Upcoming conferences  6-8 May 2010  Conference, Birmingham  Tuning in to African Cities Popular Culture and Urban Experience in sub-Saharan Africa  7-9 Oct 2010  Conference, Toronto  Gender, Material Culture and Cultural Diplomacy  9-11 Sept 2010  Conference, Lisbon  CIAE 7- 50 Years of African Independencies: challenges to modernity  5-6 Nov 2010  Conference, Brussels  [un]disciplined encounters: science as terrain of postcolonial interaction between Africa and Europe - past and future  15-18 June 2011  Conference, Uppsala  ECAS 2011- 4th European Conference on African Studies