Call for Papers: "Africa: Societies,Cultures & Languages"(Russia) 05/01

Conference on "Africa: Societies, Cultures and Languages"

St. Petersburg, 16-18 May 2001

The annual conference on "Africa: Societies, Cultures and Languages", this year devoted to the subject of"Africa in Russia and Russia in Africa", will be held in St. Petersburg on 16-18 May 2001 under the auspices of the Academic Council for African Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for African |Studies, the Centre of Civilisational and Regional Studies, theMuseum of Anthropology and Ethnography and the State University of St. Petersburg.

The issues to be discussed are:
1. Historic ties and co-operation of the USSR/Russia with African states;
2. Images of Russia in African cultures and images of Africa in Russian culture;
3. African Diaspora in Russia and Russian communities in African countries;
4. African studies in Russia: sources, traditions, the present condition andperspectives;
5. Traditions and novelties in the languages and literatures of African countries;
6. Europe and Africa: historic and cultural ties.

The Organising Committee has the honour to invite you and members of your research centre / institution of learning to take part in the forum in question. Your applications, together with abstracts (not to exceed 200 words) and a short C.V. are expected by April 1,and your paper -by April 20, 2001.

All the expenses connected with the visit have to be covered by the participant himself / herself.

Please send you abstracts and requests for more information to the Organising Committee:

Dr L. Prokopenko, Academic Council for African Problems, Spiridonovka str., 30/1, Moscow, Russia, 103001. Tel: (095) 290-60-25Fax: (095) 202-07-86 e-mail: <lubov.prokopenko@inafr.ru>
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Chairman of the Organising Committee
Prof. I. Sledzevsky Director Centre ofCivilisational and Regional Studies,Russian Academy of Sciences

Secretary of the Organising
Committee Dr. L.Prokopenko