From: "Mc Worter, Gerald A." <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002
Black Women's Studies and the Academy
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
February 27- March 1, 2003
The symposium will provide an opportunity for scholars, faculty, students,
professionals and other researchers to trace the development of Black
women's studies as a
discipline; discuss theory, pedagogy and epistemology as related to the
study of Black women;
and consider issues of institutionalization and canonization. The symposium
will also provide a
forum for scholars to consider critical issues facing Black women and
explore possibilities of a
collective research agenda toward effecting positive social change.
Topics:
Africana womanism
Anna J. Cooper's A Voice from the South
Black feminism
Canonization
Collection development and library services
Curriculum development
Cultural aesthetics
Ethics
Globalization
Institutionalization
Literature
Origins and development of the discipline
Pedagogy
Science and Technology
Spirituality
Writers and thinkers
Submission - Send paper or abstract (no more than 500 words) with
bibliography and panel proposals by September 30, 2002 to:
Dorothy Ann Washington, Coordinator
Black Cultural Center
Purdue University
1100 3rd Street
West Lafayette, IN 47906
Phone: (765) 494-3093
email: [log in to unmask]
Notification of proposals accepted will be sent on November 1, 2002.
Planning Committee:
Susan Curtis, Ph.D.
American Studies
Carolyn Johnson, Ph.D. .
African American Studies and Research Center
Karen Hall
Women's Resource Office
Dorothy Simpson-Taylor, Ph.D.
Diversity Office
Marcia Stephenson, Ph.D.
Women's Studies
Dorothy Ann Washington
Black Cultural Center
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