Call for Papers: Archives of Post-Independence Africa and its Diaspora
Dakar, Senegal; June 20-23, 2012
Archives of Post-Independence Africa and its Diaspora is an international conference to be held in Dakar, Senegal, June 20-23, 2012, organized by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa(CODESRIA), the African Studies Centre, Leiden (ASC), and the University of California African Studies Multicampus Research Group (MRG).The conference features an interdisciplinary array of activities that include a public debate, training workshop, film screening, as well as four keynote addresses and academic panels.
The event is conceived as a forum with pre-circulated papers and contributions from a wide range of academics, archivists, librarians, public intellectuals, and artists from the African continent, Europe, North America, and beyond.
We are now accepting paper abstracts until November 30, 2011.
Abstracts should relate to one of the conference's five themes:
(1) Archival Absences and Surrogate Collections of the African State
(2) Performing the Archive
(3) Post-Independence Media Formations
(4) Spatialization of Art and the Archive
(5) Administering the Archive
A system for online submission of abstracts has been set up on the conference website: https://sites.google.com/site/dakarconferencecfp A French version of the website will be available shortly and will be accessible by a link from the English version of the site.
Any questions about the conference or the submission process? Please contact: archives.diaspora@codesria.sn
Friday, 28 October 2011
Thursday, 27 October 2011
CFP: Caribbean Studies Association 37th Annual Conference, May 28-June 3, 2012, Le Gosier, Guadeloupe
Call for Papers: Caribbean Studies Association 37th Annual Conference
May 28-June 3, 2012, Le Gosier, Guadeloupe
The Caribbean Studies Association issues a call for papers for its 37th Annual Conference with the theme "Unpacking Caribbean Citizenship: Rights, Participation and Belonging." We invite scholars, practitioners in the humanities, social sciences, public policy and members of civil society organizations whose works focus on the wider Caribbean and its diasporas to submit abstracts of approximately 250 words or less for research papers and presentations. We also welcome graduate student submissions and multi-lingual panels.
While we expect individual paper submissions, we especially encourage participants to submit proposals for complete panels (four presenters), roundtable discussions that engage with the conference's timely theme.
Unrelated topics will also be considered. More information on the conference's theme can be found on the CSA website, (http://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/). Submissions must be made electronically via the CSA website. Deadline for submissions is December 30, 2011.
With respect to the film/art/performance track: Next year, a very limited number of films that pertain to the conference theme as well as the Francophone Caribbean will be selected for presentation during the conference. This new direction is designed to both streamline and better integrate the film/art/performance track within the conference. Please see the CSA website for submission information. A visual art and performance component will be curated by a committee consisting of members of the Executive Council and CSA members.
CSA is able to offer a limited number of travel grants to assist selected participants. A call for applications for the travel grant will be issued on the CSA website as well as in the CSA fall newsletter scheduled for December.
For information concerning the program only, contact: Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse, Program Chair, csa2012@wesleyan.edu
For information pertaining to registration and membership, please contact: Mrs. Joy Cooblal, Secretary-Treasurer, Joy.Cooblal-CSA@sta.uwi.edu
For questions on the travel grants, please contact: Dr Samuel Furé Davis, Grant Committee Chair, sfuredavis@flex.uh.cu
May 28-June 3, 2012, Le Gosier, Guadeloupe
The Caribbean Studies Association issues a call for papers for its 37th Annual Conference with the theme "Unpacking Caribbean Citizenship: Rights, Participation and Belonging." We invite scholars, practitioners in the humanities, social sciences, public policy and members of civil society organizations whose works focus on the wider Caribbean and its diasporas to submit abstracts of approximately 250 words or less for research papers and presentations. We also welcome graduate student submissions and multi-lingual panels.
While we expect individual paper submissions, we especially encourage participants to submit proposals for complete panels (four presenters), roundtable discussions that engage with the conference's timely theme.
