USA Africa Dialogue Series - Annual Symposium of the Graduate Students in African Studies (GSAS), Indiana University, Bloomington

 

 

From: GSAS Indiana University <gsas.iu@gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 at 2:07 PM
Subject: CFP: Annual Symposium of the Graduate Students in African Studies (GSAS), Indiana University, Bloomington

 

        Indiana University's Graduate Students in African Studies

Presents its 9th Annual Symposium 

Across social, cultural, economic, political, medical and epistemological lines, among others, there are various individual and/or interconnected issues, events and experiences that have been emerging out of, or characterizing modern Africa, especially in the 21st century. While some of these issues point at the progress being made in Africa and by Africans, either on the continent or in diaspora, others are related to the challenges they are facing. 

This symposium seeks to critically examine these issues by bringing together graduate students and researchers whose interests focus on contemporary Africa.

Given the scope of potential inquiries and approaches to the conference theme, this symposium encourages paper proposals from a wide variety of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary backgrounds. 

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

·  Decolonization and democracy in Africa

·  New perspectives to African arts

·  New trends in African literature

·  Gender equality and women's empowerment in Africa

·  African language pedagogy in the United States

·  African culture and globalization

·  Repatriation of African artifacts

·  African Americans and the rediscovery of Africa

·  African musical genres

·  Afrophobia and xenophobia

·  Land border crisis in Africa 

·  Religious extremism and ethnic tension in Africa

·  Youth movement and pressure groups in Africa

·  Abuse of the rights of women and children in Africa

·  The use and impacts of social media in Africa

·  Technology and entrepreneurship in Africa

·  Poverty, unemployment and monopolism in Africa

Please submit an abstract to: iu.gsas.symposium@gmail.com by March 6, 2020.

Thank you.

Ibrahim Odugbemi

President, Graduate Students in African Studies

NB: Attached is a printable version of the CFP.