{"id":12824,"date":"2019-03-22T16:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T20:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?page_id=12824"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T13:30:14","slug":"2019-5th-annual-undergraduate-research-conference","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2019-5th-annual-undergraduate-research-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        5th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"theme-globalization-media-and-the-african-citysaturday-october-5-2019830-am-400-pm\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Theme: Globalization, Media and the African City<br>\n<strong>Saturday, October 5, 2019<br>\n8:30 am &#8211; 4:00 pm<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"venue-humanities-lecture-hall-pa-303-carleton-university\" class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Venue: Humanities Lecture Hall (<em>PA 303<\/em>), Carleton University<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Keynote: Chris Huggins, Assistant Professor (International Development and Global Studies Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton University is hosting its <strong>5th annual undergraduate research conference on Saturday, October 5th, 2019<\/strong> at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The goal of this interdisciplinary conference is to provide a platform for emerging researchers with an interest in Africa and the pan-African diaspora to share knowledge and engage in conversations that are prominent today. We are accepting proposals from a broad range of disciplines that interact with African studies such as communications and journalism, international studies, environmental studies, architecture and design, geography, anthropology, film studies, Afrofuturism, music studies, history, gender studies, political science, economics, human rights and social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information<br>\nEmail: communications.iasconference@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/IAS-Poster-final-copy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See Poster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme: Globalization, Media and the African City Saturday, October 5, 2019 8:30 am &#8211; 4:00 pm Venue: Humanities Lecture Hall (PA 303), Carleton University Keynote: Chris Huggins, Assistant Professor (International Development and Global Studies Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa) The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton University is hosting its 5th annual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-12824","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12824"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21068,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12824\/revisions\/21068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=12824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}