The sixth conference on the history of the humanities, ‘The Making of the Humanities VI’, will take place at the University of Oxford, Humanities Division and Somerville College, UK, from 28 till 30 September 2017.
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
Keynote Speakers include Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town: Styles of Writing History in Timbuktu and the Sahara/Sahel

The theme for the conference is African Design and Digital Storytelling, which will celebrate the rich Nairobi design talent in areas including graphic animation and games design. We will be exploring and mapping the dynamics of developing a local market within the design industries and how practitioners are using local narratives to cater for a local audiences.
With an array of exciting speakers, presentations and workshops, this will be an essential event for anyone interested in innovative digital narrative and gaming from the African continent.
More details to follow, in the meantime, please put the 29th and 30th September in your dairies!
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The Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) in collaboration with Ifakara Health Institute and Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé will hold a three-day (Oct 12 – 14) proposal development ‘BootCamp’ workshop in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

The proposal development BootCamp aims to offer early-career African innovators and scientists an opportunity to receive intensive coaching on how to develop successful grant proposals.

ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANTS
1. Should be African innovators interested in addressing priority health needs of the continent.
2. May have a background in any field, but it is important that they are focused on addressing priority health challenges in African communities.
3. Should have already identified a specific subject of interest or a specific innovation to pursue.
4. Should be early-career researchers currently working within African organizations including universities, research institutions, industry, non-governmental organizations and the private sector in general including privately owned start-ups.
5. Should have a well drafted grant proposal already created, in advance ahead of the boot camp session. The Boot Camp sessions will not be used for idea generation, but rather to coach participants on how to package their proposals.

TORCH and the Stuart Hall Foundation welcome you to this public lecture on ‘The Politics of Respectability Versus the Politics of Dis-respectability’ with Professor Henry Louis Gates (Harvard University).

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, Professor Gates has authored or co-authored twenty-one books and created fifteen documentary films, including Wonders of the African World, African American Lives, and Faces of America.

Professor Gates was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation in 1981, and in 1998, he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. He was named to Time’s 25 Most Influential Americans list in 1997

Booking is essential. Please register to reserve your seat.