VACANCY: Communications Manager
The African Centre For Cities is currently seeking to appoint a Communications Manager.
The main purpose of the Strategic Communications Manager is to deliver strategic communications outcomes for the African Centre for Cities. The Strategic Communications Manager will act as brand custodian ensure the integrity and quality of all communications outputs under the ACC banner. The Strategic Communications Manager will also be responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with project PIs, funding partners and peers in research/partner institutions to ensure maximum alignment and impact for outputs, as well as actively source and investigate new opportunities for funding and partnership.
DAAD Call for Master Scholarship Applications 2025: MPhil Southern Urbanism
The African Centre for Cities, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) is calling for scholarship applications for 2025.DAAD are offering five In-Region Scholarships* for students from Sub-Saharan Africa who enrol for the MPhil Southern Urbanism (Masters in Urban Studies) programme at the University of Cape Town.
How to write about platformisation from Africa
Call for applications to attend an intimate three-day writing workshop on “How to write about platformisation from Africa”
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
ACC invites applications from suitably qualified applicants to apply for this three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship as part of a project led by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements, called Spatialising Climate Impacts on Health: A Focus on Vulnerable Settlements in Megacities of the Global South.
WATCH | Panya Routes: From platform to plotform
In this public talk, Dr Kim Gurney shares the innovative working principles that independent art spaces in fast-changing cities in Africa have in common as they navigate conditions of uncertainty and accelerated flux.
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VACANCY: Communications Manager
The African Centre For Cities is currently seeking to appoint a Communications Manager.
The main purpose of the Strategic Communications Manager is to deliver strategic communications outcomes for the African Centre for Cities. The Strategic Communications Manager will act as brand custodian ensure the integrity and quality of all communications outputs under the ACC banner. The Strategic Communications Manager will also be responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with project PIs, funding partners and peers in research/partner institutions to ensure maximum alignment and impact for outputs, as well as actively source and investigate new opportunities for funding and partnership.
DAAD Call for Master Scholarship Applications 2025: MPhil Southern Urbanism
The African Centre for Cities, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) is calling for scholarship applications for 2025.DAAD are offering five In-Region Scholarships* for students from Sub-Saharan Africa who enrol for the MPhil Southern Urbanism (Masters in Urban Studies) programme at the University of Cape Town.
How to write about platformisation from Africa
Call for applications to attend an intimate three-day writing workshop on “How to write about platformisation from Africa”
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
ACC invites applications from suitably qualified applicants to apply for this three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship as part of a project led by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements, called Spatialising Climate Impacts on Health: A Focus on Vulnerable Settlements in Megacities of the Global South.
WATCH | Panya Routes: From platform to plotform
In this public talk, Dr Kim Gurney shares the innovative working principles that independent art spaces in fast-changing cities in Africa have in common as they navigate conditions of uncertainty and accelerated flux.
Research
Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University
Edited by Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi and Shari Daya, Epistemic Justice and the Postcolonial University, addresses urgent current debates on decolonisation by offering reimagined teaching and learning interventions for obtaining greater epistemic justice in the contemporary postcolonial university.
New book on reconstructing the future for people and planet
Reconstructing the Future: Cities as Carbon Sink, compiles the papers presented by world-renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, activists, and policy makers at the Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet conference, held at the Vatican in June 2022.
Strategic Paper: Climate Infrastructure & City Governments: A Strategic Framework For African City-Labs
“Climate Infrastructure & City Governments: A Strategic Framework For African City-Labs”, provides a framework to support the development of ‘city-labs’ in African cities.
Case Report: Fintech and motorcycle platform services in Cape Town, South Africa: legacy capital, retail extension and growing experimentation
This case report by Alicia Fortuin, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannah project, explores fintech and motorcycle platform services in Cape Town, South Africa.Â
Case Report: Fintech and paratransit in Kigali, Rwanda: uniformity, gaps and speculative pilots
This case report by Alexis Sebarenzi, as part of the Platform Politics and Silicon Savannahs project, explores fintech and paratransit in Kigali, Rwanda.
Events
Call for applications for UTA-Do 2024
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the third UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in 2024, to be hosted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (29 Jan to 2 Feb 2024).
Call for participation: UTA-Do African Cities Workshop 2023
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the second UTA-DO African Cities Workshop in 2023.Â
POWER TALKS: a space for conversation about power in the creative and cultural sectors in South Africa
A multidisciplinary, multi-site programme in Gqeberha & Bhisho, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, which allows for a disruption of the performativity of critical debate that often skirts dissensus and discomfort in the dissection of power.
Laying the Table for a Better Food System
Urban Food Systems is one of the key thematics of ACC’s research, and we seeks different ways and platforms to…
Reconstructing the future for people and planet
The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) and Bauhaus Earth bring together world-renowned practitioners and thinkers on crucial dimensions of the…
CALL FOR PAPERS | African Infrastructure Futures: Urban research, debates and priorities
The African Centre for Cities will be hosting a three-day conference entitled African Infrastructural Futures: Urban research, debates and priorities,…
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INFO SESSION | DAAD MPhil Southern Urbanism Scholarships
INFO SESSION | DAAD MPhil Southern Urbanism Scholarships
The African Centre for Cities, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), are calling for scholarship applications for 2025. DAAD are offering five In-Region Scholarships* for students from Sub-Saharan Africa who enrol for the MPhil...
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