#africanstudies — Public Fediverse posts
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Lots of exciting new research projects in the #exc Africa Multiple @unibayreuth .
See the list here (including my project "Worldmaking on Two Wheels" on the history and memories of #cycling in #Africa
https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2026/2026-06-11_new-projects/index.html
#memoryStudies #AfricanStudies #Mobility #bicycles #histodons #history #bike
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Lots of exciting new research projects in the #exc Africa Multiple @unibayreuth .
See the list here (including my project "Worldmaking on Two Wheels" on the history and memories of #cycling in #Africa
https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2026/2026-06-11_new-projects/index.html
#memoryStudies #AfricanStudies #Mobility #bicycles #histodons #history #bike
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Lecturer in African Music
📍SOAS University of London, UK
Three-year lectureship in African Music for scholars working on music or sound art in Africa and/or African diaspora societies. Teaching includes ethnomusicology, urban soundscapes, global music cultures, and the music business across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Deadline: 15/07/2026
https://vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/895247
#Ethnomusicology #AfricanMusic #AfricanStudies #DiasporaStudies #MusicBusiness
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Lecturer in African Music
📍SOAS University of London, UK
Three-year lectureship in African Music for scholars working on music or sound art in Africa and/or African diaspora societies. Teaching includes ethnomusicology, urban soundscapes, global music cultures, and the music business across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Deadline: 15/07/2026
https://vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/895247
#Ethnomusicology #AfricanMusic #AfricanStudies #DiasporaStudies #MusicBusiness
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ICYMI Mpho Matispa is an architect and thinker from Johannesburg whose work reimagines Black urbanism and African mobility — not as crisis, but as creative, city-making practice. The conversation moves from hair salons as spaces of care and resistance, to colonial extraction of time, to what a "distributed university" might look like beyond elite institutions.
Rich, rigorous, and food for thought
🎧 https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-454-mpho-matsipa/
#podcast #urbanism #architecture #BlackUrbanism #AfricanStudies
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ICYMI Mpho Matispa is an architect and thinker from Johannesburg whose work reimagines Black urbanism and African mobility — not as crisis, but as creative, city-making practice. The conversation moves from hair salons as spaces of care and resistance, to colonial extraction of time, to what a "distributed university" might look like beyond elite institutions.
Rich, rigorous, and food for thought
🎧 https://rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/sonia-454-mpho-matsipa/
#podcast #urbanism #architecture #BlackUrbanism #AfricanStudies
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My former colleague Hamza Diman @unibayreuth just published his wonderful book:
Hamza Diman (2026): "Fuelwood, Lomé and the State: 1907-2025", Langaa
If you are interested in the history of #energy #wood #fuel #africa #WestAfrica #togo #Lomé you should definitely read this!
Order it here: https://africanbookscollective.com/books/fuelwood-lome-and-the-state-1907-2025/
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My former colleague Hamza Diman @unibayreuth just published his wonderful book:
Hamza Diman (2026): "Fuelwood, Lomé and the State: 1907-2025", Langaa
If you are interested in the history of #energy #wood #fuel #africa #WestAfrica #togo #Lomé you should definitely read this!
Order it here: https://africanbookscollective.com/books/fuelwood-lome-and-the-state-1907-2025/
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Apparently my book (and many others) are available with a 50% discount at Berghahnbooks right now.
Berghahn on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v22iwfjbazxwnx75ao7djix5/post/3mcrlve2m5j27Find all discounted books here: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/flashsale/all
Or mine directly: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LingelbachOn
#histodons #bookstodon #berghahn #refugees #africanstudies #africa #poland
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Apparently my book (and many others) are available with a 50% discount at Berghahnbooks right now.
Berghahn on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v22iwfjbazxwnx75ao7djix5/post/3mcrlve2m5j27Find all discounted books here: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/flashsale/all
Or mine directly: https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/LingelbachOn
#histodons #bookstodon #berghahn #refugees #africanstudies #africa #poland
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Job alert!
Professur für Afrika – Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert 100 %
Stellenantritt 1. August 2027An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Afrika – Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert (Open Rank) zu besetzen.
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Job alert!
Professur für Afrika – Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert 100 %
Stellenantritt 1. August 2027An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Afrika – Europa im langen 20. Jahrhundert (Open Rank) zu besetzen.
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Great text for #africanStudies
"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?"
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Great text for #africanStudies
"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?"
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After the coronation
By Michaela Collord
In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.
Good text on the background to the current situation in #Tanzania @africasacountry
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After the coronation
By Michaela Collord
In Tanzania, the Gen Z uprising meets a state whose old bargains have collapsed.
Good text on the background to the current situation in #Tanzania @africasacountry
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📖 The 20th issue of Práticas da História has been published!
