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Deadline: 15 September 2010

SCOUT BANANA, in conjunction with James Madison College and the MSU African Studies Center, invites you to submit a manuscript to

Volume III, Issue I of Articulate: Undergraduate Research Applied to Development in Africa.

Articulate is an undergraduate journal that publishes academic papers and writings on development in Africa and African issues. It is a forum for students to contribute to, as well as initiate, debates in international development, as undergraduates remain a vital, untapped force for new ideas and perspectives within the development dialogue.

Primary criteria for inclusion in the journal are quality of research, relevance, and originality. All manuscripts must have been written as an undergraduate student. For Scholarly Articulates, we ask for submissions of roughly 15-20 pages double-spaced with citations formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style, and an abstract of 200 words. We also ask that the author’s name, major, college, and university appear on a separate cover sheet, with no reference to the author within the manuscript.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

* The effectiveness of foreign aid, microfinance, and social enterprise in Africa
* Intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity, and sexuality in African development
* Consequences of globalization, especially financial and trade integration
* Historical analyses and case studies of health care policies in Africa
* Politics of water and medicine in Africa
* The role of African youth in development programs and projects
* Effects of conflict and migration on health care and development

Articulate is also seeking brief reflective essays on your experiences in Africa, as well as reviews on literature relevant to Africa, development, and health care.

Reflective essays are 2-3 single-spaced pages and can take a variety of creative forms. They should explore development work from the perspective of a young person (under 30) from the Global North entering the Global South. Was it how you thought it would be? What did you like and/or dislike about it? What do you wish you had known when you were just “studying,” as opposed to working, in Africa on health-related issues? Other themes may be considered with consultation from the Editor-in-Chief.

Literature reviews are 2-3 single-spaced pages and are meant to keep Articulate’s readers abreast of current works and on-going debates pertinent to development, Africa, and health care. Reviews must provide a careful, thoughtful analysis and critique of a work’s main themes, objectives, arguments, and conclusions. They should include at least three titled sub-sections: an introduction that includes a synopsis of the work; an analysis that considers what, if any, assumptions underlie the author’s thinking and, if evidence is cited, how well it supports the work’s main objective; and a conclusion that summates your analysis and states the overall merits and/or shortcomings of the work.

Manuscripts will be accepted until Wednesday, September 15, 2010, with publication intended during November 2010. For submissions or inquiries, please contact the Editor-in-Chief at articulate@scoutbanana.org.

Deadline: 15 January 2011

Special Issue of Northeast African Studies: “Space, Mobility and Translocal Connections across the Red Sea Area since 1500”

The study of the history of oceans and seas has been subject to a revival of interest in recent years. The “new thalassology”, as it has been coined by two scholars, is driven by efforts to develop new approaches to the study of global history in a way that moves away from grand generalizations. It also aims to challenge the area-studies paradigm by avoiding sharp, and oftentimes arbitrary, breaks between world areas. Instead, it attempts to think and imagine global history through the webs of connections, interactions and networks both within and between different terrestrial and aquatic regions of the world.

The study of the Red Sea maritime space or region is a latecomer to this scholarly arena. The dry, hot, and generally inhospitable environment of its littorals has marginalized it and promoted its perception as merely an interface, a transit space, between the maritime systems of the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. In addition, the African/Middle Eastern Studies divide has inadvertently masked the animated and intense connections across the Red Sea area, chiefly, but not exclusively, between northeast Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Yet the particularly narrow bodies of water in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden have always promoted the brisk flows and criss-crossing of people, goods and ideas across this area.

This special issue of Northeast African Studies seeks to investigate the variety of transmarine connections, interactions and exchanges in the Red Sea area and propose new ways to rethink and imagine this historical space sui generis and its connections with other regions. Among an array of themes which privilege the relationships between actors, space, mobility, connectivities and networks, we seek contributions that examine the ways by which a host of imperial powers, as well as the advent of the nation-state, influenced, transformed and reconfigured notions of space, borders, mobility and identities across the Red Sea area since the sixteenth century.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Empire and notions of sovereignty, boundary and space in the Red Sea region
• Imperial maritime control and policing, mobility and the production of categories of ‘legality’/‘illegality’ in the Red Sea (e.g. Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Italy)
• Empire, nation, state, and the transformation of Red Sea littoral identities (cosmopolitan to nation-state?)
• Histories of piracy, smuggling and contraband in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
• The production, commercialization and consumption of stimulants, intoxicants and psychoactive substances in the Red Sea area (e.g. coffee, khat, tobacco)
• North-east African communities in Arabia (e.g. Zabid, Jiddah, Aden, Mukha, Hudayda, Sanaa)
• Arabian communities in North-east Africa (Hadramis, Yemenis, in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti; the Rashayda in Eritrea/Sudan)
• The histories of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden port cities/towns/entrepots and inter-port connections
• Slavery, the slave trade and abolition in the Red Sea area
• Labor, commercialization and the global dimensions of Red Sea marine economies (e.g. pearls)
• Red Sea labor flows (seasonal or more permanent)
• Egyptian/Hadrami/Yemeni/Hijazi/Indian merchants, trade and brokerage networks in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden
• Is there a Red Sea architectural style? (Sawakin, Jiddah, Massawa, Hudayda, Mukha, Djibouti)
• Shipping networks / Sailing boat vs. steamer in the Red Sea since ca. 1830
• Inter-coastal trading and cabotage networks
• Inter-coastal financial connections: credit institutions and currencies
• Red Sea crossings and the Muslim hajj to Mecca / European colonial control and the hajj
• Cross-Red Sea Sufi networks and circuits (e.g. the Khatmiyya)
• Hijazi, Hadrami and Yemeni Islamic religious networks (e.g. legal scholars) in the Horn of Africa
• North-east African Muslims in the religious academies of the Hijaz and Zabid, and back in the Horn
• Islamic revivalist and reform movements and Red Sea connections (e.g. the Wahhabiyya)
• Red Sea connections, culture and identities in travel accounts/literature
• The politics of Red Sea cartographies (16th – 20th cent.)
• Red Sea connections with other areas: the eastern Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, South Asia, the Swahili Coast

