MSU Tuesday Bulletin, 09/07/04
THE TUESDAY BULLETIN
Issue No. 2 Fall 2004
September 7, 2004
Weekly News from the AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 100 INTERNATIONAL CENTER
EAST LANSING MI 48824-1035
For back issues, see archive <http://africa.msu.edu>
BULLETIN CONTENTS
EVENTS
MSU ANNOUNCEMENTS
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
CONFERENCES
FELLOWSHIPS
JOBS
EVENTS
September 9, Thursday
"Impact of HIV/AIDS inUganda: Building Bridges and Alleviating Poverty
Through the Provision of Free Education for HIV/AIDS Orphans in Rural
Areas," African Studies Center Brown Bag talk with Twesigye Jackson Kaguri,
Co-Founder/Program Director of Scientific Technology and Sustainable
Agricultural Development, Inc. (STSAD, Inc.) and Nyaka AIDS Orphans School,
12:00 noon, Room 201, International Center.
September 16, Thursday
"A Discussion of a Scholar's Mistaken Observation: The Case of the 'Galla'
of Ethiopia," African Studies Center Brown Bag with Ayalew Kano, Faculty
Affiliate of the ASC (Retired Civil Servant, State of Michigan), 12:00 noon,
Room 201, International Center.
September 23, Thursday
"Foreign Aid and the African Farmer: New Evidence," African Studies Center
Brown Bag with Carl Eicher, University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
(Agricultural Economics, MSU), 12:00 noon, Room 201, International Center.
MSU ANNOUNCEMENTS
Study Abroad Fair
The 15th Semi-annual Fall Study Abroad Fair will be
held on Thursday, September 23rd from noon to 6:00
p.m. on the second floor of the MSU Union building.
For more information contact the Office of Study
Abroad; 109 International Center; Phone: 353-8920; or
visit the web site at: http://studyabroad.msu.edu
OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
African Studies Association
Call for Proposals to Edit African Issues
Are you interested in critical, contemporary issues in Africa?
Do you have innovative ideas for how best to bring in
depth analysis of the most pressing topics - political,
cultural or economic - to an African Studies audience?
The African Studies Association (ASA) seeks creative
proposals from individuals interested not only in editing
African Issues, but also in re-envisioning the focus,
broadening the scope, and re-imagining the layout
(including on-line publication) of this important
biannual journal. ASA's aim is to assure that African
Issues remains responsive to and at the forefront of
debate on the most critical topics concerning the
continent in the coming decade.
Those interested should send a one-page proposal
indicating their plans for the editorship of African Issues
and a copy of their cv to: Carol L. Martin, Ph.D.,
Executive Director, African Studies Association,
Rutgers University, Douglass Campus, 132 George
Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400.
One-page proposals are due postmarked on or before
Deadline extended to September 30th, 2004.
The Publications Committee of the ASA will review all
proposals by October 15. Short-listed applicants will be
invited to submit a more detailed proposal postmarked
on or before December.
Canadian Review of Comparative Literature
Special Issue on African Literature: Call for Papers
The growing success of African literature has been
matched, albeit slowly, by a corresponding growth in
African literary theory and criticism. These
developments, some of which appear to have been
inspired by African literary criticism, have in turn
prompted literary scholars in Africa and abroad to
rethink their conceptual premises and theories of
criticism, thus generating further advances in theories of
literature and criticism. Drawing upon oral and literary
sources, emerging electronic and print technologies,
urban myths and legends, new sensibilities arising from
the reconfiguration of the relationship between the
postcolonial state and civil society, and rapid cultural
globalization, African writers are responding in highly
innovative ways to the new realities Africans face in a
rapidly changing world. Some of these responses are
thematic. Others, however, are formal and generic.
The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue
Canadienne de Litt rature Compar e thus announces its
Special Issue on African Literatures, and opens its pages
to critics and writers who wish to explore these
developments. Papers of about 6000 to 7500 words,
double space, from any of the following thematic areas
listed: 1. Theory of African Literature; 2. Critical
Methods: Marxist, Historicist, Feminist, Structuralist
and Poststructuralist, Ethnic, Nativist, etc.; 3. African
Literature and Technology; 4. African Film and Cinema;
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African Literature and Orality; 6. African
Performance: Performance theory; African Theatre; Oral
Traditions: Poetry and Narrative Performances;
Cyberperformance in Africa; 7. The Language Question
in African Literature; Writing in European and African
Languages; African Writing in the Roman Script, Arabic
and other scripts; 8. Gender and African Liteterature; 9.
Body and Soul: Sexuality, Spirituality, and the African
Literary Imagination; 10. Psycholoanalysis and African
Literature; 11. Race and ethnicity in African Literature;
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African Literature and/as Minority Discourse?; 13.
Colonialism, Decolonisation, and Neo/Postcolonialism;
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Artistic Movements and African Literature: realism,
postrealism, modernism, postmodernism, socialism,
magic realism, etc.; 15. African Writing and Literary
Scholarship Abroad: exile, immigration and Diaspora;
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Globalization and African Writing; 17. 100 Great
Books: (A case of) Greatest Writers or Cannonical and
Culture Wars?; 18. Market Literature: The Onisha and
other traditions.
Contributors should follow the MLA style as provided
in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers,
Third Edition. New York: The Modern Language
Association of America, 1988.
