There are several exciting calls for proposals/applications/events with upcoming deadlines that we’d like to bring to your attention. For more details and the full listing of many more interesting opportunities, please check out the Opportunities section here.If you have a relevant opportunity that you would like added, please email us at cihablog[at]gmail[dot]com.
Religion and Human Security in Africa – Short Course
| Dates + location | 21 – 25 January 2019, Cape Coast, Ghana |
| Level | (Advanced) BA / MA / PhD |
| Fee | € 100 |
| Coordinator | Prof. Kocku von Stuckrad |
| Contact | religionhumansecurity@rug.nl |
When it comes to human security in Africa, religion plays an important and yet understudied role. This interdisciplinary winter school scrutinizes religion as a destabilizing as well as beneficial factor for humans to feel safe in their personal environments. Security, here, refers to the levels of personal relationships (partnerships, families, ethnic communities), of economic challenges (labor market, financial security), as well as of international developments (postcolonial power-relations, ecological changes, etc.). To unpack the complexity of these levels of security, and to reveal their interrelatedness, the Winter/New Year School will address concrete questions, such as, but not limited to:
- How would a postcolonial Africa look like without any aids and without a “teleology of development”?
- How can we understand religion in an economic market characterized by churches acting as big businesses, as well as by culturally adaptive systems that have fostered phenomena of modern-day slavery?
- What is the role of religion in discourses of sexuality and physical security?
- How does religion respond to ecological challenges and insecurities caused by climate change?
This exciting Winter/New Year School is research-driven and multidisciplinary, offering a wide range of perspectives. We invite you to bring in your knowledge and ambitions, and to share your experiences and questions.
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Application
The deadline for application is 14 January 2019. Please submit the following documents with your application:
- CV
- Motivation letter
Call for Papers – IUS Law Journal
The IUS Law Journal is an English-language, peer-review journal, one of a kind in this region, published twice a year in Fall and Spring. A scholarly legal publication of the Faculty of Law at the International University of Sarajevo (IUS), the journal is designed to explore issues relating to Bosnian public and private laws along with lessons for other constitutional systems, irrespective of legal tradition (civil or common law) or democratic status (young or established), in a contemporary world marked by migration of constitutional ideas. Established on August 9, 2018, via Decision No. IUS-FLW-15-1945/18 of the Faculty of Law Council, the journal is working to produce its maiden edition due out about February of 2019. Manuscripts collected through this call will go into that first issue.
The theme of the volume will center around the role of transitional and restorative justice in promoting deterrence to impunity. Authors who choose to participate in this edition must submit original contribution, not published elsewhere, that is substantially tied to the theme of this volume.
Authors must prepare their contributions using the Bluebook style manual of legal documentation and ranging in length from 9,000-12,000 words, meaning 32-48 pages, double spacing, Times New Roman or Arial 12-point font (250 words per page), footnotes included. Although not encouraged, depending on their importance, contributions beyond 12,000 words may also be considered for review and possible acceptance.
Interested contributors should submit their manuscript, carefully saved in Microsoft Word document format, not PDF, by email to paka@ius.edu.ba, copy mljubovic@ius.edu.ba. When making your submission, please indicate the name of the journal (IUS Law Journal) in your cover letter or insert “IUS Law Journal” in the “subject box.” This call for manuscripts is open until December 31, 2018.
Please direct any question you may have related to this call to either of the two email addresses above.
Dr. Prof. Philip C. Aka Editor-in-Chief, IUS Law Journal
Call for Papers – International Studies Association
| Exploring the Agency of the Global South in International Studies (Practices) |
| Global South (GS) actors have become increasingly influential in international politics, conspicuous in their role in international trade, international security and climate change negotiations, and a range of new ‘South-South’ cooperation and partnerships. Although the Global South is increasingly prominent in international relations and attracts interest from a variety of actors, on many fronts it remains entangled in the seemingly immovable structures of international inequality, high levels of poverty and underdevelopment, often fragile economies and weak political and military capacity, and recurrent instabilities.
