CEMAT is searching for a short-term program fellow for Spring 2012 (four to six months) to assist the Director with new local and international partnerships. The fellow will be expected to perform a variety of program-related and administrative tasks and show flexibility with CEMAT’s high-paced position within a rapidly changing political environment. Main responsibilities will include working on new partnerships with development and educational programs as well as identifying new and suitable partners for CEMAT. The fellow will be expected to work 30 hours a week, which will allow her/him to conduct own research or pursue language study, if desired. The fellow will have the option to reside in subsidized housing in Sidi Bou Said, receive a modest monthly stipend, and an economy-class round-trip ticket to and from Tunis.

We are seeking submissions for at least two linked panels: one focusing upon war and slavery in Africa, and a second focusing upon war and slavery in the Americas, with particular reference to the wartime contributions of enslaved Africans.

Le colloque vise à documenter les multiples implications de la migration en Afrique et plus particulièrement en Afrique de l’Ouest, à partir des axes suivants : a) Les flux migratoires : zones de départ, zone d’accueil, situation des générations issues de la migration, migration de retour ; b) Migrations et accumulation de capital, développement économique et social; c) Migrations et construction des espaces communautaires et identitaires; d) Les migrations du Sud vers le Nord; e) Politiques nationales de migration dans les pays de départ et la gestion des situations de crises sociales; f) Migrations et environnement

This Symposium aims at documenting the multiple implications of migration in Africa and more specifically in western Africa from the following lines: a) Migration flows: countries of origin, host countries, situation of generations born during the period of migration, return migration; b) Migrations and capital accumulation, social and economic development; c) Migration and construction of community and identity spaces; d) Migrations from Africa to Western countries; e) National migration policies in countries of origin and management of social crises; f) Migrations and environment

The Toyin Falola Annual Conference (TOFAC) welcomes submissions of abstracts and outlines of papers for the 2012 conference, which is scheduled to hold in Lagos, Nigeria from July 2 to July 4, 2012 (arrival on July 1st, departure on July 5th). We welcome papers that explore empirical and theoretical aspects of any or all of our four conceptual grids: cultures, identities, nationalities, and modernities. Papers may investigate and analyze the manifestation of cultural politics, identity contests, nationalist ferment, and competing modernities in specific geographic and trans-national contexts where Africans and peoples of African descent fight out their existential and ameliorative struggles. We also encourage papers that interrogate and question the very categories of cultures, nationalities, identities, and modernities as they relate to the experiences of African and Africa-descended peoples and institutions instead of taking them as binding, fixed and self-evident frames of analysis. The definitional and semiotic latitude for interpreting these categories belongs to authors, as we have no bounded, restrictive definitions in mind.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, North Africa’s Berber (Amazigh) populations have constituted quintessential ethnographic subjects for various ends, whether colonial, military, missionary, nationalist, or academic. Central to these endeavors was a sustained effort to document their language, laws, customs, institutions, and lifeways. Berbers (Imazighen) later turned this gaze on themselves as they sought to carve out a place in the national fabric or redefine it altogether. Recent scholarship on Amazigh populations provides important correctives to the nationalist narratives that have long shaped understandings about both the region’s populations and their relations to the nation-state. These scholarly correctives in part have been possible through alternative historiographies that both allow for new interpretations of French archival sources and look more closely at older vernacular sources to investigate claims about Berber ethnicity and solidarity (or lack thereof). Equally important have been new ethnographic field studies by anthropologists, social scientists, historians, and others whose research methods include extended participant observation and critical reengagements with familiar social practices. This conference investigates new ways of situating Berbers in space, time, and social process. Potential participants will be asked to present paper proposals on specific, focused topics grounded in original research and to avoid broad overviews of the Amazigh movement, descriptions of the Amazigh situation, and literature reviews.

The Peace and Conflict Studies Program (P-CON) at Colgate University invites applications for a tenure-stream position in Peace and Conflict Studies at the rank of assistant professor, to begin Fall 2012. We seek a person with field-based research focusing on the intersection of international human rights, human security, and contemporary conflicts. Now in its fifth decade, P-CON focuses on reflexive and critical analyses of modern and contemporary conflict. We seek applications from candidates in anthropology, geography or a relevant interdisciplinary field; we will consider applications from scholars in history, sociology, area studies, comparative politics and international political economy with appropriate field-based research. Completion of PhD is expected prior to or shortly after the date of hire.

Bowdoin College’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Anthropology at the level of assistant professor, beginning Fall 2012. We seek candidates with scholarly expertise and an ongoing research program in political anthropology, and a strong commitment to teaching anthropology in an undergraduate institution. We are particularly interested in candidates with a research background in either the Pacific/Oceania or the Middle East/North Africa, and teaching and research interests of the ideal applicant will complement those of current faculty.

The Johns Hopkins University Department of History seeks a full-time tenure-track Assistant or tenured Associate Professor of African History, region open, beginning July 1, 2012. Period flexible, but late nineteenth into the twentieth century is preferred. We favor candidates whose research makes broad intellectual connections and/or spans regions. Ph.D. required by time of appointment. Please submit a cover letter, c.v., three letters of recommendation, research statement and writing sample by October 21 to: African History Search, Department of History, 301 Gilman Hall, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218. Johns Hopkins is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students. Women and minorities are especially invited to apply.

That is the central question of a new CCAPS Research Brief released today. The report details an innovative research project by seven of the world’s top scholars of Constitutional Design and Conflict Management in Africa, organized by the Strauss Center. Each expert focuses on a different African country to determine if domestic political institutions affect whether climate shocks, and other disruptions, lead to violence or not. By studying past upheavals, the project aims to identify future strategies to minimize the human suffering and security consequences that could result from climate change in Africa: http://ccaps.strausscenter.org/articles/what-drives-climate-security-vulnerability