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News and Events from the Centre of African Studies View this email in your browser Dear all This year we are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Centre of African Studies Cambridge, for our programme of events click here. Registration for our annual lecture given by Professor James Ferguson of Stanford University is now open and places are filling up quickly! To reserve a seat click here.   News from the Centre of African Studies   The Audrey Richards Annual Lecture in African Studies 2015   Professor James Ferguson Stanford University Give a Man a Fish: From Patriarchal Productionism to the Politics of Distribution in Southern Africa (and Beyond) For the abstract of the lecture click here. Thursday 26 March 2015 at 5pm Rooms SG1 & SG2, Alison Richard Building 7 West Road, Cambridge Followed by a reception in the atrium   James Ferguson is the Susan S and William H Hindle Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. His research has focused on southern Africa (especially Lesotho, Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia), and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. These include the politics of "development", rural-urban migration, changing topographies of property and wealth, constructions of space and place, urban culture in mining towns, experiences of modernity, the spatialization of states, the place of "Africa" in a real and imagined world, and the theory and politics of ethnography. Professor Ferguson is the author of The Anti-Politics Machine (1990), Expectations of Modernity (1999), Global Shadows (2006), and Give a Man a Fish (2015).   CAS Lent Term Seminar Series Gender in Africa   Monday 2 Feburary 2015 at 5pm Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge Professor Caroline Rooney University of Sussex Dr Julia Borossa Middlesex University   Same Sex Cultures and Pariah Formations in North Africa Abstracts for all the seminars can be found here.   Centre of African Studies Occasional Talk Martin Klein University of Toronto Slavery in the Cities of the Slave Trade Wednesday 4 February 2015 at 2pm Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge Chaired by Professor John Lonsdale Professor Klein has been one of the driving forces behind research into slavery and the slave trade in West Africa for decades. His work put the 'slave exodus' in early colonial French West Africa on the map, and has been crucial in establishing the politics of slaving and slavery in the nineteenth-century Sahel and Senegambia. He has been involved also in the study of resistance to enslavement and self-emancipation, and has facilitated a great deal of work by African-based scholars.   Africa Research Forum Seminar Daniel Wroe Universit of East Anglia "It's a Heavy Thing": Being a Man in Rural Central Malawi Wednesday 11 February 2015, 1-2 pm Room S2, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge For pre-circulated papers and details on the Africa Research Forum click here.   Africa Research Forum PhD Students' Workshop Friday 6 February 2015 Elton-Bowring Room, Clare College, Cambridge The aim of this day-long event is to provide a forum for Cambridge PhD students working on Africa-related topics to present their research and share ideas, and indeed to meet one another! Anyone is welcome to attend the Workshop as a member of the audience, but since space is limited we request that you register via the button below. Presenters will be registered automatically. To download the workshop programme click here   Exhibition Embodied Memories - Another Perspective on Research in Africa Photographic exhibition by Ashley Ouvier on floors 2 & 3 of  the Alison Richard Building, 29 January to 27 March 2015. A reception and academic colloquium entitled 'Virulence: Visualising the African Body as a Vector of Epidemics' will take place on 19 February 2015. For more information on the symposium click here. This exhibition gathers a series of portraits, family stories and social facts collected in 2012 alongside an anthropological study on traces and memories of science in Niakhar. Its intention is to foreground personal points of view of those who work at the ground level of an international health and demographic research site in Africa. It is also a way to visually query the meaning of African bodies and agency in the context of global health and post-independence relations. For further details on Ashley Ouvrier's work click here.   