CALL FOR PAPERS
Uncovering
Connections: Cultural Endurance Between Africa, the Americas
and the Caribbean
The
Center for Diopian Inquiry and Research on Education as
Culture Transmission (DIRECT Center) at Medgar Evers College,
of the City University of New York and The African World
Studies Institute (AWSI) at Fort Valley State University,
GA are soliciting papers for the 6th annual Uncovering
Connections: Cultural Endurance between Africa, the Americas
and the Caribbean conference to be held March 3-5, 2005
at Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY.
Conceptually, papers should (1) address and promote an understanding
of African culture as inclusive of the culture of Africans
on the continent and Africans throughout the world, (2)
foster scholarship that illustrates and investigates the
mechanisms through which African culture has survived despite
invasions, enslavement and colonization and (3) encourage
the exploration of the cultural continuities between Africa
and Africans throughout the Diaspora.
We
invite the submission of paper or poster abstracts that
focus on:
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The intergenerational transmission of African culture
(i.e. the role of parenting in the survival of African
culture or documenting the knowledge and practices of
elders in Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas)
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The
retention of African culture and traditions (Africanisms)
in the Caribbean and the Americas (i.e. spirituality,
cultural norms, behaviors, patterns of speech, culinary
arts, and aesthetic forms of expression whose roots are
traceable to Africa)
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Instances
of cultural unity and/or similarities among African people
throughout the world
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The
diverse mechanisms through which the transmission of African
cultural knowledge has been disrupted (i.e. through colonization,
enslavement, neo-colonialism, schooling etc.)
African
culture as a source of understanding and action in the context
of contemporary phenomena.
Interested faculty members, independent researchers and graduate
students should email a one-page proposal with literature
and references to Dr. Patricia Canson at CansonGrif@aol.com
by. December 6, 2004. To insure receipt, please follow with
hard copy to Dr. Canson at:
The DIRECT Center at Medgar Evers College
1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. 11225
Fax: (718) 206-0423
Notification
of acceptance will be confirmed by December 27, 2004.
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