The University of the Free State (UFS) invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for a postdoctoral fellowship in the Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice. Candidates interested in pursuing an academic or professional career in higher education, with special research interest in institutional change and institutional culture within higher education, are especially encouraged to …
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EVENT: New Tools for ‘Distanced’ Anthropological Research: Webscraping and Ethnography of Digital Cultures in/of Africa
The event below may be of interest to students and researchers who are interested in webscraping and digital ethnography methods, with a focus on Africa. For information about the speakers, and to register for these events, please see the Foundation’s website. On February 15th, 16th and 25th the Wenner-Gren Foundation is sponsoring a series of webinars entitled, New Tools …
The Lesser Violence Reading Group
Join us this Wednesday (21 October, 2020) at 13:00 (GMT+2) for the 3rd session of this year’s Lesser Violence Reading Group. VIAD & GALA are honoured to welcome Dee Marco and Kathleen Eberson as our facilitators for the session! As co-hosts of the Mamas with Attitude podcast, Dee and Kathleen will be speaking to feminist parenting and radical and everyday …
CFP: African Journalism Studies @40
Invitation for submissions for a Special Issue Special Issue Title: AJS at 40. Towards an agenda for African journalism and media research in changing communication ecologies African Journalism Studies(AJS)—formerly Equid Novi— was launched in 1980 as an intervention to provide space for research on the then fairly nascent field of journalism and media studies within …
ToC: Critical Arts, 34,(2) (2020) – Special Issue: Rethinking Chinese Questions in Western Literary Theories
Critical Arts, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2020) – Special Issue: Brand China, Guest Editor: Jun Zeng Introduction Rethinking Chinese Questions in Western Literary Theories Jun Zeng Articles Thinking on the Research Methods of Dialogism in Chinese and Western Literary Theories Jun Zeng A Critical Response to Western Critics’ Controversial Viewpoints on Chinese Traditional Narrative and …
STATEMENT ON PROF GLENDA GRAY AND HER RIGHT TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND EXPRESSION OF DIFFERENCE
The underwriting Executive Committee members of the South African Communications Association (Sacomm) records in this statement support for academic freedom and freedom of expression as a constitutional right in the wake of the controversy surrounding a government proposal to investigate Professor Glenda Gray for expressing a different view. President of the South African Medical Research …
CFP: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR AN EDITED VOLUME
INDIGENOUS AFRICAN POPULAR MUSIC: THE ART AND ITS APPLICATIONS Abiodun Salawu andIsrael Fadipe Indigenous popular music is an essential feature of any African society, which is being used for every endeavour an African engages in: celebration of life and death, daily activities, economics, politics, religions. Thus, music is a way of life. All over Africa, there …
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Lecture: Jonathan Haynes
AFDA invites SACOMM members the a lecture by the visiting Fulbright Senior Scholar, Jonathan Haynes. His area of specialisation is Nollywood. He would like to engage with us on more up to date perspectives on Nollywood – as he is currently the Fulbright Senior Scholar, Departments of English and Creative Arts at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He …
CFP – SACOMM 2019: August 28-30, University of Cape Town
Inside | Outside CALL FOR PAPERS Current communication debates are increasingly dominated by polarities and conflicts. On closer inspection, these polarities are not always defined by antagonism or opposing ideologies, but are also informed by power imbalances in terms of race, class and gender, technological access, education, age, geospatial factors, and mobility. This year’s theme …
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CONFERENCE: Call for Papers
The Theme for SACOMM 2018: COMMUNICATION AT A CROSSROADS Submission Deadline of Abstracts: 30 April 2018 A crossroads is a site where roads intersect. It is a point of crisis, a turning point, and a point of alternative configurations, convergence plus divergence, meeting and departure, unity and disunity. Metaphorically, it is a point of flux …