{"id":2364,"date":"2017-09-21T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T17:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=2364"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T14:37:20","slug":"3rd-annual-institute-of-african-studies-undergraduate-research-conference","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/event\/3rd-annual-institute-of-african-studies-undergraduate-research-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrations and Human Rights in Africa and the Diaspora: Vulnerability, Social\u00a0Justice, and New Nationalisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/18767588_1897790053807837_3109148277489616486_n-240x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/18767588_1897790053807837_3109148277489616486_n-240x240.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/18767588_1897790053807837_3109148277489616486_n-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/18767588_1897790053807837_3109148277489616486_n-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/18767588_1897790053807837_3109148277489616486_n-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/18767588_1897790053807837_3109148277489616486_n-360x360.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/18767588_1897790053807837_3109148277489616486_n.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton University&nbsp;is hosting its third international undergraduate research conference organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IASSACarleton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Institute of African Studies Student\u2019s Association<\/a> (IASSA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Theme:<\/strong> Migrations and Human Rights in Africa and the Diaspora: Vulnerability, Social&nbsp;Justice, and New Nationalisms<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Keynote Speaker:<\/strong> Dr. Okey Ndibe, author of Foreign Gods Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s conference seeks to encourage interdisciplinary engagement with a new generation of continental and diasporic Africans confronting questions such as: <em>How are global and intra-continental migration patterns impacting the continent and its diasporas? What can be learned from migrant\u2019s individual agency and what tools do they use to actualize justice and social change?<\/em> <em>How have the rise of New Nationalisms and a global politics of fear shaped the migrant experience?<\/em> <em>What does the securitization and militarization of the border mean for fabricated national boundaries on the continent?<\/em> In a time of increasing consequences of climate change, terrorist regimes, and refugees flow, <em>how do we realize a vision of mobility as a human right?<\/em> This conference encourages students not to simply regurgitate information obtained from a variety of sources, but also to bring forth new and innovative ideas, be it problem solving or avenues for further research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information please email the organizing committee at: <a href=\"mailto:communications.iasconference@gmail.com\">communications.iasconference@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-2364","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2017-10-14T00:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2017-10-14T00:00:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/2364\/revisions\/2433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}