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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006
From: Elizabeth Green Musselman <[log in to unmask]>
This is the first call for papers and participation for the 7th North Eastern
Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA). We encourage
scholars from all disciplines who are currently
working on southern Africa (Angola, Botswana,
Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia,
South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe) to
submit proposals. The meeting will be held at the
Bishop Booth Conference Center in Burlington,
Vermont (US), April 13-16, 2007.
The NEWSA conference is organized around
intensive discussion of pre-circulated papers.
There are also many opportunities for informal
conversation of work-in-progress. Located on 130
acres of forest with its own secluded beach, the
center is an ideal location for discussion and
conversation. Drawing on the successful
precedents of the former Southern African
Research Program at Yale and the Canadian
Research Consortium on Southern Africa, this
program is designed to give southern Africanists
the opportunity for close and intensive
discussion of work across a wide variety of
scholarly fields. We encourage the presentation
of previously unpublished work, and submissions
from graduate students and junior faculty in
particular.
- - - 2007 Conference Themes - - -
We aim to encourage and prioritize scholarship, regardless of discipline or
topic, that is grounded in an analysis of African language and concepts, and
which elucidates local world views and experience.
We want especially to encourage discussion of the following three topics across
disciplines:
1. Migration / Displacement. Migration has been a long standing feature of the
southern African social landscape, predating the rise of large-scale labor
migration beginning in the late 19th century. In recent decades, however, the
directions and scales of population movements
have been shifting in novel ways, with
implications for socio-economic change and the
course of the regional HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Political changes in South Africa, Mozambique,
Namibia and Zimbabwe, as well as points further
north (e.g. Burundi and Congo/Zaire) have led to
unprecedented patterns of movement. Large scale
infrastructure projects (e.g. the Lesotho
Highlands Water Project), the creation of new
trans-border protected areas, and the continuing
effects of civil conflicts (including the recent
clearance of informal settlements around Harare)
have also involved large-scale population
displacement. In South Africa and Botswana in
particular, new migration has given rise to
xenophobic anti-immigrant reactions that
highlight tensions between nationalism and
universalist notions of human rights. The
demographics of existing migration channels are
also changing; women are no longer those 'left
behind', but are themselves migrating for work,
both in the formal and informal economies.
2. Environment. Papers in this theme may offer
new perspectives on established topics pertaining
to the environment in southern Africa, such as
the social consequences of soil conservation
programs and veterinary interventions, the
creation of protected areas, and drought and
coping strategies. We also seek papers related to
underresearched aspects of the environment, areas
of innovation in policy and practice, and
unprecedented issues. Topics might include
local/indigenous environmental movements,
environmental justice, pollution and toxins,
urban environmental issues, efforts to
decentralize / community-based natural resource
management, and/or climate change. Papers on
other topics related to the environment are
welcome.
3. Music. The musical heritage of southern Africa is diverse, rich and dynamic.
Recent decades have seen the rise of kwaito and the indigenization and
transformation of hip-hop and house, paralleling the local reconfiguration of
jazz, country and gospel musics earlier in the 20th century. The unprecedented
popularity of Y-FM has also highlighted the cultural and economic significance
of African youth. At the same time, the rise of inexpensive computer-based
recording technology has begun to break the stranglehold that the recording
industry has long held over local artists. We particularly seek papers that
examine music in its social contexts, in relation to political, economic and
cultural change.
We especially encourage participation from
professionals, scholars and graduate students in
Africa as well as those located in North America
and Europe. If you are interested in attending
please contact Gary Kynoch (gkynoch at dal.ca) by
email. Indicate whether you would like to:
a) present a paper for one of the regular panels
b) serve as a discussant
c) attend the workshop
The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2006.
Send proposals to Gary Kynoch (gkynoch at dal.ca).
If you wish to give a paper, your proposal should include a title and one- to
two-paragraph abstract. Completed papers, not to exceed forty pages, will be
due March 15, 2007, so that the papers can be pre-circulated on a conference
website ahead of the meeting.
If you wish to serve as a discussant, your
proposal should indicate the areas of
southern African studies on which you are most prepared to comment. Once the
conference participants are selected and organized into panels, each panel will
be assigned a discussant. Discussants thoroughly read the pre-circulated papers
by the participants in their session, and at the conference give a 10-15 minute
constructive criticism/comment on the papers individually and collectively.
Discussants also coordinate discussion of the papers amongst those attending
the panel.
- - - Accommodation, Registration and Travel - - -
All participants are housed at the Bishop Booth Conference Center
<http://www.dioceseofvermont.org/Orgs/BishopBooth.html>, which offers
inexpensive accommodation and meals in a beautiful setting. The conference
facility can sleep up to a maximum of 50 people. Single and double rooms are
extremely limited and most rooms sleep 3 people with shared bathrooms.
The estimated costs are as follows:
Rooms (sharing):
Double: $40 per night
Triple: $30 per night
All meals for the weekend (Friday lunch – Sunday
breakfast, excluding Saturday night dinner): $50
Registration:
Full time faculty at North American or European institutions: $110
Graduate Students at North American or European institutions: $30
Attendees traveling from Southern Africa are not required to pay registration.
Burlington is easily accessible. By car it is 90
minutes from Montreal, 3½ hours from Boston and
approximately five hours from New York. In
addition to its airport Burlington is served by
AMTRAK (train) and several bus lines.
- - - For Further Information - - -
If you would like to receive direct notices about this and future NEWSA
meetings, please subscribe to our e-mail list. To do this, send an email to
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For the latest updated information on the conference, see the NEWSA website at
http://www.southwestern.edu/~greenmue/newsa-07-program.html
--
Elizabeth Green Musselman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History &
Chair of the Feminist Studies Program
Southwestern University
1001 E. University Ave.
Georgetown, TX 78626 USA
tel: 512.863.1595; fax: 512.863.1535
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
web: http://www.southwestern.edu/~greenmue/
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