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AREA EVENTS & LECTURE SERIES
This week marks the Penn African Students Association's
AFRICAFEST, an annual weeklong celebration of African
culture with the goals of raising awareness, informing,
and educating here at Penn. For any questions regarding
Africafest programs, please contact Chuma Chike-Obi
at chumac@sas.upenn.edu.
Africafest April 7, 2003 Screening of the 2000 film "Lumumba" The film will be followed by a discussion led by Chidinma Ibe. Lumumba is a film about the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Time: 6:30PM Place: SHDH (Steinberg Hall - Dietrich Hall) 1201 3620 Locust Walk
Africafest April 8, 2003
"Muslim-Christian Relations in a Fragile Nation:
Lessons from Tanzania" Paul Kaiser Associate
Director of the African Studies Center at Penn. Time:
5:00PM Place: Philomathean Hall, 4th Floor College
Hall Enter through East entrance, opposite Fisher
Fine Arts Building.
April 9, 2003 Discussion of Poet's Latest Book, Selected Poems Abdellatif Laabi Time: 5:00PM Place: Williams Hall, Cherpack Lounge, Room 543
Africafest April 9, 2003 "Confusion and Clarity: Philly Through an African Eye" Photo Exhibit and Discussion by a Ghanaian Penn Student Owusu Akoto Time: 8:00PM Place: The Philomathean Society Art Gallery, 4th Floor College Hall Enter through East entrance, opposite Fisher Fine Arts Building. Cosponsors: The Philomathean Society, Greenfield Intercultural Center (GIC)
Africafest April 10, 2003 I Dream of Africa Extravaganza African Dance, Music, Food and Fashion $5 w/ Penn Student ID $8 w/out Penn Student ID $8 at the door Time: 8:00PM Place: TBA Cosponsors: UMC
April 11, 2003 Scholars for a Day Liisa Malkki & James Ferguson Time: 8:30AM-6:00PM Place: Annenberg Center, Studio Theater
Africafest April 12, 2003 Ghana UPenn Network Initiative Inauguration (GUNI) Dinner. Fundrasier for Ghana's Two Main Hospitals. The evening will include addresses from a number of speakers, including world-renowned sickle-cell expert Dr. Ohene-Frempong. African Rhythms, Penn's first African drum and dance troupe, will also be staging a special performance. To reserve a place, RSVP to owusustorage@yahoo.com with your Name(s), Institution, Telephone # Requested donation: $20, STUDENTS (with valid ID) $ 9 Cosponsors: Ghana Cyber Group, Center for Africana Studies Time: 6.30PM-12:00AM Place: Benjamin Franklin Room, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street
April 17, 2003 "Writing as a Profession in Africa: Aspects of Literary Craft in a Time of Permanent Crisis" Ayi Kwei Armah Author of The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born Time: 3: 00 PM Place: Behrakis Grand Hall, 32nd and Chestnut Street, Drexel University
April 18, 2003 Outreach Event "Africa in the Media" Time: 8:00AM-1:30PM Place: Houston Hall, Golkin Room
April 18, 2003 "The Female Circumcision: A Medical Anthropologist's Analysis" Dr. Ellen Gruenbaum California State University at Fresno Commentator: Dr. Afaf Meleis Dean of Nursing School, University of Pennsylvania Time: 4:30PM Place: Biomedical Research Building (BRB II-III), Room 253 (on Curie Blvd)
April 29, 2003 Africa Health Group Title: TBA Kwaku-Ohene Frempong, MD University of Pennsylvania Time: 4:30PM Place: TBA
CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS 4th Annual Conference of the Middle States African Studies Association "Legacy of Empire: War, Famine and Poverty in Africa and the Diaspora." West Virginia State College May 1-3, 2003 Middle States African Studies Association of West Virginia State College will host the 4th Annual Conference of the Middle States African Studies Association entitled, "Legacy of Empire: War, Famine and Poverty in Africa and the Diaspora." The conference will be held May 1-3, 2003.
Topics will include: Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Historical Legacy; Racialism, Ethnicity, Religion; Traditional Literature and Restoration; Diaspora Studies and Pan-Africanism; Africa, Caribbean, Latin American International Relationships; Linguistic Transformation; Environmentalism; Militarism and Foreign Policy; and Cold War Politics and Independence. For more information, contact: Dr. Stuart McGehee Department of History 307 Hill Hall West Virginia State College Institute, WV 25112-1000
12th Annual Africa/ Diaspora Conference Ethnicity,
Religion and Conflict Diamond in Africa California
State University, Sacramento The Center for African
Peace & Conflict Resolution May 1-3, 2003
For more information, contact: Ernest E. Uwazie, Director
Center For African Peace and Conflict Resolution California
State University, Sacramento 6000 J Street, Sacramento,
CA 95819-6085 Tel. (916) 278-6282 Fax (916)278-3429
email:uwazieee@csus.edu website: http://www.csus.edu/org/capcr
Women's Songs from West Africa Princeton University May 2-4, 2003 Women's Songs from West Africa is the theme of a 3-day conference that will be held May 2-4 at Princeton University. Sponsored by Princeton in cooperation with Penn State, the conference is one of the outcomes of a three-year research project co-directed by Hale and Sidikou-Morton that involves a team of 20 researchers. Researchers working on any aspect of women's songs mainly in the Sahel region that stretches from Senegal eastward to Niger are invited to participate. The conference will feature a concert by women singers Saturday, May 3.
