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From: "Gillian Hudson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 1:45 PM
Subject: Jul/Aug Events & Call for Papers
Dear Friends of the AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
Please find below details of several events happening over the summer and
'calls for papers' which you may be interested in. Please reply to the
relevant contact details listed within each section.
Also, we would like to take this opportunity thank everyone who has been
kind enough to contact us with messages of concern and support following the
recent terrorist attacks in London. Your emails have been most appreciated.
Kind regards,
AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures
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'KABUKI AND THE VISUAL ARTS'
5-6 August 2005
Room BG05, Brunei Gallery, SOAS,
Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG
(Presentations in English unless noted)
DAY ONE: FRIDAY 5TH AUGUST
(Each session consists of a 30 min presentation and a 15 min discussion)
11.00-11.45 Timothy Clark (British Museum)
Likenesses (nigao-e): East-West
11.45-12.30 Ellis Tinios (Univ. of Leeds)
Texts of Edo Actor Prints
12.30-2.00 Lunch
(Sandwiches, fruit, tea and coffee provided)
2.00-2.45 Alfred Haft (SOAS)
Mitate in Actor Prints
2.45-3.00 Akiko Yano (SOAS)
Ryûkôsai
3.30-4.00 Break
(Tea, coffee, and biscuits provided)
4.00-4.45 Drew Gerstle (SOAS)
Poetry and Osaka Actor Prints: Rikan vs. Shikan
4.45-5.30 Peter Ujlaki (Independent Scholar)
A different view: Kamigata-e through the eyes of a collector/dealer
DAY TWO: SATURDAY 6TH AUGUST
(Each session consists of a 30 min presentation and a 15 min discussion)
11.00-11.45 John Carpenter (SOAS)
Edo Kabuki Fans as Kyôka Poets: Early Illustrated Publications of the Mimasu
Poetry Circle
11.45-12.30 Fumiko Kobayashi (Hôsei Univ.)
Edo Kabuki and Kyôka Poetry
12.30-2.00 Lunch
(Sandwiches, fruit, tea and coffee provided)
2.00- 2.45 Kayano Mizuta (Sonoda Gakuen Univ.) (in Japanese)
「初代中村富十郎の姿態と芸態— 絵画資料と役者評判記より—」
2.45-3.30 Yôko Kaguraoka (Ehime Univ.) (in Japanese)
「歌右衛門贔屓による文化活動」
3.30-4.00 Break
(Tea, coffee, and biscuits provided)
4.00-4.45 Kumiko Hayashi (Kyoto Tachibana Univ.) (in Japanese)
「明和～寛政期の夕霧狂言付 中村富十郎に関するエピソード」
4.45-5.30 Hiroko Kitagawa (Ikeda Bunko) (in Japanese)
「早稲田大学演劇博物館蔵『許多脚色帖』について」
If you wish to attend this conference please register in advance with
Gillian Hudson, [log in to unmask], tel. 020 7898 4267.
There are no fees. For further details please visit
http://www.soas.ac.uk/eastasiafiles/gerstle/home.html
This conference is related to the exhibition 'Kabuki Heroes on the Osaka
Stage 1780-1830' currently being held at the British Museum, London.
For further details please see http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/kabuki/
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TRAINING COURSE FOR PHOTOVOICE FACILITATORS
PhotoVoice is an award-winning international charity and the only
development organisation of its kind in Europe. Its projects empower some of
the most disadvantaged groups in the world with photographic skills so that
they can transform their lives. Through establishing in-field
photojournalism workshops its projects enable those who are traditionally
the subjects of photography to become its creator. Through photography these
individuals find confidence in their voices and are enabled to speak out
about their challenges, concerns, hopes and fears. PhotoVoice projects span
four continents, assisting refugees, street children, orphans, HIV/ AIDS
sufferers and special needs groups.
PhotoVoice is currently looking to expand its pool of freelance workshop
staff and volunteers and have devised a training course for PhotoVoice
facilitators. This programme will suit photographers with a commitment to
using their skills with marginalised groups and development practitioners
interested in working with PhotoVoice. This training will be free but
participants are required to cover their own expenses, commit in full to the
programme and to give a deposit. Applicants must be interested in working
on PhotoVoice projects in coming years.
