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all competitions - The Department of English at Texas Southern University will host the Fourteenth Annual Interdisciplinary McCleary Symposium, March 22-23, 2012, Houston, Texas.

The general topic for the presentations is “Asian & African Diaspora Literature, History, and Arts.”

Scholarly research and presentations are invited that cover a wide area of interest, including but not limited to the following:

* National and Global Influences
* Exodus Literature: Roads Away, Roads Back
* Lost Generations
* Translations
* Women in Art and Literature
* Following History’s Ariadne’s Thread through the Past
* New Voices in Adopted Languages
* Social Impact and Change
* Literature in New Form—Blogs and Bloggers
* Cyber Art, Cyber Fiction
* The Internet’s Impact
* You Tube as an Expressive Form
* Modernism and Postmodernism
* Conflict and Protest Art and Literature
* Post WW II Considerations
* The Short Story
* Expatriate Artists
* Literature and War
* Anti-government art and literature
* Poetic and Artistic Influences

Specific areas of interest include literature and culture, women’s studies, the Internet, drama, music, art, song, painting, historical viewpoints, political economics, and politics. Abstracts of 300 words or less are requested. Texas Southern is located at 3100 Cleburne, Houston, Texas 77004.

For more information or to submit an abstract to the 2012 McCleary Interdisciplinary Symposium, contact the Department Chair Rhonda Saldivar at 713-313-7667 or Saldivar_rx@tsu.edu. We encourage electronic submissions of abstracts.

all competitions - The Ontario Black History Society (OBHS) is soliciting papers for its upcoming publication both in honour of the UN International Year for People of African Descent and in commemoration of one of the earliest Black institutions in Canada - the Black Church. The book committee welcomes submissions for AME, BME, First Baptist: African-Canadians and the Church (working title) on any aspect of African Diasporic and African Canadian church history, however special preference will be given to submissions directly related to the suggested title of the proposed book.

The OBHS advocated for the historic designation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church then located on Soho Street in downtown Toronto. Since the congregation had moved to another location, the site was vacant and of interest to a developer. The OBHS advocated to have this site preserved and potentially reanimated as a museum/cultural centre. However, despite OBHS submissions to Neighbourhood Committee, OMB and Toronto City Council, it was decided that the church site would be demolished.

One outcome was the provision of a small donation by the developer, Wittington, to support the preservation of the church through the creation of a written document, a book, about the people of the AME and of the church as it is now as well as the former long-term site of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Toronto that was demolished. About the same time, the British Methodist Episcopal Church on Shaw Street was destroyed by arson. Hence the focus on the AME, BME and the other existing central Toronto Black church, First Baptist.

Proposals with a 200 word limit should be submitted to admin@blackhistorysociety.ca by September 30th, 2011 along with full contact information. Proposals from academics as well as church historians and community historians are welcome. Successful applicants will be notified before October 28, 2011 and their full submission would then be required by December 31, 2011. The book will be published in 2012.

Also, should you have archival materials related to this topic including minute books, hymnals, music, photographs, commemorative booklets or correspondence, please consider making this resource available to the OBHS for inclusion in our actual and virtual repositories.

More information and updates will be available as they arise through the OBHS website, www.blackhistorysociety.ca or the OBHS office: admin@blackhistorysociety.ca.

Welcomes Submission Papers Ontario Black History Society website: http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca

all competition - SEN Journal: Online Exclusives is currently calling for contributions on the theme of ethnicity and the arts. This broad theme encourages submissions in a variety of mediums from a diversity of disciplines. In particular, we warmly welcome:

* Academic writing on the theme of ethnicity and art (1,000 words max.);
* Artwork, films and photography to be hosted on our website;
* News about relevant exhibitions and performances;
* Exhibition and performance reviews; and
* Responses to articles published in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN) volume 9 issue 2 in the themed section on “The Art of Nationalism”

In keeping with SEN’s editorial policy, SEN Journal: Online Exclusives encourages submissions from a broad range of disciplines with particular attention to up-and-coming scholars, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students working in the field. All submissions and enquiries should be sent to sen@lse.ac.uk .

Academic Writing Theme Ethnicity website: http://senjournal.wordpress.com

all competition - Women and Film in Africa Conference: Overcoming Social Barriers, Conference organised by the Africa Media Centre, University of Westminster, Date: Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November 2011, Venue: University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS

This is a 1st Call for Papers for a conference on the contemporary and historical role played by women in the film, television and video industries in Africa. From the Arab North Africa, West Africa, Central and East Africa, through to Southern Africa, women have emerged from the double oppression of patriarchy and colonialism to become the unsung heroines of the moving image as producers, directors,actresses, script writers, financiers, promoters, marketers and distributors of film, television and video in postcolonial Africa. Sadly, such immense contributions by women are underrepresented, both in industry debates and in academic research. There are now many cases in which African women in front of and behind the camera have overcome social barriers and yet this is sidelined. This conference invites students, practitioners, academics and researchers to debate how women have contributed to film, television and video markets in Africa from pre-colonial, colonial to postcolonial periods. Existing industry and academic work should also discuss the ways female audiences in Africa have engaged with film, television and video texts. The conference will include a session with leading female filmmakers. Papers may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following themes:

