{"id":17629,"date":"2023-01-27T10:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/?p=17629"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:53:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:53:44","slug":"launching-the-new-african-studies-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2023\/launching-the-new-african-studies-space\/","title":{"rendered":"The Launch of IAS&#8217; New Space &#038; the Pius Adesanmi Resource Centre"},"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                        The Launch of IAS&#8217; New Space &#038; the Pius Adesanmi Resource Centre\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are&nbsp;excited to invite you to the mini launch of our new IAS office on the 17<sup>th<\/sup> Floor of Dunton Tower with a get-together on Friday, February 17th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 17, 2023<br>\n<strong>Time:<\/strong> 4:00 pm &#8211; 6:00 pm.<br>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong> DT 1728<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The highlights of the evening include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Opening remarks by Dean of FASS, Prof Pauline Rankin<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open mic<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Live music<\/strong> by Kathy Armstrong and her crew from the Music Department.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unveiling of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/pius-adesanmi-african-studies-resource-centre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pius Adesanmi African Studies Resource Centre<\/strong><\/a> and the <strong>African Studies Student Lounge<\/strong>. These are spaces aimed at making IAS a hub for our students, visiting researchers and members of our community, for research and networking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Host<br>\n<\/strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Nduka Otiono, PhD, Director, <\/span><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Institute of African Studies, Carleton University<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">REFRESHMENT WILL BE PROVIDED<br>\n<\/span><br>\n<b>To attend, please RSVP using the link:<br>\n<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/2023\/registration-form-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">register here<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are&nbsp;excited to invite you to the mini launch of our new IAS office on the 17th Floor of Dunton Tower with a get-together on Friday, February 17th. Date: February 17, 2023 Time: 4:00 pm &#8211; 6:00 pm. Venue: DT 1728 The highlights of the evening include: Host Nduka Otiono, PhD, Director, Institute of African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[234,80,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-fass-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.carleton.ca\/truth\/images\/1915\/announcement.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17684,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions\/17684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}