For information, contact Thomas Hale at tah@psu.edu and Aissata Sidikou-Morton at asidikou@princeton.edu.
For registration, housing, transportation, etc., contact Tara Zarillo, Assistant Director, Center for Visitors and Conference Services (tlreilly@princeton.edu) at 609-258-6117.
A program will be posted on the web site of the French & Italian Dept. at Princeton (www.princeton.edu/fit) by early April.
Listed below are participating team members.
Robert Baum/ Iowa State/ Senegal/ Diola Louise Bourgault/ Northern Michigan/ Mali/ Bamana Ariane Deluz/ Lab. d'Anthropologie Social-Paris/ Cote d'Ivoire/ Gouro Bah Diakit/ Institut des Sciences Humaines-Bamako/ Mali/ Bamana Marame Gueye/ SUNY-Binghampton/ Senegal/ Wolof Thomas Hale/ Penn State/Niger/ Songhay Jan Jansen/ U. of Leiden/ Mali/ Bamana (will be sending paper but not attending) Marloes Janson/ U. of Leiden/ Gambia/ Mandinka George Joseph/ Hobart & William Smith/ Senegal/ Wolof Charles Katty/ PROMETRA/ Senegal/ Serere Kirsten Langeveld/ U. of Leiden/ Senegal/ Diola Beverly Mack/ Kansas/ Nigeria/ Hausa Fatima Mounkaila/ U. of Niamey/ Niger/ Zarma-Songhay Nienke Muurling/ U. of Amsterdam/ Mali/ Bamana Boub Namaiwa/ U. of Dakar/ Niger/ Hausa Aissata Niandou/ U. of Niamey/ Niger/ Songhay-Zarma Luciana Penna/ EHESS-Paris/ Senegal/ Wolof Susan Rasmussen/ U. of Houston/ Niger/ Tuareg Aissata Sidikou-Morton/ Princeton/ Niger/ Songhay-Zarma, Hausa Aline Tauzin/ U. of Picardie-CNRS/ Mauritania/ Moor
University of Edinburgh Centre of African Studies Annual International African Studies Conference "Remaking Law in Africa: Transnationalism, Persons, and Rights" Edinburgh, Scotland May 21-22, 2003 The University of Edinburgh Centre of African Studies will hold the Annual International African Studies Conference May 21-22, 2003 in Edinburgh. The conference title is "Remaking Law in Africa: Transnationalism, Persons, and Rights." In 2003, the Centre's annual international conference will examine the way that law is embedded in and shaped by processes that have an impact upon political, economic, and social development in Africa.
Scholars have observed that law represented the cutting edge of colonialism in its attempts to control and govern its subjects while bringing about their transformation and that of the societies in which they lived. Its role continued to have a powerful presence in the postcolonial period when many newly independent countries turned to law as a form of social engineering within the nation-state. In recent y ears attention has focused on globalization as a phenomenon and local communities' response to it. This has led to a growing recognition of the importance of transnational forms of law and ordering derived from diverse sources, including the World Bank, the European convention on Human Rights, the WTO, WHO, IMF, African Union and religious movements. The success and failure of polities and persons' access to, and use of, law raises questions about the power and authority to construct meaning at multiple levels, including local, regional, national and international domains that intersect with one another in a variety of ways. This conference aims to explore the ways in which law operates in different places at different levels and at different moments in the historical record, in order to gain a more informed view of the processes that underpin continuity, transformation and change.
In the tradition of the Centre, it is hoped that participants will be drawn from a number of academic disciplines including history, social anthropology, politics, economics, health, education and law, as well as from international agencies, state institutions, NGOs and development actors.
Themes include: Human Rights Constitutional Issues Tribunals and other forms of Justice Law, Development and Gender Resource Entitlement Rights to Health, Education and Intellectual Property
All inquiries should go to Pravina King Centre of African Studies 21 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9LD Scotland African.Studies@ed.ac.uk Tel: 44 (0) 131 650 3878/9 Fax: 44 (0) 131 650 6535
13th Annual Conference of the Pan African Anthropological Association Anthropology and the Contemporary Global Trends University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa June 29-July 4, 2003 Anthropologists as well as other social scientists should make a concerted effort to understand the underlying historical and cultural motivations that contribute to ethnic and religious conflicts so that they may assist in humankind's understanding of its existence and the need for cooperation in the global village. There is a challenge for social scientists to explore the sub-themes mentioned below. Indigenous Knowledge Systems Aids/HIV and Health Inequalities in Africa Gender and Development Issues Sport, Culture and Tourism The teaching of Anthropology and its future in the 21st century Ethnicity and Racism issues Perspectives on NEPAD and AU Poverty and Human Rights Research Ethics and Methodologies The Conference will be held at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa from June 29-July 4, 2003.
