Call for papers
Following a strong response, the Call for Panels is now closed; we have accepted nearly 90 panel proposals. (sea below)
The Conference Steering Committee is now pleased to invite interested papers-givers to submit a title and 50 word abstract to the convenor of an appropriate panel.
Graduate students interested in Africa are also encouraged by the Steering Committee to submit proposals for papers on subjects across the gamut of the humanities and social sciences applied to Africa. These should be sent to Professor Alessandro Triulzi (a.triulzi@agora.it).
The call for papers closes 1st November 2004.
Full panel listing
01
Social Thinking about Politics in Africa: Cognitions, Values and Attitudes
02
Traditions of Reform, Reforms of Tradition: African Muslim Societies in Contemporary Times
03
Expertise and the Transmission of Knowledge
04
Reconfiguring the Contemporary: Dialogues in African Art
05
Sudan’s peace agreement – Its implications to Africa
Getting Published, Getting Heard: Debate and Democracy in Africa
08
Public policy analysis in Africa: getting to the flesh of the Ghost state
09
Trente ans d’indépendance en Afrique de langue officielle portugaise (1975-2005)
10
The electronic governance in Africa, real hope or real hype?
11
Music and politics in Africa
12
The mobilisation of “tradition” in the resolution of conflicts in Africa
14
African elites in the era of globalisation
15
Generations: connections and contrasts
17d
Trajectories of the Modern in Africa
18
The Public Role of Christianity in Contemporary Africa
19
Extending the range. Cross-border livestock trade in western and southern Kenya and the merger between pastoral production and contemporary marketing systems
21
African Manuscripts and Museum Collections in Europe
23
Voters, Parties and Politics in Africa: Clientelism and Beyond
24
Governance Beyond the State: Legitimate Authority in African Mega-Cities and Refugee Camps
25
Of Drivers, Mechanics, Traders and Prostitutes: A Social History of Motor-Vehicles in Africa in the 20th Century
26
Images of Africa
27
Braudel in the Sahel?
31
Relevant Modernities
32
Photographic Mediations
33
Aesthetic practice in urban Africa
34
Dialogues between African verbal and visual arts
36
New roles for traditional leaders in resource mobilisation and rural development: expectations, obstacles and conflicts
37
Contemporary Issues in Malagasy Societies (Session A)
38
Contemporary Issues in Malagasy Societies (Session B)
40d
Africa<>Europe: Transnational Linkages
41
Political ecology perspectives on environmental management in Africa
42
The African city and the nation-state
43
Ethnographies of Sexualities in Africa
44
Post Liberation Politics: Comparative Perspectives
45
The Horn of Africa in the New World Order
46
Rural economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa: issues and prospects
48
Comparative Research on Rice Farming Societies of the Upper Guinea Coast
49
Strands and Strains of Regionalisation in Africa
50
New Research On Pre-Colonial Economic History
51
Mining and Manufacturing in 20th Century Africa
52
IR and Africa: New Agendas and Representations
53
Land governance in Africa and the social embeddedness of property
54
Social and environmental litigation against transnational firms in Africa
55
Memory and the Public Sphere
56
The Impact of the Cold War on Southern Africa
57
Film event – Susan Vogel convening
58
Understanding and supporting local governance processes in east Africa
60
Ethnicity, Corruption, Personality and Parochialism in Kenya Politics, 1957 – present
61
Employment and accumulation in Africa: contours and constraints on new strategies
62
African Feminisms: Extending the Boundaries of African Social Science
63
Cultures of Innovation and Development in African Societies
64
FGM in Africa and Europe as represented in creative writing
65
Activism in Africa
66
African Cinemas Today
67
SADC Development
68
Islam, Globalisation And Gender In Africa
69
Collecting the Congo
70
Acknowledging Knowledge: Dissemination and Reception of Expertise in Colonial Africa
71
Foregrounding Cultural Production In Africa
72
The Sub-Saharan Francophone Novel by African Women Writers: Interpreting Unconventional Styles and Narrative Forms
73
HIV/AIDS as a threat to human security in Africa?
74
Africa in the 21st Century: The Complexity of Renewal
75
The Casamance in its Regional Context
76
Contemporary South African black feminist film-makers
77
Globalization, Educational Issues and Challenges in Africa
78
Africa Writing Europe
79
Credit Creating Behaviour
80
The Ebb and Flow of African Diasporas
81
Imagining African Alternatives: Beyond The Tyranny Of Rights
82
The Military and the Social. Themes in the History of Colonial and Post-colonial Northeast Africa
83
Trajectories of Citizenship: Christian Missions as Agencies of Empowerment in 20th C Africa
84
The Quest to Redress Gender Inequality in Access to Justice
85
European administration and Islamic orders in colonial Africa
87
Transnational Networks and Globalization in Africa
88
Transafrican Trends in Islam
89
Dynamics of Social Change and Intangible Cultures – a paradoxical dialogue
90
Gender and Development in the 21st Century Africa: Mainstream or Backwater?
91
Africa and the Aid Program: Saviour or Sacrifice
92
West African photography: Art? Archives? Anthropology?
93
Africana Librarians in Partnership
94d
Genealogy and Race in the Political Making of Eastern Africa, 1800-2000
95
Space, Architecture and Identity Formation
96
The role of private enterprises in socio-cultural change processes