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From Blog to Book. www.asanewsonline.com 2 Contents 1 2012 7 1.1 March............................................... 7 Howard Wolpe (1939-2011) (2012-03-08 14:38) ......................... 7 Ivan Karp (1943-2011) (2012-03-08 14:39) ............................ 10 Ivan Karp Archive Launched (2012-03-09 09:56) ........................ 11 ASA Survey Results (2012-03-10 09:52) ............................. 12 Opportunities in African Studies (2012-03-10 10:04) ...................... 13 Teaching in African Studies (2012-03-10 10:16) ......................... 16 2011 Distinguished Africanist Award: Dr. Toyin Falola (2012-03-19 14:40) . 17 2011 Herskovits Award Winners & Runners-Up (2012-03-19 14:48) . 19 New Ogot Award (2012-03-19 16:25) ............................... 26 In Memoriam (2012-03-19 16:29) ................................. 27 Kony 2012 (2012-03-19 16:32) ................................... 27 2011 ASA Award Winners (2012-03-19 16:49) .......................... 29 Debate Proposed ASA Resolution (2012-03-19 16:50) ...................... 31 New ASA News Editor (2012-03-19 16:51) ............................ 35 African Humanities Program (2012-03-19 16:54) ........................ 36 Future Federal Funding for International Studies (2012-03-19 16:55) . 39 New Interim ASA Executive Director (2012-03-19 16:58) .................... 40 Challenges of Researching Rwanda: An Interview with Scott Straus (2012-03-19 16:59) . 41 ASA News is Back! (2012-03-19 17:01) .............................. 43 1.2 May ................................................ 46 ASA Member News (2012-05-28 13:22) .............................. 46 ASA Updates (2012-05-28 13:24) ................................. 47 ASA Annual Meeting Announcements (2012-05-28 13:28) ................... 48 Coalition on International Education Update (2012-05-28 13:57) . 50 Appeal to Safeguard Mali's Cultural Heritage (2012-05-28 14:55) . 52 3 Mali Crisis Resources (2012-05-28 15:00) ............................. 54 Host an ASA Presidential Fellow at Your Institution in November 2012 (2012-05-29 12:49) 54 2012 ASA Election Winners (2012-05-29 13:01) ......................... 57 Teaching about the LRA (2012-05-29 13:03) ........................... 62 ASA Resolution on the Crises of Central Africa (2012-05-29 13:13) . 63 Opportunities in African Studies (2012-05-29 13:28) ...................... 63 Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa (2012-05-29 13:31) . 67 Seeking ASA Archival Materials from the Membership (2012-05-29 13:35) . 69 Letter from the President (2012-05-29 13:39) .......................... 70 Getting Research Permission (2012-05-29 13:42) ........................ 72 Protecting Mali's Cultural Treasures (2012-05-29 16:38) .................... 76 1.3 July ................................................ 78 ASA Seeks Applicants for Executive Director Position (2012-07-30 14:17) . 78 1.4 August . 79 Host an ASA Presidential Fellow at Your Institution in November 2012 (2012-08-29 16:25) 79 Exhibiting and Advertising at ASA Annual Meeting (2012-08-30 14:16) . 82 Opportunities in African Studies: Grants, Calls for Proposals for Conferences and Journals (2012-08-30 14:18) .................................... 83 Member News (2012-08-30 14:24) ................................. 90 Annual Meeting Features Workshops (2012-08-30 14:25) .................... 91 In Memoriam: "Cy" Reed (1955-2012) (2012-08-31 09:17) ................... 93 Annual Meeting Special Events to Highlight Philadelphia's Window to Africa (2012-08-31 09:54) 93 ASAAnnual Meeting Will Feature Murray Last as African Studies Review Distinguished Lecturer (2012-08-31 11:19) ............................... 95 Letter from the ASA President (2012-08-31 12:28) ....................... 97 Ama Ata Aidoo to Deliver Abiola Lecture at Annual Meeting (2012-08-31 13:29) . 98 ASA Journals to be Published by Cambridge University Press (2012-08-31 14:36) . 100 Fieldwork as a Diasporan: How IIncreased My Bride Price and Other Insights from the Field (2012-08-31 15:37) .................................... 101 2 2013 105 2.1 January . 105 Opportunities in African Studies: New Journal Announcement (2013-01-01 08:00) . 105 A Note from Outgoing Editor Laura Seay (2013-01-01 09:13) . 106 2013 ASA Membership Renewal (2013-01-01 09:14) . 107 IN MEMORIAM (2013-01-01 09:15) ............................... 109 ASA Member News (2013-01-01 09:17) .............................. 111 4 ASA 2013 Call for Proposals (2013-01-01 09:19) . 111 ASA Announcements (2013-01-01 09:20) ............................. 113 Opportunities in African Studies: Calls for Proposals for Conferences,Journal (2013-01-01 09:21) .................................... 115 Opportunities: Grants, Fellowships, Postdocs, and Internships (2013-01-01 09:23) . 119 ASA President's Annual Report (2013-01-01 09:25) . 122 ASA 2012 Awards Presented at Annual Meeting (2013-01-01 09:30) . 125 The African Studies Association of India (2013-01-01 09:31) . 133 Meet our new Executive Director, Suzanne Moyer Baazet (2013-01-01 09:35) . 