AFRICA-RELATED CONFERENCES
1ST INTERNATIONALCONFERENCE ON AFRICAN
CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT, KUMASI-GHANA, APRIL 21-26, 2008.
This conference is designed to draw attention to the missing link
in the
futile attempts to develop the African continent - culture. This is
clearly illustrated in the 1995 report of the World Commission on
Culture and Development: "Development divorced from its human or
cultural context is growth without a soul. Economic development in its
full flowering is a part of a people's culture". The purpose of this
conference is to provide a platform for the generation, interaction and
refinement of ideas. As an advocacy body, the ICACD Secretariat aims to push
for the conclusions drawn at ICACD 2008 and subsequent programmes
into the framework of policy-making on the African continent. For more
information, see http://www.icacd.ccoghana.org/
FROM AFRICA TO THE BALKANS,
APRIL 24-25, 2008.
The
conference on April 24 and 25, 2008, aiming at initiating a new, integrated
approach to the history of fascist
THE AMERICAN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION
ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 24-27, 2008 IN
An invitation for paper proposals for a seminar of
8-12 presenters at
the ACLA, the plan being to turn the the proceedings
of the conference
into a publication. Refugee narratives embrace a range of
storytellingfrom those which recount the lives of
internally displaced
populations and people fleeing the nation to those that relate the
predicament of people rendered stateless when territories are
transferred as regimes collapse. As the trope of flight defines these
narratives of displacement, migrancy, and temporary
shelters, the
paradigm of the nation-state along with its attendant category of
citizenship come to a crisis, and the human rights claims of the
homeless are foregrounded. For questions about the
panel, please contact
the seminar organizer: Basuli Deb
(Basuli.Deb_at_quinnipiac.edu). For
submitting paper proposals and for more information on the conference,
please visit the official conference website at
http://www.acla.org/acla2008/.
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND
AFRICA ANNUAL CONFERENCE, APRIL 24-26, 2008, WASHINGTON, DC
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa
Annual
Conference--a new, inter-disciplinary academic association that promotes
the highest standards of research and teaching in the fields of Middle
Eastern studies, African studies and their related disciplines--invites
scholars to attend our annual conference set for April 24-26, 2008 at
the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.
The conference is
entitled: The Evolution of Islamic Politics, Philosophy, and Culture in
the Middle East and
It will feature a variety of panels that deal with this subject and a
keynote speech from ASMEAs Chairman, Professor
Bernard Lewis of
about the future of the
information on ASMEAs conference, please visit: www.asmeascholars.org.
CONFERENCE
ON RELIGION & RELIGIOUS IDENTITIES IN
Religious beliefs and identities have among other things shaped
the
nature of human experience in
also a known fact that religious beliefs and identities have influenced
human behavior in both religious and non-religious ways in different
societies. These influences have included positive and negative
consequences in the ordering of society in
Diaspora. Conference participants are encouraged to submit abstracts
(300 words at most) on any aspect of the broad themes identified above.
The deadline for submitting paper proposals is April 15, 2008. All
abstracts should include title, the author's name, institutional
affiliation, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Please
submit all abstracts by e-mail to: Onaiwu W. Ogbomo,
http://www.wmich.edu/blackamericanastudies/conferences.htm.
WRITING AFRICAN HISTORIES,
Following successful events in 2006 and 2007, postgraduate
students in
Imperial and International history at the
holding their annual conference on the theme of Writing
African
Histories. Professor Frederick Cooper (
the keynote address. Visit the website at
http://www.imperialhistory.group.shef.ac.uk
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON POLITICAL ECONOMIES OF
DISPLACEMENT IN POST-2000
This conference, to be held at Wits Campus in
June 2008, emerges from an ongoing collaborative research project
initiated in late 2006 by the Nordic Africa Institute entitled Political
Economies of Displacement in Post-2000 Zimbabwe. The project links
researchers located within and outside Zimbabwe who share an active
interest in mapping the complex dynamics of change related to the
crises, uncertainties and multiple displacements of contemporary
Zimbabwe and their effects on neighbouring states and
diasporas further
afield. The Conference seeks especially (but not only) empirically
grounded contributions from researchers from different disciplines,
whose work on post-2000
places), helps to address some of these issues. For further queries,
please contact: Amanda Hammar (amanda.hammar@nai.uu.se)
or Tania Berger
(tania.berger@nai.uu.se) at the Nordic Africa
Institute, and Loren
Landau (Loren.Landau@wits.ac.za) at the Forced Migration Studies
Programme at
EMERGING PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN IN MIGRATORY
CIRCUMSTANCES,
The Working Group on Childhood and Migration (see
http://globalchild.rutgers.edu/)
will hold our first conference June 20,
21 of 2008 at
them is Emerging Perspectives on Children in Migratory Circumstances.
At this inaugural conference, we welcome researchers and policy
advocates from all disciplines and all areas of the world whose work
focuses on the ways that increased migration affects children and the
cultural, legal, educational, medical, and psychological perception of
childhood.
