!! Please consider to participate in this interdisciplinary conference !!
We would also very much appreciate if you could post this call for papers
in your department / institution.
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you prefer to receive it as an attachment in Word or WordPerfect format,
please let me know.
Stefanie Ohnesorg
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Cultures in Motion: The Africa Connection
International and Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Feb. 6-9, 2003
During the spring semester 2003, the University of Tennessee will engage in
a multitude of Africa related activities and events that range from an
African Art Exhibit and scholar residencies on campus to a host of outreach
and cultural events, including the North-American premiere of Nobel
laureate Wole Soyinka’s play "Oyedipo at Kolhuni," a modern adaptation of
Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus." Performance dates are Feb. 7-22, 2003, and
conference participants will have the opportunity to reserve tickets for
the premiere on Friday, Feb. 7, or the performance on Saturday, Feb. 8,
2003.
The overall theme for the Africa-Semester at the University of Tennessee
is "At Home in Africa - Africa at Home: Celebrating African Art, Literature
and Performance, " and it is one of our goals to focus on the
interrelatedness of African and non-African cultures world-wide and over
time.
As part of the Africa Semester at the University of Tennessee, we will hold
an interdisciplinary and international conference entitled "Cultures in
Motion: The Africa Connection."
During the conference we plan to focus on:
* How Africans and African elements have influenced the cultural production
in the Diaspora world-wide,
* How African musicians, writers, performers, and artists reflect non-
African (cultural) influences in their works,
* How processes of cultural contact and influence are perceived and
interpreted: as an enrichment or as a development that will ultimately lead
to the erosion of unique and distinct cultural traditions.
We invite proposals for papers that explore these themes in their
historical and/or contemporaneous contexts from all areas in the Humanities
and Social Sciences, and we especially welcome interdisciplinary and non-
traditional approaches.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Interacting to Understand / Understanding to Interact
* Cultural Memories - Memorized Cultures
* Ethnicity, Tribalism and Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization
* Politics of (Self)Representation in Print, the Media, and on the Internet
* Historicizing Gender and Race
* A Closer Look at the 'Contact Zone’
* (Re)Defining Cultural Interconnectedness
* Dealing with ‘Otherness’ in Travel Accounts and Ethnographic Sketches
* Analyzing Collections (e.g. Postcards, Souvenirs, Sound Recordings,
Photographs, Art and Artifacts ...)
* (Un)Intended Colonial Legacies
* Forced and Voluntary Migrations and Contacts
* Visualizing ‘Cultures in Motion’
Deadline for Proposals: Sept. 15, 2002
Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words for a presentation of
approximately 20 minutes and a short biographical sketch to each of the
conference organizers listed below. Submissions via e-mail are preferred!
Please do not forget to include your telephone number, fax number, and
email address. You should also let us know of any necessary audio-visual
needs.
Carolyn R. Hodges
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(865) 974-2312
Stefanie Ohnesorg
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(865) 974-7098
Mailing address:
Department of Modern Foreign Languages & Literatures
University of Tennessee
701 McClung Tower
Knoxville, TN 37996-0470, U.S.A.
A panel of scholars from various fields will select papers after the
closing date and notify presenters by October 5, 2002. A selection of
papers will be published in a monograph.
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