14143: LeGraceBenson Fw: The African Diaspora in the Americas: Current Research, a weekend symposium April 11-12, 2003 (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: LeGrace Benson <legrace@twcny.rr.com>

Call for papers of interest to Haitianists:
From: <debarros@mail.h-net.msu.edu>

> Vibert Cambridge <cambridg@ohio.edu>
> Date: 15 December 2002
> Subject: CFP: The African Diaspora in the Americas: Current Research.
>
> April 11-12, 2003
> Ohio University
> Athens, OH 45701
> USA
>
>           The Department of African American Studies at Ohio University,
in
>  collaboration with the College of Arts and Science, the College of Fine
>  Arts; the Departments of History,  Modern Languages, Linguistics, the
>  School of Music, and the Latin American Studies program, announces the
>  symposium "The African Diaspora in the Americas: Current Research."  The
>  symposium will be held April 11-12, 2003 at Ohio University.
>
>            The symposium recognizes recent developments at Ohio University
>  to extend the study of the African diaspora in the Americas.  The
>  objectives of the symposium include:
>  Providing an opportunity for the Ohio University community to develop an
>  appreciation of the state of research on the African diaspora in the
> Americas.
>
>  Creating an environment and context for collaborative and
interdisciplinary
>  research between faculty and students.
>
>  Providing a forum for faculty and students to engage in dialogue with
peers
>  from other institutions.
>
>
>
>  Some of the themes to be examined include (but are not limited to):
>
>           (a) Slavery and its legacy in the Americas;
>           (b) United States and its connections with Latin America and the
>  Caribbean;
>           (c) Resistance and the Literature of the Americas;
>           (d) Intellectuals, Migration and Alienation (Dubois, Garvey,
> Padmore);
>           (e) The Americas and Pan-Africanism (Dubois, Garvey, James,
>  Padmore, Robeson,);
>           (f) Circulation of Cultures;
>           (g) African Mythologies and Religion in the Americas;
>           (h) African Language Retentions in the Americas.
>
>  Abstracts of no more than 300 words are due February 1, 2003.  Papers
>  presented at the symposium will be published in Black Praxis, a journal
of
>  the Department of African American Studies.
>
>  For more information, contact Vibert C. Cambridge, Ph.D., Interim Chair,
>  Department of African American Studies, Ohio University, Athens, OH
>  45701.  740-593-9178 (office).  740-593-0671 (fax).  or