AEGIS CORTONA SUMMER SCHOOL IN AFRICAN STUDIES:
BORDERS AND BORDER-CROSSINGS IN AFRICA,
This is to announce that a summer school designed for advanced
Ph.D.
students in African Studies (social sciences and humanities) aiming to
take part in the Third AEGIS European Conference of African Studies
(ECAS 3, Leipzig, July 2009) will be held in Italy. The 2008 summer
school will focus on Borders and Border-Crossings in
sponsored by AEGIS-Naples in collaboration with the AEGIS Centres
of
bring together advanced Ph.D. students and teaching staff from AEGIS
Centres in order to exchange field and research
experience; b) to
improve the students ability to prepare and present their research in
an international context; c) to promote graduate training within AEGIS
and stimulate African-European inter-university cooperation. Both
students and senior researchers are expected to present papers on their
current research. The emphasis will be on field methodology and
comparative research results, both in writing and the oral presentation.
Applicants will be selected on the basis of their research outline and
their ability to engage with wider issues in African Studies today.
Priority will be given to students and researchers with recent field
experience and fresh research results. Application by research students
coming from African Universities is encouraged; subsidies for the
participation of a limited number of successful applicants are being
sought for. For more information, see www.aegis-eu.org
THE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES IN
SUB-SAHARA AFRICA 2008 CONFERENCE,
For more information, please see
http://www.crossculturalcentre.homestead.com/LMSSSA2008.html
AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE
The conference aims to bring together Africanists
from all over the
world and from various disciplines to discuss the past and current
developments in
the ASAUK websites: www.asauk.net.
EMPIRE, SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVERY: REBUILDING CIVIL
SOCIETY IN SIERRA LEONE. PAST AND PRESENT. WISE -
WILBERFORCE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION, UNIVERSITY OF
HULL, SEPTEMBER 26-28, 2008
In 1808, two hundred years ago,
colony. The bicentennial presents the opportunity to re-examine the
history of
from different disciplines, museum professionals, archivists, policy
makers concerned with contemporary issues, and individuals interested in
human rights and the reconstruction of modern day Sierra Leone. This
conference will mark the bicentenary of the establishment of
Leone
required to pay a registration fee and to arrange their own
accommodation and travel. Information on local hotel accommodation can
be arranged through the Hull Conference Bureau; details to be supplied
upon registration. An edited collection of papers presented at the
conference will be published. Contact Info: Jane Ellison, Conference
Manager, WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and
Emancipation),
Visit the website at http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise
AFRICAN ATHENA: BLACK ATHENA 20 YEARS ON,
African Athena was Bernals original
title for Black Athena, his
infamous work that has confronted the modern academy with some of the
most challenging questions it has faced over the last twenty years. This
interdisciplinary conference seeks neither to demonize nor to lionize
Bernals book, but to open dialogue on the issues it
has posed: can a
myth of Afrocentrism ever be a useful narrative in
contemporary culture?
This is a call for papers from scholars of African Studies, Black
British Studies, African American Studies, of South Asia, of the
East
any intellectual beyond these borders. Send proposals of up to 500 words
for papers by March 31, 2008 to Dr. Daniel Orrells,
Department of
Classics,
D.Orrells@warwick.ac.uk.
MODERN LANGUAGE
ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, 27-30 DECEMBER 2008
The sectarian conflicts and civil wars which recur across the
African
continent are a common, though under-explored concern of
post-independence African literature. Authors experiment with form,
language, content, and other rhetorical strategies in order to
adequately represent the complex and multivalent nature of these
conflicts. Their efforts consequently broaden our understanding of armed
struggle in
a panel organized in conjunction with the Society for the Study of
Narrative Literature which concern the narration of conflict in
post-independence African literature, particularly comparative analyses
and those focusing on texts which have not yet received notable critical
attention.
"HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS",
Center for Civilizational and Regional
Studies of the Institute for
African Studies under the
with the
16-19, 2009 the Fifth International Conference "HIERARCHY AND POWER IN
THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS". The aim of the Conference, like that of
the four previous ones, is to bring together the researchers doing the
respective problematics in the whole variety of its
contexts, within the
framework of different academic schools and traditions from the
positions of a wide range of disciplines: social anthropology,
archaeology, history, political science, sociology, philosophy,
psychology, etc. The working languages of the Conference are Russian and
English. The Organizing Committee will be glad to consider any panel
proposals (within 500 words in any of the Conference working languages)
which will be received by February 1, 2008. All the correspondence
should be sent for the Conference Secretaries, Dr. Oleg I. Kavykin
and
Ms. Anastasia A. Banschikova, preferably by e-mail
(conf2009@conf2009.ru), or either by fax (+ 7 495 202 0786), or by
ordinary mail (Center for Civilizational and Regional
Studies, Institute
for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 30/1 Spiridonovka
St.,
123001 Moscow, Russia). The telephone number is: + 7 495 291 4119.