Announcements

AFRICAN STUDIES UPDATE
Welcome back to winter quarter! If you have events that you would like posted in the African Studies Update, please submit them to nikoi@ohio.edu by 5:00 on Mondays.

November 2009

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INFORMATION SESSION
The Center for International Studies will be holding a Capstone Information Session open to all International Studies graduate students on Friday, November 13. This session is intended to provide information and answer questions regarding the three capstone options (comprehensive exams, professional project and thesis). Each of these options has a timeline and required forms, so please plan to attend this session to ensure you are on the right track for completing your capstone. This session is offered only in fall quarter. First year students should plan to attend.

Friday, November 13
3:00 PM
Walter Hall room 145


A day of Ghibli for a cause of OU-UNICEF education advocacy
3-5pm, Saturday, November 8th at Rollins Room 2nd floor Alden library  

UNICEF OU chapter has been run by many students from International Studies. Throughout this quarter, especially through the students' presentations, we have learned that many children in the world have gone through much hardship due to natural disasters, civil wars, HIV, streetism, poverty, international dilemma, family conflicts, and so forth.  To end our weekly meetings for this quarter, we will have a film day for children. The film will be selected from
studio Ghibli, a Japanese company which has produced a number of educational but entertaining animations for children and adults. This film day will also serve as a communication tool for children and students. Children welcome!!  
Saturday, November 8
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Rollins Room, 2nd Floor Alden Library


Fellowships/Calls for Papers
(full descriptions of the below announcements can be found on the African Studies bulletin board in Yamada House)

African Health Summit - Call for Papers
On April 9, 2010 the African Studies Program will host the African Health Summit, which will focus on "Health and Human Rights in Africa." Papers are solicited covering a broad range of topics in African health and human rights including local availability (urban versus rural, physical infrastructure for health services, human
resources and the health work force), accessibility (gender inequality, discrimination and vulnerability, economic as well as infrastructural discrepancies), acceptability (communication
and other ethical issues), and quality (poor working conditions, quality of medical care, the role of poor nutrition in promoting health challenges) are eligible for presentation at the 2010 African Health Summit. The summit welcomes all interested or involved in African public health, human rights and development.
For more information visit the website:
<http://www.african.ohio.edu/Conferences/healthsummit.html>
or contact Zalalem Haile <haile@Ohio.edu>


Sports in Africa - Call for Papers
March 5-6, 2010 Ohio University will again host the Sports in Africa symposium. The theme Politics and Globalization will represent the leading topic of 2010 symposium.  The FIFA World Cup in South Africa in 2010, the global presence of African soccer players demonstrates the presence of Africa on the global sport stage. Therefore, the 2010 conference will focus on themes such as sport politics, politics and sport, African participation and contribution to global sport, global media networks and sport, sport and African development, women in sport, and youth and sport. Although we encourage the submission of papers that focus on politics and globalization in African sports, conference organizers are also open to the submission of papers that deal with other aspects of sports in Africa.

The conference organizers sincerely hope that the dialogue will be pursued beyond this initiative, and are planning a symposium that will be not only intellectually engaging, but also a source of inspiration for future scholarly and practical endeavors.

For more information visit the Sports in Africa website: <http://www.ohio.edu/sportsafrica/politicsglobalization/>

American Association of Undergraduate Women
AAUW FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
International Fellowships

Application due December 1, 2009
Overview:  International Fellowships are awarded for full-time study or research in the United States to women who are not United States citizens or permanent residents. Both graduate and postgraduate studies at accredited institutions are supported. Several fellowships are available for study outside of the U.S.
Benefits:  $20,000 (doctorate fellowship) $30,000 (postdoctoral
fellowship)

Eligibility:
Women who are not United States citizens or permanent residents
http://www.aauw.org/education/fga/fellowships_grants/index.cfm

Woodson Institute's Residential Fellowship Program
Since its inception in 1981, the Woodson Institute’s Residential Fellowship Program has attracted outstanding scholars in the humanities and social sciences who work on a wide array of topics in African-American and African Studies, as well as related fields. These two-year fellowships—offered at the pre-doctoral and post-doctoral levels—are designed to facilitate the writing of dissertations or manuscripts and provide successful applicants the opportunity to discuss and exchange works-in-progress both with each other and the larger intellectual community of the University. Preference is given to applicants whose research is substantially completed, thus providing them the maximum amount of time to complete their manuscripts within the fellowship term.
Post-doctoral fellows are expected to teach one upper-division seminar each year within the African-American and African Studies Program on a topic chosen in consultation with the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Please see the guidelines in the Instructions and Application sections for more information about the fellowship program.
http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/woodson/fellowship/index.html

