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- Call for Submissions - African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter.
The African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter works to provide a focal point for archaeological and historical studies of African diasporas, with news, current research, information and links to other web resources related to the archaeology and history of descendants of African peoples. Through this engagement with African diasporas, the ADAN seeks to connect an intellectual community that considers the historical processes of racialization, gender, power, and culture operating within and upon African descendant communities. Please contact Chris Fennel if you have essays, articles, analysis papers, book reviews, project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, available at: http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html. The Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and December.
- CFP - THE KUMASI SYMPOSIUM: Tapping Local Resources for Sustainable Education
Through Art
KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (KNUST), Department of General Arts & Art Education, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Kumasi, Ghana
JULY 31-AUGUST 14, 2009
A call is made for contributions addressing one or more of the symposium strands and topics: Art Education Practice, Studio Practice, Curatorial/Museum/Community Arts Practice, Art History/Criticism, Arts Administration/Management/Marketing Practice, and Open Session. The symposium entails plenary sessions and support activities such as demonstrations/workshops, exhibitions, and site-specific tours of local national resources. Expression of interest and proposals for Plenary Sessions and Exhibitions/Practical Workshops will be reviews until January 17, 2009. We expect about 200 participants from around the world. The working language of the conference will be English. Applications for individual paper presentation and participation will be reviewed until the space is filled. All abstracts and brief biographies should be submitted electronically to africoae@gmail.com
The symposium is organized as collaboration between African Community of Arts Educators (AfriCOAE) and KNUST’s Department of General Arts & Art Education. As a follow-up to AfriCOAE’s 2008 “Project Earth to Art: Tapping Local Natural Resources for Sustainable Art Education Development” at Accra. The two-week symposium (July 31-August 14, 2009) will deal with the issue of sustainability in the 21st century to enable visual arts education developments in Ghana and perhaps similar settings. Owing to the challenges of transition from the postcolonial stance and to many others, best practices and resourceful programs often fail to roll out nationwide and to be sustained. The following questions will therefore guide the dialogues: Is sustainability of art teaching and learning developments in the postcolonial African environment possible? Can the postcolonial Ghanaian environment and non-Western others today provide adapt resources for sustainable artistic practice? If so, how can the resources best be tapped for education through art in Anglophone Ghana and other Modernist African settings?
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: Open to all. The event is designed to bring together Scholars, Educators, Curators, Practicing Artists, and interested others in Africa and the rest of the world for ideation and interchange on the topic.
VENUE: KNUST’s Faculty of Fine Art and The University Museum for exhibitions, workshops and plenary sessions, and The GUSS (International) House for Boarding and Lodging.
PROGRAMME: The focus is on tapping local resources for visual arts teaching and learning through cross-cultural collaborations and critical dialogues. Local resources include national human capital, natural resources, and man-made environment. Proceedings from the symposium will result to a publication. Accordingly, the symposium will open with workshops, followed by site-specific tours of Ghana, and closes with Panel Presentations. The University Shuttle will provide transportation. The final Banquet will require your national attire. A limited amount of space exists for commercial vendors’ displays/exhibits during the Conference; interested parties should contact the secretariat by e-mail: naopoku-asare.art@knust.edu.gh, bonoffeinyako@hotmail.com
IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for abstract submission: 17th January 2009 Deadline for full paper (c. 3000 words) submission: 30th June 2009
MORE INFORMATION: Detailed information on registration fees, accommodation and other expenses related to the symposium will be sent to all participants well in advance of the conference. Additional information will also be on the project web site: http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta, the university web site: www.knust.edu.gh and elsewhere on the WWW space.
MORE INFORMATION: Detailed information on registration fees, accommodation and other expenses related to the symposium will be sent to all participants well in advance of the conference. Additional information will also be on the project web site: http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta, the university web site: www.knust.edu.gh and elsewhere on the WWW space.
Email Contact: africoae@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://afropoets.tripod.com/eta
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CFP: 11th Joint Stanford-University of California Law and Colonialism in Africa Symposium
Stanford University, Thurs. March 19 - Sat. 21, 2009Trafficking Women and Children after the End of Slavery: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from Africa and Beyond
Now in its eleventh year, the 2009 Stanford-University of California Law and Colonialism in Africa Symposium will focus on trafficking in women and children. We invite submissions from new and established scholars conducting new research on the forms, nature, and impact of the traffic in women and children from the historical past to the present day in sub-Saharan Africa and in comparative perspectives beyond the continent.
Women and children have been bartered, pawned, bought, and sold within and beyond Africa for longer than records have existed. We are interested in examining the changing modalities of the traffic in women and children in the aftermath of the “end of slavery” in late 19th and early 20th centuries. Slavery and the many forms of bondage and subordination that have operated in Africa in the past are often juxtaposed with the nature of trafficking once slavery was made illegal. The formal end of the slave trade and slavery did not end the demand for servile women and children. The contemporary “traffic” in women is increasingly conflated with prostitution; descriptions of child trafficking often blur the boundaries with critiques of child labor practices. We are especially interested in understanding law in practice as we examine the changing conditions of supply and demand for women and children and changing mechanisms of legal enforcement. We seek papers that identify modes of exchange of subordinate women and children, and explorations of the formal and informal legal regimes that underpin subordination. We are also interested in examining efforts to end such trafficking from the international to the local levels. Proposed papers should be based on original research in these areas.
The Law and Colonialism in Africa Symposium explores the connections between the legacies of conquest and the legal systems that undergird domination. We are interested in uncovering and documenting the relationship between modalities of authority and the articulation and praxis of law. Previous symposia have focused on topics as diverse as the role of indigenous intermediaries, domestic violence, Muslim family law, and children. We welcome disciplinary, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary approaches from scholars in the social sciences and humanities. A number of previous symposia have resulted in edited volumes. The symposium will cover local expenses; a small number of subsidies to defray transport costs are available upon request.
Abstracts of 300 words and a résumé of scholarship should be submitted by October 30, 2008 to Richard Roberts . Papers selected must be ready to circulate by mid-February 2009. For further information about the nature, format, and interests of the symposium, please contact Benjamin Lawrance .
Benjamin Lawrance
Dept. of History
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave, Davis, CA, 95616
Tel: 530 752 8207
Fax: 530 752 5301
Email: bnl@ucdavis.edu
