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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 1h

Join us for the AfAA Reception/Awards ceremony at AAA 2026 in St. Louis, MO, featuring Kamari Clarke’s lecture, “Global Blackness on the Verge: Extraction, Livability and the Remaking of African Worlds.” We are pleased to invite you to this special gathering. See the poster for more details.

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We’re pleased to announce the 2026 Elliott P. Skinner Book Award Shortlist from the Association for Africanist Anthropology! Congratulations to the shortlisted authors. Winner to be announced at the AfAA reception during the 2026 AAA Annual Conference. #AfAA #AfricanistAnthropology #AAA2026

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Recipients of the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards: • Lari Chanel Hallowes-Welman (Rhodes University) • Motselisi Edith Khabo (Stellenbosch University) • Jackline Maina (University of Cape Town) Their projects explore history, identity, memory, and music Congratulations to all three! #ACIP

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) announces its 2027 workshop: African Pedagogies of Restitution: Return, Repair, Rehumanisation, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, in March 2027. Learn more: gs.emory.edu/guides/stude... www.facebook.com/ivan.karp.co...

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

🎓 AfAA Travel Grants for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 🧑🏾‍🎓 Students & recent PhDs in Africanist anthropology 📅 Deadline: July 12, 2026 #AfricanistAnthropology #AAA2026 #Anthropology #GradStudents #TravelGrant

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Deadline extended! The 2026 AfAA Student Paper Awards are now accepting submissions until July 20, 2026. Undergraduate & graduate awards recognize outstanding scholarship in Africanist anthropology and include cash prizes. Details: afaa.americananthro.org/awards/ #Anthropology #AfAA

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Association for Africanist Anthropology is now accepting submissions for: • Nancy “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Essay Award • Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Student Essay Award Deadline: June 30 More info: afaa.americananthro.org/awards/ #AfricanistAnthropology #StudentResearch #AAA2026 #AfAA

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Save the date: Memorial for Distinguished Professor Bennetta Jules-Rosette (May 29, 2026, UC San Diego). Sharing memories/photos? Submit via Google Form at tinyurl.com/mr2h6zbt or email j.r.osborn@georgetown.edu Please share with others. #ProfBennettaJules-Rosette #memorial

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A great opportunity for African PhD students: ACIP’s Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards (2026) 📌 For African PhD students at South African universities 📌 Up to ZAR 50,000 for dissertation research 📅 Deadline: May 1, 2026 Details: gs.emory.edu/guides/stude... #PhDOpportunities #AfricanScholarship

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Working on public culture and African studies? The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals to organize interdisciplinary workshops on public culture in Africa (2027). 📅 Deadline: May 1, 2026 💰 Up to ZAR 75,000 More info: gs.emory.edu/guides/stude... #AfricanStudies #PublicHumanities

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KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

CFP for @americananthro.bsky.social panel on ethnographic work from the Swahili Coast/East Africa. Themes: memory, authority, belonging, verge-like moments. Send title + 300-word abstract to kd.thompson@wisc.edu by 1 April. Open to scholars at all stages. Join us! @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social

Call for Papers for a panel "On the Verge: Ethnographic Worlds Along the Swahili Coast and Beyond."

We invite paper submissions for a proposed panel at the 2026 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Our panel brings together ethnographers working along the Swahili Coast and across East Africa whose research explores lives lived in moments of transition, tension, anticipation, or emergence. We are especially interested in scholarship that examines how people articulate meaning, identity, authority, and belonging as they navigate shifting social, political, ecological, and moral landscapes.

The 2026 theme, On the Verge, speaks to thresholds—political, environmental, technological, and affective. Across East Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world, communities confront climate precarity and its tipping points; reconfigured mobilities and global realignments; transformations in media, religion, gender, and kinship; and evolving forms of state power, economic possibility, and collective imagination. These conditions make the coast and hinterland sites where endings and beginnings hinge on one another, and where ethnography must dwell in the unstable space in between.

This panel asks:

How do people along the Swahili Coast—and in East Africa more broadly—live, narrate, theorize, and navigate such verge-like conditions?

We welcome papers that engage one or more of the following (non-exhaustive) themes:

Memory, history, and the poetics of belonging
Gender, authority, and emergent forms of Islamic or Christian practice
Indian Ocean mobilities, diaspora, and transoceanic imaginaries
Media worlds, sound, and communicative politics
Climate precarity, ecological knowledge, and coastal futures
Race, biopolitics, and the shifting terms of global power
Everyday negotiations of state authority and institutional fragility
Fiction, storytelling, and narrative ethnography as analytic tools

The panel will include the following papers:

• Rachel Maina, University of Wisconsin–Madison — On the Verge of Memory: Narrating Swahili‑Chinese Identity through Ethnography and Fiction

This paper examines how residents of Siyu, in Kenya’s Lamu archipelago, narrate Chinese ancestry through intersecting oral histories, fragments of memory, and literary representation. By pairing ethnographic interviews with The Dragonfly Sea, Maina shows how Swahili‑Chinese identity emerges not as fixed lineage but as a narrative practice through which communities reinterpret Indian Ocean histories to negotiate belonging in the present.