Coordinated by Noemi Alfieri, its theme is ‘(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge.’
🔓 Available in #OpenAccess at https://praticasdahistoria.pt/issue/view/2054
#Histodons #CiênciaAberta #OAWeek #AfricanStudies #Historiography #UsesOfThePast #Decolonization #Decolonisation #Press #Historiografia #UsosDoPassado #Imprensa #Nigeria #Angola #Africa #AcessoAberto
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📖 The 20th issue of Práticas da História has been published!
Coordinated by Noemi Alfieri, its theme is ‘(Digital) Retrospectives on Historiography from Africa: Decolonization, the African press, and the uses of knowledge.’
🔓 Available in #OpenAccess at https://praticasdahistoria.pt/issue/view/2054
#Histodons #CiênciaAberta #OAWeek #AfricanStudies #Historiography #UsesOfThePast #Decolonization #Decolonisation #Press #Historiografia #UsosDoPassado #Imprensa #Nigeria #Angola #Africa #AcessoAberto
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maximising the positive effects of the relationship between language and well-being."
register: https://psu.zoom.us/meeting/register/y59iLIkdTAGZPt5Q8vs_3Q
this event is part of the African studies global virtual forum 2025–26: Decoloniality and Southern Epistemologies
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Le Monde with a dossier on photographic archives of the war in Cameroon:
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Le Monde with a dossier on photographic archives of the war in Cameroon:
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So this is really happening: Page Proofs!!
My intro to the special issue on Camp Memorialization is finally about to be published in Memory Studies
@histodons @africanstudies
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So this is really happening: Page Proofs!!
My intro to the special issue on Camp Memorialization is finally about to be published in Memory Studies
@histodons @africanstudies
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For those of you #AfricanStudies people on #Mastodon, I made an African Studies Starter Pack:
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Btw: Zohran Mamdani's second name is Kwame (after Kwame #Nkrumah), he was born in #Kampala, and studied Africana Studies
@africanstudies #Uganda #AfricanStudies #Africa #Mamdani #NYC
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Btw: Zohran Mamdani's second name is Kwame (after Kwame #Nkrumah), he was born in #Kampala, and studied Africana Studies
@africanstudies #Uganda #AfricanStudies #Africa #Mamdani #NYC
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Excellent Framework Conditions for African Studies
#AfricanStudies #FZA #UBT #UniBayreuth #Africa #Opening
https://ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/en/fza-opening -
Excellent Framework Conditions for African Studies
#AfricanStudies #FZA #UBT #UniBayreuth #Africa #Opening
https://ubtaktuell.uni-bayreuth.de/en/fza-opening -
Among other steps, #Columbia said it would have 36 campus safety officers w/ #arrest powers, a shift w/enormous resonance at a university that has a long history of campus #activism & fraught ties w/law enforcement.Columbia also said it would adopt a formal definition of #antisemitism, review its #admissions policies &, in a turn that was especially alarming to professors who cherish #academic #freedom, impose new #oversight of the university’s #MiddleEastern, #SouthAsian & #AfricanStudies Dept.
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Among other steps, #Columbia said it would have 36 campus safety officers w/ #arrest powers, a shift w/enormous resonance at a university that has a long history of campus #activism & fraught ties w/law enforcement.Columbia also said it would adopt a formal definition of #antisemitism, review its #admissions policies &, in a turn that was especially alarming to professors who cherish #academic #freedom, impose new #oversight of the university’s #MiddleEastern, #SouthAsian & #AfricanStudies Dept.
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#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.
"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism -
#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.
