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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

African Studies congratulates Professor Paul Mkanda诺ire (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies cross-appointed to African Studies)

African Studies congratulates Professor Paul Mkanda诺ire (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies聽cross-appointed to African Studies) for his 2016 Emerging Scholar Award from the American Association of Geographers (Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group). The Award is given annually to two awardees and it seeks to recognize scholars who... More

Monday, March 21, 2016

African Studies congratulates Professor Susanne Klausen (History, cross-appointed to African Studies)

African Studies congratulates Professor Susanne Klausen (History, cross-appointed to African Studies) for her success in receiving prestigious research funding for her project "The Thalidomide Disaster, the British Abortion Act (1967), and the Passage of Eugenic Abortion Laws in the Commonwealth, 1961-1977" from the UK's Wellcome Trust!" For full... More

Monday, March 14, 2016

IAS-Affiliated Faculty, Professor Paul Mkandawire, Awarded a 杏吧原创 University Research Achievement Award’ for 2016

Congratulations to Professor Paul Mkandawire for his 2016 杏吧原创 University Research Achievement Award. These awards are given annually to 10 most outstanding researchers across 杏吧原创. The funding from this award will be used to by Professor Mkandawire to investigate the synergism between two global processes, HIV/AIDS and climate change, and... More

Monday, February 22, 2016

Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) awards Professor Kamari Clarke USD $246,000 to study the Impact and Limits of International Law

The Institute of African Studies would like to congratulate聽 Professor Kamari Clarke (Global and International Studies at 杏吧原创) for being awarded $246,000 USD by the The Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) to carry out a research project related to analyzing the limits and potential of the African Court of Justice and Human... More

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Podcast – Research, Repression, and Freedom: A conversation with David Austin

Drawing on his award-winning book,聽Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal聽as a point of departure, this wide-ranging conversation will touch a number of subjects related to politics, race, security, prisons, incarceration and human freedom. The conversation will be facilitated by CBC鈥檚 Adrian Harewood. 杏吧原创 David... More

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Video of Prof. Klausen’s Book Launch: “Abortion Under Apartheid”

Dr. Susanne Klausen launched her new book Abortion Under Apartheid: Nationalism, Sexuality and Women鈥檚 Reproductive Rights in South Africa on Friday, January 29th at 12:30pm in the History Lounge (433 Paterson Hall). In Abortion Under Apartheid, Klausen discusses how ideas about sexuality were fundamental to apartheid culture, and how the... More

Friday, February 12, 2016

Ph.D. Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu wins the TD Graduate Fellowship in Migration and Diaspora Studies (2015-2016)

The Institute of African Studies (IAS) congratules Ying-Ying Tiffany Liu for winning 2015-16 TD Graduate Fellowship in Migration and Diaspora Studies on her research across the city of Johannesburg in South Africa. For more information, click... More

Friday, January 22, 2016

Dr. Susanne Klausen speaks for the Nelson Mandela Series at The Tshepo Institute for Study of Contemporary Africa

Dr. Susanne Klausen discusses "FROM RIGHTS聽 TO JUSTICE: The Ongoing Struggle for Reproductive Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa" on Thursday, January 21. For the event poster, click... More

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