Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - CFP: Martial Races in/and African History

Abayomi,

Thanks for your interest in the project. I am assuming that you cannot make it to ASA in Chicago since preregistration and other procedures are required and the deadline is so close. If that is the case, we will keep you in mind for the follow-up conference we're planning and of course for the eventual volume. It would help us in our planning if you would send us an abstract of your paper. Please send it to me off list at my personal email: meochonu@gmail.com. Looking forward to hearing from you--thanks.

Moses

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> On Feb 21, 2017, at 6:11 PM, 'Abayomi Akinyeye' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> This is to indicate my intention to participate in this conference. I am in Department of History and Strategic Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
> Regards.
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> On Mon, 2/20/17, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - CFP: Martial Races in/and African History
> To: "USAAfricaDialogue" <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Monday, February 20, 2017, 11:22 PM
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> CFP: ASA panel and edited
> volume, "Martial Race(s) in
> African History"
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> Conveners: Moses Ochonu
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> moses.ochonu@vanderbilt.edu
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> Dear
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> We seek participants for a
> panel at the 60th Annual
> Meeting of the African Studies Association (16-18 November
> 2017, in Chicago) on
> the subject of martial race(s) in African history. The panel
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> preliminary effort to create new pathways in the scholarship
> on this important
> topic, leading to a targeted conference held in 2018 to
> further hone the papers
> with additional participants. We anticipate putting together
> an edited volume
> with 10-12 essays on the subject.
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> Scholarship on martial
> races in African history has lagged
> behind that in Indian historiography. In Africa, it has in
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> revolved around the question of whether pre-colonial
> characteristics said
> anything about the likelihood of a group becoming considered
> "martial" under
> colonial rule, and whether so-called martial races were
> actually martially
> inclined or simply thrust into that designation by colonial
> expediencies. Those
> who have worked on this question have typically limited
> their analyses to economics
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> We seek to push beyond
> these limitations by considering
> broader approaches to the topic that encompass a range of
> colonial initiatives
> as well as African appropriations and constructions in
> colonial and
> post-colonial times. They might include (but are not limited
> to) efforts to
> think about culture and martial race; the intersection of
> ethnic identity/the
> creation of "tribe" with colonial martial race theory;
> the connection between
> colonial ethnography and constructions of martial
> subjectivities; the role of
> gender in shaping martial notions; the notion of "martial
> race" as it
> intersected with slavery and/or the African diaspora;
> warring traditions and
> economies of honor as avenues for staking claims to martial
> genealogies; claims
> to special "martial" status by veterans of anticolonial
> revolutionary wars; and
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> that people who conduct research
> on this topic who may NOT plan on attending the ASA may
> nevertheless contact us
> if they are interested in participating in the future
> conference/edited volume
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