The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton U

The Institute of African Studies (IAS) at Carleton U Institute of African Studies, Carleton University
439 Paterson Hall

Undergraduate and Graduate programs in African Studies. carleton.ca/africanstudies
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The Institute of African Studies builds on Carleton’s long history of expertise on Africa amongst its faculty and graduate students by pulling together the growing number of faculty members and experts in the Ottawa-Gatineau region to provide fresh insight into current and historical dynamics of Africa – from the slave trade that reshaped the continent and the Atlantic world to the richly textured

and innovative religious practices and livelihood strategies, from conflicts, refugees, and peace-building efforts to the production and reception of world-renowned and locally-consumed literatures, music and film. Carleton is the only Canadian university to have a stand-alone Institute of African Studies which also offers a degree program. It provides Combined Honours and Minor programs in African Studies, organizes public events and activities concerning the continent and the African diaspora, and highlights and brings together the ongoing research conducted by its faculty and students. Our undergraduate program at the Institute of African Studies offers:

Interdisciplinarity

Our Combined Honours program in African Studies is built on students taking courses in various disciplines, enabling them to develop a fuller understanding and appreciation of the many dimensions of the continent. Practical Experience

African Studies students are encouraged to acquire “hands-on” experience in regards to African Studies through taking a third year placement course, which enables them to carry out work for an organization working on Africa for academic credit, and by going to one of the African universities with which Carleton has an exchange agreement. Engaging with Contemporary Issues

In the different courses, African Studies students will be discussing and learning about events and their historical and current contexts that are debated and discussed within Africa and beyond. Students will learn about the effects of slavery on Africa and the question of reparations; African unity and pan-Africanism; authenticity and artistic productions; democratization and human rights; conservation, national parks, and sustainable tourism; justice, reconciliation, and peace-building; music and cultural performances; HIV/AIDS, malaria and government and donor policies concerning health-care; ethnicity, belonging, and citizenship; African cinema and documentary film studies; and globalization and economic sovereignty, amongst others.

🌍📢 Join Us for an Exciting Online Event!Event: Morafe: Person, Family, Nation in Colonial BechuanalandDate: September 18...
09/10/2024

🌍📢 Join Us for an Exciting Online Event!

Event: Morafe: Person, Family, Nation in Colonial Bechuanaland
Date: September 18, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (EST)

We invite you to a fascinating exploration of the dynamics of Morafe—personhood, family, and nationhood in Colonial Bechuanaland. This event promises to offer deep insights into the social and political landscape of the time, with perspectives that resonate today.

🖥️ Online Event
To attend, register here: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqcuqqqj8vHtNZ7Y1hhCDCk9B9SipXVYxV

Don't miss out on this enriching discussion!
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In recognition of Canada’s International Development Week, the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University is pl...
01/25/2024

In recognition of Canada’s International Development Week, the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University is pleased to host Yvonne Capehart Weah, co-founder of the WE-CARE Foundation in Liberia. Please join us on February 6th (12h30 -2h00 PM EST) for an insightful discussion as Yvonne will speak about the obstacles to combating learning poverty in Liberia and what WE-CARE and other local actors are doing to improve foundational learning.

Register now: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpf-ytrj8rHtK2RVZ5qyjAn7qO5x7lrF63 #/registration

“Everyone has Become a Hyena”: Change and Continuities in Neighbour Relationships in Newly Emerging Condominium Neighbou...
02/01/2023

“Everyone has Become a Hyena”: Change and Continuities in Neighbour Relationships in Newly Emerging Condominium Neighbourhoods in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

February 8, 2023 | 1:00pm EST
Register here: http://bit.ly/3HnQ5Am

Abstract
Ethiopia’s Integrated Housing Development Program builds and distributes subsidized condos to supposedly lower and middle-income residents. Since 2004, about half a million households have moved into condos in Addis Ababa alone. Their vertical density, lottery distribution of houses, formal neighborhood bylaws, and neighborhood gates makes these new condominium neighborhoods different from other neighborhoods in Addis Ababa. Drawing on six months of doctoral ethnographic fieldwork in a condominium neighborhood in Addis Ababa that was established 11 years ago, this talk discusses the change and continuities in everyday neighboring practices in condominiums. New and recreated neighbor relationship dynamics have emerged as residents strived to adapt to the socio-physical environment of condominium housing. Nostalgia is deployed as a framework to make sense of the past and the present.

The talk concludes by discussing what these neighboring practices in the condominiums tell us about residents’ sense of belongingness and their relationship with the city.

About the Speaker
Hone Mandefro is a doctoral candidate at Concordia University. Hone’s research examines the change and continuity in relationships among neighbors as their living space in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, changes from single-story houses to high-rise condominiums. His research is supported by a Vanier Scholarship from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation.

This talk is part of the Brown Bag Seminar Series at the Institute of African Studies.

Call for Abstracts:Ahead of Conference on Navigating Complex pluriversalsim:Indigeneity, natural resources governance an...
05/10/2022

Call for Abstracts:

Ahead of Conference on Navigating Complex pluriversalsim:
Indigeneity, natural resources governance and intercontinental relations in the 21st century. University of Pretoria, July 5-7, 2022

Workshop Topic: Natural Resource Governance and Sustainable Development in Africa: Exploring Regional Integration Approach.

