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AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
BIMONTHY BULLETIN
Issue No.10, Fall 2003
September 15, 2003
Dear JUA Readers,
Welcome to JUA, the bi-monthly electronic newsletter of the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania! This is the first issue of the 2003-04 academic year and we look forward to providing you with information regarding area events and lectures, conferences and calls for papers, scholarships and fellowships, and summer and job opportunities all related to Africa. Please send any postings you would like to have included in JUA to Africa@sas.upenn.edu. We wish you a good Fall.
All the best,
Emily Renschler
JUA Editor
CONTENTS:
AREA EVENTS & LECTURE SERIES
CONFERENCES & CALLS FOR PAPERS
SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS
SUMMER OPPORTUNITIES & JOB OPPORTUNITIES
AREA EVENTS & LECTURE SERIES
September 18, 2003
"Constitutionalism in Africa's Democratic Transitions"
Stephen N. Ndegwa
College of William and Mary
3-4:30pm
Location: 311 Houston Hall~Griski Room
September 30, 2003
"Choices on State-Building After Africa's Civil Wars"
Donald Rothchild
University of California, Davis
3-4:30pm
Location: 311 Houston Hall~Griski Room
October 3, 2003
"Youthful Africa in the 21st Century"
African Studies Consortium Workshop
8:30am-5pm
October 4, 2003
8:30am-12pm
Location: TBA
October 23, 2003
"Racial and Nonracial Republics: Comparisons of Race and Reconciliation in South Africa
and the USA"
C.R.D. Halisi
California State University, Los Angeles
3-4:30pm
Location: TBA
"The State and Leadership in Africa"
Ahmed I. Samatar
Macalester College
November 6, 2003
3-4:30pm
Location: TBA
Here is the line up for the fall sessions of the Mapping North Africa seminar. All sessions will start at 4:30 PM.
- Thursday 25 September: Ali Ahmida, "Beyond Colonial and Nationalist
Categories: A History of the Name Maghrib/North Africa."
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Thursday 23 October: Paul Silverstein (Title TBA).
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Thursday 13 November: Eve Troutt Powell, "The Map the Slave Made:
Saint Bakhita's Footsteps in the Nile Valley."
- Thursday 4 December: Eric Sellin, "The Maghrib: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Crossroads."
As soon as we have a room for the seminar, I will send you the information.
More importantly, let me recommend that you all meet no later than 2 weeks from now to map out the details of the Spring Symposium. If this is OK with you all, I can the arrangements for convening this meeting.
CONFERENCES AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
Wharton African Students Association Conference
November 14-15, 2003
[not organized by ASC; more information forthcoming]
The 2004 GWENDOLEN M. CARTER Conference in African Studies and 2004 CORD
Network Conference
February 11-14, 2004
University of Florida
SCHOLARSHIPS & FELLOWSHIPS
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
KENYA: COMMUNICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST
CAB INTERNATIONAL (CABI)
The position is based at the CABI Africa Regional Centre in Nairobi,
which works in 6 thematic areas: rural knowledge systems, smallholder
commodity chains, sustainable pest management, alien invasive species,
conservation and utilization of biodiversity, and information &
communication technologies.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=16831
KENYA: COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
FEMNET
A regional women's network based in Nairobi, Kenya is seeking to employ
a Communications Officer for a two-year full time contract. A probation
period of three months shall apply.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=16834
KENYA: PROGRAM OFFICER
Ford Foundation
Working with the representative in Nairobi and other Ford Foundation
staff, the Program Officer will be responsible for the Foundation's
Eastern Africa programming on education and sexuality in the region.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/newsletter.php?id=16830
SOMALIA: LEGAL EXPERT
United Nations Development Programme
http://www.reliefweb.int/w/res.nsf/wDocs/ EE2E1F6F1553EA61C1256D8A00337404
UNDP intends to recruit an expert for 2 months to support the
development of a plan for the library at the University of Hargeisa,
with a particular emphasis on the law section.