Unrelated topics will also be considered. More information on the conference's theme can be found on the CSA website, (http://www.caribbeanstudiesassociation.org/). Submissions must be made electronically via the CSA website. Deadline for submissions is December 30, 2011.
With respect to the film/art/performance track: Next year, a very limited number of films that pertain to the conference theme as well as the Francophone Caribbean will be selected for presentation during the conference. This new direction is designed to both streamline and better integrate the film/art/performance track within the conference. Please see the CSA website for submission information. A visual art and performance component will be curated by a committee consisting of members of the Executive Council and CSA members.
CSA is able to offer a limited number of travel grants to assist selected participants. A call for applications for the travel grant will be issued on the CSA website as well as in the CSA fall newsletter scheduled for December.
For information concerning the program only, contact: Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse, Program Chair, csa2012@wesleyan.edu
For information pertaining to registration and membership, please contact: Mrs. Joy Cooblal, Secretary-Treasurer, Joy.Cooblal-CSA@sta.uwi.edu
For questions on the travel grants, please contact: Dr Samuel Furé Davis, Grant Committee Chair, sfuredavis@flex.uh.cu
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Olive Schreiner Letters Project and the Olive Schreiner Letters Online
Souith African writer, Olive Schreiner (1855-1920) is one of the world’s great feminist writers and social theorists, with her novels including The Story of an African Farm and From Man to Man, her allegories including Dreams and Dream Life and Real Life, and her political treatises including Woman and Labour. She also wrote over 5500 exceptionally important letters, the earliest dating from 1871, the last written just a few days before her death in December 1920.
Schreiner’s letters – all of them, full and complete just as she wrote them – will be published in January 2012 and will be freely available world-wide in a fully-searchable electronic edition. The Olive Schreiner Letters Online will provide a new, detailed, and unique electronic resource for feminist research, women’s studies and gender studies.
The Olive Schreiner Letters Online will be hosted at http://www.oliveschreiner.org/ from January 2012 on and will provide fully searchable transcriptions of Schreiner’s 5500+ extant letters located in archives across Europe, the US and South Africa, as well as a detailed editorial interpretive apparatus around these. The Olive Schreiner Letters Project has been funded by the UK’s ESRC (RES-062-23-1286) and the letters are being published by the renowned electronic research resources publisher HRIOnline. The research team includes Liz Stanley, Helen Dampier, Andrea Salter, David Shepherd, Michael Meredith and Kiera Chapman.
Schreiner’s letters are of exceptional interest because containing her unfolding thinking about her writing and publishing activities, and also her developing analysis and social theorising around the crucially important topics that preoccupied her, including: metropolitan feminism and socialism, prostitution and its analysis, imperialism and the ‘scramble for Africa’, war & peace, changing understandings of ‘race’ and capital, intersectional theorising around women, gender and ‘race’, the South African War (1899-1902) & its concentration camps & women’s relief organisations, governance & federation, international women's franchise campaigns, labour issues, international feminist networks, the Great War, diplomacy & pacifism, and much more as well.
Information about the Schreiner Letters Project is available at: http://www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk/. Many Project publications are available to download and there is also information about Schreiner and her core concerns, including downloadable copies of her major publications.
If you would like to hear more about Olive Schreiner Letters Online and receive information about activities and events from across the globe concerning letters and other forms of life representation more broadly, please subscribe to the Lives & Letters mailing list by emailing oliveschreiner@yahoo.co.uk Alternatively, you can self-subscribe to the mailing list by sending a blank email to sympa@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk with the following in the subject: sub lives-and-letters.
Schreiner’s letters – all of them, full and complete just as she wrote them – will be published in January 2012 and will be freely available world-wide in a fully-searchable electronic edition. The Olive Schreiner Letters Online will provide a new, detailed, and unique electronic resource for feminist research, women’s studies and gender studies.
