Call for Papers: Mega Chad Conference - "Man and the Lake", 12/03

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Mega Chad Conference 2003 "Man and the Lake"
Maiduguri/Nigeria,
2nd December - 10th December 2003

(NOTE: "Lake" to be understood as Mega Chad Basin in the widest sense possible) The 12th Mega Chad Conference 2003, entitled "Man and the Lake", will hold in MAIDUGURI, Borno State/Nigeria from Monday, 2nd December 2003 (first day of conference) until Wednesday, 10th December 2003 (day of departure to airport Kano). Organisation of the conference lies with Centre for Trans-Saharan Studies, University of Maiduguri. Participants from abroad may note that they will have to plan for their flight into Kano/Nigeria on SUNDAY, 30th November 2003, departure from Kano: Thursday, 11th December 2003. Each paper presenter will be allowed 15 minutes for presentation, which will be followed by 10 minutes "paper discussion". At the end of each session (morning and afternoon sessions are distinguished) another 45 minutes are scheduled for "session discussion". Below, please, find the sub-headings of each of the twelve planned sessions (topics listed NOT in final order yet). Please indicate under which of the session sub-headings you would prefer to present your paper.

"MAN AND THE LAKE"
1. Frontiers and boundaries in the Lake Chad area.
2. Cross-border crimes and insecurity.
3. Lake Chad Basin - turntable of migration.
4. Coping mechanisms within the Chad Basin.
5. "Human masses flow like water according to economic gradation."(Oppenheimer 1929)
6. The family in Islam, Christianity, colonialism - modern quest for survival.
7. Social structure and stratification in the Mega Chad region (peasants, women, pastoralists, labourers etc.).
8. "Traditional" knowledge in the Lake Chad region - floral, faunal,medicinal, climatological, environmental - and incorporation into solution of problems.
9. Mobile pastoral systems: contributions and challenges.
10. Women's coping mechanisms in contemporary times.
11. Chad Basin - a linguistic watering place.
12. Civilisations in the Chad Basin and contributory river valleys.

Abstracts, not longer than one page, to be e-mailed to :

mega.tchad@mae.u-paris10.fr

and copied to :

Gisela Seidensticker-Brikay
Centre for Trans-Saharan Studies
University of Maiduguri
Maiduguri, Borno State / Nigeria
e-mail: gilliam22002@yahoo.co.uk
and should not arrive later than END of FEBRUARY 2003.

A second Conference communication with further details will follow in
January 2003.

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