GW event: African Women on the Move

The Elliott School’s Institute for International and Global Affairs and its Africa Working Group and Global Gender Program are pleased to host “African Women on the Move — Diaspora Women’s Empowerment and a Call to Action to Invest in Africa’s Girls and Women” which is co-sponsored with the Diaspora African Women’s Network (DAWN) and is part of the 13th Annual Ronald H. Brown African Affairs Series.

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Speakers will address the importance and impact of investing in women and girls in Africa and in the African diaspora. They include:

Imani M. Cheers, Assistant Professor, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
Nina Oduro, Founder, African Development Jobs

When: Monday, September 16, 2013, 3 – 5 p.m.

Where: GW, Alumni House, 1918 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20052

To RSVP for this event: go.gwu.edu/womenonthemove

African Diaspora: open access annual publication

This scholarly journal seeks to understand how African cultures and societies shape and are shaped by historical and current diasporic and transnational movements.

African Diaspora is a full Open Access journal, which means that all articles are freely available, ensuring maximum, worldwide dissemination of content.

The 2012 issue contains 19 articles on a wide range of topics, including

labor markets in Japan
an ethnic enclave in China
food practices and identity
Nigerian women’s experiences of deportation from Europe
monuments to slavery and belonging in the Netherlands

[Blogger’s note: I eagerly await the 2013 issue!]

Call for papers

The Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education: An International Journal invites contributions for an upcoming guest edited volume on Migration, Religion, and Education.

This special issue invites papers from a diversity of international perspectives and country contexts, and from a variety of education disciplines, to address the theme of migration, religion, and education. Education should be considered broadly to include all stages / levels of formal education, as well as non-formal and informal education.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:
* religion and identity among migrant students
* the “problematization” of religious minority students in host society schools
* representation of migrant’s religions in school curricula
* religious literacy among education policy makers
* religious awareness among teachers and administrators
* religion as a form of cultural capital among migrant students
* religion and migrant teachers
* court decisions bearing on the religious identities and practices of migrant students

Please send abstracts to Bruce Collet colleba@bgsu.edu by February 15, 2012. Responses to submitted abstracts will be sent by April 2012. Full article submissions from invited papers will be due July 1, 2012. Papers invited for the special issue will undergo blind review procedures.

Reviews of relevant books are also encouraged.

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