Article proposals (500 words) as well as any inquiries regarding the issue should be sent to the issue guest editor, Jonathan Miran (Jonathan.Miran@wwu.edu).

Deadlines

15 January 2011: submission of article proposals
1 March 2011: notification of acceptance
30 July 2011: submission of articles

Jonathan Miran
Associate Professor (History, Islam, Africa)
Department of Liberal Studies
Western Washington University

Founded in 1919, AUC moved to a new 270-acre state-of-the-art campus in New Cairo in 2008. The University also operates in its historic downtown facilities, offering cultural events, graduate classes, and continuing education. Student housing is available in both downtown Zamalek and New Cairo. Among the premier universities in the region, AUC is Middle States accredited; its Engineering programs are accredited by ABET and the Management program is accredited by AACSB. AUC is an English-medium institution; eighty-five percent of the students are Egyptian and the rest include students from nearly ninety countries, principally from the Middle East, Africa and North America. Faculty salary and rank are based on qualifications and professional experience. All faculty receive generous benefits, from AUC tuition to access to research funding; expatriate faculty also receive relocation benefits including housing, annual home leave, and tuition assistance for school age children.

Job Description: The Department of Arabic & Islamic Civilizations is seeking to fill an open rank two-year position in Modern Arabic Literature, to begin September 2011. Applicants are expected to have a PhD in Modern Arabic Literature. Candidates should have a proven teaching experience at the University level. Successful candidates are expected to teach three courses per semester in all genres of Modern Arabic literature at the graduate and undergraduate as well as Core Curriculum courses. Courses may be conducted in Arabic or in English. Teaching, research and publications as well as active participation in committees will be expected of the candidate. Finalists may be requested to give a public lecture, if possible, in their field of specialization.

Requirements: PhD by September 2011 is required. Additional Information: Tenure track position. Review of applications will start immediately. Position is open until filled. Application Instructions: All applicants must submit the following documents online: a) a current C.V. (upload via Step 2 on the next page); b) a letter of interest; c) a completed AUC Personal Information Form (PIF). For your convenience, the PIF can be downloaded on the next page (next to upload section); d) a statement of teaching philosophy. Please ask three referees familiar with your professional background to send reference letters directly to hussref@aucegypt.edu.

Deadline: 30 April 2011

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) regional Climate Change Flagship Report, "Adaptation to a Changing Climate in the Arab Countries." The report, currently being prepared by the World Bank in partnership with the League of Arab States (LAS), aims to provide information on potential climate change in the Arab region and strategic guidance on adapting to climate change.

The report is scheduled for completion early in 2012 and will summarize the literature in Arabic, French, and English, identify gaps, and describe policy options. The background documents for the Flagship Report are also expected to provide input to the Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) scheduled for 2013-14.

The drafting process began late in 2010 with researchers, institutions, and experts from the Arab region outlining chapters and preparing the working drafts that are presented here.

We are seeking contributions to the material included in the working drafts that can be in form of: (i) short comments and suggestions, and (ii) longer contributions that add substance to the chapter that is not currently included.

There will be a “writing meeting” in early June (1st to 5th) in Marseilles, France to prepare the First Draft of the Report ready for formal public review. Based on responses to this early working draft additional contributors will be invited to that writing meeting. Preferences will be given to early career professionals and to engaging new contributors from the full geographic range of the Arab region. Full travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for the selected contributors.

Report outline

Below, please see the chapter outline with links to the working drafts in PDF format. Remember, that these are working drafts and are thus incomplete. They are being circulated to encourage wider participation and advice. The working drafts are property of the authors, and do not reflect the official viewpoints of the World Bank or the League of Arab States.

Chapter Working Title

1 Climate Variability and Change and their Economic and Poverty Impacts
2 Ways Forward for Climatology in the Arab Region
3 Options to Reduce Water Stress
4 Improving Agricultural Production, Rural Livelihoods, and Food Security
5 Improving Livelihoods and Living Conditions in Urban and Coastal Areas
6 Improving Health in a Changing Climate
7 Gendered Adaptation to a Changing Climate
8 A Country Model for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

Note: Chapters 1 and 8 will be written later based on the information in chapters 2-6.

We welcome constructive comments on content, as well as suggestions for the inclusion of relevant literature (please send electronic copies if possible) and ongoing research in the region.

Please email your comments and the following information to kkatich@worldbank.org, alosos@worldbank.org and envsusdev.dept@las.int by April 30, 2011 by using this document.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: kkatich@worldbank.org

For submissions: kkatich@worldbank.org

Website: http://www.worldbank.org/