Interdisciplinary Congress of African Studies (COAFRO)
Second edition: October 19-20, 2023
Hybrid Format, in Bucharest / online
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 unique awards for U.S. citizens to teach, research, and conduct professional projects in more than 130 countries.
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum invites applications for the 2023 Jacob and Yetta Gelman International Research Workshop entitled Black Lives under Nazism. The Mandel Center will co-convene this workshop with Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College, and Sarah Phillips Casteel, Department of English, Carleton University. The workshop is scheduled for Wednesday, June 7 through Friday, June 16, 2023, and will take place at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Call for Abstracts
African Studies Association Annual Meeting
November 30 – December 2, 2023
San Francisco, CA
Organizers:
Fatoumata Seck (Chair, Stanford University), Mark Drury (Georgetown University), and Erin Pettigrew (New York University Abu Dhabi)
Panel Title: “Decolonization and the Underground”
Panel Abstract:
The Program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Colgate University invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor position in the Social Sciences, beginning fall semester 2023. The position is open to any social science discipline with the exception of history, and the geographical focus is open to any part of the Muslim world, broadly defined. A Ph.D. is required at the time of hire or shortly after hire. The successful candidate will be expected to participate in all-university programs, including the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum.
Dear Friends,
Hello! Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (Morocco) is delighted to announce that it is currently accepting applications for two programs of interest to your students:
Dear colleagues,
I would like to let you know that my book How the Church under Pius XII Addressed Decolonization. The Issue of Algerian Independence (New York: Routledge 2023), with a preface written by Étienne Fouilloux, will be released on March 6:
On the Margins of Shi‘r: Rethinking Histories of Poetic Modernism in the Twentieth-century Arab World
Description:
Established in 2013, the L. Carl Brown AIMS Book Prize is awarded annually to the outstanding book in the area of North African studies. The winning work reflects the innovative intellectual achievements in North African studies exemplified by Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, L. Carl Brown. The prize carries an honorarium of $500.00. No cash prize offered for honorable mention. The winner will be invited to give a brief presentation at the annual AIMS business meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
What are the institutional arrangements and organizational forms of human life that create the effect of frontiers? Frontiers are paradoxically geographical zones that imaginatively and materially embody social, economic, and political liminality while otherwise generating immense levels of state and imperial anxiety. Frontiers — the frontier effect — must be produced by ideas, by bodies, by material infrastructures, and by new configurations of human and non-human relations; and yet frontiers are essential spaces of production, making livelihoods and (in)securities possible.