PAN AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (PAAA) University of Port Elizabeth PO Box 1600 Port Elizabeth 6000 South Africa Tel: 27 41 504 2185 Fax: 27 41 504 7425 Email: ANADLB@upe.ac.za
David Mills, Anthropology Coordinator, C-SAP: Centre for Learning and Teaching Sociology, Anthropology and Politics, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, BIRMINGHAM B15 2TT Phone: 01865 793328 Fax 0121 414 7920 Email: d.mills@bham.ac.uk Website: www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk
15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies July 14-18, 2003 Hamburg, Germany The 15th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies is organized by the University of Hamburg, Germany. The thematic focus will be on the humanities, with several sessions devoted to various aspects of archaeology, history, religion, languages, literature, arts, anthropology and social sciences (including law and politics).
For more information, contact: 15th ICES Organizing Committee Hamburg University Asia-Africa Institute Edmund-Siemers-allee 1, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany Fax: 49-40-42838-5675 E-mail: ices2003@uni-hamburg.de Website: www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/ICES2003
22nd Annual Meeting of Sudan Studies Association "Crossing
Borders: Sudan in Regional Contexts" 3rd International
Conference of SSA, SSUK and IAAS July 31- August 2,
2003 Georgetown University Washington, DC
Deadline for Abstracts: May 1, 2003 The fact that Sudan
shares borders with nine countries (Chad, Libya, Egypt,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Zaire and Central
African Republic) has allowed for the movement of
people across the borders, and it has influenced cross-border
cultural and political interaction. The nature of
such relationships influences both the border zones
and the country at large, particularly when wars and
crises over natural resources occur along political
boundaries. In addition, relationships between Sudan
and its neighbors are not merely limited to border
areas, but such influences could transcend borders
such as in political, social, and economic trends.
The Sudan Studies Association (SSA) seeks proposals that address various issues (past and present) related to the relationships between Sudan and it's immediate neighbors, pertaining, for example, to issues in history, politics, culture, belief systems, literature, and relevant fields. SSA welcomes proposals not only from Sudan specialists, but from experts on neighboring countries as well.
The Sudan Studies Association has been organizing annual conferences of academics, policymakers, Sudanese citizens and other interested persons for over 20 years. Many previous conference proceedings have been published, with assistance from the Association and generous donors such as the Tannenbaum Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Small stipends are available for assistance to graduate students for travel. Abstracts of proposed papers (150-200 words) should receive the Conference Organizer on or before May 1, 2003. A preliminary program will be announced on May 15, 2003. Late proposals for papers will be considered only if space is available. Proposals and paper abstracts submitted earlier will receive preferential treatment in scheduling. Acceptance for presentation will depend on the quality of the abstract and the judgment of the program committee. For more information, please visit the Sudanese Studies Association website at www.sudanstudies.org.
All abstracts for papers and panels should be sent and received by May 1, 2003 to: Dr. Ali B. Ali-Dinar African Studies Center University of Pennsylvania 650 Williams Hall Philadelphia, PA, 19149,USA. E-mail: aadinar@sas.upenn.edu Tel: 215-898-6610 Fax: 215-573-7379
7th Biennial Scientific Conference on Greater Yellowstone
Ecosystem "Beyond the Arch: Community and Conservation
in Greater Yellowstone and East Africa" Yellowstone
National Park Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming October
6-8, 2003
Deadline for Abstracts: May 1, 2003 >From October
6-8, 2003, the Seventh Biennial Scientific Conference
on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Beyond the Arch:
Community and Conservation in Greater Yellowstone
and East Africa, will be held at the Mammoth Hotel
in Yellowstone National Park.
The goal of this conference is to generate, in non-technical language, a publicly-oriented discussion of issues that draw together national parks in the Greater Yellowstone and East Africa. We will make comparisons and foster dialogue across boundaries marking the intersections of global and local, private and public, natural and cultural, and scientific and social. Managers, scientists, policymakers, and the public will come together to discuss and consider the interdependence of both nature-society relations and natural and cultural history in local and global contexts. The conference will promote understanding of the ecological and social challenges facing parks in the Greater Yellowstone and East Africa, and initiate the development of useful strategies for sustaining the national park idea at the dawn of the 21st century. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature.
Session topics will include: Valuing Landscapes: ecology, culture, & economy Boundaries and Borders: geographic, political, & biological Globalization and Vulnerability Learning from the Land
To submit an abstract, please fill out the abstract submission form found at http://www.nps.gov/yell/technical/conference2003/onlineabstractform.htm. Abstracts are due by May 1, 2003 and should be no more than 250 words in length. Please specify which of the sessions listed above your proposal fits into. Selected presenters will be notified by June 1, 2003. Abstracts will be published in the conference agenda booklet. Sponsors of this special event include: National Park Service (www.nps.gov) Yellowstone Association (www.yellowstoneassociation.org) Big Sky Institute (http://bsi.montana.edu) Montana State University (www.montana.edu) American Studies Program (http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/AMS) Environment and Natural Resources Institute and Research Office (www.uwyo.edu/enr/enrschool.HTM) or (http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/Research) University of Wyoming (www.uwyo.edu) Draper Museum of Natural History (www.bbhc.org/dmnh/index.cfm) Buffalo Bill Historical Center (www.bbhc.org) Global Livestock Collaborative Research Support Program (http://glcrsp.ucdavis.edu) USAID (www.usaid.gov).
