Reflections on South Africa’s Agrarian Questions after 20 years of Democracy

Call for Abstracts

Reflections on South Africa’s Agrarian Questions after 20 years of Democracy

Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 14/15 AUGUST 2014

The Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town will be hosting an international workshop which will reflect on South Africa’s land and agrarian questions 20 years after the advent of democracy in South Africa. The workshop will be held in the Centre for African Studies gallery on 14 and 15 August 2014.

Agrarian Summer School, Harare, Zimbabwe (2014)

AGRARIAN SUMMER SCHOOL 2014 (HARARE, ZIMBABWE) PROGRAMME by TigersEye99

Shifting the Geography of Reason XI: Diverse Lineages of Existentialism—Africana, Feminist, and Decolonial

Caribbean Philosophical Association

2014 ANNUAL MEETING

Shifting the Geography of Reason XI: 

Diverse Lineages of Existentialism—Africana, Feminist, and Decolonial

June 19–21, 2014, Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, Missouri

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline:

February 1, 2014

Abstracts should be submitted to: caribphil@gmail.com

In recent years, existential thought has been revitalized by a new generation of theorists investigating questions of gender, race, and sexual orientation. They have brought to light numerous ways in which existentialism has contributed to, and been shaped by, Africana philosophy, Latin American philosophy, feminism, and the work of literary writers and performing artists.

Program for Global Uprisings conference

DAY ONE

FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER

20.00: Welcome

Welcome from the Stichting Democratie en Media with an introduction and short film from the makers of the globaluprisings.org film series (Brandon Jourdan and Marianne Maeckelbergh).

Caribbean Philosophy Association 2013 Conference

10TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE

November 21–24, 2013

CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDIES ON

PUERTO RICO AND THE CARIBBEAN

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Shifting the Geography of Reason X:

Exploring Decoloniality at the Dawn of a Our Second Decade

Conference Program TBA

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General Information

For its ten-year anniversary meeting, the Caribbean Philosophical Association invites critical inquiries into existing forms of coloniality and the exploration of multiple forms of decoloniality in the areas of knowledge, power, being, and value in the Caribbean and elsewhere.  Also, there will be individual presentations and panels in each of the areas of emphasis over the past ten years. 

Freedom, Race and Social Cohesion: historical and contemporary African perspectives.

A Colloquium at UNISA 4^th-5^th March 2014

Call for papers

At the time when the 50^th anniversary of attempts at African unity are being celebrated, it is perhaps also important to reflect on the general demands and struggle for freedom which underlay the pan-African dream and which African independence had promised its peoples.  Rather than merely celebrating an organisation of states, it is fundamentally important to reflect on the ideals which produced them and how they have been experienced by people since.  After all it was as recently as the 1980s that a Nigerian peasant was asking ‘When will independence end?’  (Raufu Mustapha, 1996)[1].  It is a sad fact that popular dissatisfaction with the state in Africa is widespread.

Violence in/and the Great Lakes: The Thought of V.Y. Mudimbe and Beyond

7 to 9 August 2013

ELRC, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

This colloquium is organised by the Thinking Africa project of the

Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University, in

collaboration with Grant Farred from Cornell University. The colloquium

reflects on the work of VY Mudimbe using these reflections to consider the

current situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Participants in

the colloquium include VY Mudimbe (Duke, USA), Grant Farred (Cornell, USA),

Gervais Désiré Yamb (Ottawa, Canada), Fabien Eboussi Boulaga (Yaoundé,

Cameroon) Olga Hel-Bongo (Laval, Québec), Justin K. Bisanswa (Laval, Québec)

and Kasereka Kavwahirehi (Ottawa, Canada).

The Life and Times of Neville Alexander

Neville Alexander Commemorative Conference Programme

Theme: ‘The Life and Times of Neville Alexander’ 6 – 8 July 2013

Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Day 1 Saturday 6th July 2013

15:00-16:00 Registration

16:00-16:15 Opening and Welcoming

Derrick Swartz, Vice-Chancellor Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Legacies of Apartheid Wars Conference, Rhodes University, 4-6 July 2013

Call for Abstracts

"Addressing, Archiving and Accounting for Legacies of the Apartheid Wars in

Southern Africa"

Twenty years since the establishment of democracy in South Africa, the people, land and politics of Southern Africa continue to be imprinted and
influenced by the legacies of the wars fuelled by the apartheid era. The aim
of this cross-disciplinary conference is to invite diverse views and
perspectives on addressing the legacies of these wars. Scholars and
activists are invited to present papers and engage in conversations about
their work, their contexts and their insights.

Conference Programme: The Durban Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s

Rhodes University  21–23 February 2013

Thursday 21st February	Venue: Centre for Continuing Education
First Session
9.00 – 9.30	Registration
9.30 – 9.45	Welcome by Professor Saleem Badat, Vice Rector
9.45 – 10.00	Welcome and announcements by Omar Badsha
10.00 – 11.30	The Meaning of the Durban Moment Now
	Richard Pithouse: The Meaning of the Durban Moment Now
11.30 – 11.45	Tea

Lineages of Freedom Catalytic Project

The Humanities Faculty at Rhodes University and SAHUDA (South African

Humanities Deans' Association) invite you to attend the following: 

LINEAGES OF FREEDOM LUNCH TIME LECTURES 15-19 OCTOBER 2012
Venue:  Eden Grove Blue 
Time: 13h05
Discussant for all talks:  Nomalanga Mkhize

The idea behind these dialogues is to trace our various trajectories of
liberation and repression and to reflect critically on our past as well as
our present.  The intention is to highlight the ongoing problems confronted
by a post-apartheid South Africa.  It is clear to all that formal apartheid
is dead.  Yet, in very many ways, apartheid continues to linger on in all
spheres of our body politic.  Hence, the proposed three sets of events will
subject to critical scrutiny the contemporary relevance of the questions
about change and building a new society which animated the struggle against
apartheid.  

‘Politics at a Distance from the State’ Conference

‘Politics at a Distance from the State’ Conference Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa  29th-30th September 2012 The conference is intended as a space at which academics & activists sympathetic to, supportive of, or involved in ‘politics at a distance from the state’ can freely explore, discuss and debate this type of politics. It considers anti-statist politics in South Africa and beyond, including anti-statist moments and currents in the anti-Apartheid movement, and contemporary attempts at building alternative, pre-figurative forms of communality in South Africa and abroad. Attendees will include activists from the 1980s BCM, UDF and trade union movement, writers like John Holloway, Jacques Depelchin, Michael Neocosmos, Richard Pithouse, and Lucien van der Walt (co-author Black Flame), plus today’s movements supportive of 'at a distance' politics, like shack-dweller movement Abahlali baseMjondoloolo.

The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour & resistance in the 1970s