News and events
Newsletters
Download a pdf of the latest newsletter (Jan 08) from the ASAUK by clicking here
Previous newsletters are available for download here in pdf format: Oct07 Jul07 Apr07 Jan07 Oct06 July06 April 06 Jan06 Oct 05 July 05 April 05 Jan 05 Oct 04
Other news
ASAUK's new website
The ASAUK has just launched its new website. Behind the facelift is an improved structure (should make navigation and finding of information easier) as well as full compliance with web standards (better for those with disabilities, screen-readers, those using mobile devices, and those printing the site). We hope you like the new site.
Royal African Society’s new office
The Royal African Society has moved to 36 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD [corner of Gordon Square and Endsleigh Street, two minutes walk north of the old office located at SOAS]. Phone numbers have changed: RAS Secretary, Gemma Haxby: 020-3073-8335, and membership enquiries for Pat Jensen: 020- 3073-8336. Email and website contacts remain the same: ras@soas.ac.uk and www.royalafricansociety.org
Appointment of British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Toby Green has recently started a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship based at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. His research plans to extend the scope of his doctoral thesis into the question of the spreading of African and New Christian diasporas into the South Atlantic through the Capeverdean region. The hope is to provide a contribution to the growing literature on creolization, and also to contribute to the growing development of the study of the African Atlantic and to contribute to debates on empire, slavery and the development of modern ideas of "race". You can contact Toby at T.O.Green@bham.ac.uk
Nomination for ASAUK Distinguished Africanist Award
The ASAUK Council has decided to give two Distinguished Africanist awards for the years 2007 and 2008, and is seeking nominations. Read more here...
Royal Institute of British Architects Research Award
The 2007 winner of the RIBA President's Awards for Research for Outstanding PhD Thesis is Matthew Barac of the University of Cambridge for his doctorate, entitled From Township to Town: Urban Change in Victoria Mxenge TT Informal Settlement, Cape Town, South Africa. The thesis examines how symbolic and practical interpretations of city-making compete to transform the post-apartheid terrain into a more democratic living environment. Among the other shortlisted entries for this award was Kahina Amal Djiar of the University of Westminster for War on the Casbah: Housing, Culture and French Colonialism in Algiers.
New network of young researchers working in Africa formed - NYRA
Work underway on a new Directory of Africanists in Britain
The Mary Kingsley Zochonis Lecture Award for Young African Scholars - call for suggestions
Archive
The Mary Kingsley Zochonis Lecture 2006 (pdf download)
ASAUK Presidential Address, Sept 06 (pdf download)