• K.D. Thompson, University of Wisconsin–Madison — “Our Jamvi Has Pens and Papers”: Metapragmatic Authority and Women’s Islamic Pedagogy on the Swahili Coast

This paper analyzes how women broadcasters on Radio Nuur in Tanga, Tanzania, transform a feminized domestic speech genre—conversation on the jamvi—into a platform for public Islamic pedagogy. Through metapragmatic labor, strategic vocal stance, and the crafting of a discursive sitara, Thompson shows how domestic communicative authority is scaled into the public sphere while navigating the institutional limits placed on women’s religious voice.

We welcome additional ethnographically grounded papers from scholars at any career stage whose work touches the Swahili Coast, mainland East Africa, or related transoceanic worlds. We especially encourage submissions from graduate students, early‑career scholars, and researchers based in East Africa.

To submit:

Please send a paper title, 300‑word abstract, affiliation, and contact information to

📧kd.thompson@wisc.edu

by 1 April 2026.

If you have questions about fit or wish to discuss your idea, please reach out. We look forward to building a vibrant conversation on verges, thresholds, and emergent futures across the Swahili and East African worlds.

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Hello AfAA members 👋 📢 The AAA Call for Submissions is now open! If you are submitting a panel or individual paper, please remember to select AfAA as the section you would like to review your submission. Submission details: annualmeeting.americananthro.org/submit/ #Anthropology #AAA2026 #AfAA

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

📢 Call for Applications ACIP Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards 2026 For African PhD students enrolled at South African universities (humanities & humanistic social sciences). 💰 Up to ZAR 50,000 🗓️ Deadline: 1 May 2026 🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/students/acip.html #PhDFunding #AfricanStudies #SouthAfrica

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

📣 Call for Proposals The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals to organize a 2027 workshop on public culture and scholarship in Africa. Deadline: 1 May 2026 Max award: ZAR 75,000 🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/students/acip.html

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Congrats to @chuckgski.bsky.social! Last night, his book God's Waiting Room was awarded AfAA's Skinner Prize for "the book that best furthers the global community of Africanist scholars & the broader interests of the African continent, as exemplified in the work of Elliott P. Skinner." #AAA2025NOLA

AfAA President Wale Adebanwi shaking hands with Casey Golomski after announcing that God's Waiting Room won the 2024 Skinner Prize.

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals to organise the 2027 ACIP Workshop in South Africa. Up to ZAR 75,000 available for projects exploring public culture, institutions, and scholarship in Africa. Deadline: 1 May 2026 🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude... #ACIP #ResearchFunding #Africa

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Applications are open for the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards! African PhD students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences at South African universities can apply for up to ZAR 50,000 for dissertation research. Deadline: 1 May 2026. 🔗 gs.emory.edu/guides/stude... #ResearchFunding

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Camilo Leon-Quijano @camilolq.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our book STRATA: Unruly Ethnographies of Troubled Worlds is out today 🎉 by Aurelie Darbouret, Petna Ndaliko, Daniela Rodrigues, Jeff Daniel Silva & Laurent Van Lancker, it reimagines how anthropology is written, shared, and felt. 📖 sunsun.fr | Launch: Nov 3 @ Mucem | 196 pages | 400 copies

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wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Call for Participation! AAGE Biennial Conference May 8 – 10, 2026, Hosted at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Deadline Extended: Submit by November 25, 2025. anthropologyandgerontology.com/conferences/...

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The Archaeology Centre @ U of T @archaeologycentre.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The Graduate Office for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto will be holding an information session on their graduate programs (Master of Arts, Master of Science, Direct Entry-PhD and PhD). The session will be held online via Zoom. See poster for details.

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Nathaniel M. Smith @nathanielmsmith.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

local academic types: looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.

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Signs and Society @signsandsociety.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

🆕New Article Check out Dr. KD Thompson's @katrinadalythompson.com new article examining ✨nearly a century of Swahili-language Islamic marital booklets✨ 🧵 1/4

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🧭Calling all members of the AfAA! Before the AAA 2025 Annual Meeting, we we'd love to hear from you. What kind of future do you envision for the AfAA? Share your thoughts 👉 forms.gle/aoLmbK5TYf3X... Let’s shape the next chapter together. #Anthropology #AfAA #AAA2025

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications. Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 . sudansolidarity.com

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Proud to announce the 2025 AfAA Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award: Adrian Wilson (UC) for “Refusing Money, Rejecting Relations: …” — a powerful critique of RCTs in Western Kenya. Honorable mention: Carl Henderson (UCL) for “Zen and the Art of Affluence Maintenance.” #AfAA2025 #Anthropology

