News from African Studies and Anthropology Short Cuts DescriptionBirmingham historian Dr Sadiah Qureshi writes for the London Review of Books about the Royal Historical Society report 'Race, Ethnicity and Equality in UK History'Date:Friday 16 November 2018 10 place rise in THE World University Rankings 2019 DescriptionWe are now ranked 70 in the subject ranking for arts and humanities, which covers art, performing arts, design, languages, literature, linguistics, history, philosophy, theology, architecture and archaeology.Date:Thursday 1 November 2018 Iraqi and Syrian refugee women in Jordan and gender activism in Ghana DescriptionGrants totalling £549,585 awarded by the British Academy (BA) through its Sustainable Development Programme 2018.Date:Tuesday 2 October 2018 Doing Conferences Differently DescriptionIlya Afanasyev, Nicholas Evans and Nicholas Matheou on the possibility of another kind of academic conference in this latest Verso blog postDate:Friday 21 September 2018 ASA UK Conference - University of Birmingham 11-13 September 2018 DescriptionThe University of Birmingham is hosting the 27th biennial conference of the African Studies Association of the UK (ASAUK).Date:Monday 10 September 2018 An African games studio and a Nigerian fighting game based on African mythology DescriptionTessa Pijnaker talks to Akdogan Ali – Founder of game development studio Black Ring - for her third post on African superheroes for the Africa in Words blog.Date:Thursday 19 July 2018 African superheroes in the 1970s and '80s: a historical perspective DescriptionSecond in Tessa Pijnaker's series of blogposts for Africa in Words.Date:Tuesday 12 June 2018 What is an African superhero? DescriptionTessa Pijnaker, PhD student in African Studies and Anthropology, writes for the Africa in Words blog.Date:Monday 4 June 2018 Displaying 1 to 8 of 117 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next