Call for Papers: Language in African Performing and Visual Arts,
10/08
CALL FOR PAPERS
LANGUAGE
IN AFRICAN PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS: GLOBAL TRENDS, ISSUES AND
PERSPECTIVES
A Conference hosted by the Yale Program in African Languages at the Yale
Council on African Studies
OCTOBER 2-4, 2008
As the world continues to become more and more of a global village -
especially through the power of the Internet and electronic media, transfer
of cultural practices has become the norm. However the cultures of those
with global economic and political power have tended to overshadow those of
countries whose influence is local. This conference will bring together
scholars across disciplines to discuss trends in African popular cultures
and how these have impacted African languages.
The conference will investigate some of the developments in the performing
and visual arts in Africa, with special focus on choice and forms of
language used. We will ask how African languages have changed in this new
environment and look at some of the reworking of oral tradition, at works
influenced by time spent outside Africa, and at new worldwide markets for
products of popular African culture composed in African languages and
argots.
Yale Program in African Languages invites papers addressing this theme or
one of the following sub-themes:
- Language and electronic and print media
- Language and visual arts
- Language and performing arts
- Popular culture and technology
- Popular culture and HIV/AIDS
- Language in sports and leisure
- Popular culture and urban language varieties
- Fiction and publishing
- Language and fashion and design
Send abstracts via Email (preferred) to african.studies@yale.edu
or via Fax to: 203-432-5963.
Abstracts should be 300 words, and should be received by May 31, 2008.
For information call African Studies 203-432-3436.
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