For more information, please visit http://www.nps.gov/yell/technical/conference2003/mission.htm
Orality and Literacy III: Memory International Conference
Rice University, Houston, Texas October 10-12, 2003
Deadline for Abstracts: June 1, 2003 The Rice Conference
is the third of a series of three annual conferences
dealing with issues of orality and literacy that have
been organized under the auspices of the University
of Natal, South Africa (Jonathan Draper), the Free
University of Brussels (Baudouin Decharneux) and now
Rice University (Werner Kelber). In August 2001 this
series of conferences was launched at the University
of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa under the
topic Orality and Literacy I: Colonialism. The second
conference was convened in October 2002 at the Free
University of Brussels and entitled Orality and Literacy
II: The World of the Spirits. The Rice conference
will commence on Friday, Oct. 10th, at 7 pm with a
keynote address by Prof. Isidore Okpewho, SUNY at
Binghamton.
Memory and remembering are presently much in vogue in
the humanities and social science discourses. We experience
the revival of a topic that has played a principal
civilizing role in human culture. A steadily growing
body of disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies
has developed around memory. In view of this scholarly
development, one cannot escape the impression that
memory has risen to the status of paradigmatic significance
in the humanities and social sciences. Recent work
on memory has interfaced with orality-literacy studies
in fruitful ways. Oral cultures assign memory certain
roles and functions in the context of mobilizing cognitive
processes and techniques of knowledge retention. Subsequent
media, ranging from chirographic to typographic to
electronic communication, reconfigure knowledge management
and revise modes of memories individual and collective
arbitrations.
Papers from all cultural settings are welcome. In this spirit, we extend a special invitation to colleagues from Africa and Asia. As far as the Western tradition is concerned, papers dealing with antiquity, the Middle Ages, modernity and post-holocaust studies will all be considered. Moreover, we take orality-literacy in the broadest sense of media studies or technologies of communications. That is to say, we ask for consideration of some interconnectedness between memorial practices and communications media, be they orality, chirography, typography, electronic media or artistic representations. Topics may range widely from mnemotechnics to historiography as a memory issue, from testimonies to acts of violence to holocaust remembrances, from memories contribution to national and ethnic identity to the ethics of remembering, from memory and imagination to memory and meditation, from lieux de mÈmoire to artifacts as memorial representations, from oral poetry and epics to repetition and recollection as moments of memory, to mention but a few items. We shall try to group presentations according to cultural provenance and/or topicality.
Please submit abstract of no more than 200 words to either Elias Bongmba, bongmba@rice.edu or Werner Kelber, kelber@rice.edu. Please include two bibliographical items that are crucially relevant to your paper. Notification of acceptance is June 15.
Please direct inquiries to Werner H. Kelber, kelber@rice.edu or Elias Bongmba bongmba@rice.edu or visit the Rice University Center for the Study of Cultures website at http://www.culture.rice.edu/
Russian Academy of Sciences Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Institute for African Studies 3rd International Conference "Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations" June 18-21 2004 Moscow, Russia Deadline for Abstracts: December 1, 2003 Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies in cooperation with the Institute for African Studies (both under the Russian Academy of Sciences) is organizing in Moscow on June 18-21 2004 the Third International Conference "Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations." For more information about the first two Conferences (Announcements, Programs, electronic versions of the Books of Abstracts and journal reviews) please visit the Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Internet site at the address http://civreg.ru . At this site one may also get acquainted with the history and activities of the Center. The address of the Institute for African Studies? Internet site is http://inafr.ru
The working languages of the Conference are Russian and English.
The Organizing Committee has considered all the panel proposals received by it. The descriptions of the accepted proposals please find below. The deadline for paper proposals (in the form of abstracts within 300 words in English or both English and Russian) is November 1, 2003. Paper proposals should be sent not to the Organizing Committee but directly to the respective panel convenors who are to inform the applicant about his application's fortune by December 1, 2003. The information to be submitted alongside with the paper abstract includes full name, title, institutional affiliation, full mail and e-mail addresses, and fax #.
However, in the case you feel your paper does not fit any particular panel but corresponds to the Conference general problematique, you may submit your proposal to the Organizing Committee by the same date (November 1, 2003) and it will be considered for scheduling for the Free Communication Panel.
All the general inquiries should be sent to Organizing Committee Prof. Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Dr. Igor L. Alexeev Mr. Oleg I. Kavykin E-mail: conf2004@hotmail.com Fax: ( 7 095 202 0786) Tel: 7 095 291 4119 Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies Russian Academy of Sciences 30/1 Spiridonovka St. 123001 Moscow, Russia
PANELS ACCEPTED FOR THE CONFERENCE (In the alphabetical order of titles):
Alternativity in Cultural History: Heterarchy and Homoarchy
as Evolutionary Trajectories Art, Struggle, Survival
and Change Civil Society, Civil Education and
Cultural Identity in the Time of Globalization
Comparing the State in Africa: The Drama of Modern
Development Divine Politics and Theocracy: Religion
as a Power Mechanism in the Greco-Roman World
Ethnic Model of Power Legitimation in the
Political Practice of Contemporary Multiethnic
States and Quasi-States From Antiquity to the Middle
Ages: Transformation of Political Structures and Social
Institutions A la demande de l'organisateur de la
section vous pouver faire votre contribution non seulement
en anglais ou en russe, mais aussi en francais.