Maloto - a dream for Malawi
The organization Maloto: a dream for Malawi invites you to a Malawi Dinner to support construction of a school for children in Malawi. The dinner will be held in the Multi-Purpose Hall of Baker
Center this Saturday November 7 starting from 6:00 pm. You are all welcome to enjoy Malawian dishes and performances from around the world. Contributions are $25 Faculty and community members and $10 students. Tickets can be purchase from Fletcher Ziwoya <fz233105@ohio.edu>. If not able to attend, any donation is welcome. You can check out more info on this link: <http://www.malotoinc.org/>.
Saturday, November 7
6:00 PM
Baker Center Multi-Purpose Hall

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES INFORMATION SESSION – FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
3 p.m., Walter Hall room 145
The Center for International Studies will be holding a Capstone Information Session open to all International Studies graduate students on Friday, November 13. This session is intended to provide information and answer questions regarding the three capstone options (comprehensive exams, professional project and thesis). Each of these options has a timeline and required forms, so please plan to attend this session to ensure you are on the right track for completing your capstone.

Wrapped in Culture: African Textiles and Dress
To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Alden Library there is a display on the first floor of African Textiles and Dress titled "Wrapped in Culture: African Textiles and Dress -- Beyond Aesthetics." A display of how cloth is used in Africa to enhance and communicate cultural values towards ethnicity, gender, life stages, status and authority.
Alden Library
First Floor
on-going

Fellowships/Calls for Papers
(full descriptions of the below announcements can be found on the African Studies bulletin board in Yamada House)

Programme on the Study of the Humanities in Africa of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
Master’s, Doctoral and Postdoctoral Award Announcement for 2010
The Programme on the Study of the Humanities in Africa (PSHA) at the University of the Western Cape invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships for the 2010 academic year. The PSHA is an exciting research platform based in the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) dedicated to redefining Humanities research in and about Africa and making sense of the driving forces of globalization. It is backed by generous grants from the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Introducing the 1st Annual
MyAfricanDiaspora.com
SHORT STORY COMPETITION
In our ongoing effort to promote positive images that reflect people  of African descent, the website that connects that African Diaspora is  pleased to announce our first annual Short Story contest.
We're looking for fiction that is unique, stories with characters  we'll remember, plots that leave us thinking. The contest is open to  anyone, any race, any country, any continent. The only caveat? The  main character must be of African descent.

SOCIETY FOR APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY’S STUDENT ENDOWED AWARD — THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010
The Society for Applied Anthropology’s Student Endowed Award offers undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of anthropology, applied social sciences and other disciplines the opportunity to become members of the society as well as travel accommodations for the next SfAA meeting.

The deadline for application is Jan. 14, 2010, and the form can be downloaded here. For more information, please visit http://www.sfaa.net/committees/students/studentendowment.html.

ISLAMIC WORLD STUDIES FELLOWSHIP – SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
Macalester College invites applications for a two-year Winston & Maxine Wallin Postdoctoral Faculty Fellowship for recent PhDs who focus on the Islamic world, broadly understood.  The Fellowship includes a $57,000 salary plus benefits and funds to support research and travel.

The Fellowship will begin September 2010 and entails half-time teaching, with the Fellow offering one course each semester. Candidates should have completed their PhD within the last five years, be interested in teaching in a rigorous liberal arts environment, and hold promise of substantial original scholarship. Preference will be given to applicants with the ability to teach transnationally engaged courses which include an interdisciplinary dimension.

Initial applications, which consist of a detailed cover letter that includes a description of teaching interests, plus a CV, may be delivered at www.academicjobsonline.org.  Alternatively, you may submit these materials to Kendrick Brown, PhD, Associate Dean of the Faculty, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105 USA.

Questions about the position are welcomed at intl@macalester.edu.  Applications received by November 15th, 2009 will receive first consideration.

Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations

One six-month fellowship is available for a female social scientist from a developing nation, either pre- or post-doctoral, whose work addresses women’s economic and social empowerment in that nation. Adobe PDF IconDownload the flier (292 KB)The goal of the program is twofold: to advance the scholarly careers of women social scientists from the developing world, and to support research that identifies causes of gender inequity in the developing world and that proposes practical solutions for promoting women’s economic and social empowerment.

In addition to a $4,500/month stipend and housing and office space on the SAR campus, the Campbell Fellow receives travel, shipping, and library resource funds; health insurance; and the support of a mentoring committee of established scholar-practitioners.
Details available at:http://sarweb.org/index.php?resident_scholar_campbell_fellowship

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