There are upcoming calls for papers, applications, and other opportunities we wanted to share with you. 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.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation: Young African Scholars Program
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation sponsors scholarly research on problems of violence, aggression, and dominance. Every two years the foundation hosts the Young African Scholars program. Ten scholars whose proposed projects are judged to be of high quality and closely relevant to the foundation’s interest in violence and aggression are selected to take part. Candidates from across the continent are encouraged to apply. All application materials must be submitted by, 11:59 PM EST on October 1st, 2018, in order to be considered. For more information visit: http://www.cihablog.com/job/the-harry-frank-guggenheim-foundation-young-african-scholars-program/
CAORC-WARC Faculty Development Seminar Award
Diversity, Religion, and Migration in West Africa
Application Deadline: October 22, 2018
To support community colleges and minority-serving institutions, CAORC offers innovative, cost-effective programming that helps faculty and administrators gain the requisite first-hand experience needed to develop and improve international curricula. This award program, administered by CAORC in collaboration with its member center in Dakar, Senegal, the West African Research Center, funds participation in a two-week capacity building workshop in Dakar that will also include visits to Toubacouta and Saint-Louis. Round-trip travel, accommodations, and meals will be provided for the seminar, along with a stipend of $500 for travel and living expenses incurred during the program. For more information visit: http://www.cihablog.com/job/caorc-warc-faculty-development-seminar-award/
Call for Papers: The Fourth Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference
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. For more information visit: http://www.cihablog.com/job/call-for-papers-the-fourth-annual-lagos-studies-association-conference/