UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER |
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Children and Islam: Faith
and Social Change in Africa and Southeast Asia
April 10-12, 2003
The experience of
childhood in, near, and around Islamic societies is the topic to be explored in
the fifth annual conference of the Institute for the African Child, April
10-12, 2003 in Athens, Ohio. The Center
for Southeast Asian Studies at Ohio University is the co-sponsor. Our interests extend across two rapidly
growing and changing regions of the Muslim world, Africa and Southeast Asia.
The organizers seek
papers of high quality, which address childhood and youth issues in Islamic
contexts, comparatively or within societies.
Islam provides a central focus for socialization in Africa and Southeast
Asia, affecting family and community life, education, the arts, politics, the
world of work and the wider economy, and inter-group relations. Presentations
should be no more than 20 minutes in length.
You may also bring materials for display at the conference information
booth.
Panels, individual
presentations or poster sessions may be proposed and themes may include, but
are not limited to:
* Islamic youth
movements in Africa/SEA
* Islam &
education - in and out of school
* Muslim girls and
contemporary social change
* The religious life
of children
* Muslim children at
work/ urban and rural life
* Islamic NGOs and
their impact on children in Africa/SEA and the Diaspora
* Majority/Minority
relations and Islam in Africa/SEA
* Children's health
in Muslim societies
* Human Rights,
Children and Islam
The conference will
commence on Thursday evening with a keynote presentation and reception. Dr. W. Stephen Howard, Director of the
Institute for the African Child, is the Conference Convener. K-12 teachers and social service providers
are encouraged to participate as well and special sessions may be organized to
address curricular and intervention issues.
Abstracts should be
one page in length and submitted by February 1, 2003. Those who need additional
time for visa processing or for locating funds should submit their abstract by
January 15, 2003. Please include a paper title, theme of the paper, author contact
information including e-mail address, and brief author bio. Accepted one-page abstracts will be printed
in the conference program. Final papers
may be submitted for consideration in the "Working Papers in African Child
Studies" series.
Presenters will be
expected to pre-register for the conference by March 14, 2003.
Send a one-page
abstract to:
Attn: Acacia Nikoi,
Conference
Coordinator,
Center for
International Studies,
Ohio University,
Athens, OH 45701 USA
or by e-mail:
nikoi@ohio.edu
Institute for the
African Child
The Institute for the
African Child was founded in 1998 to promote collaboration between Ohio
University's Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Communication, Education, Health
and Human Services and Osteopathic Medicine on every dimension of children and
child survival across Africa. Previous
conferences have focused on the African girl child, child soldiers, and
children's health and education. The Institute
sponsors a series of courses during the Summer Quarter, attracting graduate
students and professionals from all over the world. The theme for Summer 2003 will be media and communication and the
African Child.
Southeast Asian
Studies Program
The Center for
Southeast Asian Studies was designated a National Resource Center by the U.S.
Department of Education in 2000. The
Center serves as the home of both a master's degree program in International
Affairs and an undergraduate certificate program in Asian Studies since 1967. The academic program is intended to give
students freedom to pursue interests best suited to their professional and
academic goals within an inter-national context. The library holdings on
Indonesia and Malaysia are among the most extensive in the world. In addition, the endowed Tun Razak Chair for
the study of Malaysia is the only one of its kind in the United States.
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