Previously unpublished manuscripts, (except for an
abstract, lecture, personal announcement, thesis) in three
paper copies, with author's names and addresses written
only on cover page to ensure an effective blind review
process, must reach the editors at the following address
by June 30, 2005. On exceptional circumstances,
electronic submissions may be acceptable. Upon
acceptance, a diskette with word-processed text in
Microsoft Word and a printout is required (exceptions
will be granted only to scholars lacking the necessary
facilities).
Manuscripts may be addressed to: Guest Editor, CRCL,
Special Issue on African Literature, and sent to any of
the following addresses:
Dr. Abdul-Rasheed NaíAllah, Department of African
American Studies, Western Illinois University, 1
University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455, USA;
e-mail: a-naallah@wiu.edu;
Dr. Harry Garuba, Center for African Studies,
University of Cape Town, Private Mail Bag,
Randebosch 7701, South Africa
e-mail: hgaruba@humanities.uct.ac.za
Dr. Uzoma Esonwanne, Department of English,
University of Toronto, 7 King's College Circle, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada M5S 3K1
e-mail: uzoma.esonwanne@utoronto.ca
CONFERENCES
Critical and Contemporary Issues in/on Africa
Development: Call for Papers (CFP)
The Center for African Peace and Conflict Resolution
and the Pan African Studies Program at California State
University, Sacramento invite you to submit proposal(s)
to present and to participate at the 14th Annual Africa
conference on Critical and Contemporary Issues in/on
Africa Development.
Papers/proposals that articulate new,
innovative/creative, and feasible options for
development in/on Africa and/or her peoples/diaspora---
as well as case studies and best practices-- are highly
invited; e.g. HIV-AIDS, conflict resolution, women &
development, healthcare, information technology, justice
system, education, democracy & governance, human
rights, child soldiers, post-conflict reconciliation,
agriculture, arts, trade, etc.
Proposal submissions should include paper title, 50-75
word abstract, full name, mailing address, email, phone
and fax, current position/title and institution. The
deadline for submission is November 7, 2004.
Notification of acceptance of proposals will be done by
email only. The conference preliminary program will be
available in February, 2005 at www.csus.edu/org/capcr.
Select conference papers will be considered for
publication and inclusion in the conference proceedings.
There will be a conference fee of $30, and participants
will pay for their own travel costs.
Please email/fax/mail your proposals for papers or
panels to: Professor Ernest E. Uwazie, Director, Center
for African Peace & Conflict Resolution, California
State University, Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento
CA 95819-6085, USA.; Phone: (916) 278 -6282; Fax:
(916) 278 -3429; e-mail: uwazieee@csus.edu
FELLOWSHIPS
Fulbright/NYU Center for International Cooperation
Fellowship in International Public Policy
Non-U.S. Scholars in public policy researching
multilateral issues through a multilateral approach are
encouraged to take advantage of a generously funded
fellowship: the Fulbright/New York University (NYU)
Center for International Cooperation (CIC) Fellowship
in International Public Policy Program.
The academic year fellowship (August 2005 to June
2006) is designed to give non-U.S. scholars the
opportunity to conduct research at the CIC on more
effective means of multilateral cooperation in the fields
of peace and security, international economics and
development, international law and organizations,
human rights, and humanitarian affairs. Projects of
particular interest are those that examine the political,
legal, institutional, and financial bases for effective
multilateral action, including public-private partnerships
and the division of responsibility between global and
regional multilateral actors. Recent successful projects
have examined the international treatment of refugees
and the multilateral process of enacting the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Interested applicants should contact the Fulbright
Commission or the Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the
U.S. Embassy in their home country to request an
application. An interview may be required by the
Commission or PAS, which will conduct initial
screening and submit finalist applications to CIES by
January 15, 2005. Because applications from African
scholars must be received at CIES by October 1, in-
country deadlines in Africa will be earlier.
Further information about the fellowship, eligibility, and
application process are available at
http://www.iie.org/cies/vs_scholars/NYU_CIC/index.
html
JOBS
Paid Workshops Oct. 7-11 and Oct. 13-17, 2004
Native Speakers of Critical languages Needed
If you are a speaker of an African, Asian, Middle
Eastern or Arabic language or dialect (or know someone
who is) and are interested in earning money in your free
time, conducting telephonic interviews in your language
in support of the government's fight against terrorism,
the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign
Languages (ACTFL) has a wonderful opportunity for
you.
The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign
Languages (ACTFL) is recruiting native speakers of
specific critical languages (please see list below of
targeted languages) for training workshops to be held in
Washington, D.C. on October 7-11, 2004 and October
13-17, 2004. A participant chooses to attend one of the
two scheduled training workshops.
A willingness to learn new skills and proficiency in the
target languages equivalent to an educated native
speaker are required. A good command of English is
desired. Participants in this workshop are paid by
ACTFL to attend the workshop and to complete the post
workshop qualification process. Further benefits
include becoming an oral proficiency tester for U.S.
government testing - a status giving you the opportunity
to make more money in the future by working for
ACTFL from your home, on an as needed basis, on your
own terms, and setting your own hours.
All participants must either be U.S. citizens, permanent
residents or have a 3-5 year Visa to work in the U.S.
ACTFL is looking for native speakers in the following
critical languages: Afrikaans; Amharic; Arabic; Somali
(SM).
For more information, contact the American Council on
the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), 6
Executive Plaza, Yonkers, NY 10701-6801; Phone:
(914) 963-8830; Fax: (914) 963-1275; e-mail:
professionalprograms@actfl.org
Page Editor: Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D.