Yves Engler in conversation with Kristen Shane, Associate Editor of Embassy – Canada’s Foreign Policy Newsweekly

7 PM
Thursday, September 17 2015
Octopus Centretown
251 Bank St. 2nd floor

Supported by the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University and Embassy – Canada’s Foreign Policy Newsweekly

More information here.

Carleton’s Film Studies program is pleased to announce two lectures by our special guest, Rasha Salti.

Both lectures will be on Tuesday September 8, 2015.

“Film Festivals and Film Culture: TIFF 2015” from 11:30 to 12:15, in the Carleton University Art Gallery.

“Cinema in Africa and the Middle East: Filmmakers and Markets” from 1:30 to 2:15, in 400 St. Patrick’s Building.

Rasha Salti is the programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival for cinema from the African continent and the Middle East. Previously she was the Creative Director and Film Programmer of New York-based ArteEast, a global platform for Middle East arts, from 2004 to 2010. The extensive list of organizations that she has collaborated with include The Tate Modern in London, Musée Jeu de Paume in Paris, and SANFIC in Santiago de Chile. Her co-curated film programmes have showcased at the MoMA in New York and toured worldwide.

More information here.

Stephen Lewis, C.C., LL.D./09, outspoken humanitarian, will deliver a keynote address at Carleton on September 18, 2015.

Mr. Lewis will explore the ways in which education, throughout the world, transforms the lives people lead—and is perhaps the greatest unacknowledged instrument we have for dramatic social change.

Stephen Lewis is a Professor of Practice in Global Governance at the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University and a Professor of Distinction at Ryerson University. He is the board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which is dedicated to turning the tide of HIV/AIDS in Africa, and he is co-founder and co-director of AIDS-Free World, an international advocacy organization. Carleton University recognized these achievements with an honorary doctorate in 2009.

This event is hosted by the Faculty of Public Affairs and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and is part of Throwback 2015, Carleton’s homecoming celebration.

Friday, September 18
6:00 pm River Building Theatre Doors Open. General Seating.
6:15-7:30 pm Presentations and Q and A.
7:30-9:00 pm Reception in the RB Atrium. Complimentary food, cash bar and live musical entertainment.

Admission is free, but seating is limited. Register in advance to guarantee your spot.

Launch of the 26th annual One World Film Festival with CHAMELEON,a feature-length documentary about Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas

Join One World Arts on September 10th at 6:30PM (Doors open at 6:00PM) at the ByTowne Cinema (325 Rideau St., Ottawa) for the launch of the 26th annual One World Film Festival with the Ottawa Premiere of the must-see documentary CHAMELEON by award-winning Canadian director Ryan Mullins at 7:00PM.

CHAMELEON is a feature-length documentary about investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas. Guided by three main principles of naming, shaming and jailing, Anas uses unconventional methods to expose wrongdoing at all levels of Ghanaian society. Despite being widely known for his brand of brazen journalism, Anas maintains a degree of anonymity by keeping his face hidden from public view. The OWFF is thrilled to premiere in Ottawa this entertaining and thought-provoking documentary by award-winning filmmaker Ryan Mullins at this special, one-night-only screening.

Tickets are $10.00 and can be purchased in advance here. Proceeds of the event will go to support the 26th annual One World Film Festival (September 24-26 at the National Gallery of Canada and September 27 at Saint Paul University). Media are invited to attend free of charge.

More information here.

September 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Saturday, September 5
10:30pm
The Moonlight Bar & Lounge, 2583 carling Ave. in Ottawa, ON
“One Love – Support for Our Dominican Families” fundraising dance party. Tropical Storm Erika pounded the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica on August 27, 2015, unleashing flooding and mudslides that killed at least 20 people, left another 24 unaccounted for, and knocked out power and water supplies.Friends of Dominica in Ottawa want to help help with relief efforts by donating a portion of proceeds from this event. Music by: SWEET CHUNES | JUBA HYPE | MIKEY WIZDOM & special guests.

ADMISSION: $10 before Midnight $15 after. Caribbean food on sale. Event sponsored by: MOONLIGHT BAR & LOUNGE | SOLID ROCK | CANJAMMUSIK | CARIBBEAN FLAVOUR. Info: djsweetchunes@gmail.com | Sweet Chunes: 613-227-1655.

Saturday, September 12, 2015
Doors Open: 6:30 PM – SHOW STARTS @ 7:30 PM
825 Canterbury avenue Ottawa, On K1G 3A2
Anne Kansiime is a talented award-winning a Ugandan entertainer, comedienne, actress, and writer. This Internet sensation who has been dubbed “Africa’s Queen of Comedy” owns/hosts the ‘Don’t Mess with Kansiime’ television show on Maisha Magic‬ Channel 161. Website: http://kansiimeanne.ug/ See what they’re laughing about at her Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/KansiimeAnne

ADMISSION: Pre-sale $35 until Friday Sept 11, 2015 Regular $40 & VIP single ticket $65/ couple $120 (limited) – All VIP tickets includes table service food, drinks and priority seating with the possibility of a greet, meet & photo shoot. For VIP tables or tickets call: 1-613-797-1668 or 1-613-600-5303.Brought to you by Amuhire Mobile and Sponsored by Pilipili Grilled Chicken Restaurant

Saturday, September 12 at 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Petrie Island
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Presented by the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). Licensed via Criterion Pictures.