* The Influence of Feminism on African filmmakers;* Women in front and behind the camera in African film;* Women in the African feature film industry;* Women in technical roles in film, video and television in Africa;* Women documentary makers in Africa;* Gender and Representation of Women in African film;* Audiences for films by African women/Female audiences in Africa;* Case histories of leading African women film makers;* Women scriptwriters;* African women acting in video, film and television;* Censorship and the portrayal of African women in film and television;* The role of NGOs in commissioning women filmmakers and issue-based films;* How African governments have helped or hindered filmmaking by African women

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS Call for Papers University of Westminster

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday 16 September, 2011. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 23 September, 2011. Abstracts should be 200 words long. They must include the title of the conference, presenter’s name, affiliation, email and postal address,together with the title of the paper. Please ensure when saving your abstract that your name is part of the file name. Please email your abstract to Helen Cohen, Events Administrator at: (journalism@westminster.ac.uk).

PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION

This two day conference will take place on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November, 2011. The fee for registration (which applies to all participants, including presenters) will be £135, with a concessionary rate of £55 for students, to cover all conference documentation, refreshments and administration costs. Registration will open in September 2011

Call for Papers University of Westminster website: http://www.wmin.ac.uk/

all competition - The digital revolution is profoundly affecting African studies. New digital resources are making available large areas of content, as well as greatly improving access to bibliographies. In Africa, governments and NGOs are publishing online, some publishers are moving to print on demand and e-books, and international academic journals are increasingly becoming available in university and national libraries.

Yet the story, as is well-known, is far from straightforward or unproblematic. This conference will mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of SCOLMA by taking a critical look at the field of African studies and how it is changing. In particular, although there has been much discussion of new digital resources and what their creators plan to do, we have a limited understanding of their impact on their users and on knowledge production in general. For example, what are the implications for historical research of the availability of digitised sources, and of the choices made in their selection? How do social science researchers work in a field in which much, but not everything, is now available online? Are e-journals – or indeed mobile phones – beginning to change the research process in Africa? And, more generally, how have broader historical and political developments changed African studies and librarianship over the last half-century?

We welcome papers on these themes across the humanities, arts, social sciences and sciences. Papers may deal with digital content, whether digitised or born-digital, of any kind, e.g. archives and manuscripts; audio-visual material; maps; newspapers; books, journals and theses; photographs, prints, drawings and paintings; ephemera; statistical databases; and social media.

The conference will bring together academics and other researchers with librarians and archivists. We aim thus to have a productive exchange of expertise, experience and analysis on the question of knowledge production in African studies.

Themes may include, but are not limited to: • How scholars, researchers, librarians and archivists use digitised resources. • How African studies is changing, and the place of the digital revolution in these changes. • Access to, selection of, and training in the use of digital resources in the library context. Are resources under-used? • To pay or not to pay? How easy is it for researchers to find subscription e-resources? And for libraries to fund them? What is the balance of free and charged resources in the research process? How well do the models for making e-resources available in Africa work? • How well does user consultation work? • Access to the technology that underpins e-resources. • Digital scholarship: are scholars in African studies using digital collections to generate new intellectual products? • The impact of mobile phone technology on African studies. • How patchy is the creation of digital resources, and what – and who – is being left behind? • Language in Africa and new technology.

One-page abstracts of papers on these themes are warmly welcomed. If you would like to give a paper, please send your abstract to

Lucy McCann SCOLMA Secretary Email: lucy.mccann@bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Tel.: 01865 270908

THE UK Oxford Call for Papers DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS IS 31 OCTOBER 2011.

Papers in French are welcome if a summary is provided in English.

SCOLMA: The UK Libraries and Archives Group on Africa
50th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
Dis/connects: African Studies in the Digital Age
Oxford, 25–26 June 2012

UK Oxford Call for Papers website: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/scolma/

all competition - Eastern Africa Journal of Humanities and Sciences publishes papers on all aspects of arts, humanities and social sciences of interest and relevance to Eastern Africa. The journal is published twice a year. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, as attachments, to: eajhs@cuea.edu or research@cuea.edu

Call for Submission - Journal Humanities Sciences requirements:

- All manuscripts should be submitted electronically
- Use MS Microsoft, Times New Roman, 12 point font, double space
- A 200 word abstract with six key words
- A separate first cover page containing Author’s details – title, name, institutional affiliation, address, e-mail, etc. (Author’s name should not appear on any other page).
- All submitted papers are sent to respected anonymous peer reviewers.
- Articles should not exceed 25 double-spaced pages including references/bibliography.
- APA is the preferred manual style – guidelines are provided on request.

