February 28, 2013
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CALL FOR CREATIVE WRITING & INTERVIEWS Tenemos la palabra/Temos a palavra/We have the word: Afrodescendant Creative Writing and Cultural Production
The African Diaspora Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion is Proposing 2 Themes for its Call for Papers for the 2013 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, November 23-26, 2013
CFP (Updated): African Studies Conference. Fourth Announcement: Final Call for Panel Proposals

CALL FOR CREATIVE WRITING & INTERVIEWS

Tenemos la palabra/Temos a palavra/We have the word:

Afrodescendant Creative Writing and Cultural Production


A special issue of Afro-Hispanic Review

Guest Editors: Professors Lesley G. Feracho, Dorothy E. Mosby, and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo


The editors invite submissions of creative writing by Afrodescendant writers in the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world and previously unpublished interviews with Afro-descendant writers for a special issue.  This number will feature new voices, as well as established writers, and present the diversity of creative expression and research to a wide academic audience in a single volume.  Submissions may include, but are not limited to the following:
  • Poetry 
  •  Short stories and other prose fiction
  • Dramatic texts
  • Essays (Reflections on the writing process, literary markets, audiences, and new media)
  • Graphic novels (selection)
  • Visual and graphic arts
  • New media
  •  Interviews with Afro-descendant writers, artists, and other cultural producers

Creative writing submissions should be accompanied by a selected list of publications and a brief biography.Electronic submissions in English, Spanish, or Portuguese by April 15, 2013 to ahrspecialissue@gmail.com for consideration for this issue.


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The African Diaspora Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion is Proposing 2 Themes for its Call for Papers for the 2013 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, November 23-26, 2013:

Theme 1
Technology, Identity, and Authenticity in African diaspora Religions
We seek to address:
  • How is the rapid expansion of African diaspora religions through technology - the internet, blogs, YouTube, etc. - changing the racial and geographic composition of adherents?
  • To what extent is this participation in "virtual religion" through online forums and communities instead of flesh-and-blood houses of worship affecting the issue of the "authenticity" of religious practice and rituals?
  • How does religious art and ritual become translated/communicated through online media? 

Theme 2: 

  • Rethinking Paradigms and Methods in Religious Studies Through Teaching African and African diaspora religions
  • Contesting logocentricity, representing innovation and dynamism of oral traditions, using visual media, familiarizing the exotic, redefining "religion" - these are among the challenges and opportunities of teaching African/African diaspora traditions in religious studies. This session is cosponsored  with the Teaching Religion Section and African Religions Group at the AAR 

Paper and panel proposals should be submitted to the AAR by March 1, 2013.

If you have any questions, contact Dr.Maha Marouan at: mmarouan@bama.ua.edu 

 

CFP (Updated): African Studies Conference. Fourth Announcement: Final Call for Panel Proposals


Dear colleagues,


On May 27-29, 2014 in Moscow the Research Council for the Problems of African Countries and the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hold the 13th African Studies Conference titled "Society and Politics in Africa: Traditional, Transitional, and New." The Conference will take place at the Institute for African Studies and the Institute for Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The working languages are Russian and English.

 

The Organizing Committee would like to encourage you to submit panel proposals, focusing on any particular topics related to the Conference's umbrella theme. The deadline for panel proposals submitting is April 1, 2013. The Organizing Committee will be glad to consider any panel proposals (within 500 words in English or both English and Russian) received by this date. The information to be submitted alongside with the proposal includes the proposed panel convenor (s)' full name(s), title(s), institutional affiliation(s), full mail and e-mail addresses, telephone and fax #. The list of prospective papergivers with their particulars is desirable.

 

The Organizing Committee will inform the applicants about the results of their panel proposals' consideration by April 15, 2013. Besides that, the Organizing Committee reserves the right to establish one or more Free Communication panels. The list of all the Conference participants is to become known by December 1, 2013 due to the activities of both the Organizing Committee and panel convenors.  

 

None of the proposals may be accepted or rejected on the basis of its submitter(s)' previous academic credentials, ethnic or national origin, sex, or otherwise, but only on the basis of the proposal's relevance to, and importance for, the Conference's general theme.  

 

In the case the proposal is accepted, the Organizing Committee will send you in the beginning of 2014 the list of documents necessary to support your and your panel participants' visa application process at the Russian Consulates or Embassies in the respective countries.

 

The conference registration fee in Russian rubles, equivalent to $150 ($75 in rubles for students) is to be paid in cash onsite upon arrival. The registration fee includes the visa application support (Official Invitation), the Conference Book of Abstracts, stationary items, reception and coffee-breaks. The fee for an accompanying person, equivalent to $50 in rubles, includes the visa application support (Official Invitation) and reception.

 

The Organizing Committee can assist in booking accommodation, but independent reservation is encouraged. Please note that early hotel reservation in strongly recommended, as the Conference is to take place in tourist high season.

 

All the correspondence should be sent by e-mail for the Conference Organizing Committee, to the attention of Mrs. Natalia Bondar, Head, Center of Information and International Relations, Institute for African Studies (conf2014@gmail.com;  tel.: + 7 495 690 2752) - prospective international participants, or to the attention of Dr. Natalia Zherlitsyna, Secretary, Research Council for the Problems of African Countries (ns_inafr@mail.ru; tel.: + 7 495 690 6025) - prospective Russian participants.

 

The Organizing Committee would appreciate your familiarizing the faculty of your research unit, as well as all interested persons, with the content of the present Announcement.

 

Sincerely yours,
Centre for Information and International Relations
Institute for African Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences

tel. (+7 495) 690 2752
fax. (+7 495) 697 1954


 

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