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PAS Community News and Events
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 Thursday, May 26, 1:00-2:00pm CDT (UTC -5) join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for an ISITA Diaglogues Series talk "Returning to Luqmān: Wisdom, Subjectivity, and Islamic Tradition" by Dahila E.M. Gubara, Department of History, Koç University, Istanbul. In-person location is the Forum Room (2nd Floor), University Library, Evanston Campus, but those participating through Zoom can register here. |
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 Thursday, May 26 at 4pm, in Kresge 2351 (Kaplan Institute seminar room, the Comparative Literary Studies Program presents Black Hopes - A Philosophy of Independences, a lecture by Yala Kisukidi (Associate Professor of Philosophy at Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis University). All are welcome to attend!
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Friday, May 27, 6:00pm, in the Forum Room (2nd floor, South Tower, Main Library), join the Pan-African Students' Union (PASU)'s final program of the quarter: a public screening of "PRESIDENT" by Camilla Nielsen. Focused on Zimbabwe, this documentary foregrounds the work of the charismatic politician, Nelson Chamisa, and his courageous bid for change during the country's first "democratic" elections in 2018 following Robert Mugabe's 30-year rule. Please RSVP as soon as possible to attend.
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 Friday, May 27 at 12:30 p.m. CST Black Arts Consortium hosts an event with Skyla S. Hearn. Hearn is a Chicago-based archivist and currently Manager of Archives for Cook County. The event is hybrid, streamed on Zoom, and held in person at 1920 Campus Drive, Annie May Swift Hall, Krause Studio rm.103. RSVP here. Please contact bac@northwestern.edu if you have any questions |
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 Wednesday, June 1 at 12 pm CDT, the African Avant-Garde working group will meet to discuss three readings. For this first meeting they will consider the question of whether and how to can talk about an African Avant-Garde. The readings are selections from Chika Okeke-Agulu, Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria (Durham & London: Duke University Press, 2015). You can attend the session through this link. Contact K-coffey@northwestern.edu for access to the readings. Image is of the installation piece " Nkata" (2015) by Nnenna Okore. |
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This is the final bulletin of the 2021-22 school year. Check the African Studies website for events and stories over the summer.
We would love to share information about your publications, presentations, performances, conference participation or other community news in the fall newsletter. Email newsletter editor-in-chief LaRay Denzer by August 20.
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Call for Proposals: Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg Conference: Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges & Perspectives
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022
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Call for Applications for the 2022 Ife Institute of Advanced Studies’ summer institute
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: June 1, 2022
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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social Anthropology at the University of Basel, Switzerland
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2022
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CFP: Digitizing Performance in Africa: Politics, Aesthetics, and Historical Continuities in the Circulation of Music
More information available here.
Submission Deadline: July 22, 2022
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"Maš(w)i a Ditoro (tsa Rona)" with works by the Batswana artist collective The Botswana Pavilion opens on Monday, 25 April 2022. "Maš(w)i a Ditoro (tsa Rona)" includes video, photomontage, sculpture, painting and photography by Sade Shoalane, LegwakanaLeo Makgekgenene, Kim Makin, Thebe Phetogo and Thero Makepe. The title of the show references the title of the 2022 Venice Biennale, "The Milk of Dreams," translated into Setswana and altered to "Milk of (Our) Dreams," highlighting a subjectivity that holds the possibility of different as well as collectively shared perspectives (real or imagined).
Visit the Sakhile&Me website for more information.
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More Africa news and events:
Cameroon's 'King Solomon' dies aged 97, BBC, 23 May 2022
Obituary. Malawi mourns death of rapper Martse, Music in Africa, 25 May 2022
Obituary South Africa Mourns the Death of Prolific Actor Jamie Bartlett, allAfrica.com, 24 May 2022
Oil-rich Niger Delta still ‘land of misery’: Goldman Prize winner, Al Jazeera, 25 May 2022
Sierra Leone: Politicians fixed higher wages for senior army commanders, widening pay disparities in the Sierra Leone military, Africanist Press, 21 May 2022
New date set for return of Patrice Lumumba's tooth, BBC, 25 May 2022
Inside tracks: the record label providing hope in a Cameroonian jail, Guardian (London), 24 May 2022
Tanzania’s President Samia In Ghana For Her First Trip To West African Countries, Pan-African Visions, 25 May 2022
Africa: 'Let's Sing, Cut No More' - Using Music to End FGM in Africa, Spotlight Initiative, 22 May 2022
Artists Flock to Dakar for Biennale, VOA, 23 May 2022
Nigerian Grammy Award winners join global campaign as malaria deaths reach highest number in a decade, Premium Times (Abuja), 25 May 2022
A hopeful song about Sierra Leone by Ismeal Beah, Africa Is a Country, 25 May 2022
Beja music cannot be beaten by any regime [Sudan], Africa Is a Country, 23 May 2022
Africa: How Structural Racism Shows Up In Peacebuilding Processes, allAfrica.com, 24 May 2022
Tanzania's Samia among Time 100 most influential people, The East African (Nairobi), 24 May 2022
Petition seeks Unesco’s help for African students who fled Ukraine, The East African (Nairobi), 19 May 2022
In Uganda, katogo is more than sun-dried cassava and memories, Al Jazeera, 23 May 2022
At The Gambia’s Memory House, victims rewrite Jammeh-era history, Al Jazeera, 21 May 2022
Omar Blondin Diop and Issa Samb’s Senegal, Africa Is a Country, 19 May 2022
The psychological pains of Ethiopian intellectuals, Africa Is a Country, 20 May 2022
Togo looks like West Africa’s new frontier of violent extremism, The Conversation (Johannesburg), May 21, 2022
Macky Sall faces the third-term curse [Senegal], Africa Confidential, 23 May 2022
Africa: UNAIDS Warns That Stigmatizing Language on Monkeypox Jeopardises Public Health, United Nations (New York), 23 May 2022
Africa Expected to Strongly Support Durban Call to Action on Child Labour, Inter Press Service, 17 May 2022,
Nigeria: KKN Records - Emerging Powerhouse in Nigerian Music Industry, Vanguard, 18 May 2022,
Sudan: Role of Cultural Heritage in Realizing Peace and Stability, SudaNow, 17 May 2022
HRW decries ‘serious human rights violations’ in Burundi, Al Jazeera, 18 May 2022
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