Cross-posted from: "IRN-Africa"
Call for Papers
Genders & Sexualities in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges in the 21st Century
Empire State College SUNY
Syracuse, New York, U.S.A.
September 30 to October 4, 2009
The 2009 conference of the International Resource Network in Africa (IRN-Africa) will bring together researchers, activists and thinkers whose intellectual work and political engagement is centered around issues of gender and sexuality, including gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered (LGBTQ) peoples in Africa and the Diaspora. The conference seeks to explore new opportunities arising from the internalization of research on sexualities in Africa, new challenges we are encountering in the 21st century, and new partnerships drawing from our diverse experiences in the Diaspora. We invite submissions from both scholars and public intellectuals whose work defines new critical pathways to constructing a utilitarian and collective knowledge about sexuality, gender, society, and human agency. Concomitantly, we will explore and theorize new epistemological, methodological and political horizons for research on sexuality in
Africa and the Diaspora in the era of globalization.
Possible topics include: ethics, the legal environment, health and economic development, education, human rights and duties, law and religion, politics and culture, race, the imaginary and not yet imagined, new technologies, identities, and sexual citizenships.
Empirical and theoretical contributions are welcomed.
The deadline for abstracts is July 15, 2009. Selected authors will be notified on July 30, 2009 and the full paper must be submitted by August 30, 2009. Selected papers will be considered for publication in Outliers, the IRN-Africa’s online collection of essays and creative work on sexualities. The meeting is heavily centered on brainstorming both scientific and creative conversations about the empirical relevance and theoretical premise of research on genders and sexualities in Africa. A limited number of travel awards are available to cover transportation and accommodation costs. Early submissions are strongly encouraged. Authors who cannot attend the conference will still be able to publish their work in the journal.
Confirmed Guests:
The Reverend Irene Monroe, Harvard University
Leslye M. Huff, Managing Member of Huff Law, LLC, and Board Member of the National Black Justice Coalition (U.S.)
Cheikh Ibrahima Niang, University of Cheikh Anta Diop, Sénégal
Neema Ghenim, author of Woman in Black, Algeria
Marc Epprecht, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Mignon Moore, University of California Los Angeles
And many more…
Instructions for submissions:
Abstracts: – 1 to 2 pages –Times New Roman, font 12, and a curriculum vitae.
Full papers are limited to 22 single spaced pages including the bibliography, or 44 double-spaced pages. PowerPoint presentations will not substitute papers for publication. All citations must follow the Chicago style http://www.chicagom anualofstyle. org/home. html.
Please send abstracts to S. N. Nyeck <editirnoutliers@ gmail.com>, Marc Epprecht <epprecht@queensu. ca>, Deborah Amory <deborahamory@ yahoo.com>, Unoma Azuah <unomaazuah@yahoo. com>, Nolutshungu Nomvuyo <NNolutshungu@ gc.cuny.edu> .
* IRN-Africa is an intellectual community committed to research and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, race, ethnicity, or age.
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Sybille N. Nyeck
Editor of Outliers, a collection of essays and creative work on sexualities in Africa
& Coordinator of the editorial board of the International Research Network in Africa (IRN-Africa)
c/o CLAGS The Graduate Center (CUNY) Room 7115
365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
http://www.irnweb. org/
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IRN-Africa is an intellectual community committed to research and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, citizenship, race, ethnicity, or age.