The Olive Schreiner Letters Online will be hosted at http://www.oliveschreiner.org/ from January 2012 on and will provide fully searchable transcriptions of Schreiner’s 5500+ extant letters located in archives across Europe, the US and South Africa, as well as a detailed editorial interpretive apparatus around these. The Olive Schreiner Letters Project has been funded by the UK’s ESRC (RES-062-23-1286) and the letters are being published by the renowned electronic research resources publisher HRIOnline. The research team includes Liz Stanley, Helen Dampier, Andrea Salter, David Shepherd, Michael Meredith and Kiera Chapman.
Schreiner’s letters are of exceptional interest because containing her unfolding thinking about her writing and publishing activities, and also her developing analysis and social theorising around the crucially important topics that preoccupied her, including: metropolitan feminism and socialism, prostitution and its analysis, imperialism and the ‘scramble for Africa’, war & peace, changing understandings of ‘race’ and capital, intersectional theorising around women, gender and ‘race’, the South African War (1899-1902) & its concentration camps & women’s relief organisations, governance & federation, international women's franchise campaigns, labour issues, international feminist networks, the Great War, diplomacy & pacifism, and much more as well.
Information about the Schreiner Letters Project is available at: http://www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk/. Many Project publications are available to download and there is also information about Schreiner and her core concerns, including downloadable copies of her major publications.
If you would like to hear more about Olive Schreiner Letters Online and receive information about activities and events from across the globe concerning letters and other forms of life representation more broadly, please subscribe to the Lives & Letters mailing list by emailing oliveschreiner@yahoo.co.uk Alternatively, you can self-subscribe to the mailing list by sending a blank email to sympa@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk with the following in the subject: sub lives-and-letters.
Tuesday, 25 October 2011
JOB: Community Project Officer - Caribbean Images (National Archives)
Exciting news of a new project, and a job opportunity for someone!
The National Archives is recruiting for a Community Project Officer to work with Caribbean images from their collection for a period of 18 months. Community engagement is fundamental to this project and the deadline is 7th November. Please pass this notice on to others you think might be interested.
The vacancy can be found on the National Archives website by searching under the jobs section, or following this link.
You may also be interested in viewing images of Africa from this collection: 'Africa through a lens' http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/Africa/
The National Archives is recruiting for a Community Project Officer to work with Caribbean images from their collection for a period of 18 months. Community engagement is fundamental to this project and the deadline is 7th November. Please pass this notice on to others you think might be interested.
The vacancy can be found on the National Archives website by searching under the jobs section, or following this link.
You may also be interested in viewing images of Africa from this collection: 'Africa through a lens' http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/Africa/
Monday, 24 October 2011
Australian Studies: latest issue
The journal 'Australian Studies', is available online and free to access at the following address:
http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/australian-studies/issue/current
First appearing in 1988, 'Australian Studies' covers a wide range of disciplines (including geography, history, law, political science, economics, literature, the media, sociology, science etc). The journal has established itself internationally as a respected context for the publication of scholarship and comment on many aspects of the Australian scene, and is DEST recognised in Australia.
The journal's particular aim is to foster innovative critical approaches, and to encourage connections between traditionally discrete areas of research. Scholarly contributions to general issues are always welcomed, while contributions to themed issues are also commissioned. 'Australian Studies' is a fully-refereed journal, enjoying the support of a distinguished international body of scholars.
Various back issues are now also available online, together with a very handy index. For details, see:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/menzies/basa/journal.html
The latest issue, Vol 3, 2001 has just been rerleased and includes the following articles:
"The National Apology Three Years Later" Gay McAuley
"Circus Oz and Kangaroos: Performing Fauna and Animalness for Geo-National Identity"
Peta Tait
"Welcome to Country? Aboriginal Sovereignties and Asylum Seekers" Emma Cox
"I'll Write to Richie Benaud" Heather Nimmo
"'Not Celebrated for its Agriculture’: Emigrant Guides and Land Settlement in New South Wales, 1831-65"
Edward Cavanagh
"Transcultural Horizons and the Limitations of Multiculturalism in 'The World Waiting to be Made'" Lyn Dickens
"Traditional Australian Circus: Change and Survival"Andrea Lemon
"Shifting Visions: Developmentalism and Environmentalism in Australian History" Jillian Koshin
"A Ham Funeral: Patrick White, Collaboration and Neil Armfield" Elizabeth Schafer
"Appendix to 'A Ham Funeral': List of Productions of Patrick White's Plays" Elizabeth Schafer
http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/australian-studies/issue/current
First appearing in 1988, 'Australian Studies' covers a wide range of disciplines (including geography, history, law, political science, economics, literature, the media, sociology, science etc). The journal has established itself internationally as a respected context for the publication of scholarship and comment on many aspects of the Australian scene, and is DEST recognised in Australia.