135 Profile: Jane Guyer, ASA's 2012 Distinguished Africanist (2013-01-23 11:58) . 137 5 6 Chapter 1 2012 1.1 March Howard Wolpe (1939-2011) (2012-03-08 14:38) Remembering Howard Wolpe, the Tireless Peacemaker by Steve McDonald Reprinted with permission from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Africa Pro- gram [1] Former U.S. Representative Howard Wolpe of Michigan, who served seven terms in Congress and was a powerful advocate for Africa, died on October 25 at his home in Saugatuck, Michigan. After leaving Congress, Wolpe served as the Director of the Wilson Center's Africa Program and Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity. He was 71. He is survived by his wife,Julie, his son, Michael, and stepson, Paul. His was a tremendous spirit that continues to move and inspire us all. 7 I have known Howard Wolpe for over 30 years. When he took over as Chairman of the Africa Sub- committee in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1981, I had been living and working on the continent for a decade. I had the chance to interact with him professionally and welcomed having a chairman of the impor- tant subcommittee who had lived and worked in Africa. Because he had done his doctoral research in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, where he lived for two years, he brought to his position not just a love of Africa, but a sense of its deeper character, culture, potential and promise. It was a life-long love between Howard and Africa, on both sides.I worked closely with Howard in the 1980s during the fight to pass the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act and to move South Africa to a just future, helping put him in touch with South African leaders inside and outside the country. He strategized with Members from both sides of the aisle and both houses and brought together the bi-partisan coalition that eventually overrode the Reagan veto and set in motion the international pressures that were so important in influencing non-violent change in South Africa. Just as important, however, was the dialogue that Howard joined with former Senator Dick Clark at the Aspen Institute to bring together black and white South African leaders across all party lines to seek understanding and common goals for their country's future. It was a role Howard would play later as U.S. Special Envoy as he negotiated the Lusaka and Sun City talks that brought an end to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Arusha Peace Process that did the same for Burundi. It was the next decade that allowed me to know the true visionary and statesman that was Howard Wolpe. He asked me to join him in an 'experiment' born of his despair as the Arusha Accords fell apart and Burundi returned to war in 2000. He drew upon his experience, long before his public life, of working to bring reconciliation and rebuild trust and collaborative capacities among community leaders and students in schools and towns torn apart by racial strife in a racist America. He had seen communities come together again to rebuild their lives after they had been facilitated through a process that restored their sense of cohesion and interdependence - a process that changed how they saw each other and helped them "walk in the shoes of the other," as he put it. Why, he asked me, could that not work at a national, state-building level in war-torn Burundi. We were to make that our central task for the next 10 years, with the support of the World Bank, United Nations, European Union, and the U.S., UK, Norwegian and Swedish governments. By then we were both at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, where Lee Hamilton, presi- dent of the Center and former congressional colleague, asked Howard to take over the Africa Program. Howard also started a project on Leadership and Building State Capacity to reinforce the work we had started in Africa. In Burundi, we helped facilitate the 2004 cease fire commission; the demobilization, disarmament, and reintegration of the various military factions; elections in 2005, and training for the new government, parliament and political parties in the following years. With a dedicated and professional team of Americans, Africans and Europeans, we did the same in the DRC, and later Liberia. Howard's team designed a similar program for Timor Leste, and consulted on similar projects in Togo, Kenya, Sierra Leone, and elsewhere. Even though Howard retired in 2010, he and I met three weeks ago with Burundian President, 8 Pierre Nkurunziza, to gain his support for renewed political party work with his ruling party and the extra-parliamentary parties who left the country after the 2010 elections, reigniting violence and human rights violations and pushing Burundi towards another precipice. Howard was excited at the prospect of re-engaging in this troubled land that he knew so well and loved. I asked him if his health would allow it. As usual, he dismissed that as a factor and focused on what he could do to help build a lasting peace in Burundi.
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