Pour obtenir l'information sur la section en langue
francaise contactez, s'il vous pl#it, avec son organisateur.
Hierarchy and Power in Dates of Archaeology Hierarchy
and Power in Science: An Oxymoron? Hierarchy and Power
in the Postcolonial World Hierarchy, Power, and Ritual
in Pre-Columbian America Ideology and Legitimation
of Power in Ancient and Medieval Societies Legitimation
of Public Authorities in the Politically Transient
Societies of Eastern Europe Markets and Hierarchies
in the History of Civilizations Models of Government
in the Late Classical and Hellenistic World Money,
Currency and Power, with focus on Africa A
la demande de l'organisateur de la section
vous pouver faire votre presentation pas seulement
en anglais ou en russe, mais et en fran/ais.
Pour recevoir l'information en fran/ais sur la section
contactez, s'il vous pl#it, avec son organisateur.
New Crises and New Wars in the Periphery: The
Role of
the Global Movement of Ideas and Capital Patterns
of Hierarchy and Power in Southeast Asia Power as "Great
Mystery" Propaganda, Protest and Violence: Revolutions
in the East and the West Religion and Ethnicity
between Legitimation and Dissent in the Premodern
Muslim World Studying Political Centralization Cycles
as a Dynamical Process The Order of Things: Material
Culture, Practice and Social Status Role of the Evolutionary
Theory in the Political History of the 20th Century
SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS CODESRIA/SEPHIS 2003 Extended Workshop on Social History Labor, Gender, Class and Ethnicity September 22-October 12, 2003 Dakar, Senegal Deadline for Applications: July 15, 2003 The third CODESRIA/SEPHIS Extended Workshop on New Theories and Methods in Social History will be held from September 22 to October 12, 2003. The theme for the 2003 session is Labor, Gender, Class and Ethnicity. The Workshop will be organized around the comparative experiences of Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Caribbean.
The aim of the Workshop is to bring together about 15 young historians for a period of three weeks of joint reflection, knowledge building and training. The participants will follow a program designed to permit them to share experiences improve on the theoretical and methodological quality of their work. The main objective of the Workshop is to promote discussion and debate on recent methodological and theoretical developments in Social History. To this end, participants will be encouraged to carry out their reflections in a comparative perspective. Within this framework, participants will also be offered practical support in sharpening their skills on how to write an article, plan a research project, and submit a research proposal for funding.
The workshop will be held in Dakar, Senegal. CODESRIA
will provide a stimulating and pleasant environment
within which participants selected can work. The Council
will also take care of the air travel, accommodation,
and local transport expenses of the participants.
Furthermore, a subsistence allowance to cover living
expenses will be provided. Local excursions will be
organized for the laureates in order to make their
stay more enjoyable.
The workshop is open to PhD students registered in Southern
universities, i.e., Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and
Latin America. Applications should include the following:
A Curriculum Vitae (maximum of two pages) A letter
certifying that the candidate is enrolled for a PhD
course at a university in the South A research proposal
outlining the candidate's current research project,
including the methodology that is being employed or
considered (at most four pages), A sample of the applicant's
work (a draft paper, a draft research proposal or
a draft thesis chapter) A letter from the thesis supervisor
indicating why this workshop could be of importance
to and interest for the applicant.
Applications must be written in English. The deadline for the submission of applications is 15 July , 2003. An international scientific committee will select the candidates by 15 August, 2003. Successful applicants will be notified immediately after the completion of the selection process. Incomplete and unnecessarily lengthy applications will not be taken into consideration. All faxed and e-mailed applications must also be accompanied by a hard copy original version sent by post if they are to be considered.
Applications and requests for more information should be sent to:
"Extended Workshop for Young Historians" CODESRIA/SEPHIS Programme Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop, angle Canal IV B.P. 3304, Dakar, Senegal Fax: (221) 824 12 89 Tel.: (221) 825 98 22/23 E-mail: ndeye.gueye@codesria.sn
West African Research Association Summer Institute for College and University Faculty Contemporary Islam in West Africa: Senegal in Perspective Dakar, Senegal June 15-29, 2003 As a contribution to the urgent need to increase American understanding of the Muslim world, the West African Research Association is offering this intensive two-week summer institute for college and university faculty. The institute will be based at the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, and its focus will be on this important West African Muslim country noted for its stability, social harmony, and working democracy. The institute is intended for faculty who wish to enhance and develop either teaching or research related to the issue of Islam in Africa. To the extent possible, the Institute director and the staff of WARC will help participants pursue individual interests in making research contacts or developing teaching materials.
In order to provide as broad a perspective as possible on the various facets of contemporary Islam in Senegal, participants will be offered a series of lectures, seminars and discussion sessions at WARC, with both Senegalese academics and with various religious leaders and activists. They will also travel to religious sites and to "ordinary" non-urban centers outside of Dakar to examine the practice of Islam in everyday Senegalese life. An initial three days of lectures in Dakar is planned, followed by a trip to the holy city of Touba (center of the Mouride Sufi order) and to the historical city of St. Louis. Week Two will include further seminars and talks in Dakar, as well as a two day trip to other sites, including a non-urban setting. We will conclude with a day in a pleasant beach resort in Sali-Portudal.