With support from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, the Thabo Mbeki School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa in partnership with the Institute of
African Studies, Carleton University (Canada), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), Queen’s University (Canada) and the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria (South Africa) is organizing a policy conference entitled Natural Resources Governance and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa: Exploring Regional Integration Approaches’ at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, from July 5-7, 2022.

Scholars, policy makers, industry personnel and members of local and international non-governmental organizations are invited to submit abstracts in any of the following areas:

• Natural resource governance in Africa: Concepts and theories
• History of natural resources governance in Africa
• Natural resources governance and sustainable development in Africa
• Regulation of natural resources in Africa
• Regional Integration and natural resources governance
• Regional governance of natural resources
• Mining companies and natural resources governance
• State capacity and natural resources governance in Southern Africa
• Regional economic communities and natural resources governance in Southern Africa
• Country case studies on natural resources governance and sustainable development
• Comparative lessons on natural resources and sustainable development from non-African countries or other regions (Europe, South America, etc.)
• Civil society and natural resources governance
• Policy making on and implementation of natural resources governance and sustainable development
• Labour and natural resource governance
The abstract which should be between 250-500 words should be sent to Steven Mohapi at [email protected] and Femi Ajidahun at [email protected] no later than May 26, 2022. The conference will be organized as a hybrid. Authors whose papers are accepted and who may not be able to afford the cost of participation may receive some support to travel to the conference. Selected papers will be published in an edited book volume and special issues/sections of peer-reviewed academic journals.

To submit an abstract and more information, visithttps://carleton.ca/.../NRF-Project-Call-for-Papers.pdf

Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Indigenous Communities, Knowledge and Youth Perspectives on Career, Employment and Entre...
05/10/2022

Call for Abstracts:
Workshop on Indigenous Communities, Knowledge and Youth Perspectives on Career, Employment and Entrepreneurship in Africa.

Although the United Nations classified several groups in Africa as Indigenous peoples based on their ways of life and forms of governance, questions arise as to how these classifications came into being. This workshop intends to interrogate the fundamental epistemological challenge and ontological question of classification of indigeneity focusing on the classification of indigenous communities in Africa.

Scholars are invited to submit papers on any of the following issues in preparation for a workshop being organized by the Institute of African Studies and Sprott School of Business, Carleton University as part of the African Knowledge, Natural Resource Governance and Innovation week holding at the University of Pretoria, South Africa from July 4-6, 2022.

Scholars whose papers are accepted will become part of the African Research Network on Indigenous Communities. Submissions are welcome in any of the areas below;

• Epistemology of Indigenous groups in Africa
• Knowledge generation and production in Indigenous communities
• Research methodology among Indigenous youth in Africa
• Indigenous communities and the problem of classification
• Indigenous communities in settler and non-settler colonial states
• Governance institutions in Indigenous communities
• Youth perspectives on entrepreneurship in Indigenous communities

To submit an abstract and more information, visithttps://carleton.ca/africanstudies/wp-content/uploads/Workshop-on-Indigenous-Communities-Knowledge-and-Youth-Perspectives-on-Career-Employment-and-Entrepreneurship-in-Africa-20220421.pdf

Dear African studies community,You are warmly invited to join us on Monday, April 25th for a conversation on Neoliberali...
04/20/2022

Dear African studies community,

You are warmly invited to join us on Monday, April 25th for a conversation on Neoliberalism, Militarization and Shifting Geopolitics in Africa with Pádraig Carmody & Zubairu Wai.
Pádraig Carmody is a Professor of Geography at Trinity College Dublin, Author of The New Scramble for Africa, 2nd, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2016, co-author of Africa's Shadow Rise: China and the Mirage of African Economic Development, London, Zed Books, among others including a range of recent journal articles on Africa-China relations, BRICS and impacts of COVID 19 in Africa, including recently "China's Spatial Fix and 'Debt Diplomacy' in Africa", in the Canadian Journal of African Studies, co-authored with Ian Taylor and Tim Zajontz.
Zubairu Wai is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies at University of Toronto, Scarborough. He is the author of Epistemologies of African Conflicts: Violence, Evolutionism, and the War in Sierra Leone (2012), which won the ATWS Toyin Falola Africa Book Award for 2013, and co-editor (with Marta Iñiguez de Heredia) of Recentering Africa in International Relations: Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (2018). His forthcoming book with Routledge interrogates the contaminating vectors of the colonial archive and its implications for epistemic decolonisation, titled; Thinking the Colonial Library: Mudimbe, Gnosis, and the Predicament of Africanist Knowledge.
This is a virtual event via Zoom at the link below.

Date: Monday, April 25, 2022
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am ET
Register at: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArf-yqrDwiH91q4risAtakU7D83vbaToUb

Alternatively, you can use the short link bit.ly/3vrqU8N

Please feel free to share the attached posters with your network.

Look forward to seeing you all.

Regards,
Institute of African Studies

09/12/2021

It’s important to shift educational discourse in and around Africa in a more equitable, representative direction.

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