"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism -
„Forschen und kämpfen“! @rheinze legt euch in der neuen @analysekritik unsere Neuerscheinung »Dekolonialer Marxismus« des guyanischen Historikers und Aktivisten Walter Rodney (1942 geboren, 1980 ermordet) ans Herz, der in seiner Aktualität, Radikalität und Brillanz der Analyse zur „Unterentwicklung“ Afrikas durch Europa tief beeindruckt: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/dekolonialer-marxismus
#walterrodney #afrika #kolonialismus #kapitalismus #dekolonial #decolonization #marx #karlmarx #decolonial #africanstudies
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„Forschen und kämpfen“! @rheinze legt euch in der neuen @analysekritik unsere Neuerscheinung »Dekolonialer Marxismus« des guyanischen Historikers und Aktivisten Walter Rodney (1942 geboren, 1980 ermordet) ans Herz, der in seiner Aktualität, Radikalität und Brillanz der Analyse zur „Unterentwicklung“ Afrikas durch Europa tief beeindruckt: https://dietzberlin.de/produkt/dekolonialer-marxismus
#walterrodney #afrika #kolonialismus #kapitalismus #dekolonial #decolonization #marx #karlmarx #decolonial #africanstudies
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Livro "Histórias e políticas em contextos africanos" (Autografia/Faperj, 2023). #africa #africanstudies #books
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Livro "Histórias e políticas em contextos africanos" (Autografia/Faperj, 2023). #africa #africanstudies #books
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Re-upping this in case any new Africanist refugees have come over from Xitter:
#Africa #AfricanStudies #AfricanHistory #Afrique #Afrika
From: @rheinze
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@da5id
Danke fürs Teilen.Ich habe mal 2 Links dazu rausgesucht, um die Information zu komplettieren
ZEIT Artikel
https://www.zeit.de/2021/35/rudolf-manga-bell-duala-volk-kamerun-kolonialismus-justizmord
Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Manga_Bell?wprov=sfla1 -
@da5id
Danke fürs Teilen.Ich habe mal 2 Links dazu rausgesucht, um die Information zu komplettieren
ZEIT Artikel
https://www.zeit.de/2021/35/rudolf-manga-bell-duala-volk-kamerun-kolonialismus-justizmord
Wikipedia
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Manga_Bell?wprov=sfla1 -
Heute vor 110 Jahren hat die deutsche Kolonialjustiz Rudolf Manga Bell in der damaligen Hauptstadt der Kolonie Kamerun, Douala, ermordet. Manga Bell hatte in Deutschland Jura studiert und sich mit rechtlichen Mitteln gegen die von den Deutschen geplante Enteignung und Vertreibung der Duala gewehrt.
In Kamerun gilt Manga Bell bis heute als maßgeblicher Vorkämpfer des antikolonialen Widerstands. In Deutschland weiß kaum jemand von ihm. Er wurde 41 Jahre alt.
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Heute vor 110 Jahren hat die deutsche Kolonialjustiz Rudolf Manga Bell in der damaligen Hauptstadt der Kolonie Kamerun, Douala, ermordet. Manga Bell hatte in Deutschland Jura studiert und sich mit rechtlichen Mitteln gegen die von den Deutschen geplante Enteignung und Vertreibung der Duala gewehrt.
In Kamerun gilt Manga Bell bis heute als maßgeblicher Vorkämpfer des antikolonialen Widerstands. In Deutschland weiß kaum jemand von ihm. Er wurde 41 Jahre alt.
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from #AlJazeera
So this “two-state solution” is code for neocolonialism, right?It would be helpful to clarify what the #Palestinians are really being offered as part of this much-lauded solution to the conflict in #Israel - #Palestine.
by Yannick Giovanni Marshall
#YannickGiovanniMarshall is an academic and scholar of #AfricanStudies.
Published On 25 Jul 2024#EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
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from #AlJazeera
So this “two-state solution” is code for neocolonialism, right?It would be helpful to clarify what the #Palestinians are really being offered as part of this much-lauded solution to the conflict in #Israel - #Palestine.
by Yannick Giovanni Marshall
#YannickGiovanniMarshall is an academic and scholar of #AfricanStudies.
Published On 25 Jul 2024#EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
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📖 There was a gap in knowledge about the historical relationship between #colonialism and common property in the Portuguese case.
Joana Dias Pereira tries to fill this gap in this article published in the journal #AfricanStudies, where she "focuses on the debates surrounding the ‘indigenous’ common property regime among the political and academic elites and its historical evolution".
👉 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00020184.2024.2307553
#Histodons #PortugueseColonialism #CommonLand #ColonialismoPortuguês
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📖 There was a gap in knowledge about the historical relationship between #colonialism and common property in the Portuguese case.
Joana Dias Pereira tries to fill this gap in this article published in the journal #AfricanStudies, where she "focuses on the debates surrounding the ‘indigenous’ common property regime among the political and academic elites and its historical evolution".
👉 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00020184.2024.2307553
#Histodons #PortugueseColonialism #CommonLand #ColonialismoPortuguês
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Esta tarde, Colin Darch vai apresentar o segundo de dois seminários que trouxe até ao Colégio Almada Negreiros, desta feita, dedicado ao pan-africanismo e à sua relação com as lutas de libertação nas colónias africanas.
ENTRADA LIVRE
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/identidade-africana-unidade-continental/
#Histodons #AfricanStudies #Panafricanism #PanAfricanismo #LiberationWars #GuerrasDeLibertação #Colonialismo #Colonialism #AfricanColonies #ColóniasAfricanas #BritichColonialism
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Esta tarde, Colin Darch vai apresentar o segundo de dois seminários que trouxe até ao Colégio Almada Negreiros, desta feita, dedicado ao pan-africanismo e à sua relação com as lutas de libertação nas colónias africanas.
