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courses, seminars, & workshops
Ghana: Kilombo 2012
24 - 26 August 2012
2012-05-21, Issue 585
This is to invite you to Kilombo 2012, which is an event on Africa, Africans and Social Justice. This is going to be an annual event and the first which is Kilombo 2012 will lay the foundation for launching the Kilombo Centre for Civil Society and African Self-Determination.
Uganda: Social medicine course In Uganda
2012-05-07, Issue 583
SocMed invites students to apply for the fourth annual course Beyond the Biologic Basis of Disease: The Social and Economic Causation of Illness, a social medicine immersion experience conducted on-site at Lacor Hospital in Gulu, Uganda from January 7, 2013 to February 1, 2013. This unique immersion course incorporates innovative teaching methodologies to merge teaching of clinical tropical medicine with understanding the socioeconomic, cultural, political, and historical underpinnings of illness.
Sexual Health and Rights in Africa - Where Are We?
19-22 September, Windhoek, Namibia
2012-04-16, Issue 581
Join more than 500 policymakers, activists and practitioners, including young persons, people living with HIV & AIDS, with disabilities, and LGBQTI persons from Africa and around the world at the 5th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights. The conference will will take stock of responses to sexual health and rights on the continent since ICPD, and interrogate the status of sexual health and rights, with particular focus on women, girls, adolescents and youth.
Land Grabs in Africa: Economic Growth or Re-Colonization?
3 May, East Bay Community Foundation, 200 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Oakland, US
2012-04-22, Issue 581
The talk will provide an overview of the reality of land grabs in Africa, based on extensive research and advocacy conducted by the Oakland Institute. Learn about resistance from impacted communities, grassroots and national organizations in Africa, and solidarity networks.
Building Capacity for a New Generation: The Case for Youth Leadership in Africa
Pan-African Conference, 5 May 2012, University of Oxford, UK
2012-03-29, Issue 579
The 2012 Conference focuses on building the type of leadership Africa needs to successfully face challenges in the 21st century. The conference will bring together young and emerging academics, students, entrepreneurs, activists, and politicians to discuss and debate the challenges of the day in Africa.
Is Fanon Finished?
2012-03-26, Issue 578
It is the pleasure of the Masters programs at the American University of Paris to host an international and bilingual conference on contemporary critical and experimental engagement with Frantz Fanon’s work, co-organized by Lisa Damon, Sousan Hammad and François Huguet. The conference will take place at AUP and at the Lavoir Moderne Parisien and is open to everyone.
Ghana: Celebrating International Women’s Day
Press Release
2012-03-05, Issue 572
Every year on 8th March the world celebrates International Women’s Day. This year, celebrate International Women’s Day with the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) and our partner, Alliance Francaise (Ghana).
Call for Pre-conference Workshops
55th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
2012-01-26, Issue 567
Because of the outstanding success of the workshops at last year's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., the ASA will welcome proposals for workshops on a wide range of topics to be held on Wednesday, November 28, 2012, prior to the 55th Annual Meeting....
OpenForum: Money, Power & Sex: The Paradox of Unequal Growth
22-24 May 2012, Cape Town, South Africa
2012-01-29, Issue 567
OSISA, in conjucnction with the Africa Foundations of the Open Society network of Foundations (OSF) is hosting a gathering in Cape Town, 22-24 May 2012, entitled the 'OpenForum: Money, Power & Sex: The Paradox of Unequal Growth'. Under the theme, th...
Call for Proposals: Research frontiers in the study of Africa
The African Studies Association
2012-01-23, Issue 566
The African Studies Association is soliciting proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables. Presentations may focus on the theme of 'Research Frontiers in the Study of Africa' or on broader social science, humanities, and applied themes relating to ...
Third People's Health Assembly
6-11 July 2012, Cape Town, South Africa
2012-01-23, Issue 566
The People’s Health Assembly (PHA), organised by the People's Health Movement (PHM), is a global event bringing together health activists from across the world to share experiences, analyse global health situation, develop civil society positions and...
Forum 2012
24-26 April 2012, Cape Town, South Africa
2012-01-23, Issue 566
Forum 2012, to be held 24-26 April 2012 in Cape Town, is the beginning of an exciting new series of the well-known and respected Global Forum for Health Research meetings. Under the theme of 'Beyond Aid...Research and Innovation as key drivers for He...
Frantz Fanon: The Forgotten Algerian Revolutionary
Algeria Solidarity Committee
2012-01-24, Issue 566
“The liberation of the oppressed people cannot come as a result of magical practices, nor of a natural shock, nor of a friendly understanding”. Those were the powerful words of Frantz Fanon in his masterpiece “The Wretched of the Earth”. Fanon spoke of decolonisation as a violent process to create new men and to overthrow a system that exploits the native, dehumanises him and plunders his resources. Talk by Dr Leo Zeilig: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 28 January at 15:00. Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AB
Norway: System Dynamics-based Development Planning Course
10 April - 18 May 2012
2012-01-09, Issue 565
This course is an intensive introduction to System Dynamics, a unique framework for understanding and managing complex development problems. Through case studies and practical exercises, the course will equip participants with the knowledge and skill...