The question of the persistence of this characterization of Global South, notwithstanding this new and emerging role in international affairs, is relevant. One view is that GS actors are considered minor/small/periphery in the international system and thus serve as a set of cases through which to explore the view of international studies that begins somewhere other than with the great actors. Another approach would be to highlight the on-going debate about the ways in which the GS sits uncomfortably within the discipline of International Relations and thus acutely poses questions about the universality of IR’s theoretical constructs. Another is that the GS does in fact matter for a range of policy areas, particularly those involving multilateral collective action, or areas where there are marked relations of interdependence. Drawing on all of these, actors in the Global South can serve as a limiting case – that is if anywhere might be characterized as most bound by existing structures of power surely it is in the Global South. Therefore, a focus on agency allows us to frame an analysis which foregrounds the GS and other actors as serious/contending objects of study and stands in sharp contrast to the standard approach to analyses in international studies. This in effect enables us to flip and move beyond the narratives of both scholarly and practical questions such as how external actors such as aid donors and great powers old and new have impacted the most marginalized in the Global South. |
Some representative questions the theme might address include:
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| August 1st – 3rd, 2019, Accra, Ghana Amanda Coffie & Lembe Tiky, Program Chairs/Presidents du Programme |
| Submission Deadline: January 21, 2019
Date limite de soumissions: 21 janvier 2019 |
Call for Papers: The Fourth Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference
Theme: Lagos in the World and the World in Lagos
Lagos, Nigeria June 27-29, 2019
Abstracts Due December 15th, 2018
For centuries, Lagos has responded to significant changes in the core structures of its economic, social, and political order. A combination of internal transformation shaped external changes, and vice versa, creating monumental impacts in the city. Scholars working with diverse discursive tools have examined the contributions of Lagos to African and global transformation from the pre-colonial era to the present. From the story of internal migrations leading to the creation of communities to how the transatlantic slave trade integrated the port city into the vortex of world capitalism, Lagos as a phenomenon and an imagination manifests in the interplay of complex local and global processes. Lagos is both a beneficiary and contributor to the making of modern global cultures.
Therefore, in the fourth edition of its annual conference, the Lagos Studies Association seeks to build on existing scholarship on local and global processes in the making of Lagos. We are interested in new ideas that challenge existing paradigms while presenting significant possibilities for Lagos Studies. We invite presentations that compel us to rethink how the intersection of local and global dynamics have shaped the ways we conceptualize Lagos as an African city. Constant population movement, new ideals of community and local power, Atlantic and cultural exchange, social media and new identities, and regional political ideas that emphasize urban renewal, among other dynamics pose serious questions for engaging the continuous re-making of Lagos.
To this end, we invite proposals for panels, round-tables, and workshops from academic and non-academic practitioners of Lagos Studies across fields and disciplines. We also encourage proposals from scholars working on other African and Nigerian cities in order to better place the intersections of the local and the global in regional and pan-African perspectives.
Submission: Individual proposals should include a 250-word abstract, a short bio, and email and phone contacts of presenters. Panel, round-table, and workshop proposals should comprise a 250-word summary, and email and phone contacts of all participants. Selected papers from this conference will be published in a special issue of urban and African studies journals.
Due date to submit abstract: December 15, 2018. Notification of acceptance of abstract by December 31, 2018. Email address: lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com
Registration fee: Local (N10,000); International ($100). Registration fee covers nine full meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) throughout the conference. Everyone listed on abstracts must pre-register by paying registration fee after the acceptance of abstract.
CHCI Africa Workshop (Addis 2019) “Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom”
January 3, 2019 – January 18, 2019
The first CHCI Africa Workshop, Addis 2019, will be held at Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia). Hosted by the Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centers (CHCI) in collaboration with the College of Performing and Visual Art and the Center of African Studies at Addis Ababa University, the workshop will include intensive seminars, mentoring and training
workshops, and guest lectures.
The Addis 2019 workshop will include three intensive seminars focused on re-conceptualizing Africa as both a theoretical category and a prism to examine the contemporary world. Through art, literature, performance, and philosophy, the seminars will build on the possibility of Africa that flourished across the continent and into the diaspora during the early years of decolonization. During the course of the workshop, participants will critically engage the category of Africa itself, looking beyond both the post-Cold War focus on Africa as a metaphor for regression, decay, and urgent intervention and the limited opposition between ‘crisis’ and ‘renaissance.’ The new public debates on freedom and emancipation in the continent cut across differences framed in terms of ethnic or national affiliation, language, region, religion, or
historical background. Addis 2019 will focus on redefining and multiplying the images of Africa and Africans past and present. Through intensive seminars and related activities, which will include lectures, panels, artists talks, and site visits, participants will explore a range of critical positions and cultural practices. They will reflect on current and historical modes of theorizing Africa – and develop new ones.