Call for Papers: 2nd Annual Michigan State University Africanist
Graduate Student Conference, 08/08
Call for Papers
Second Annual Michigan State University Africanist Graduate Student
Conference
Knowledge of Africa: New Researchers and the Next Fifty Years
Michigan State University graduate students and the African Studies Center
at MSU are hosting a conference with the intent to foster an engaging
atmosphere in which graduate students can discuss their research and receive
important feedback. The conference is interdisciplinary and open to
students at all levels of their graduate careers. We hope to receive
submissions that present research proposals, research designs, dissertation
or thesis chapters, methodological models, work in progress, outlines of
dissertation and preliminary research findings. Michigan State University
has over 175 faculty members that focus on Africa and some faculty will
serve as discussants in the hope that they will offer constructive feedback
to the conference participants. The conference is also designed to help
prepare students, those who will be the career Africanists of the next fifty
years, who will present at the 2008 African Studies Association Meeting
"Knowledge of Africa: The Next Fifty Years" to be held in Chicago.
Abstracts Due: August 29, 2008
Email submissions to: msuasgc@msu.edu
Abstracts submitted should include the author's name, address,
institutional affiliation, email address, and phone number. A $20
conference fee can be paid online through the Conference website upon
abstract acceptance.
Conference will be held September 26-27, 2008 at Michigan State University,
East Lansing, Michigan.
More information can be found at the Conference's website:
http://africa.msu.edu/gradconference
Questions can be addressed to the conference organizers at msuafcon@msu.edu
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