Dates: 19th-30th September, 2005
Location: Tate Modern, Central London
The Course will include:
- Intro to PhotoVoice: history, philosophy, core principles projects to date
- PhotoVoice methodology: project management, project strategy, workshop
planning, equipment, exhibition co-ordination, facilitation skills, teaching
skills, ethics, archiving
- Guest speakers
- Practice workshops
- Copy of PhotoVoice manual
- Long term support to build projects in collaboration with PhotoVoice
To apply send your CV, with a covering letter, and responses to the
following by e-mail or post: responses to the following by e-mail or post:
- Why you want to participate in the course (max 1 page of A4)
- A project idea for a participatory photography project (max 2 pages of A4)
Application deadline: 5pm, August 1st 2005
Interview dates: 10th-12th August
For further information please contact Tiffany Fairey at
[log in to unmask] or call 0207 003 3878. Please do not contact Tate
Modern direct about applications for the training course.
Funded by The Arts Council
PhotoVoice
2nd Floor, 94 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4RH
w: www.photovoice.org
PhotoVoice is a registered charity no: 1096598
and Winner of Best New UK Charity at the UK Charity Awards, 2004
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CLASSICAL STUDIES RECEPTION NEWTWORK
POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES AT THE ICS
AUTUMN TERM 2005
WEDNESDAYS 10.30 - 4.30
Introductory Sessions:
October 12th Working with Texts and Primary Sources led by Prof. Lorna
Hardwick and Dr. Felix Budelmann
October 19th Theory and Methods led by Dr. Miriam Leonard and Dr.
Pantelis Michelakis
At these two introductory sessions, which all students should attend,
details will be given of the six remaining workshops from which participants
will be able to choose topics suited to the nature of their personal
research interests. Areas offered may include archive research; use of
texts, translations and commentaries for reception studies; visual media
research; film; drama; and classical languages for graduates from other
subject areas. Workshop leaders will include Dr. Rembrandt Duits, Prof.
Edith Hall, Prof. Steve Hodkinson, Dr. Fiona Macintosh, Dr Ian Macgregor
Morris and Dr. Chris Stray. It is hoped that one session will be held at the
Warburg Institute.
The workshops are free, but it is ESSENTIAL that students register their
interest in attending in advance (and by Friday 31st September at the very
latest). Allocation of places will be on a first come first served basis.
Students from any department or discipline are welcome.
To register your interest please contact:
Dr Anastasia Bakogianni, Institute for Classical Studies
Tel: 0207 862 8705
Email [log in to unmask]
This series is part of the project on graduate student research training run
by the Institute of Classical Studies and funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council. The CRSN was formed in early 2004 as collaboration between
six universities with research specialisms in various aspects of Classical
Reception Studies (Bristol, Durham, Nottingham, Open, Oxford, and Reading).
The aims of the Network include the promotion of rigorous debate about all
aspects of classical reception studies and the development of seminars and
workshops to encourage the exchange of expertise and growth of collaborative
projects (including the supervision of graduate students).
http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/crsn
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EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR EURO-AFRICAN STUDIES
PROJECT 2006
TRANSCULTURAL MODERNITIES: NARRATING AFRICA IN EUROPE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Frankfurt University, Germany – June 1-3, 2006
Convenors:
Elisabeth Bekers (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Sissy Helff (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Daniela Merolla
(University of Leiden, the Netherlands)
Whereas in recent years the creative output of Africans living in Europe has
received increasing interest from the media and in academia, little critical
attention has been paid to the manner in which the narrative modes in these
Euro-African works give expression to or are an expression of their creators
’ transcultural realities. This conference responds to this need for
reflection by scrutinizing how creative work explores issues such as home,
migration, and diaspora, and how these explorations in turn contribute to
the emergence of specific modern realities.