- ANNOUNCEMENT
- IFS-CODESRIA Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Team Research Grants
The International Foundation for Science (IFS) and the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) are pleased to announce a new joint research grants program for young researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Research grants will be awarded to multidisciplinary teams for research on the topic of sustainable agriculture for food production in Africa.
Each team member will be eligible for up to USD 12,000 in research funding as well as a range of supporting services. The next deadline for research grant applications is September 15, 2003.
WHAT KIND OF RESEARCH IS ELIGIBLE?
Research projects should specifically address sustainable food production in terms of:
- agricultural/agroforestry production systems;
- post-harvest and handling systems;
- services provision;
- institutions (ie rules and norms); and
- biotechnology. Each of these themes can be addressed from economic, ecological, social, health, gender, and technological perspectives.
HOW DO INTERESTED RESEARCHERS APPLY?
Each research team member should complete an application form detailing their background, their own proposed research and their contribution to the overall objectives of the team. Standard application forms are available
from: http://www.ifs.se/Special_Programmes/SustainableAgriculture.htm
In addition to the regular team of researchers, each team should have a Team Coordinator. The Team Coordinator should be a more experienced researcher and should submit a 2-4 page covering letter. Team Coordinators may request up to USD 5000 for the support of team travel and communication.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO APPLY?
Applicants must be citizens of a Sub-Saharan African country, 45 years of age or younger, holders of at minimum an MA/MSc degree or the equivalent, attached to a research institution in Africa, and at the beginning of their research career. Women are particularly encouraged to apply. The proposed research must be carried out in Africa. Preference is given to researchers whose grant will be administered by a national research institute (eg university, research centre, and non-profit organisations such as NGOs) in Africa. Researchers with temporary positions at international research institutes, who also have an affiliation with a national research institute are eligible to apply.
Team Coordinators should be citizens of an African country, holders of a PhD or the equivalent and attached to a research institution in Africa. There is no age limitation for team coordinators.
HOW DOES ONE APPLY?
Each team member must submit an application on a standard application form
that is available from IFS or CODESRIA. Electronic application forms can be
downloaded from:
http://www.ifs.se/Special_Programmes/SustainableAgriculture.htm
>Your assistance in distributing the attached announcement to interested
>researchers would be greatly appreciated. More detailed information about
>Sustainable Agriculture Initiative team research grants is available at:
>http://www.ifs.se/Special_Programmes/SustainableAgriculture.htm
>
>For further information about IFS and its other research grants programmes
>you are referred to www.ifs.se, or for more information about CODESRIA and
>its numerous activities please refer to www.codesria.org.
- YI
- job opportunity at Stanford. Please check the website and apply directly to Professor Richard Roberts at Stanford. The list of required application materials is listed on the website and materials must be postmarked by Nov. 14, 2003.
If you have any questions, please contact Professor Roberts at Stanford (rroberts@stanford.edu).
Stanford University invites applications for a faculty
appointment in a humanistic field of African Studies to be
made at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor or
tenured associate professor. The appointment will begin in
the Fall of 2004.
The full announcement is available at:
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=24655
>The University of Florida and The Congress on Research in Dance present:>
>MOVEMENT REVOLUTION DIALOGUES
>Contemporary Performance In and Of Africa
>
>MOVEMENT REVOLUTION DIALOGUES seeks to construct a firm and inclusive
>foundation for the development of scholarly and critical attention to
>contemporary performance, particularly dance, in and of Africa. Framed by
>the live performance of the 2001 laureates of Sanga: the Fourth African and
>Indian Ocean Choreographic Competition and exchanges among artists from
>across the continent (including dancers and choreographers from Senegal,
>Burkina Faso, South Africa, Madagascar, Cote d'Ivoire, the United States,
>and more), the conference and planned publication seek to undergird the
>power of Africa's Movement (R)evolution-on its own terms. As conference and
>festival Movement (R)evolution Dialogues: Contemporary Performance In and
>Of Africa is designed to serve as a catalyst for deepening the artistic and
>scholarly exchange on contemporary performance and to provide a forum for
>the voices of the artists of Africa to lead the way.
>
>Please see attached document for conference themes, proposal submission
>instructions, and application.
Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.
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