Call for Submission - Journal Humanities Sciences Editorial address:

All correspondence to be addressed to:
The Editor
(Prof. Maurice N. Amutabi, Ph.D)
Eastern Africa Journal of Humanities and Sciences
The Catholic University of Eastern Africa
P O Box 62157
00200 – City Square
NAIROBI, Kenya
Email: eajhs@cuea.edu or research@cuea.edu

*There is no processing fee charged to authors of papers accepted for publication

Call for Submission - Journal Humanities Sciences website: http://www.fiuc.org/iaup/esap/publications/cuea/cueapub.php

all competition - After the success of our book Women on Women; we are looking for quality papers on women writers across boundaries of nation/state/age/class. Suggested Topics:

* Women and sexuality
* Women and Queer desire
* Lesbian Studies
* Women and nation
* women and change
* Women and Sensuality
* Women and religion

Please send a 150-200 word abstract along with a brief bio to asha.choubey@gmail.com by 21 August 2011. Full papers shall be expected by 30 December 2011.

all competition - PULA: Botswana Journal of African Studies is calling for papers for publication consideration. PULA is a refereed scholarly journal devoted to the study of Africa, particularly Southern Africa. We welcome articles from various disciplines and from scholars anywhere in the world. The articles should be based on cutting edge research with new findings, and should interrogate important issues in Africa, preferably Southern Africa. Articles will be subjected to peer-review before they can be accepted for publication. All articles must be original and must not be considered for publication anywhere else. Contributors must follow the following Call for Papers Journal African Studies submission guidelines.

1. Articles, in Word format, using Times New Roman 12, must not exceed a maximum of 6000 words and must use British English. If they contain special characters they must be submitted in PDF and details of the author(s) provided on a separate accompanying document.
2. Articles must contain abstracts of not more than 150 words.
3. Notes must be presented at the end of the article under the subheading ‘Notes’.
4. Only the references cited in the article must appear at the end under the subheading ‘References’. They must follow the APA for both in-text and list references.
5. The author(s) will be informed of the acceptance or rejection of their articles after the reviews have been received and a judgement/verdict made on them.
6. Submit articles to Dr. K.C. Monaka at both of the following e-mail addresses monaka@mopipi.ub.bw and kemmonye@gmail.com
7. The deadline for submission is Friday 30th September, 2011.

Please direct questions and enquiries to the Editor (Prof. Musa W. Dube) dubemw@mopipi.ub.bw and to the Interim Editor (Dr. Kems C. Monaka) monaka@mopipi.ub.bw

Call for Papers Journal African Studies website: http://www.thuto.org/pula/html/

Le Journal Spéciale Z est un regard critique sur l'architecture dans un sens très large. Les réactions aux thématiques proposées chaque mois, sont mises en ligne et apparaitront dans deux publications annuelles.

Guidelines for submissions in English:

1. Please include your affiliation and a 4-5 sentence bio.
2. Word limits. Please contact the editors to discuss the length of your submission. In general, texts should be no more than 6000 words, including notes.
3. Texts can be submitted in either Microsoft Word, Apple Pages or as a RTF file.
4. Texts are published in American English.
5. Paragraphs should be spaced at 1.5 lines with characters in 11pt font. Skip a space between each paragraph.
6. Single quotation mark should be used around single words or phrases. Citations should use double quotation marks with end punctuation appearing inside the final quotation mark.
7. Use endnotes following the Chicago Manual of Style Online Citation Guide found here.
8. Do not use abbreviations in the text (etc., i.e., e.g.)
9. Illustrations should be sent as separate JPG attachments, identified by a number and a name: 1.picture.jpg, 2.drawing.jpg…
10. At the end of the text include a list of all illustrations with the following information:
- identifying number and name
- illustration source
- name of photographer or artist
- copyright holder, or ‘no copyright’
- caption (name of architect/artist/designer, name of the work, location, date.)
11. Authors are responsible for securing reproduction rights for all copyrighted images in cooperation with the editors.

website: http://specialez.fr/journal/

Instruction for abstract submission

Please submit all the information required below according to the order given:

Abstract

We are seeking papers on unpublished research relating to the themes of the congress.

* Language for abstract text: please submit in both original language and in correct English (if English is not the original language)
* Title format: Times New Roman 12, Bold
* Authors: Name, Surname, Institution of affiliation. Font: Times New Roman 11
* 3 keywords: Times New Roman 11
* Text of abstract format (including the objective(s) of the paper and the originality of the research): Times New Roman 11, 1.5 spacing (max. 500 words)
* Session of the Congress: please indicate in which one of the proposed main sessions your communication will be inserted.
* Indication of 2 languages: To help determine the languages for the simultaneous translation the authors are asked to indicate 2 languages (preferred and alternative) in which they can present their paper.

Author’s information

A short personal biography (max. 300 words as a written text) should be presented which will include:

* contacts (e-mail, telephone number, personal or institutional website)
* research activities (especially those regarding the topics of the congress)
* institutional functions

Deadlines Call for Papers

Call for papers concluded. Applicants will be informed on acceptance of the abstract, upon conclusion of the evaluation.

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