Press Release and Announcements

The American Council of Learned Societies is happy to announce that application materials for the 2011-12 African Humanities Program fellowship competitions are now available online.

To download the application documents, and for further information on this year's competition, please visit the program website at http://www.acls.org/programs/ahp .

Please note that a list of the 2010-11 AHP Awardees is now also available on our website.

Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning

Press Release

For Immediate Release

COERLL PUBLISHES BEGINNING YORÚBÀ TEXTBOOK

AUSTIN, TX - AUGUST 4, 2011 - COERLL, a federally funded foreign language resource center specializing in Open Educational Resources (OER) for the Internet public, released its newest interactive language textbook, Yorúbà Yé Mi - A Beginning Yorúbà Textbook. The online textbook is available to the public for free and includes an affordable print-on-demand option.

The International Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) Network, located at the University of Michiganís School of Natural Resources and Environment, seeks a postdoctoral fellow for a one-year appointment beginning Fall 2011.

Established in 1992, the Thami Mnyele Foundation runs a unique three month artists-in-residence program in Amsterdam.

Application deadline: June 24, 2011 at 4 pm (for residencies in 2012).

The main objective of the Foundation is to advance cultural exchange between artists from Africa, the Netherlands and Amsterdam in particular.

Conference Theme: Violence and Representation in Africa and the African Diaspora

Date: April 17-20 2011

Venue: The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

The seventeenth annual conference of the International Society of African Philosophy and Studies hosted by the Department of African American and African Studies and the Department of French and Italian at the Ohio State University will bring together scholars, artists, practitioners, and activists from a variety of disciplines to explore the nature, forms, and manifestations of violence in the African world.  Apart from the traditional more or less negative representations of violence, the conference will enable participants to further nuance the concept of violence and connect it to morality, ethics, accountability, and “democracy.”  Scholars are also encouraged to discuss epistemic, economic, social, and political manifestations of violence that have functioned both as a means to free Africans, as a resource to keep them in subordination, or, as Fanon claims, as a cleansing force.