Egypt: Training for photographers
March - October 2012, Cairo, Egypt
2012-01-16, Issue 565
Al-liquindoi is partnering with Contemporary Image Collective and NOOR to produce this long-term training opportunity for Egyptian documentary photographers and photojournalists. This program is supported by a grant from Open Society Foundations. The...
Global: Using citizen media tools to promote under-represented languages
2011-11-21, Issue 558
Join New Tactics, Rising Voices, Indigenous Tweets, and other practitioners for an online dialogue on Using Citizen Media Tools to Promote Under-Represented Languages from 16-22 November 2011....
African Sexualities: A Reader
2011-11-06, Issue 556
18 November sees a discussion on the intersections between sex, power, masculinity, and femininity with human rights activists and scholar, Dr. Sylvia Tamale, as she signs her new book. This groundbreaking volume 'African Sexualities: A Reader', the ...
The Politics of Homosexuality in Africa
A talk by Dr. Sylvia Tamale at the Berman Hall in the Fromm Building, University of San Francisco
2011-11-06, Issue 556
Using homosexuality as a focus, Dr. Tamale will on 21 November discuss how political and religious leaders in both Africa and the West instrumentalise sexuality to achieve their political ends, and provide an analysis of the Ugandan Anti-Homosexualit...
Sexual exploitation and abuse in fragile, conflict and post-conflict situation
Call for applications
2011-10-23, Issue 553
Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) has become a major peace and security issue. In order to fill some of the training gaps observed within the subject area, the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) will be running a course ...
Pan African Conference on Access to Information (PACAI)
2011-09-19, Issue 547
This gathering, the PACAI, capitalises on the 20th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, to make a difference to information access. The event is convened by the Windhoek+20 Campaign on Access to Information in Africa in conjunction with UNESCO, a...
Global: Faith-based peacebuilding: applying a gender perspective
2011-08-16, Issue 545
Join New Tactics and the International Fellowship of Reconciliation's Women Peacemakers Program (IFOR/WPP) for an online dialogue on the topic of 'Faith-based peacebuilding: The need for a gender perspective', from 19-25 October 2011. The role of rel...
South Africa: Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Press statement
2011-08-08, Issue 543
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine will convene in District Six, Cape Town, site of a brutal apartheid-era forced removal. The land has remained undeveloped on the edge of the city since it was declared 'a white group area' and the homes of black resi...
Call for Papers: The African Women's Journal
2011-07-18, Issue 539
As part of contributing to the African Women’s Decade (2010-2020) through provision of information on the themes of the Decade, the African Women’s Journal for July-December 2011 will focus on the theme: Women’s Education and Training in Africa....
African Studies Association 54th annual meeting workshops
2011-07-11, Issue 538
The African Studies Association is pleased to announce three pre-conference workshops to be offered on Wednesday, 16 November 2011. Participants will have the opportunity to explore governance and development at American University in depth or go beh...
Whose Memories Count and at What Cost?
20 -27 November, Kitgum, Northern Uganda
2011-07-11, Issue 538
The Refugee Law Project (RLP), Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN) is accepting applications to its 2nd Institute for African Transitional Justice (IATJ...
2011 Gender Symposium
1-3 November 2011, Cairo, Egypt
2011-07-11, Issue 538
In line with its mandate to promote high-level scientific and academic debates on various aspects of socioeconomic development in Africa, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) hereby announces the 2011 editio...
Revival of Pan-Africanism Forum
16 July 2011, Hilton Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852
2011-07-04, Issue 537
Pan-Africanism: A Viable Ideology to Address Africa’s Rape Redux/Euro-American 21st Century Neo-Colonial Re-Conquest & Scramble for Africa When: 3:45 PM, Saturday, 16 July 2011 Where: Hilton Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, (Ac...
Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures in South Dayi
2 July 2011
2011-06-23, Issue 536
An initiative to have Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lectures in every constituency in Ghana is starting with a Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Lecture in the South Dayi District in Volta Region. This event is being coordinated by Constance Ayer, an Nkrumaist based i...
Africa and the challenges of the 21st Century
Rabat, Morocco, 5-9 December 2011
2011-05-29, Issue 532
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, will hold its 13th General Assembly on 5-9 December 2011, in Rabat, Morocco. The triennial General Assembly is one of the most important scientific events of the African ...
Fellowship programme for people of African descent
Call For Application
2011-05-19, Issue 530
In the context of the International Year for People of African Descent, the Anti-Discrimination Section of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is launching a Fellowship Programme for People of African Descent from 10 O...
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