We hereby invite conference participants and others to send us article-length essays on the ALA 2016 conference theme, “Justice and Human Dignity in Africa and the African Diaspora,” for consideration for the Journal of the African Literature Association. The 2016 Read More …
Category: CFPs
CFP: African Cultural Production and the Rhetoric of Humanism
The French social philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, in his book Being Singular Plural, (2000) posits that existence is inherently co-existence. This deeply humanistic vision of social relations resonates with the traditional African philosophy of life which, in a nutshell, boils down Read More …
CFP: Workshopping Approaches to Race, Racism, and Racialization in Ethnographic Examinations of China-Africa and South-South Encounters
January 13, 2017 New York University The spectre of race haunts the China-Africa moment. A consequence of the steady stream of sensational stories about South-South interactions is the realization of W.E.B Du Bois’s observation that “crossings of the global color Read More …
CFP: North African Literary and Cultural Studies
2017 NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, MD, March 23-26 We are seeking papers for a session on NORTH AFRICAN literatures and cultures at the upcoming Northeast Modern Language Association Convention (NeMLA) to be held in BALTIMORE, March 23-26, 2017. We welcome submissions Read More …