More information here.

Date : Vendredi 11 septembre 2015 | 18h
Genre : Drame avec Omar Sy et Charlotte Gainsbourg
Réalisateurs : Eric Toledano et Olivier Nakache
Durée : 2h | sous-titres anglais
Lieu : Galerie de l’Alliance Française
Synopsis :
Le Sénégalais Samba vit en France depuis 10 ans et s’efforce depuis d’obtenir ses papiers afin de devenir un citoyen français à part entière. Alice, elle, était une cadre supérieure que son emploi a épuisé et qui fait maintenant du bénévolat dans une association afin de se reconstruire. Les deux individus viennent de milieux bien différents et ont des bagages culturels et sociaux diamétralement opposés, mais finiront par développer un lien unique.
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« Jamais larmoyant ou pontifiant, entre éclats de rire et instants de grâce, le duo réussit à parler de la France d’aujourd’hui, en restant près de l’individu et de notre capacité à observer le monde avec ironie. » Voici

Membres et étudiants de l’Alliance Française d’Ottawa : GRATUIT.
Non-membres : 2 $.

House of PainT Festival of Urban Arts and Culture (HoP) celebrates its 12th annual Festival with the Main Event on Saturday, September 12, 2015. Graffiti and visual artists, urban dancers, local and international music performers and hip hop fans of all ages gather at Brewer Park to celebrate and emerge in hip hop and urban arts.

Saturday’s Main EvenT is part of a five-day festival September 9 – 13

More information here.

Saturday, September 12
7:30pm
Fourth Avenue Baptist Church, 109A Fourth Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1S 2L3
One Village at a Time is the creation of Zimbabwean-born Chipo Shambare (also a member of BSP).The goals of One Village are health promotion, relief of poverty and education. The September 12th concert for One Village will help raise funds to ship books, supplies and vitamin supplements to the village of Timuri as well as the Chivaraidzo Home for Orphans and Vulnerable Children. Funds raised will also support one or two people to go to Zimbabwe to set up libraries and develop a train-the trainers initiative to improve health and well being in the community.

Tickets: $20, Children 12 and under FREE.

More information here.

When: September 10, 2015

Time: 2:30 PM – 4:30 AM

Location: Robertson Hall

Room: Senate room 608

Cost: Free

Email contact: ottilie.grisdale@carleton.ca and martin.geiger@carleton.ca

Please join us Thursday September 10th, 2015 for the first event of the term in our lecture series:Mobility & Politics: Emerging Trends and Common Challenges in Europe and Canada.

Two international visitors will present in a joint workshop entitled “Categorization and Knowledge Production in Migration Management: Transnational Perspectives”. This event will be held from 2:30-4:30pm in the Senate Room (Robertson Hall Room 608), at Carleton University. No registration is required. For more information please see below.

Kenneth Horvath (Karlsruhe, Germany): Changing Ethnic Categorizations in the EU

European government approaches to ethnic categorization have undergone important changes since the Second World War. Using the category example of ‘migration background’ – currently the dominant framing in German-speaking countries – this presentation will examine how category changes are informed by the interplay of politics, statistics and education. Drawing on discussions in Canada and the US, possible future developments and challenges that arise for European social research will be discussed.

Kenneth Horvath is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Education Karlsruhe (Germany) where he teaches qualitative and quantitative research methods. His current research focuses on migration-related educational inequalities and their political and pedagogical reproduction. Among others, Kenneth is co-editor of “An Anthology of Migration and Social Transformation”, forthcoming with Springer (December 2015).

Sabine Dini (Paris XIII, France): Migration Management and the Norm of Nationhood: Insights from Eastern Africa

During the last decade, the two leading intergovernmental organizations dealing with migration management globally, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), have implemented a “révolution identificatoire” in Eastern Africa. This presentation gives an ethnographic account of IOM and UNHCR’s production of “nationality” as both a category and defining norm. The implications of this cultivated “nationality” for local actors with respect to policy implementation, and its more general implications for citizenries will also be examined.

Sabine Dini is a PHD candidate in Political Sociology at the University of Paris 13 and currently also a Visiting Scholar at Carleton University. Her research interests are guided by the intersection of International Relations and African Studies, and she is currently engaged in explorations of state-formation and nation-building in Eastern Africa. Specifically her analysis focuses on the role of intergovernmental organizations (dealing with global migration management) within the production of stateness and the institutionalization of the nation within the state.

Our workshop will be chaired by William Walters, Carleton University.