The cost per participant is $2,500. This fee will include the full cost of the seminar sessions at WARC (all lectures and seminars); fourteen days of single-occupancy hotel accommodations; all local transportation costs; breakfasts, lunches, and approximately one half of the evening meals; and all local and in-country transportation. Participants will be responsible for their own airfare to and from Dakar; bar, telephone and other incidental hotel expenses; and occasional evening meals.
Participation in the seminar will be limited to 12. For more information or an application form please contact WARA at adamkis@africa.ufl.edu. A $500 deposit is required to reserve a space upon notification of acceptance to the institute. This deposit will be non-refundable after 15 April 2003. The balance of $2,000 must be paid before the start of the institute. A detailed program will be sent to all participants in early May. If you have any questions, please contact Leonardo A. VillalÛn, director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida and current President of the West African Research Association. Leonardo A. VillalÛn Director, Center for African Studies The University of Florida 427 Grinter Hall P.O. Box 115560 Gainesville, FL 32611-5560 Tel: 352-392-2187 Fax: 352-392-2435
Benjamin A Gilman International Scholarship Deadline for Applications: April 15, 2003 The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education is a program that enables students who have limited financial means to participate in study abroad opportunities worldwide. The program provides awards of up to $5,000 for U.S. citizen undergraduate students at two-and four-year institutions to pursue semester or academic-year long study opportunities in other countries. To be eligible, students must be receiving a Federal Pell Grant at the time of application and cannot be studying abroad in a country currently under a U.S. Department of State Travel Warning. For more information, application deadlines and the online application, please access the Gilman Program web site at www.iie.org/gilman For travel in Fall 2003, the deadline for applications is April 15, 2003.
The Community Foundation of Dutchess County Stanley J. Tarver Memorial Scholarship Deadline for Applications: April 18, 2003 The Community Foundation of Dutchess County, located in Poughkeepsie, New York, is pleased to offer the Stanley J. Tarver Memorial Scholarship. The Stanley J. Tarver Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by the Tarver family in memory of their son, Stanley. This fund provides a scholarship to a graduate student of African descent or an African American who is matriculating toward a Doctorate or a Masters Degree in African history and/ or culture, and who has completed at least one year of graduate study at a college or university in the United States. The Stanley J. Tarver Memorial Scholarship will be a $1,000 per semester award, for a maximum award of $2,000 per academic year.
To apply, please contact Stanley J. Tarver Memorial Scholarship The Community Foundation of Dutchess County 80 Washington Street, Suite 201 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Tel: 845-452-3077 Fax: 845-452-3083 Email: cfdcl@hvc.rr.com Website: www.communityfoundationdc.org
Smuts Visiting Research Fellowship in African Studies Centre for African Studies University of Cambridge "Resource Rights, Gender and Development" October 2004 Deadline for Applications: October 1, 2003 The Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University, with the generous assistance of the Ford Foundation, Isaac Newton Trust and Smuts Memorial Fund, is pleased to announce a Visiting Research Fellowships Scheme to be held at the University of Cambridge on the theme 'Resource rights, gender and development'. Applications are invited for five Visiting Research Fellowships to take effect from October 2004, one of which will be entitled 'Smuts Visiting Research Fellowship in African Studies'. The maximum duration of a Fellowship is six months and is non-renewable. Subsequent Fellowships will be announced to take effect from October of each year. Applications are invited from all disciplines and are open to scholars and others in academia, research institutes, NGOs, museums and libraries. Preference will be given to candidates with a distinguished research profile who are permanent residents in Africa and who have active research interests in the area or areas advertised for the Fellowships Theme (October 2004) : Resource rights, gender and development.
The livelihoods of many people in Africa depend upon rights to natural resources such as water, land and forest products. On the ground the rights are complex: some are given by formal government policy and reforms; some are determined by customary tenure; others are given by a combination of these. All, in practice, are highly gendered: under customary tenure regimes women tend to have only secondary rights to resources, and the extent to which women benefit from natural resource rights policy reforms may be limited.
The Centre of African Studies invites applicants for its Research Fellowships from men and women who propose research which examines the gendered dimension of access to resources, the importance of this for livelihoods, and the constraints and opportunities of intervening in tenure regimes of different kinds. Proposals that explore dimensions of this theme, in a rural or urban context in Africa, are encouraged. The closing date for completed applications is 1 October 2003 and applications received after this date will be declined.
For further information on this fellowship and future fellowship themes see http://www.african.cam.ac.uk/applicationpackage/applicationpackage.html
SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES Contemporary Africa: Challenges, Realities, and Renaissance Institute for Teachers University of Kansas June 9-20, 2003 The University of Kansas African Studies Resource Center presents a two-week Institute for teachers. The title is "Contemporary Africa: Challenges, Realities, and Renaissance." This institute is recommended for any teachers, educators, or graduate students who teach and learn about Africa in their classrooms, or who seek quality information and thought-provoking discussion about different aspects of African culture and societies.
