Call for Papers: "New African Diaspora", UPenn 10/2001


This is a CALL FOR PAPERS for the ninth annual African Studies Consortium Workshop which will convene on the Penn campus on Friday, October 26, 2001. This year's theme is the "New African Diaspora" and all proposed panels and papers must relate to this theme. The workshop will focus on the growth of new African immigrant communities, especially in North America, and will examine their experiences in relation both to their host communities and to their countries of origin. We are looking especially for reports on recent research and on exemplary projects initiated by or within African immigrant communities.

Panel openings are limited, and potential participants should send one page abstracts to Lynette Loose lloose@sas.upenn.edu no later than August 24, 2001. Contributors will be notified by September 10 regarding a place in the program.

The annual Fall Consortium Workshop is free and open to the public. Visitors to Philadelphia may also want to take in a related exhibition on "Philadelphia's African Immigrants," which will open in early October at the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies in downtown Philadelphia.