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IAD Fall Symposium: Africa and China: Trade, Investment, and Development

Africa and China

November 3-4, 2023

Multifaceted and multidisciplinary analytical papers that focus on the  role of Chinese investments in Africa’s development as well as those that give brief overviews of Africa’s efforts to create a free trade area  and the impact and scale of  investment are encouraged. Additionally, the symposium will look at the role foreign investment can play in resource mobilization for infrastructure development as well as the links between law, trade, and regional integration.  The overall objective of the conference is to engage in comprehensive discussion of Chinese investments in Africa.

IAD Fall Symposium: Africa and China: Trade, Investment, and Development

Investment China
June 7, 2023

November 3-4, 2023

China/Africa relations have a long history, with modern China/Africa relations having originated during the 1955 Bandung conference where Asian and African leaders met in Indonesia to strategize ways to confront colonialism and the cold war.  In the 1960s and 1970s China/Africa relationships revolved mainly around ideological solidarity with African socialist countries such as Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.  Newly independent African states and the liberation wars taking place in the Southern African region were supported by China as were infrastructural development in a handful of countries, notably Tanzania and Zambia.The overall objective of the conference is to engage in comprehensive discussion of Chinese investments in Africa.

 

 

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Topic

  • Development, Law, and Economics

Tags

  • International Development

Program

International Fair 2023

August 30, 2023

11:00 am

Uris Hall, Uris Hall Terrace

The annual International Fair showcases Cornell's global opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Explore the fair and find out about international majors and minors, language study, study abroad, funding opportunities, global internships, Cornell Global Hubs, and more.

The International Fair is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and Office of Global Learning (both part of Global Cornell), with Cornell's Language Resource Center.

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Program

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies

East Asia Program

Southeast Asia Program

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Institute for African Development

Institute for European Studies

South Asia Program

Winter '24 Course in Zambia

Tire and students

The History and Politics of Southern Africa course will be held at the University of Zambia, Cornell’s new Global Hub partner in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The class will introduce students to the history and politics of Zambia and more broadly southern Africa. The class examines the history of European settlement in southern Africa, the liberation wars and the independence process, Apartheid and post-Apartheid democracy in South Africa, as well as the turn to electoral democracy in Zambia, Botswana and Malawi. Excursions to historical sites and national parks are included.

IAD Africa Community Grant

Nigeria

Deadline June 1, 2023

The Institute for African Development (IAD) is accepting proposals for innovative community development projects to be implemented in Africa during the summer/winter of 2023-24.

IAD Africa Community Grant

Nigeria

Deadline June 1, 2023

The Institute for African Development (IAD) is accepting proposals for innovative community development projects to be implemented in Africa during the summer/winter of 2023-24.

Cornell Winter '24 in Zambia – History and Politics of Southern Africa

Lusaka

The History and Politics of Southern Africa is to be held at the University of Zambia, Cornell’s new Global Hub partner in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The class will introduce students to the history and politics of Zambia and more broadly southern Africa. The class examines the history of European settlement in southern Africa, the liberation wars and the independence process, Apartheid and post-Apartheid democracy in South Africa, as well as the turn to electoral democracy in Zambia, Botswana and Malawi. It then turns to an analysis of the politics, economies, and societies of contemporary southern Africa.

Cornell Winter '24 in Zambia – History and Politics of Southern Africa

Lusaka

The History and Politics of Southern Africa is to be held at the University of Zambia, Cornell’s new Global Hub partner in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. The class will introduce students to the history and politics of Zambia and more broadly southern Africa. The class examines the history of European settlement in southern Africa, the liberation wars and the independence process, Apartheid and post-Apartheid democracy in South Africa, as well as the turn to electoral democracy in Zambia, Botswana and Malawi. It then turns to an analysis of the politics, economies, and societies of contemporary southern Africa.

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