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Last updated: Thursday, October 31, 2024

Study Abroad Course, South Africa July 7 -21^st  2025

(Application deadline extended until November 13)

The study abroad course (AFRI 3100 or AFRI 5100) allows 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.
The course is open to African Studies majors, minors, graduate students, and other interested students, provided they have an African studies background.
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Knowing Africa Seminar Series Fall2024 lineup

1. Conspiracy Narratives from Postcolonial Africa: Freemasonry, Homosexuality, and Illicit Enrichment
   Speaker: Rogers Orock (Lafayette College)
   Date: November 13, 2024 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
2. The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism, City Building, and the Oil Boom in Luanda
   Speaker: Claudia Gastrow, University of North Carolina
   Date: November 27, 2024 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST
3. Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar
   Speaker: Tasha Rijke-Epstein, Vanderbilt University
   Date: December 4, 2024 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST

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The Shannon Lectures in History x Ingenium

Black Histories and Futures of Science and Technology

• Wednesday, November 13–  Race, Afrofuturism, and the Digital Divide: Exploring the Tense of Black Technoculture through Art, Dance, and Literature. With Dr. Cheryl Thompson, Associate Professor Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
• Monday, December 9– Pseudo-science and the construction of the “natural” Black athlete. With Dr. Ornella Nzindukiyimana, Associate Professor in Human Kinetics St. Francis Xavier University
• Monday, January 13– Title TBA. With Dr. Dorothy Williams, Author & Historian in Black Canadian History

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Sciences Graduate Studies Fair

Saturday, November 2, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm  

Join us on Saturday, November 2 at Carleton University for our Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Studies Fair! We’ve invited current graduate students and faculty members from our diverse graduate programs to celebrate the research and scholarship happening at Carleton through informative panel sessions and casual Q&As. This event is meant for those who are curious about continuing onto graduate studies.  You will have the chance to chat with representatives from our programs who will be on hand to address any questions you may have. Registered guests will also be offered a complimentary lunch. Check out the panel details below, and register at the bottom of the page.

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Dec. 02,2024| African History – Associate Professor / Professor
Nov. 27, 2024| Professorship of African Studies
Dec.15, 2024 | The Pathy Foundation Fellowship

 Call for papers/submissions 

June 3-6, 2025| The 2025 Conference of the Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS)
June 25-28, 2025| The 10th European Conference of African Studies
Dec.1, 2024 | Continuities & Discontinuities in African Studies 
Dec.1, 2024 | The 24th Annual Africa Conference: Health & Illnesses in Africa and the African Diaspora
Dec.15, 2024 | 50 Years of the Independence of Portuguese Colonies in Africa: Histories, Processes, Legacies and Memories