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June 19 2015

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Une Conférence du CERCLECAD: «Le nouveau Paradigme émergeant des pays BRICS pour un nouveau monde de développement.

Une Conférence du CERCLECAD:  «Le nouveau Paradigme émergeant des pays BRICS pour un nouveau monde de développement.

Notre dernière conférence mensuelle de notre année scientifique 2014/2015 aura lieu le samedi 27 juin 2015 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). Elle sera donnée par Monsieur Luc TRUDEL sous le titre suivant : «Le nouveau Paradigme émergeant des pays BRICS pour un nouveau monde de développement. La Conférence sera modérée par le professeur Benoît AWAZI MBAMBI KUNGUA (Philosophe, Sociologue et Théologien, Président du CERCLECAD). L’argumentaire et la Notice autobiographique du Conférencier suivent ci-dessous.

Nous vendrons aussi les autres numéros de notre revue savante et pluridisciplinaire a les prix spécial de promotion.

Un moment de convivialité et de réseautage autour de beignets, de brochettes, de liqueurs et du vin, clôturera dans la joie notre conférence. Quelques ouvrages des auteurs du Cerclecad, notamment : Benoît Awazi Mbambi Kungua.

Notice autobiographique : Luc Trudel est un activiste/organisateur politique œuvrant depuis 10 ans à Montréal et à Ottawa avec le Mouvement de Lyndon LaRouche, associé au Comité Pour la République du Canada et au Mouvement de l’Institut Schiller.  Après avoir rencontré un membre du CRC sur le campus de l’Université d’Ottawa, alors qu’il y était étudiant ainsi qu’employé de la radio CHUO FM, Luc participe subséquemment à de nombreuses conférences politiques aux États-Unis ainsi qu’au Canada.  Depuis son implication avec le mouvement, il participe activement dans un programme de formation Scientifique/Culturel qui vise à faire découvrir la méthode de découverte de la pensée spécifiquement humaine en empruntant un parcours ciblé établis par l’économiste Américain, Lyndon LaRouche Jr, qui retrace les découvertes de Nicolas de Cues, Jean Kepler, Gottfried Liebniz et Bernhard Riemann. 

Au plaisir de vous revoir nombreux dans nos activités de réflexion en vue de la libération holistique des Africains partout dans le monde. Bonnes vacances estivales à tous et à nous revoir le samedi 26 septembre 2015, pour la conférence d’ouverture de l’année scientifique 2015/2016, si Dieu nous prête vie,évidemment !

Salutations présidentielles, phénoménologiques et prophétiques,
Votre serviteur Benoît AWAZI MBAMBI KUNGUA
Philosophe, Sociologue et Théologien|Président du CERCLECAD (Ottawa, Canada).
Courriels : 
benkung01@yahoo.fr & nabiawazi@gmail.com

Trinidad and Tobago Night at the Races

Trinidad and Tobago Night at the Races

Thursday, June 25th, 2015 at 6PM

Rideau Carleton Entertainment Centre, 4837 Albion Road

This event is being held in collaboration with the Trinidad and Tobago High Commission. Part proceeds will go towards the TTAO’s C.L.R. James scholarship fund that benefits students in Ottawa and Trinidad and Tobago.

Menu includes: Corn soup, callaloo, pelau, macaroni pie, stew chicken and many more Trini goodies.

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2015 Culture Shock Canada Showcase

2015 Culture Shock Canada Showcase

Friday, June 26th, 2015 at 5:30pm
Centrepointe Theatres, 101 Centrepointe Drive

Culture Shock is an international organization and a network of non-profit dance companies founded in San Diego, California in 1991 with the purpose of using hip hop dance to bring at-risk youth into an environment that promoted acceptance, achievement and self-confidence.

This year’s Showcase will precede a full day of Hip Hop workshops on Sunday June 28th at Le College La Cite. These events are open to the public who have the opportunity to be taught by some of urban dance industry’s best dancers and choreographers.

Click for more information about Culture Shock Canada.

Click for information regarding tickets or call 613-580-2700 or toll free 1-800-752-5231.

Conférence: “Mobilisation politique des Africains du Canada : Problématiques, enjeux et défis”

Conférence: “Mobilisation politique des Africains du Canada : Problématiques, enjeux et défis”

Samedi, 20 Juin, 2015 à 14h précises au Centre Saint-Pierre, à Montréal.
Entrée gratuite

L’organisation Force et Learship Africain (FLA) a le plaisir de vous convier à la conférence “Mobilisation politique des Africains du Canada : Problématiques, enjeux et défis” qui se tiendra le Samedi 20 juin 2015 à 14h précises au Centre Saint-Pierre, à Montréal.

Entrée gratuite.

Cette conférence est la première d’une série de rencontres organisées par le FLA  dans l’objectif de créer une plateforme de discussion du contenu d’un mémorandum des revendications de la diaspora africaine au Canada. Celui-ci sera adressé aux partis politiques fédéraux et aux médias, dans le cadre des élections de 2015.

