Women in Africa & The African Diaspora Conference
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Call for participation:
Second International Conference on Women in Africa & The African Diaspora
Theme:
Women in Africa & The African Diaspora: Health and Human Rights
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
October 22-27, 1998
In July 1992, over 700 researchers, activists, students and policy makers
from all continents gathered in Nsukka, a small, rural town in Nigeria, for
the first international conference on Women in Africa and the African
Diaspora (the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe).
The conference focused on disciplinary and interdisciplinary issues related
to women in Africa and the African diaspora. In addition to generating ten
volumes of proceedings, the conference provided the space for much needed
global networking and collaboration. At that meeting, it was agreed that
the next conference would focus on health and human rights and be held in
the African diaspora.
For the purposes of the second conference, health will be discussed not
only as a physical and medical question but, in a broader sense, as a
social issue; thus allowing participants to debate health issues in their
relatedness to the economy, education, human rights, militarisation, the
environment, the arts, ethnic conflicts, refugee problems, etc. in the
context of global interdependence and international politics.
For example, the campaign against female circumcision in Africa and the
Arab world could be debated simultaneously as a health issue, a human
rights question and an economic issue. One might also examine how health
issues are imagined in the arts or how the health of the economy affects
the health of artistic productions, etc. Discussions could also focus on
the impact of changes in economic and social policies (the welfare system
in the US and the immigration question in Europe, for example) and the
escalation of ethnic politics and armed conflicts on the African continent
on the health and human rights of women.
This announcement extends an invitation to agencies, researchers, students,
activists, policy makers, and interested individuals, irrespective of
gender, race, religious affiliation and national origin, to participate in
the second WAAD conference.
DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: MARCH 15, 1998
Handwritten, faxed or e-mailed abstracts will NOT be accepted.
Please include your name (in full) and address on your proposal.
REGISTRATION FORM
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