can anyone suggest a panel? How about Pan-Africanists? There is not much
time...Marika
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> THE AFRICAN ATLANTIC: THE MAKING OF BLACK DIASPORAS
> KING ALFRED'S COLLEGE, WINCHESTER, ENGLAND
> THE COLLEGIUM FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH (CAAR)
> APRIL 13 TO 15, 2003
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> This conference will seek to take the longest and widest perspectives,
> viewpoints, and positions that speakers, panels and contributors can bring
> to the notions of the African Atlantic and the Black Diaspora. It will
focus
> on the old triangle of Africa, the Americas and Europe as in previous
> conferences. However, by pulling back and out, other coasts and other
worlds
> come into view. The Pacific of cities, states and provinces stretching
from
> Alaska to Tierra del Fuego is a boundary of the Black Diaspora which calls
> for our examination, exegesis, evocation.
>
> There is also a triangle created by the Americas, Asia and Africa. Are
there
> disaporic links to be made across the Pacific to the Africa of Ethiopia,
> Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique?
>
> And what of the diaspora that goes beyond geography? Is African American
> expansion on-line and into the net a replication of African American
> experience in the Americas or are new ways of being and of seeing on
offer?
> What kind of space is black Cyberland? Who lives there? Who is making this
> diaspora? Where are they taking black music, art, language, politics?
>
> Millennial promises of peace, reconciliation and harmony have been soured
by
> continuing political, social and ethnic fracture. Where are Civil Rights
> Movements to go now? Has the Durban Racism Conference shown a way forward
or
> a way nowhere? Reparation or Repossession? Is Globalization simply an
> extension of American Imperium; are we also witnessing the African
> Americanization of World Culture?
>
> We are planning to make strong contacts through the conference with
> Britain's Afro-Caribbean and other Black communities, and we ask that you
> think of creating panels which can take the best advantage of Europe's
most
> ethnically diverse country.
>
> As in the previous CAAR conferences, the program committee welcomes papers
> that approach African-American Studies from an interdisciplinary and
> comparative perspective. Workshops should have no more than eight slots.
> Since CAAR encourages international cooperation, we would ask that
workshop
> organizers either recruit some of the participants from countries other
than
> their own or leave at least half of the slots open.
>
> Proposals should be as short and to the point as possible (no more than
one
> page). All proposals should include title of paper/workshop, a brief
> abstract, and should include your name, affiliation, address, telephone
> number, and email address. Please send your proposals by EMAIL (with the
> text of the proposal included in the email, NOT as an attachment).
>
> The deadline for proposals is 1 September 2002.
>
> Please send proposals to:
> Carl Pedersen
> President of CAAR
> University of Southern Denmark
> email: [log in to unmask]
>
> CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: www.redconference.co.uk/caar/home.htm
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> Hakim Adi
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