Plusieurs details ici

 

REMINDER: South African bands @ the Ottawa Jazz Festival

REMINDER: South African bands @ the Ottawa Jazz Festival

Ottawa Jazz Festival: African bands

As part of the exciting line-up for this year’s Ottawa Jazz Festival, there is South Africa NOW! This is a celebration of five groups from South Africa and their contribution to jazz:

* Freshly Ground, June 24, 10:30pm

Formed in 2002 by musicians from South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe, Freshlyground won a contract with Sony BMG Africa with its second recording and the single “Doo Be Doo” became a huge hit across the continent in 2005. By 2009, the band was touring throughout Europe and North America, and in 2010 the band was selected to collaborate with Shakira on the official song for the FIFA World Cup. In 2013, the band released its fifth studio album, Take Me To The Dance.

* Kyle Shepherd Trio, June 26, 8pm

In 2014, South African pianist and composer Kyle Shepherd won the Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year Award for Jazz, toured the U.S. and Japan, and released two CDs. He was only 27. In addition to his acclaimed musical chops, he is also a poet and a visual artist, two genres that he folds back into composing and playing jazz by combining painterly approaches to sonic textures with the verbal music of the language of African history and leaders who inspire him. His music, then, represents not just the melodies, but also the images and the voices of the land from which he comes.

* Louis Moholo-Moholo Quartet, June 27, 7pm

Though the South African drummer played the Johannesburg Jazz Festival for the first time more than 50 years ago in 1962, Louis Moholo-Moholo continues to challenge, charm, and entrance listeners. Moholo-Moholo first became famous for his work in the mixed-race group the Blue Notes, who were exiled from their home country during the Apartheid years. Moholo-Moholo has worked tirelessly both as a bandleader and collaborator with some of free music’s biggest names, including Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, and Wadada Leo Smith.

* ABDULLAH IBRAHIM “MUKASHI” TRIO, June 30, 7pm

South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim was a member of Sophiatown group the Jazz Epistles, who recorded South Africa’s first jazz album by black artists in 1960. He left for Europe two years later, where Duke Ellington helped him launch a record of his own trio. Ibrahim followed Ellington to New York, where he became a member of Ellington’s band, occasionally substituting as its leader. During a brief return to South Africa in the 1970s, Ibrahim helped found Cape Town’s Cape Jazz sound, merging improvisational jazz with the local piano-based folk music known as Marabi. Following the end of Apartheid, Ibrahim returned to South Africa, where he has remained a revered figure. Continuing to perform and record, Ibrahim has alternated between solo work and bands of various sizes. At the age of 80, he plays much more rarely—and largely in Europe, with North American dates becoming increasingly rare.

* Zaki Ibrahim, July 1, 5pm

Canadian-born South African singer-songwriter Zaki Ibrahim is a globally distinguished conceptual genius. Even before the completion of her most recent release, Every Opposite, which featured in the Top 10 R&B Albums of 2013 on Huffington Post, she was already fleshing out its accompanying short film and theatre production – rearranging the details scene by scene. She cites influences such as Prince, Lionel Richie, Sade, Stevie Wonder, Miriam Makeba, Zap Mama, Radiohead, Madlib and J. Dilla, but it is her ability to meld these fragments of inspiration into a cohesive sound.

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Call For Papers: ABORNE Workshop

Call For Papers: ABORNE Workshop

The African Borderlands Research Network invites contributions to a conference in Beuggen, Germany (close to Basel, Switzerland) for April 14-16, 2016. Held at Schloss Beuggen.

The Beuggen conference will analyse changes in African borderlands and in African Border-land Studies in the nine years since ABORNE’s inception. We invite contributions that fall under one of the following three themes:

1. New development in African borderlands and in African Borderlands Studies: What has changed since ABORNE’s founding conference in 2007?

In the first sub-theme, we look for papers on specific real-world changes visible in border-lands. Papers should address how – to name but a few examples – transport corridors, transfrontier parks, regional integration efforts or the commodities boom have affected African borderlands, and should analyse trends that emerge if we take a comparative view of the last ten years.

2. Is there a theory of borderlands?

Ultimately, presentations in this section should ask what borderlands are and why, and should contribute to a general theory of African borderlands and borderlands in general. We look for bold, but closely argued papers synthesizing discussions the network has had over the last eight years.

3. Reports from the field (and the archive): new research, fresh case studies

We invite both younger and older scholars to present papers on things they find interesting, intriguing, puzzling or new – and to tell us why they think the developments they describe are relevant for borderland studies. Papers in this section might just as well build on in-depth research as on a sidetrack one never has had the time to properly follow. They can be speculative, but should not be boring.

 

Deadline for paper abstracts is September 30, 2015. Please send a paper title, a clear and concise abstract of about 250 words and a short CV to gregor.dobler@ethno.uni-freiburg.de. A scientific committee will select those contributions which best fit the themes of the call for papers. Participants will be notified about the outcome by October 31st 2015.

The organizers will not be able to fund travel expenses for participants from Europe and North America. Limited travel funds MIGHT be available for a small number of African participants. n submitting your abstract, please indicate if you cannot attend the conference without subsidies.

 

For more information about ABORNE click here.

 
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