It's designed to address challenges and problems encountered in learning and teaching about Africa. Using a multi-faceted teaching approach, including presentations, panel discussions, demonstrations, video illustrations, and hands on library research. Specific topics of study will include teaching resources and methodology, current African issues (media stereotypes, women, health, human rights, ethnic conflicts, politics, and HIV/AIDS); plus culture, languages, music/dance, literature, and religion. A visit to see African art collections at Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City is planned as well as featuring teaching resources available at the Kansas City Zoo and Kansas University's Museum of Anthropology. The closing day will include an elaborate ceremony featuring culture, music, dance, and foods of the people of the Horn of Africa, namely Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia.
For more information, contact Khalid El-Hassan, at (785) 864-1064; e-mail: elhassan@ku.edu A $40 materials fee along with completed registration form may be sent to: African Studies Resource Center University of Kansas 1440 Jayhawk Blvd., Rm 10 Lawrence, KS 66045-7574
Late registration after June 1, 2003 is $45.
Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI) Ohio University June 23-August 8, 2003 >From June 23rd through August 8th, Ohio University in Athens will host the national Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI). This intensive 7-week institute will provide the equivalent of 1-year of African language instruction with exposure to the culture and traditions associated with the chosen language. SCALI is funded by the US Department of Education and offered collaboratively by the Title VI National Resource Centers for African Language and Area Studies. These include: Indiana University, African Studies Program Michigan State University, African Studies Center Stanford University, Center for African Studies University of California, Berkeley, Center for African Studies University of California, Los Angeles, African Studies Center University of Florida, Center for African Studies University of Illinois, Center for African Studies University of Kansas, African Studies Resources Center University of Pennsylvania, African Studies Consortium University of Wisconsin, African Studies Program Yale University, Council on African Studies
For more information, please visit http://www.ohiou.edu/linguistics/dept/SCALI/Index.html or contact: Catherine Cutcher Assistant Director African Studies Program Ohio University Center for International Studies RTEC 307 D Athens, OH 45701 Phone: (740) 597-1511 Fax: (740) 593-1837 Email: cutcher@ohio.edu
JOB OPPORTUNITIES Africa Programme Manager: Open Knowledge Network Application Deadline: April 17, 2003 The Open Knowledge Network, www.openknowledge.net, is an initiative of the G8 Digital Opportunity Taskforce (DOTForce) linking together existing grassroots information and knowledge-sharing initiatives to promote both the creation and the exchange oflocal content as widely as possible across the South, supported by a range of different information and communication technologies (ICTs). The programme is coordinated by OneWorld International and its network of southern offices.
The Africa Programme Manager will lead the development of the OKN, managing programme planning, coordination and implementation. In order to deliver the vision of a sustainable network located in independent organisations the post-holder will need to develop collaborative relationships within Civil Society, the Private sector and Government in at least three separate African sub-regions. To apply, email jobs@oneworld.net for an application pack. No CVs. Application packs should be sent by email. Deadline for completed application forms: April 17, 2003. Interviewswill be held in early May, by phone for overseas candidates. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
For further details please contact: Tori Holmes Consultation and Set-Up Phase Coordinator Open Knowledge Network OneWorld International 17th Floor 89 Albert Embankment London SE1 7TP 44 (0)20 7091 4546 (direct line) www.oneworld.net www.openknowledge.net
Partnership Manager OneWorld Africa P.O. Box 34571, Lusaka, Zambia www.oneworld.net www.oneworld.net/africa
Harvard University: African Languages Director Deadline for Applications: April 30, 2003 The Harvard University Department of Afro-American Studies invites applications for appointment as Professor of the Practice or Senior Preceptor to direct the new African languages program at Harvard. The appointment is anticipated to begin July 1, 2003, though a later date is possible, and is for a 5-year renewable term. Ph.D. strongly preferred. Duties include the design and direction of a program of instruction in African languages and the teaching of two African languages. Requirements include demonstrated excellence in teaching, experience in directing a language program, a strong record of publication in a relevant field such as language pedagogy, African linguistics, applied linguistics, or African literature, and a demonstrated commitment to the pedagogy of African language education.
Harvard University is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged. Candidates should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, names of references, samples of written material, teaching evaluation materials, and a brief summary of research interests to: Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Department of Afro-American Studies Harvard University 12 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138
Workshop Convener, Resource Persons CODESRIA/SEPHIS
2003 Extended Workshop on Social History Labor, Gender,
Class and Ethnicity September 22-October 12, 2003 Dakar,
Senegal
Deadline for Applications: May 15, 2003 The third CODESRIA/SEPHIS
Extended Workshop on New Theories and Methods in Social
History will be held from September 22 to October 12,
2003. The theme for the 2003 session is Labor, Gender,
Class and Ethnicity. The Workshop will be organized
around the comparative experiences of Africa, Latin
America, Asia and the Caribbean.
The aim of the Workshop is to bring together about 15 young historians for a period of three weeks of joint reflection, knowledge building and training. The participants will follow a program designed to permit them to share experiences improve on the theoretical and methodological quality of their work. The main objective of the Workshop is to promote discussion and debate on recent methodological and theoretical developments in Social History. To this end, participants will be encouraged to carry out their reflections in a comparative perspective. Within this framework, participants will also be offered practical support in sharpening their skills on how to write an article, plan a research project, and submit a research proposal for funding.