The conference aims to bring together researchers from different areas such
as cultural and literary studies, anthropology and narratology, for an
extensive interdisciplinary exchange. We invite papers focusing on modes of
narration in Euro-African literature, film and other media. Questions
concerning transculturality and postcolonial studies will provide other
major points of entry to our discussions.
The focal points of the conference will be:
• 'Tracing Euro-African Modernities - Of Asylum Seekers and Cosmopolitans'
(addressing fieldwork and topics such as concepts of home, inclusionary and
exclusionary practices, social, cultural and political dimensions of
migration and diaspora) • 'Modes of Narrating Africa in Europe' (addressing
topics such as unreliability, focalisation, orality, contextualised and
cognitive approaches in Euro-African fiction, lifewriting, documentary,
drama, etc.) • 'Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies: Framing a
Euro-African Future' (addressing topics such as authenticity, ethnicity,
hybridity, globalization and cultural production)
Confirmed Keynote speakers:
Graham Huggan (University of Leeds)
Nwachukwu Frank Ukadike (Tulane University)
Frank Schulze-Engler (University of Frankfurt)
Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)
In order to encourage intensive discussions at the conference, 3,000 word
papers are requested by 1 April 2006 and will be compiled in a reader and
sent to all participants beforehand. At the conference itself, participants
are asked to briefly comment on the arguments they develop in their papers
and to elucidate their positions by responding to the other papers.
This conference aims to provide a platform for cooperation between academic
institutions across Europe and the development of a European Network for
Euro-African Studies. Enquiries and submissions (name, affiliation, title of
contribution, and abstract of no more than 200 words) should be addressed to
the conveners no later than 1 December 2005. Participants can expect a
letter of acceptance by the beginning of January.
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Conference webpage:
http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/fb10/ieas/abt/nelk/euro-afric/
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CENTRE FOR TRANSLATION AND COMPARATIVE CULTURAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
CALL FOR PAPERS
For a two day conference to be held on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th January
2006
NARRATIVES OF SURVIVAL
Keynote speakers:
Gunnar S. Paulsson
Author of Secret City. Hidden Jews of Warsaw 1939-1945.
Yale University Press, 2002
Vieda Skultans
Author of The Testimony of Lives. Narrative and Memory in Post-Soviet
Latvia. Routledge, 1998
Janina Struk
Author of Photographing the Holocaust. I.B. Taurus, 2004
The aim of the conference is to draw together people working in a wide range
of academic fields to explore how we record, remember and commemorate the
major traumatic events of the 20th century (from the Boer wars to the
massacres in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia), and what are the long term
social, cultural and political consequences of tragic events that involved
large numbers of people.
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes are invited within the following broad
thematic categories: Recording and representing: Remembering and
commemorating: Retelling and forgetting
Abstracts of about 300 words for 20 minute papers should be sent by 01.09.05
to [log in to unmask] subject: Narratives06. Decision on inclusion by
01.10.05 Registration for the conference (keynote speeches, papers,
accompanying events, tea and coffee) will cost £40 (£25 for those attending
for one day) if paid before 1.11.05 and £50 (£35) after that and on the day.
Cheques to be made payable to the University of Warwick and sent to CTTCS,
Humanities Building, University of Warwick, CV4 7AL.
Credit card payments (from non-UK residents) details should be sent to Mrs
Maureen Tustin at CTCCS, fax no. 44(0)24 7652 4468. University facilities
will be available for meals and there is information about transport and
accommodation on the Centre’s website
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ctccs/news/conferences
and on the University website
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/accommodation/studentaccommodation/hotels
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In collaboration with ACUME NETWORK
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YOUTH IN EASTERN AFRICA: PAST AND PRESENT PERSPECTIVES
A conference co-organised by the British Institute in Eastern Africa and the
Institut Français de Recherche en Afrique (Nairobi)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The French Institute for Research in Africa (Nairobi) and the British
Institute in Eastern Africa invite submissions for a forthcoming conference
on youth in Eastern Africa scheduled to be held in Nairobi, Kenya, in July
2006. The geographical focus will be on Eastern and Central Africa from
Tanzania and the Great Lakes region north to Sudan and the Horn.
