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5th Annual Midwest Graduate Student Conference in African Studies

Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
March 31-April 2, 2000

The Graduate Students in African Studies and the African Studies Program at Indiana University at Bloomington are pleased to extend an open invitation to all graduate students to participate in the 5th Annual Midwest Graduate Student Conference in African Studies to be held in Bloomington, Indiana from Friday March 31st through Sunday April 2nd 2000.

This is an interdisciplinary conference that is intended to provide an opportunity for graduate students at all levels of their careers to present their work in a friendly and collegial atmosphere. Graduate student participants from any college or universities are welcome, but those from midwestern institutions are particularly encouraged to participate. We are seeking graduate papers from any field, whether social sciences, humanities, natural and applied sciences, or law.

The contributions for the conference are flexible. Some examples would be: research proposals and papers; preliminary results of research/field data; methodological, theoretical or conceptual papers; thesis and dissertation chapters, either in process or complete; term papers, etc.

Submissions: Please submit a short (half-page) abstract, single-spaced, and a $5 registration fee (checks should be made payable to: Indiana University) by December 15, 1999. Please be sure to include your name on the abstract and attach it to the page containing the following: the paper title, author's name, institutional affiliation, address, phone number, and your e-mail address.
Panel, paper sessions, or roundtable proposals are also encouraged.

Completed papers will be due to the panel discussants by February 28, 2000.

Presentations should be a maximum of 15-20 minutes in length (equal to 7-10 minutes of double-spaced text if read verbatim). We may be able to accommodate late-emerging work, but we cannot guarantee a spot on a conference panel.

Accommodations: Please let us know if you require accommodation. We will make every effort to find participants with free lodging with another IU graduate student, but in the event that this is not possible, costs of on-campus housing will be minimal.

A conference web page with information ranging from submissions to accommodations can be accessed at:
http://php.indiana.edu/~iperullo/home.html
Please send submissions to:
5th Annual Graduate Student Conference African Studies Program
Indiana University
Woodburn 221
Bloomington, IN 47405

Queries may also be addressed by e-mail to:
Leslie Fadiga-Stewart lfadigas@indiana.edu Amadou Fofana
afofana@indiana.edu
Liz McMahon emmaho@indiana.edu
Tristan Purvis tpurvis@indiana.edu