This event in the Mobility & Politics Lecture Series is organized by Martin Geiger. It is co-sponsored and hosted jointly by the Migration & Diaspora Studies (MDS) Initiative, the Centre for European Studies (CES), the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS), the Institute of Political Economy and the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. For further information please contact the organizer at martin.geiger@carleton.ca

Call for Papers:

Workshops on Migration, Mobility and Development in Africa
at Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria

Submissions guidelines:
Abstracts of 500 to 1000 words in French or English should clearly state the research question,
methodology and field of study. Proposals focusing on the four main countries (Benin, Nigeria,
Burkina Faso, Niger), and comparisons of other African countries (including Portuguese areas) are
welcome. Please include the author (s) name, position and institution. Working languages are
French and English.
This Workshop is open especially for PhD students, master students and young researchers or lecturers who obtained their PhD not earlier than 6 years

Contact : migdevri-infos@lasdel.net

Schedule
– Call Bid : 12 August 2015
– Due date for proposals : 15 September 2015
– Notification to authors : 25 September 2015
– Date for complete papers : 10 November 2015
– Due date for presentations : 15 November 2015

More information here.

Call for Papers for journal, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos:

Sports and Leisure in Africa: Between bonds of the Past and Dynamics of the Present

After a special issue on sport history in Africa and its contemporary dynamics, Cadernos de Estudos Africanos opens a call for papers on the wider theme of leisure in Africa.

All articles for publication in the journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos should be sent to the e-mail: joao.carlos.dias@iscte.pt, until 1 November 2015.

Submitted papers must be original, and written in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish.

More information here.

La Fondation AfricAvenir International, en partenariat avec la fondation allemande Gerda Henkel Stiftung, ouvre un programme international de bourses de doctorat/PhD intitulé “Heritage and Innovations” dans un partenariat entre les professeurs de la Fondation AfricAvenir International, ceux des universités de Yaoundé I, Douala, Vienne, Berlin et de Hambourg.

Ce programme international de bourses de doctorat/PhD est ouvert aux candidats titulaires de Master II ou diplôme équivalent en Lettres et Sciences humaines (histoire, études germaniques, sociologie, théologie, cultures/langues et littératures orales africaines), Sciences juridiques, Sciences politiques, et Sciences économiques.

Trois professeurs de rang magistral coordonneront  ce programme de doctorat:

Cameroun: Prof. Dr. Dr. Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III
President, Fondation AfricAvenir International, Prof. emeritus, Political Sciences, History and German Studies, University of Yaoundé I, Former Lecturer and Professor at Free University of Berlin, Université de Lyon II, Université Catholique de Lyon.

Autriche: Prof. Dr. Adams B. Bodomo
Chair of African Languages and Literatures, University of Vienna, Department of African Studies, Former Chair, Department of Linguistics, Hong Kong University

Allemagne: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer (adviser)
Professor of African History, Chair, Department of History, University of Hamburg, President, International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), Director: Research Centre “Hamburg’s (post-) colonial legacy/Hamburg and early globalization”, Member: Genocide Prevention Advisory Network

Adresse:              –     Les dossiers sont à déposer à Douala/Cameroun à:

Fondation AfricAvenir International, ancienne route de Bonabéri, Douala IV^e, avant le lycée bilingue

• Envoi par la poste

Fondation AfricAvenir International, B.P. 9234, Douala IV^e, Cameroun

• Envoi par mail: secretariat@fondationafricavenir.org, order@exchange-dialogue.com

Tél: +237 690462927/ +237 695559844

Les documents sur la bourse sont à trouver sur le site www.fondationafricavenir.org,  www.exchange-dialogue.com; Dernière date de réception de dossiers complets : 28 novembre 2015.

Plus d’information ici.

Please go to our Institute of African Studies’s YouTube channel to watch videos interviews of researchers and gender focal points from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda who participated in a 5 day methodological training workshop in Kampala in June- July 2015. In these interviews, they offer methodological reflections based on the initial research and their ongoing work with the “Uncovering women’s experiences in artisanal and small-scale mining in Central and East Africa” project funded under the Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) program of Canada’s International Development Research Centre (in partnership with the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development [DFID)]and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation). This research project involves quantitative and qualitative research in mining communities in the three countries over a three-year period.

The video interviews were conducted by Sarah Katz-Lavigne and Decky Kipuka Kabongi, both PhD candidates at Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), Carleton University. The interviews are in English, French or KiSwahili.

This workshop – on a variety of topics including gender, sampling, engaging respondents, and doing surveys – was organized to train researchers involved in this three country project as well as those involved in the research project “Statebuilding and Women’s livelihoods in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining,” which is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and carried out in Kenya, Mozambique and Sierra Leone.

More information on the research projects can be found here.

Read about Carleton University research by students on refugee situations in Africa and elsewhere and an upcoming workshop on Global Refugee Regimes organized by Prof. James Milner (Political Science, cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies).

The story is here.

Two research projects focusing on artisanal and small-scale mining and gender in sub-Saharan Africa based out of the Institute of African Studies are profiled in the current FPA Voices issue (published by Carleton’s Faculty of Public Affairs).

It profiles two of the Carleton University faculty members and graduate students involved in these two multi-country research project that also involves partners from Partnership Africa Canada, the Coady International Institute (St. Francis of Xavier University), and the Uganda-based Development Research and Social Policy Analysis Center (DRASPAC), among others.

The story can be found here.

More information about the research projects can be found here.