It is a frequently observed fact that contemporary Africa is (and has been
for some time past) demographically characterised above all else by its
youthfulness. In Eastern Africa the median age of the population is now
17.5, with over 65 percent of the population 24 or under. Despite their
numerical predominance, however, youth in Eastern Africa are poorly
represented in regional political and economic structures. At the same time,
academic knowledge of this group is relatively undeveloped. This conference
seeks to address lacunae in the existing scholarship, and to bring together
the growing number of researchers from diverse disciplines with an interest
in the study of youth from contemporary and historical perspectives.
A number of themes have been highlighted (although these are by no means
exclusive and suggestions for panels on alternative themes are encouraged).
These include:
Defining youth, intergenerational and gender relations: Which groups
constitute youth in the Eastern African context, and how (and why) does this
differ with international interpretations? How is this determined by and/or
reflected in socially organised age structures, and the distribution of
power and authority? How has socio-cultural and economic change impacted on
such definitions, and on inter-generational relations, over the past century
(or more)? To what extent do gender identities impact upon those of youth?
Demography and health: How have well-established trends of an increasingly
youthful population been influenced by wider social change? Conversely, how
have social phenomena such as gender and generational relations, ecological
balance and urbanisation been shaped by Eastern Africa’s shifting
demography? What is the historical and contemporary relationship between
youth, health and disease?
Socialisation and control: How has traditional authority and/or the state
sought to harness youthful energy? What role has education (and/or other
institutions such as Youth Councils or the Scouts) played in the formation
of colonial subjects and postcolonial citizens? To what extent has
delinquency been (or perceived to have been) a characteristic of young
Africans’ behaviour, and what measures have been adopted to counteract
rebellious youth?
The political economy of youth: What role has youth played in local
politics – either directly through party youth leagues, political gangs and
the like, or indirectly as a result of demographic preponderance? To what
extent has class influenced and/or reinforced the social role and status of
youth (or segments thereof)? How has a growing young population influenced
socio-economic phenomena such as child labour, unemployment and the informal
economy, and with what political ramifications? What position do youth
occupy in rural agricultural economies/societies and how has this impacted
upon demographic patterns such as rural-urban migration?
Marginalisation and violence: Have elders and the state conspired to reduce
the influence of the region’s demographic young majority? What have been the
conditions for the emergence and persistence of marginalised youth groups,
notably the growing number to be found living in and off the street? How has
war impacted upon the region’s youth? How, where and why have the human
rights of Eastern African youth been abused?
Culture and mentalities: What have been (and are) the dominant cultural
expressions of youth? To what extent have these represented a challenge to a
gerontocratic social order? What role have youth played in local religious
movements and to what extent has this reflected inter-generational tensions?
To what extent have the interests of youth found organisational or
institutional expression?
We are aiming to bring together a broad range of researchers and lobbyists
with an interest in addressing the position of youth in Eastern African
societies. Alongside academics, we expect this to include NGO workers, human
rights activists, and representatives from the local and international
media.
Those interested in participating should provide a 1-3 page abstract of the
proposed paper including a discussion of the data upon which the paper will
be based. In addition, a brief (1-3 page) curriculum vitae should also be
provided. These should be sent by email to Dr. Hélène Charton-Bigot at
[log in to unmask], or by post to IFRA, PO Box 58480, 0200 City Square,
Nairobi; and/or to Dr. Andrew Burton by email at
[log in to unmask], or by post to The British Institute in
Eastern Africa, Box 30710, 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya, by 23rd December 2005.
A publication of selected papers is expected to result from the conference.
Conference registration fee: US$ 100. International Students: $50.
African participants: KShs.3,000.
Dr. Andrew Burton
Assistant Director
British Institute in Eastern Africa
Box 30710
00100 GPO
Nairobi
Tel. 254-20-4343330
Fax. 254-2-4343365
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School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London
WC1H 0XG
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7898 4267
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7898 4239 or 4399
www.soas.ac.uk/literatures
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