The journal's particular aim is to foster innovative critical approaches, and to encourage connections between traditionally discrete areas of research. Scholarly contributions to general issues are always welcomed, while contributions to themed issues are also commissioned. 'Australian Studies' is a fully-refereed journal, enjoying the support of a distinguished international body of scholars.
Various back issues are now also available online, together with a very handy index. For details, see:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/humanities/depts/menzies/basa/journal.html
The latest issue, Vol 3, 2001 has just been rerleased and includes the following articles:
"The National Apology Three Years Later" Gay McAuley
"Circus Oz and Kangaroos: Performing Fauna and Animalness for Geo-National Identity"
Peta Tait
"Welcome to Country? Aboriginal Sovereignties and Asylum Seekers" Emma Cox
"I'll Write to Richie Benaud" Heather Nimmo
"'Not Celebrated for its Agriculture’: Emigrant Guides and Land Settlement in New South Wales, 1831-65"
Edward Cavanagh
"Transcultural Horizons and the Limitations of Multiculturalism in 'The World Waiting to be Made'" Lyn Dickens
"Traditional Australian Circus: Change and Survival"Andrea Lemon
"Shifting Visions: Developmentalism and Environmentalism in Australian History" Jillian Koshin
"A Ham Funeral: Patrick White, Collaboration and Neil Armfield" Elizabeth Schafer
"Appendix to 'A Ham Funeral': List of Productions of Patrick White's Plays" Elizabeth Schafer
Friday, 21 October 2011
Commonwealth Studies archives material in Kipling Exhibition
Two items from our archive collections have been included within a small exhibition mounted on the 1st floor of Senate House, in association with the "Rudyard Kipling: An International Writer" Conference taking place from 21 - 22 October 2011.
Kipling, hailed as 'an interpreter of Empire' (Times, 18 Jan 1936), was regarded as a national institution when he died in 1936, and his funeral in Westminster Abbey was attended by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. His current reputation is many-sided: sometimes condemned as a racist who embodied the imperial mind-set or dismissed as a writer 'whom nobody read', he is increasingly both valued and criticised for his complex response to the 'otherness' and diversity of races and classes in his writing.
This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling's involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world
Senate House Library Special Collections staff have mounted this exhibition to highlight material relevant to the conference held in our collections. These include two items from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library collection - a letter from Kipling to Richard Jebb, thanking Jebb for a copy of an article from the 'Empire Review' and stating that he fears that he could not undertake to hold himself responsible for any deduction that may be made from anything that he may have written on the future of the Empire, and typescript notes by Sir Stephen Tallents, of a conversation with Kipling, held soon after Tallents took on his role within the Empire Marketing Board, to discuss ideas for the promotion of Empire good and EMpire trade.
Event Type: Conference / Symposium
Speakers
Keynote Speakers: Amit Chaudhuri and Charles Allen
Description
This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling's involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world.
Kipling, hailed as 'an interpreter of Empire' (Times, 18 Jan 1936), was regarded as a national institution when he died in 1936, and his funeral in Westminster Abbey was attended by the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. His current reputation is many-sided: sometimes condemned as a racist who embodied the imperial mind-set or dismissed as a writer 'whom nobody read', he is increasingly both valued and criticised for his complex response to the 'otherness' and diversity of races and classes in his writing.