The workshop will be held in Dakar, Senegal. CODESRIA will provide a stimulating and pleasant environment within which participants selected can work. The Council will also take care of the air travel, accommodation, and local transport expenses of the participants. Furthermore, a subsistence allowance to cover living expenses will be provided. Local excursions will be organized for the laureates in order to make their stay more enjoyable.
The Workshop Convener will be expected to put in a total of about six months of work before, during and after the Workshop. Most of this time will be devoted to the preparation of the full program for the Workshop, the production of an accompanying bibliographic list for the use of the participants, and the overall management of the proceedings of the Workshop. The Convener is responsible for all the scientific aspects of the sessions. To this effect, the Convener, with the support of CODESRIA and SEPHIS, will:
1. Help identify other resource persons to be invited to help animate the Workshop 2. Participate in the selection of the laureates 3. Prepare a detailed program for the three-week duration of the Workshop 4. Ensure that a course outline is prepared by the resource-persons, in cooperation with CODESRIA; 5. Participate in the development of a bibliography for the Workshop, in collaboration with CODESRIA and the CODESRIA Information and Documentation Centre (CODICE); 6. Give lectures/seminars which relate to theoretical and methodological approaches in Social History; 7. Give lectures on how to write a research proposal / a book review; 8. Review and make comments on students' individual research proposals and/or research paper; 9. Produce a final evaluation report of the Workshop.
CODESRIA will provide the Convener with a return air ticket from her/his place of residence to Dakar. Accommodation in Dakar during the three-week duration of the workshop will be taken care of by CODESRIA. An Honorarium will also be paid.
The resource persons are required to participate in the Workshop by giving intensive three-day courses on the latest developments in Social History in their respective areas of research interest. Lectures in the sessions of the Workshop are not expected to be simple introductory courses, but thought-provoking presentations that are meant to help advance the reflections of participants on the main topic, and on their own research topics. Resource persons are, therefore, senior scholars or scholars in their mid-career who have published extensively on the topic, and who have a significant contribution to make to the debates on it.
Once selected, resource persons are required to: 1. Submit a copy of their lectures for reproduction and distribution to participants, not later than two weeks before the lecture begins 2. Identify tasks which the participants can undertake in a seminar setting and take responsibility for conducting the seminar; 3. Deliver their lectures, participate in debates and comment on students' research proposals.
CODESRIA shall provide to the resource persons an economy class return ticket from their place of residence to Dakar. An honorarium will also be paid for their services. Furthermore, CODESRIA will also provide them with a daily per diem which will cover their accommodation, feeding and local transportation expenses.
Applicants for the position of Course Convener should submit: 1. An application letter 2. A curriculum vitae 3. A two-page proposal, indicating the skeletal course outline they hope to develop and showing in what ways the course would be original or responsive to the needs of prospective laureates, specifically focusing on the issues to be covered in each sub-theme. Applications for the position of a resource person should include: 1. An application letter 2. A curriculum vitae 4. A one-page abstract of their proposed lectures. The deadline for the submission of applications (to be written in English) is 15 May, 2003 for the Director an resource persons.
Applications and requests for more information should be sent to: "Extended Workshop for Young Historians" CODESRIA/SEPHIS Programme Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop, angle Canal IV B.P. 3304, Dakar, Senegal Fax: (221) 824 12 89 Tel.: (221) 825 98 22/23 E-mail: ndeye.gueye@codesria.sn
Winrock International: Irrigated Rice Specialist-Mali Winrock International is a private, non-profit organization that seeks to increase economic opportunity, agricultural productivity, rural employment, and protect the environment. The organization heads programs that aim to improve resource management to benefit the poor and disadvantaged in some 40 countries around the world.
For further information, contact Winrock International Volunteer Program 38 Winrock Drive Morrilton, AK 72110 USA Tel: 501-727-5435 Fax: 501-727-5426 Email: tgeorge@winrock.org Website: http://www.winrock.org
World Vision: Operations Director-Sierra Leone World Vision seeks an operations director for Sierra Leone. The operations director is responsible to lead, support and coordinate field operations of World Vision Sierra Leone, to ensure that they are efficient and effective, and meet the goals and objectives of World Vision and community partners as laid out in the annual operations plan and grant agreements.
The position requires a M.A. or postgraduate degree in development related subjects, strong oral and written communication skills as well as good cross-cultural communication skills. Computer literacy, including word processing and spreadsheet skills, knowledge of and commitment to the ethos, core values and mission statement of World Vision are also necessary. Please send resumes and cover letters to: International Recruiting World Vision US Suite 270 220 I Street, NE Washington, DC 20002
Browne Global Solutions: Interpreters Browne Global Solutions is a language company that hires out freelance interpreters for immigration court all across the US. We are currently in need of speakers of many African languages including but not limited to: Soninke, Fula/Fulani, Hausa, Ewe, Twi, Wolof, Hassaniya, Songo, Bambara, Mandingo, Malinke, Bassa, Nubian, etc.
If interested, please contact: Katharyn Quintanilla, Regional Project Coordinator Bowne Global Solutions 1730 Rhode Island Avenue, Suite 308 Washington, DC 20036 Tel: 800-423-6756 ext.137 Fax: 202-496-0608 katharyn.quintanilla@bowneglobal.com www.bowneglobal.com
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