NAI in the World
2009
Seminar in Agder, Norway, 2 September
Seminar arranged by Senter for Utviklingsstudier (Center for Development Studies), University of Agder, Norway and the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. Director Carin Norberg from NAI participated. The seminar raised the question: Can development aid take more insight? The need and the forms of insight, both among givers and takers, where addressed. Seminar program (pdf in Norwegian).
Conference in Moscow, 22-26 June
Fantu Cheru and Cyril I. Obi, the Nordic Africa Institute, will participate in the panel on 'Globalization and the “New Scramble for Africa”: The Need for Policy Space' on 26 June.
Read Research Director Fantu Cheru's report from Moscow (pdf).
The Joint Statement of the BRIC Countries’ Leaders
The official BRIC Summit website
European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), 4-7 June, Leipzig, Germany
NAI participates in the third biennial conference in Leipzig, Germany, from 4 to 7 June 2009. The overall theme of ECAS 3 is "Respacing Africa". For more information please see the University of Leipzig’s website: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ecas2009/
Proscovia Svärd speaks at seminar in Malmö, Sweden, 4-5 June
The seminar entitled "Memory, Archives, and Human Rights" takes place in Copenhagen and Malmö and will be held on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition The Life of Nelson Mandela, at Malmö Museum, Sweden.
Seminar, Peace and Development: Interlinked Prospects for Africa’s Future, Oslo, Norway, 25 May
NAI Director Carin Norberg, participates in a seminar, arranged by The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Africa Group, to celebrate Africa Day and shed perspectives on the developmental impact of current initiatives on the Continent.
Invitation at NUPI's website.
Carin Norberg's presentation from the seminar (pdf).
Seminar “How the Financial Crisis Influences Africa”, Reykjavík, Island
Julius Nyerere Intellectual Festival Week, 13–17 April 2009, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
Between 13 and 17 April NAI Director Carin Norberg and NAI Research Director Fantu Cheru, participated in the first Julius Nyerere Intellectual Festival, at the University of Dar-es-Salaam. The festival was organized by Professor Issa Shivji, Mwalimu Nyerere Professor of Pan-African Studies. Read more about the festival here. (pdf)
Guest researcher Babunde Ahonsi to Norway
Dr. Babatunde Ahonsi will speak at Centre for International Health in Bergen, 4 March. The titel of the lecture is 'Seminar on Hiv/Aids and Gender Violence in Post-Conflict West Africa' and at NTNU in Trondheim 5 March, where the lecture is called 'Seminar on Gender Violence in Post-Conflict West Africa'. NTNU's web site.
Workshop on 'Transition to What?' in Bergen, Norway, 23-24 Feb.
'Transition to What? African liberation and pro-democracy movements' (anti)democratic heritage. Arranged by Chr. Michelsen Institute, the universities in Oslo and Bergen and the Nordic Africa Institute. Director Carin Norberg and researcher Dr. Amanda Hammar will participate in the workshop that takes place in Bergen, Norway. Conference programme (pdf).
Helsinki Development Days, 12-14 Feb.
Conference on 'Oral History: Southern Africa in the Cold War, Post-1974', 30-31 Jan.
The conference, held in Roodepoort, South Africa, is financially supported by NAI through the project: Nordic documentation on the liberation struggle in Southern Africa. The conference will be attended by Project coordinator Proscovia Svärd. The conference programme (pdf).