This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling's involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world
Senate House Library Special Collections staff have mounted this exhibition to highlight material relevant to the conference held in our collections. These include two items from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library collection - a letter from Kipling to Richard Jebb, thanking Jebb for a copy of an article from the 'Empire Review' and stating that he fears that he could not undertake to hold himself responsible for any deduction that may be made from anything that he may have written on the future of the Empire, and typescript notes by Sir Stephen Tallents, of a conversation with Kipling, held soon after Tallents took on his role within the Empire Marketing Board, to discuss ideas for the promotion of Empire good and EMpire trade.
Event Type: Conference / Symposium
Speakers
Keynote Speakers: Amit Chaudhuri and Charles Allen
Description
This conference, sponsored by the Kipling Society, focuses on the figure of Kipling as an international writer. It seeks not only to re-assess Kipling's involvement in imperial ideology, but also to examine his interests in wider international affairs and his connections with foreign locations both within and outside the British Empire. The conference thereby aims to re-examine his work and achievement by exploring his diverse roles as an internationalist, and by considering his relevance to our post-modern globalising world.
CFP: 36th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
36th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies
Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th July 2012
Rewley House and Kellogg College
University of Oxford
The Society for Caribbean Studies invites submissions of short abstracts of no more than 250 words for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean and their diasporas for this annual international conference. Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and can address the themes outlined below. We welcome abstracts for papers that fall outside this list of topics, and we particularly welcome proposals for complete panels, which should consist of three papers. Those selected for the conference will be invited to give a 20-minute presentation.
Abstracts should be submitted along with a short CV by 6th January, 2012.
Proposals received after the deadline may not be considered.
PROVISIONAL PANELS
Oxford and the Caribbean
Independence
Sport and athletics
Cuba in the Caribbean
Knowledge production and circulation
Life-writing, memoir, and biography
Caribbean economics, past, present and future Citizenship, borders, and intraregional migration
To submit an abstract online, please visit our website:
http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/
The Society will provide a limited number of postgraduate bursaries for presenters to assist with registration and accommodation costs. Postgraduate researchers should indicate that they are seeking a bursary when submitting their abstract, but please note that travel costs cannot be funded.
Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Award, the deadline for which is also 6th January, 2012. For more information on the Bridget Jones Award, contact Kate Quinn at kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk or visit the website.
For further queries please contact the Conference Coordinator, Lorna Burns, at societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
Wednesday 4th to Friday 6th July 2012
Rewley House and Kellogg College
University of Oxford
The Society for Caribbean Studies invites submissions of short abstracts of no more than 250 words for research papers on the Hispanic, Francophone, Dutch and Anglophone Caribbean and their diasporas for this annual international conference. Papers are welcomed from all disciplines and can address the themes outlined below. We welcome abstracts for papers that fall outside this list of topics, and we particularly welcome proposals for complete panels, which should consist of three papers. Those selected for the conference will be invited to give a 20-minute presentation.
Abstracts should be submitted along with a short CV by 6th January, 2012.
Proposals received after the deadline may not be considered.
PROVISIONAL PANELS
Oxford and the Caribbean
Independence
Sport and athletics
Cuba in the Caribbean
Knowledge production and circulation
Life-writing, memoir, and biography
Caribbean economics, past, present and future Citizenship, borders, and intraregional migration
To submit an abstract online, please visit our website:
http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/
The Society will provide a limited number of postgraduate bursaries for presenters to assist with registration and accommodation costs. Postgraduate researchers should indicate that they are seeking a bursary when submitting their abstract, but please note that travel costs cannot be funded.
Arts researchers or practitioners living and working in the Caribbean are eligible to apply for the Bridget Jones Award, the deadline for which is also 6th January, 2012. For more information on the Bridget Jones Award, contact Kate Quinn at kate.quinn@sas.ac.uk or visit the website.
For further queries please contact the Conference Coordinator, Lorna Burns, at societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com
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