From: Lady Jane Acquah <ljane09A@mail.utexas.edu>
Creativity and Cultural Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora
CALL FOR PAPERS
Due March 30, 2011
The Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the
African Diaspora
Theme: Creativity and Cultural Expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora
Dates: July 4-6, 2011
Venue: Conference Centre, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Convener: Ibadan Cultural Studies Group
We are inviting scholars to submit conference papers and full panel
proposals for The Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on
Africa on Creativity And Cultural Expressions in Africa and the
African Diaspora. Accounts of creativity and the imagination have
emerged in numerous areas such as literature and the arts,
psychology, mathematics and the sciences, business, popular
psychology, the social sciences, engineering and technology. The
discourse of creativity that surfaces within multiple fields reveals
that the notion of the individual creator is not simply widespread,
but omnipresent; indeed, it is a fundamental ideology of Western
culture. Challenging the individualist and depoliticized ideology of
creativity, the conference calls for papers that present alternative
accounts of the social and political dimensions of creativity as they
relate to invention, technology, work, artistic and cultural
production, the body, desire, pedagogy and social change. The
conference aims to reach a multidisciplinary academic audience;
artists and grassroots activists; the political, journalistic, and
information technology communities; and interested members of the
general reading public. The conference promises to create a
provocative space for comparative critical dialogue between scholars
and dancers, actors and writers, songwriters and singers. The
conference invites papers on all aspects of creativity, from the
artistic to the scientific and the humanistic.
Scholars in all disciplines are invited to propose papers on various
aspects, including but not limited to any of the following:
?Creativity Profile: what is novel and original among Africans and
Black people generally?
?Value Added to Progress: development ideas, new thinking
? Globalized Modernity and its consequences on music, dance,
performance, home-video culture, African Traditional Religion,
indigenous African clothes and textile designs, indigenous African
philosophies, wise sayings and general thought process.
?Music
?Dance
?Performance
?The creative process in Africa and the African Diaspora (e.g., how
do the diviners work; how do masquerades perform?)
?Creative thought processes (what do texts in divination represent?
how do we interpret works of literature? etc)
?Creativity and the Everyday
?Gender, Imagination, and Creative Space
?Ethical issues such as in technological innovations, stunning
improvements in our knowledge of and mastery over the natural world
and living organisms, concentration of power, wealth and resources in
the first world; the concomitant impoverishment of the rest; global
environmental destruction; and applications of new knowledge and
technology that may be harmful or dangerous.
?Histories of creativity and inventions.
?The politics of creativity (e.g., creativity and resistance,
anti-colonial genres, creativity and apartheid, creativity and
democratic movements)
?Nollywood (production, text, marketing, impact, etc.)
?Technology, Information, Innovation (e.g., the ambivalent effects
and challenges of proliferating technologies and information).
? ?Beyond Art?? as expressed in the current range of artistic and
cultural practices, especially in the wake of the drastic shifts in
critical paradigms associated with women?s studies, multiculturalism,
cultural studies, women?s art, popular culture, queer studies and
Culture Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
?The Expanding Body: e.g., the widespread experimentation and new
theorizations with regard to the body and its relation to
subjectivity.
?The pedagogy of creativity: strategies, agents and locations that
have sought to transcend the hierarchies and limits of traditional
pedagogy.
?Social Movements: developments in new social movements and their
creative strategies for political organizing, protest, and autonomy;
how activists and communities have been imagining and enacting their
political aspirations and organizing.
Participants will be drawn from different parts of the world.
Graduate students are encouraged to attend and present papers. The
conference will provide time for scholars from various disciplines
and geographical locations to interact, exchange ideas, and receive
feedback. Submitted papers will be assigned to particular panels
according to similarities in theme, topic, discipline, or
geographical location. Additionally, selected papers will be
published in book form.
The deadline for submitting paper proposals is March 30, 2011.
Proposals should include a 250-word abstract and title, as well as
the author's name, address, telephone number, email address, and
institutional affiliation. Please submit all abstracts to:
Professor Ademola Dasylva: dasylvang@yahoo.com or
a.dasylva@ibadanculturalstudiesgroup.org
A mandatory non-refundable registration fee of N5,000 or (USD
100/BP50 for participants from the US, Europe, and other African
countries) must be paid immediately when an abstract is accepted.
(Students: N3,000 or USD65/BP40).
It is expected that all participants will raise the funding to attend
the conference.
For more information, please visit the conference website:
http://www.ibadanculturalstudiesgroup.org/toyinfalolaconference/
Lady Jane Acquah.
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