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Hearty congratulations to Huda Ahmed Name (UC San Diego), winner of the AfAA 2025 “Penny” Schwartz Undergraduate Essay Award for her essay on Somali ethnic/inter-ethnic conflicts and civil war. We are proud of outstanding undergraduate scholarship!👏 #AfAA2025 #Anthropology #Somalia

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KD Thompson @phdeviant.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Just out: my new piece in Signs and Society looks at Swahili Islamic marital booklets and how they weave together gender, time, and religious longing. From pre-Islamic “ignorance” to the afterlife, these texts imagine marriage as a moral journey across eras. doi.org/10.1017/ #LingAnth #AcRel

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From the Time of Ignorance to the Afterlife: Gendered Chronotopes and Religious Nostalgia in Swahili-Language Islamic Marital Booklets | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core

From the Time of Ignorance to the Afterlife: Gendered Chronotopes and Religious Nostalgia in Swahili-Language Islamic Marital Booklets

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

We regret to share that we have lost access to our accounts on Facebook & X, possibly via hacking. If you’d like to follow us on social media, we are still active on Bluesky and now also on LinkedIn. We’d love to promote your work on these two sites!

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📚Penn Libraries & the Center for Africana Studies invite applications for the 2026 Holman Fellow for African Health & Medicine Research, a 3-year position supporting scholarship on Africa’s medical & health histories and futures. Apply by September 12, 2025: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

📢Louisa Lombard (Yale) will give the 2025 AfAA Distinguished Lecture at the AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Titled "Studying Soldiers," exploring armed life in Central Africa, a compelling dialogue with the conference theme, "Ghosts". #AfAA #AAA2025 More: afaa.americananthro.org/event/2025-a...

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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

For a limited time only, we're pleased to offer a 50% #SALE off ALL #Anthropology and #Sociology paperbacks and eBooks purchased via our website. Get these discounts automatically when you shop, no discount code required: bit.ly/3HjF9X5 Don’t miss out, offer ends soon! #academicsky #booksale

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chuckgski.bsky.social @chuckgski.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Book review roundtable with a new generation of writers on my creative and experimental ethnography, out now! "Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room," in African Studies - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Care, Life and Death in a Highly Racist World: Casey Golomski’s God’s Waiting Room

Published in African Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Congratulations to Maja Jakarasi, winner of the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award from the African Critical Inquiry Programme for research exploring spirit, healing & mental illness in Zimbabwe & Mozambique More: www.facebook.com/share/p/19ZxWAP9W4/ www.gs.emory.edu/about/special/acip.html

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Call for Pitches | Anthropology News: Fluidity Do you have any bold ideas that cross boundaries? Submit by Aug 10. See details below #Anthropology #AfricanistAnthro #AfAA

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Announcing the Africa Thesis Award 2025 for outstanding research on Africa by PhDs completed between Aug 31, 2024 & Aug 31, 2025, at a Dutch or African university. 🔗https://ascleiden.nl/news/submit-your-thesis-africa-thesis-award-2025 #PhD #AfricaResearch #AfAA #GradAwards

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Apply now for the 2025 AfAA Graduate Travel Awards for the 2025 Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association—open to students & recent PhDs in Africanist anthropology. Deadline: July 10, 2025 #Anthropology #AfAA #AAA2025

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

We are excited to share the Call for Applications for Junior Fellowships 2026 at the Forum Basiliense, University of Basel. Theme: Conflict and Cooperation—an invitation to explore global transformations through interdisciplinary dialogue. Find more: forum-basiliense.unibas.ch/en/news/deta...

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

The 2026 African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) Workshop will be "Revisiting and Reimagining Imvo Zabantsundu," organized with support from the Ivan Karp & Corinne Kratz Fund. See announcement at www.facebook.com/share/p/15viNaRyBc/ Also coming soon to: www.gs.emory.edu/about/special/acip.html

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🎉 Congratulations to AfAA member Jennifer Coffman, recipient of the 2025 AAA Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Anthropology! Nominated by the AfAA board, Coffman is recognized for her outstanding dedication to undergraduate education #AAA2025 #AfAA

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Can't make it to New Orleans for #AAA2025? Join the 100% Virtual Annual Meeting, Nov 14–15, designed for those who can't attend in person. Share your work and stay part of the conversation from anywhere. Submit your proposal via annualmeeting.americananthro.org/virtual-call by May 16, 11:59 PM ET.

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Association for Africanist Anthropology @afaa-africananthro.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Greetings! The Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA) is offering Graduate Travel Awards to support graduate students and recent graduates to present and/or attend the 2025 meeting of the American Anthropological Association. More information at afaa.americananthro.org/awards/#Travel

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