Prof. Michael Williams, Director of the Centre for Africana Studies at AUCC has been invited by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University, in Bielefeld, Germany, to participate in their annual conference scheduled for September 10-13, 2008. Based around the theme ‘Control of Violence,’ this conference, attended by scholars from around the world, is designed to explore the variety of ways in which violence can be controlled in the world in order to ensure global peace.

The Center for Interdisciplinary Research, which is heavily funded by the German Research Foundation, has invited Prof. Williams to also discuss ways in which their two centers and two universities can collaborate in conducting joint research in Africa.