Category: Community Updates

Eventbrite link:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-directions-in-feminism-and-global-race-studies-a-book-conversation-tickets-135778024727 Direct Zoom informationTopic: Feminism and Global Race Studies Book ConversationTime: Jan 20, 2021 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meetinghttps://utexas.zoom.us/j/98682978670?pwd=UnltWFZ3YS8wRHF0ZEZXT0h3TTlYZz09 Meeting ID: 986 8297 8670Passcode: GLOBAL

The Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town has the following job opportunities: SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW (2-year contract)Click here to download the announcement for further details. 2. JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOW (3X POSTS) (2-year contract)Click here to download the announcement for further details.

The coronavirus pandemic has magnified existing inequalities, particularly along lines of gender. In Africa, like in other regions around the world, containment measures including lockdowns, confinement and drastic reductions in sociability have significantly impacted women. Access to paid work and sustainable livelihoods has been significantly disrupted, rates of domestic violence have increased, and access to…

SPEAKER: SYLVIA TAMALE  Sylvia Tamale, author of Decolonization and Afro-Feminism, is a professor of Law and a sociologist at Makerere University and a former Dean of its Law Faculty. Her research focuses on gender, law and sexuality, feminist jurisprudence and women in politics. She’s also an award-winning human rights defender for women, sex workers, homosexuals, and refugees. …

The South Feminist Futures Festival is scheduled to take place from December 7 – 11, 2020. The festival will be a week of art, activism, dialogue, reflection and celebration to reclaim a centuries long history of women fight slavery, colonialism, white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, racism and cisheteropatriarchy Register at https://southfeministfuturesfestival.org/

Members of the community are invited to attend a virtual event on the topic “Intimacy and Empire: Creating Over-Lapping Diasporas in Postcolonial Nigeria” to be delivered by Judith A. Byfield, Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 12:00noon (GMT) Click on the…

FEMINISTAFRICA.NETFeminist Africa is pleased to announce the launch of our new website and archive! We are now located at the University of Ghana’s Institute of African Studies, home to the continental pan-African intellectual tradition since 1961. With re-collectivized pan-continental leadership and renewed editorial governance structures in place, we have embarked on a bold new transgenerational…