 30, 2024: Abstract submission deadline
Current Projects
The Africa Indigenous Knowledge Research Network | 2024-2026
Artisanal Mining and Gender in Sub-Saharan Africa | 2014-2027
Recent Projects
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship-Advanced Scholars Program-West Africa | 2022 – 2024
The Continental Forum on Diaspora, Higher Education, Research and Innovation in Africa | 2019 – 2020
African Union–EU Relations, Regional Partnerships for Actorness in Effective Global Governance, (Project AURORA) | 2022 – 2024
The Uganda Collection | Archives and Special Collections
Sexual Violence and Conflict in Africa
Artisanal and small-scale mining and gender in sub-Saharan Africa
The African Court Research Initiative (ACRI)
Conferences
Institute of African Studies Emerging Scholar Conference
10th Anniversary: Conference & Banquet | 2020
Solidarity and the Shifting Structures of Hegemony in Southern Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. A Conference and Festschrift honoring Professor Linda Freeman March 1 – 2, 2018
Beyond SDG 5: African Women Innovation and the Future, May 18th, 2017
From Climate Change to Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for Africa and Canada, May 4, 2016
Human Rights and the Public Sphere in Africa, March 4-5, 2016.
5th Annual Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, October 5, 2019
4th Annual Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, October 13, 2018
3rd Annual Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, 2017
2nd Annual Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Research Conference, October 2016
Inaugural Carleton University Institute of African Studies Undergraduate Conference, October 17, 2015
Publications
The role of the diaspora in advancing higher education
Tapping into the diaspora – The search for sustainability
The African diaspora scholar – Living in a ‘third space’
Reconfiguring diaspora – From brain drain to brain gain
Journal of Pan-African Wisdom (previous articles)
Gender and ASM: Implications for Formalization (Buss et. al)
Women in Democratic Republic of Congo Create Network to Empower Women in Mining Communities (IMPACT)
Women in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining: Challenges and opportunities for greater participation