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Funding & Opportunities
December 6, 2024 in BIEA, Opportunities

Call for Papers: BIEA Graduate Conference 2025

Theme: Climate Change and Social-Ecological Reconfigurations in the Global South. Deadline 31 January 2025.
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November 28, 2024 in Opportunities

Call for Applications: Conventions of Creativity

If you would like to be considered for the 2025 scheme, please send your application by or on 3 January 2025.
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November 15, 2024 in Opportunities

Call for Papers for a two-day workshop

Law in Development? A long view of critical scholarship. Deadline: Thursday 12 December 2024. Those selected will need to submit a full draft of their paper by 28 February 2025.
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July 2, 2024 in Opportunities

BIEA Student Attaché Blogs

‘It seems to me that anthropology, being a study of human cultures and society, is a study that thrives on ‘otherness’ and ‘difference’. We, as aspiring or current African anthropologists,…
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Publications

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Journal of Eastern African Studies

JEAS Volume 16, Issue 2 (2022)
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Research & Partners
August 2, 2024 in research

Refugee Study Centre (RSC), University of Oxford

The RSC aims to build knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of forced migration.
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August 2, 2024 in research

MAEASaM – Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments

A combination of remote sensing, records-based research and selective archaeological surveys, to build comprehensive and up-to-date records of site types and distributions.
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August 2, 2024 in research

GlobalCORRIDOR – Urbanisation, everyday life and techno-social differentiation

GlobalCORRIDOR proposal for partnership arrangement with the British Institute in East Africa
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August 2, 2024 in research

Western Sudan Community Museums (WSCM) Phase II

Project Partners: The National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan; Mallinson Architects; University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology
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April 18, 2023 in OurResearch, research

Regional Futures

In the last two decades, an information revolution in the global south has profoundly shaped the urbanisation of metropolitan regions.
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January 17, 2022 in research

Remote Sensing for Biocultural Heritage Preservation in an African Semi-Arid Region

A Case Study of Indigenous Wells in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia.
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