ENTRADA LIVRE
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/identidade-africana-unidade-continental/
#Histodons #AfricanStudies #Panafricanism #PanAfricanismo #LiberationWars #GuerrasDeLibertação #Colonialismo #Colonialism #AfricanColonies #ColóniasAfricanas #BritichColonialism
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Nos dias 26 e 30 de Abril, vamos receber o investigador Colin Darch para dois seminários no Colégio Almada Negreiros:
1️⃣ será dedicado às lutas pela descolonização e reforma dos currículos de estudos africanos em África;
2️⃣ será dedicado ao pan-africanismo e à sua relação com as lutas de libertação nas colónias africanas.ENTRADA LIVRE
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/
#Histodons #AfricanStudies #Decolonization #Decolonisation #Panafricanism #HistoryCurricula #EnsinoDaHistória #PanAfricanismo
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Nos dias 26 e 30 de Abril, vamos receber o investigador Colin Darch para dois seminários no Colégio Almada Negreiros:
1️⃣ será dedicado às lutas pela descolonização e reforma dos currículos de estudos africanos em África;
2️⃣ será dedicado ao pan-africanismo e à sua relação com as lutas de libertação nas colónias africanas.ENTRADA LIVRE
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/
#Histodons #AfricanStudies #Decolonization #Decolonisation #Panafricanism #HistoryCurricula #EnsinoDaHistória #PanAfricanismo
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✍️ Until 30 April, you can still submit your manuscript for the issue of Práticas da História dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on African Historiography: Decolonisation, the African press and the uses of knowledge".
The editors are Noemi Alfieri and Cassandra Mark-Thiesen.
ℹ️ https://praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retrospectives-historiography-africa
#Histodons #AfricanStudies #CallForPapers #Historiography #UsesOfThePast #Decolonization #Decolonisation #Press #Historiografia #UsosDoPassado #Imprensa
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✍️ Until 30 April, you can still submit your manuscript for the issue of Práticas da História dedicated to the theme "(Digital) Retrospectives on African Historiography: Decolonisation, the African press and the uses of knowledge".
The editors are Noemi Alfieri and Cassandra Mark-Thiesen.
ℹ️ https://praticasdahistoria.pt/digital-retrospectives-historiography-africa
#Histodons #AfricanStudies #CallForPapers #Historiography #UsesOfThePast #Decolonization #Decolonisation #Press #Historiografia #UsosDoPassado #Imprensa
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Interested in regional governance in Africa? Have a look at the #CfP for the MIASA Conference "Regional Governance as Experience: New Perspectives on Policy and Sustainability"!
Deadline: 24 March 2024.
Place: University #OmarBongo, Libreville, Gabon.#AfricanStudies #Anthropology #Sociology #History #LawStudies #PeaceStudies #ConflictStudies #sociolinguistics #EconomicStudies #MIASA
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Interested in regional governance in Africa? Have a look at the #CfP for the MIASA Conference "Regional Governance as Experience: New Perspectives on Policy and Sustainability"!
Deadline: 24 March 2024.
Place: University #OmarBongo, Libreville, Gabon.#AfricanStudies #Anthropology #Sociology #History #LawStudies #PeaceStudies #ConflictStudies #sociolinguistics #EconomicStudies #MIASA
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Spannender Job in #bayreuth
Wissenschaftskoordination (m/w/d) TV-L E 13 (100%)
auf 2 Jahre befristet
Institut für Afrikastudien (IAS)
Bewerbungsfrist: 31. März 2024
https://www.uni-bayreuth.de/stelle-kennwort-wissenschaftskoordination-ias-7b7e50e24c8fb691
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"Reconfiguring Refugee Studies from Africa. East African Experiences and Approaches to Refugee Hosting"
organized by David Ngendo-Tshimba and me
Call closes 31 Jan 24
Conference: 30 Sep to 2 Oct#histodons #africa #Uganda #Tanzania #Kenya #Rwanda# #africanstudies @africanstudies @histodons
@nwffDetails:
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Last Day!!
Submit your proposal for the #VAD #africanstudies conference in #Bayreuth today.A lot of great panels in the biggest African studies conference in Germany!
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@africanstudies @histodons @nwff
Three weeks to go until the call for the #VAD #conference on #africanstudies closes.
Please circulate and consider applying to our panel on #refugeestudies and #refugee #history in #east #africa
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Please boost the news and submit a proposal to our #Panel at next year's #VAD conference in #Bayreuth!
"Reconfiguring Refugee Studies from Africa. East African Experiences and Approaches to Refugee Hosting"
organized by David Ngendo-Tshimba and me
Call closes 31 Jan 24
Conference: 30 Sep to 2 Oct#histodons #africa #Uganda #Tanzania #Kenya #Rwanda# #africanstudies @africanstudies @histodons
@nwff