News and Events from Elsewhere   CRASSH Faculty Research Group Locating Religion   Monday 23 February from 1.30-3.30 pm Room 204, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge Please email jmc67@cam.ac.uk to receive pre-circulated paper. For further details click here. For a flyer click here Andrea Grant, Cambridge Spiritual Temporalities and the New Pentecostal Churches in Rwanda: Affect, Silence, and Noise   CRASSH Conference Pursuing Justice in Africa 27-28 March 2015 CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, Cambridge For registration details, a programme and speaker abstracts click here. Convenors: Jessica Johnson and George Karekwaivanane The Keynote address will be given by Kamari Maxine Clarke (Professor of Anthropology, Yale/Pennsylvania). The focus of the conference is on the many and varied actors pursuing visions of justice in Africa – their aspirations, divergent practices and articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice. We will bring together, in a coherent format, topics of research that are at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship across a wide range of disciplines, including activism, resource extraction, international legal institutions, and post-conflict reconciliation. Our engagement will be both empirical and theoretical: we aim to grapple with alternative approaches to the concept of justice and its relationships with law, morality, and rights. MPhil in African Studies 2015-16 Find out how to apply here. Deadline for applications 30 June 2015.     The CAS Audio Collection To listen to our latest seminar 'Contesting Compliance: Tales of 'Women's Empowerment' from Nineteenth-Century SW Nigeria', click here.   Further Seminars   Cambridgde Centre for Christianity Worldwide Lecture Series 2015, for further details click here.   "Can the Subaltern Speak?" 29 Jan 2015, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge. For details click here. Ebola: Experiences in a Global Emergency - the Case of Sierra Leone 9 Feb 2015, University of Bradford, for details click here. Africa Research Forum Seminars For details click here, for a flyer click here. CRASSH Research Seminar 9 March: Militant Masks; Youth and Insecurity in the Niger Delta. For details click here.   Scolma Seminar 11 Feb: Southern African Port Towns and the Shaping of Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms in the Early 19th Century For details click here.   Conferences & Calls for Papers   P​o​stamble​ Peer-reviewed online journal with a focus on the multidisciplinary study of Africa. Call for papers: Transdisciplinarity, Transformation and the Humanities, for further details click here. 2015 Oxford Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop A weeklong workshop hosted by The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities at Oxford University, 12-18 July 2015. Deadline 15 March 2015, for further details click here, for a flyer click here. Twelfth Cadbury Conference: Money Judgments 21-22 May 2015, University of Birmingham. Call for papers, deadline 1 March 2015, for details click here.   African Studies in the 20th Century: Past, Present, and Future 13-17 Oct 2015 Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Call for papers, deadline 30 March 2015, for details click here.   Africa Research Day 2015 16 March 2015, SOAS. Call for papers, deadline 15 Feb 2015, for details click here.   Print Media in the Colonial World CRASSH Cambridge 16-17 April 2015 For details click here. Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects in African History: Rethinking Historical Evidence and its Interpretation University of Birmingham For details click here, deadline 31 Jan 2015. The 2nd Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Conference Textualities of Space: Connections, Intricacies, and Intimacies 20-22 August 2015. Makerere University, Uganda For details click here, deadline 31 Jan 2015.   Environment, Race, and Land Use 13-15 July 2015, Rhodes University. For details click here, deadline 31 January 2015. African Intellectual Mobilities: Diasporic Travel and Texts, Past and Present 7 Feb 2015, University of York Further details click here.   Nigeria after the 2015 Elections Africa Confidential Conference 25 March 2015, London Further details here.   2nd International Thematic Conference on Africa and the Indian Ocean Fluid Networks and Hegemonic Powers in the Western Indian Ocean 9-10 April 2015, Lisbon. For more info click here, deadline 31 January 2015.   Awards, Fellowships & Scholarships   UAC Nigeria Travel Fund Grants for Cambridge University graduate students towards field work travel in Africa. Deadline 6 March 2015, for more info click here.   Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowship For more details click here, for the website click here. Closing date 6 March 2015.     Opportunities Public Health & International Development Internships in Uganda - Summer 2015  For more info click here, deadline 1 February 2015. Dakar Institute of African Studies Summer Study Abroad Programme, Dakar, Senegal More info here. Oxbridge Africa Mentorship Programme. For info click here and for a leaflet click here.   Music Calabash African Night Revival First Thursday of every month La Raza, Cambridge             Africa Research at the University of Cambridge   Share Tweet Forward to Friend   Copyright © 2015 Centre of African Studies, All rights reserved. Your are receiving this email because you have joined the Centre of African Studies mailing list. Our mailing address is: Centre of African Studies Alison Richard Building 7 West Road Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 9DT United Kingdom Add us to your address book