Cambridge Consortium for the Global South

Join @CSASCambridge seminar this wednesday- 18 October - Unlearning #monumentality: Recognising #Malaprabha #river valley as a ‘lived #landscape’, Kuili Suganya (University of Cambridge) 5pm in SG1 and online zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Lost and found: issues of the famous South African magazine, #DRUM, thought to be lost, have been recently recovered. #AfricaCommons now holds the only digitized full run of the magazine! 🗂️ . Click the alt. text of the images to find out more about this exciting re-discovery. 🎉

📣 Apply for a @LeverhulmeTrust Early Career Fellowship at CRASSH Applicants should pursue projects that are interdisciplinary & innovative in their approach, and which may fit better at CRASSH than elsewhere in Cambridge ⏳ Deadline 30 Oct 2023 crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/fello…

Thinking of applying for an MPhil? Check out ours here! global-south.group.cam.ac.uk/our-mphil-prog…

Starts today!

@KarinPallaver @paferce @Mesfintwt And I forgot to mention: next year's edition of the conference (& the Jay Jay Okocha match) will take place in Rome, organized by @DStrangio & others. Already looking forward to it! Keep updated on activities of the network: follow @AfEconHis and check out aehnetwork.org

The Consortium for the Global South's first lunch time meet up of the year! Looking forward to film screenings, reading groups, seminars and conferences over the course of the year. Sound like your kind of thing? Sign up for our mailing list here: global-south.group.cam.ac.uk/contact-us

We have a *FULLY FUNDED* place for an international student on our Masters in #LatinAmericanStudies @Cambridge_Uni. Join us for October 2024 entry @CLAS_Cam. Detail below. Spread the word! 💫 tinyurl.com/yj4en2tb

📣 Apply now British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships at CRASSH ⏳ Deadline 29 August 🔗 bit.ly/3JBxzoB A three-year fellowship for early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences with emphasis on completion of a significant piece of publishable research

jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41949/📢: 3-yr Knowledge Exchange and Funding Facilitator + Research Associate in Social #Anthropology @Cambridge_Uni - good for an anthro w/interest in wider engagement & impact! Incls time for own research 🤓

📚 Joanna Page’s new book 'Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art' explores artistic projects that draw on historical genres of collecting, organising, and displaying nature. Free via @OpenBookPublish bit.ly/43kQE5F

Call for Papers for #MIASA Conference on "The Role of Traditional Institutions in Promoting Sustainable #Peace in Africa", 30 Nov-2 Dec 2023 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in coll. with #INSS. Submission deadline: 14 Aug 2023; details (English & French): ug.edu.gh/mias-africa/co…

A fabulous start to #ECSAS2023 Panel 7 on cereals @DrJenniferBates rethinking the origins of rice - the puzzle of ‘Nivara’ - as it is a spontanae hybrid- and how a move to thinking about human, non-human and environment interactions would help figure @CSASCambridge @Adam_S_Green

🚨 We are hiring!⁠ Join our friendly and supportive admin team to work on fascinating research projects.⁠ 💼 Programme Coordinator for the Global History Lab⁠ 💼 School Research Project Admins 💼 PA for @MCTDCambridge Find out more and apply ⬇️ crassh.cam.ac.uk/about/vacancies

📢 New #history book announcement! 'Quantitative History and Uncharted People' argues that quantitative history can help fill in gaps and mitigate biases in historical records. Pre-order from @amazon (amzn.to/3NF9roc) or @BloomsburyAcad (bit.ly/44q7S3l)

An enriching, thought-provoking first workshop of the #NHAMH Network today. Animal privacy, spider collaborations, ethics, surveillance, naturecultures and slugs! Huge thanks to @CSCBellet and @renelle_mc for hosting. 🐸🐖🎥🐄🕷️🦅🎭🐌📸

🚨 New episode 🚨 Slavery's Demise The abolitionists want the complete eradication of slavery, but how will they fare against one of the most powerful lobbying groups in British history? @tweeter_anita + @DalrympleWill discuss with @M_H_Taylor 👇 linktr.ee/empirepod

honoured to be elected a Fellow of @BritishAcademy_ yesterday in the section Culture, Media, and Performance, which houses Paul Gilroy, Fred Moten, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak… Amongst the 2023 cohort are Achille Mbembe, Abdulrazak Gurnah, John Akomfrah… thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/ananya…

⁠📣 Apply for a CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship⁠ ⏳ Deadline 31 July 2023⁠ 🔗 bit.ly/3CfiaXi An opportunity for an early career scholar whose research focuses on Italy to spend time at CRASSH and to contribute to the Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN).