South Eastern Regional Seminar in African Studies, Spring 2006

The Coordinators of the South Eastern Regional Seminar in African Studies (SERSAS) are pleased to announce an initial Call for papers for its
upcoming conference and meeting to be hosted by Gardner-Webb University in
beautiful Boiling Springs, North Carolina from March 31-April 1, 2006.

This CFP is open to any discipline and field in African Studies for written papers by academics or advanced graduate student. We welcome proposals
for any topic, but we would be particularly interested in papers related to
the themes for the meeting:

Commodities and Cosmopolitan Identities in Africa
and
Politics, Exile and Banishment.

SERSAS prides itself on being an informal group of collegial scholars who hold biannual meetings at members host institutions. The meetings are informal and provide ample time for discussion of papers. They are ideal venues to get to know scholars of African Studies in the Southeast. We particularly welcome the attendance and participation of advanced graduate students, and can accommodate work-in-progress panels for them.

The meeting will commence with an evening reception on Fri March 31 and conclude following paper presentations and a general meeting on Sat. 1 April. There are no registration fees for the conference, but each person attending is required to be a current member of SERSAS (annual membership dues of $20 are collected at the meeting, and are used to offset the cost of refreshments) and to cover their own costs for travel and accommodation. SERSAS remains a participant-driven organization with no on-going institutional support and so it cannot offer any financial support for
participants or presenters.

Dr. Aran MacKinnon at: amackinn@westga.edu

For further information, please check the SERSAS website at: http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/homepage.htm
and the Gardner-Webb University website at:
http://aux.gardner-webb.edu/

Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.