Conferences

Addis Ababa: The Fourth Conference on Law and Religion in Africa

ACLARS 2016 ADDISMore than 60 scholars, legal professionals, and religious leaders from Africa and many other parts of the world joined in the Fourth Conference on Law and Religion in Africa, sponsored by the African Consortium of Law and Religion Studies (ACLARS) and held Sunday, 22 May to Tuesday, 24 May, 2016 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of the conference, which was hosted by College of Law and Good Governance Studies of Addis Ababa University and held at the Capital Hotel, was “Religious Pluralism, Heritage, and Social Development in Africa”.
Awol Wagris, Ethiopia State Minister of Federal and Pastoralist Affairs, delivered the opening speech of the conference: “Looking ahead,” he said, “the greatest challenges our country faces with regard to the protection of religious freedom and promotion of religious pluralism are religious extremism, intolerance, and violent conflict.” He added that addressing this challenge effectively requires the promotion of mutual understanding, respect, cooperation among governmental bodies, various religious communities, and the section of society that professes to be non-religious.
The conference was designed to focus on the topic of religious pluralism in Africa, particularly in relation to contemporary questions of heritage and social development. “Heritage” is to be understood broadly as including religious, cultural, legal, and historical traditions, and the way these shape religious identities and societies in Africa today. The topic includes the challenges for organizations like UNESCO and ICOMOS to promote and protect heritage in diverse African contexts. The scope is broadened to include intangible as well as tangible heritage, and broader issues of religion and state, particularly in areas where multiple heritages and identities exist peacefully or come into conflict.

Rutgers University: Symposium on the Mediterranean Migration Crisis

Rutgers University host event to raise awareness of refugee crisis

A report from the Daily Targum (Rutgers University News paper)

Panama: Awarding Ceremony of the 2013 International Journalism and Media Awards

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The rights of the Family and the Challenges of the Contemporary World

The conference, held at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, ran Sept. 19-21 and is themed “The rights of the family and the challenges of the contemporary world.” It will include exhibitions as well as keynote addresses and contributions from renowned journalists in roundtable discussions.

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Rutgers: West Africa and the Caribbean in the snow!

Shortly after the opening ceremony of “Writing Through the Visual/Virtual… in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean” until the next day, it snowed in New Jersey.
It was in the snow and the sparkling atmosphere it creates that scholars, researchers, artists, and students discussed on contemporary ritual celebrations in Benin and Togo, traditional wrestling and griot in Senegal, painting in Haiti, translation and cultural context in Egypt and so forth.

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Conference on Law and Religion in Africa — University of Ghana, 14-15 January 2013

A conference on Law and Religion in Africa: Comparative Practices, Experiences, and Prospects was held 14-15 January 2013 at the University of Ghana in Legon, Ghana. Scholars, legal professionals, and religious leaders from Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierre Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, the United Kindgom, and the United States gathered in Legon for the two-day event.

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USA: African Studies Association 55th Annual Meeting

Another important moment of the Meeting was the Awards Ceremony in the Grand Ballroom at the Marriott Hotel, November 29th 2012. Among the Awardees some scholars, Africanists, writers and the ASA Presidential Fellows who are this year 2012: Gbemisola Adeoti from Nigeria, Jamima Anderson from Ghana and Jean-Baptiste Sourou from Benin/Tanzania.

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Rutgers University:Africa in the heart at the Center for African Studies

I was also very fascinated by students interested in African cultures and ritual celebrations. I had a friendly conversation in Professor Barbara Cooper’s course in History of Ancient Africa. The main argument was on the relationship between culture and history. Students asked many questions.

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Conference: The Cultural Images in and of Africa, Uppsala – Sweden

We were about sixty scholars and researchers at the international conference organized by The Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) of Uppsala, Sweden from the 15th to 18th June 2009 on What’s Culture got to do with it ? The central idea was about African images today. The NAI was created in 1962 by the Nordic nations: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden to promote African studies in their area through seminars, conferences, research in the field, etc. It has a big and specialized library.

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