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PAS Community News and Events
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Friday, May 20, 6:30pm, in the African Studies Library (5 East Tower, Main Library), the Pan-African Students' Union (PASU)'s session will be dedicated to elections: there will be a brief Q&A where you'll get the chance to ask PASU candidates questions, and following that, voting will begin. Join us so that you have a say in who gets to drive forward the mission of PASU in the coming school year. Food will be served.
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Monday, May 23, 12:00 - 1:30pm (CT), the US History and Culture Workshop at the University of Chicago presents "The Tilt Toward Internationalism: Race and Ideology in U.S. Solidarity Organizing in the 1970s: a chapter from The Political Biography of Prexy Nesbitt and US Solidarity with Southern Africa, 1965-1994,” with Martha Biondi, Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African-American Studies, Northwestern University. You may access the Zoom meeting using this link.
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 Tuesday, May 24, 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 "Literary Authority in West African Islam" by Charles Stewart, professor of history, professor emeritus of history, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The 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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 Wednesday May 25, 12pm CT, As part of the interdisciplinary series, “Reflections on Whiteness, Blackness, and Race in the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey” Keyman Modern Turkish Studies presents "Transience and Blackness: West African Futures in Istanbul" with Alize Arıcan (Rutgers University). Register to join this online event here.
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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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 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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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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CPF: The Ethics and Politics of Naming Names of Enslaved Africans in Digital Humanities
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:
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
Hassan Mohamud: The second coming of Somalia’s new president, Al Jazeera, 18 May 2022
Guinea Bissau president dissolves parliament in new political row, Al Jazeera, 17 May 2022
Lockdown eye-opener for artist Kwizera, The East African (Nairobi), 18 May 2022
Rival factions clash in Libya's capital Tripoli as PM Bashagha forced to flee, Radio France Internationale, 17 May 2022
Mali: Army Officials Arrested for Attempted Coup, allAfrica.com, 18 May 2022
Africa: Guterres in Senegal - 'Triple Crisis' in Africa Aggravated By War in Ukraine, Africa Renewal, May 2022
Cameroonian activist wins Wangari Maathai Forest Champions’ Award 2022, Africa Renewal, May 2022
Could Nigeria’s 2023 elections challenge national unity?, New Afrian (London), May/June 2022
PHOTOS | Here is What Went Down at Wana Udobang’s “Dirty Laundry” Exhibition in Lagos, Brittle Paper, 16 May 2022
Biden Approves 'Small, Persistent' US Military Presence in Somalia, VOA, 16 May 2022
How Ethiopia's 'false banana' could be the crop to face climate change, Radio France Internationale, 16 May 2022
Chadians protest as anti-French sentiments hit new highs in Sahel, Al Jazeera, 16 May 2022
The ‘Spider-Man’ of Sudan: masked activist becomes symbol of resistance, Guardian, 17 May 2022
Pink pigeons in Mauritius made a remarkable comeback from near-extinction – but are still losing genetic diversity, The Conversation (Johannesburg), 13 May 2022
ANALYSIS: Banditry in Northwest Nigeria spreading to Niger, destroying livelihoods, Premium Times (Abuja), 16 May 2022
Tanzanian Arts, Crafts See New Dawn, Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam), 16 May 2022
Call to Freedom for Millions of Children Trapped in Child Labour as Global Conference Comes to Africa, Inter Press Service, 13 May 2022
Namibia launches sovereign wealth fund following oil discoveries, Al Jazeera, 12 May 2022
Mob kills student over ‘blasphemy’ in northern Nigerian college, Al Jazeera, 12 May 2022
El maestro siempre [profile of militant filmmaker Maky Madiba Sylla], Africa Is a Country, 12 May 2022
Madiba and Mali, Africa Is a Country, 11 May 2022
Senegal sees opportunity and ‘hypocrisy’ in Europe’s search for gas, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
Rudy Gomis, a masterful collaborator who kept the diversity of Senegalese music alive, The Conversation (Johannesburg), 12 May 2022
Darfur displacement soars as peace deal falters, The New Humanitarian (Geneva), 10 May 2022
Sierra Leone: Leaked documents show evidence of presidential security shake-up following publication of salary disparities among public sector workers, Africanist Press, 8 May 2022
U.S. museums are trying to return hundreds of looted Benin treasures, Washington Post, 12 May 2022
Nigeria: Blood Sisters Not Only Entertains but Highlights Important Social Issues, allAfrica.com, 12 May 2022
Google Translate includes 10 more African languages, BBC, 11 May 2022
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