Consortium
de la Diaspora
Noire

"Migrations, Borders and Diasporas in the Americas"
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
June 26-28, 2003, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The conference "Migrations, Borders and Diasporas in the Americas" will take place at the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It is being co-organized by SSRC's Program on Latin America and the Caribbean and FLACSO-Dominican Republic with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. For more information on the event and participants, click here.

17th Annual Black Theatre Network Conference
The Black Theatre Network
"They Keep Comin'!" - Black Theatre Celebrates Life Against All Odds
August 2 - 5, 2003

For more information on the event, please click here.

First International Conference on "Race and Racial Reconciliation"
University of Mississippi - Institute for Racial Reconciliation
October 2-5, 2003, University of Mississippi at Oxford

For more information on the event, please contact:
Dr. Susan M. Glisson
Director
William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation
Barnard Observatory
University of Mississippi
P.O. Box 1848
University, MS 38677
662-915-6728
(fax)662-915-6727

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'Immigration Noire aux Etats-Unis, Race et Racialization: une bibliographie annotée' (U.S. Black Immigration, Race and Racialization:
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Graduate Student Conference "America: Visions and Divisions"
Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin
October 3, 2003

The American Studies Graduate Student Committee invites proposals for
our 2003 conference, "America: Visions and Divisions." This conference
is designed to promote an exchange of ideas, in academic form, on any
topic relating to the past or present culture of North America and how
these cultures have been shaped through various representations and/or
misrepresentations.

As interdisciplinary work is at the core of American Studies, we
encourage different methodological approaches and invite submissions
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including but not limited
to: African and African American Studies, American Studies,
Anthropology, Architecture and Urban Planning, Art and Art History,
Asian and Asian American Studies, Communication Studies, English,
Education, History, Geography, Government, Journalism, Latin American
Studies, Law, Mexican American Studies, Music, Philosophy, Public
Affairs, Queer Studies, Radio-Television-Film, Religious Studies, and
Rhetoric.

Both individual papers and organized panels are welcome, although we
highly encourage the submission of organized panels. All panels will
have moderators. To help off-set the costs of the conference, there will be a $10 registration fee required for those individuals selected to participate in the conference that will be due with an acceptance form. A limited number of waivers will be available for participants unable to cover the fee.

To Propose a Paper: please submit a cover page with your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address at which you can be reached during the summer; a one page abstract of the paper; and any requests for A/V equipment.

To Propose a Panel: please submit one cover page with names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses at which panelists can be reached during the summer; a one-page abstract for each paper; a one-page abstract of the panel that states its theme and purpose; the name and information for a proposed moderator (optional); and any requests for A/V equipment.

All submissions are due June 15, 2003. Conference Date: October 3,
2003.

In Person: Drop off information at the American Studies office
(Garrison 303) in the "America: Visions and Divisions" box.

U.S. or Campus Mail: found below

E-mail: Please send both attached Microsoft Word documents and documents pasted in body of the email to the address below.

American Studies Conference
c/o Department of American Studies
The University of Texas at Austin
303 Garrison Hall B7100
Austin, TX 78712
E-mail: wustert@hotmail.co

Interculturalism: Exploring Critical Issues
Inter-Disciplinary.Net and Learning Solutions
October 30th-November 1st 2003, Milan, Italy

Marking the launch of a new annual conference, research and publication series, this inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore the meaning and implications of interculturalism, from both a practical, political perspective and in a more strictly theoretical sense.

The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net and Learning Solutions as part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.

Papers, short papers, and workshops are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:

-The various relationships between 'interculturalism' and 'multiculturalism'

- Interculturalism in an educational context

- Religious issues and interculturalism

- Interculturalism in art, literature and film|

-The philosophy of interculturalism

- Interculturalism and the politics of the academy, i.e., interculturalism and inter-disciplinarity

- Interculturalism and language resistance to interculturalism through monoculturalism

- Race, ethnicity and interculturalism

- Racism, violence and interculturalism

- Interculturalism and sexuality

- The ethics of interculturalism

- Interculturalism and subculture

- Interculturalism between 'West' and 'East'

- Interculturalism and politics

Papers will also be considered on related themes. 300-word abstracts should be submitted by July 4th, 2003. Full draft papers should be submitted by September 19th, 2003. Abstracts may be in Word, Word Perfect, PDF or RTF formats.

All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published in an ISBN e-book. Selected papers will be developed for publication in a themed hard-copy volume. The project is also to be supported by an e-mail discussion group and ISSN e-journal.

Abstracts should be submitted to both the Organising Joint Chairs:

Dr Rob Fisher
c/o Learning Solutions
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR

Dr Jones Irwin
St Patrick's College
Dublin Ireland

For further details and information, please visit their website.

Are All the Women Still White? Globalizing Women' Studies: An Anthology

Call for papers

Twenty years after black feminists Gloria T. Hull, Patricia Bell Scott,
and Barbara Smith edited the groundbreaking anthology "All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, but Some of Us are Brave: Black Women's Studies" (with a new edition forthcoming by Nellie Y. McKay), this question remains: what is the impact of scholarship and activism by women of color on feminism and women's studies for the 21st century? Moreover, has this work been successful in dismantling the normalization and universalizing of the white female body in gendered discourses occurring in academia, activism, public policies, cultural institutions, and the world stage?

Our anthology, "Are All the Women Still White?", provides an update of
these concerns and a critical engagement with new challenges in
globalizing the field of women's studies. Hence, we invite papers from
all disciplines that address the following topics:

I. Embodiment and Signifier Appropriations/uses of the bodies of women of color for National and/or international discourse.

The prevalence of the unmarked [American, white female] body as
normative. The reification of the Other and the reliance on image on the Internet. (We are particularly interested in articles addressing and/or engaging assertions that cyberspace is gender or race free space).

II. Feminist History Revisited.

-Claiming all our foremothers (women of color, LBT, differently-abled, varied classes, stay-at-home and working women, etc.).

- Examinations of the current narrative of feminist history, i.e. the "wave" theory and its slippages; articulations of alternative narratives (non-linear and linear models welcome).

III. Making Black/Third World feminist sense of world politics, globalization, and transnationalism.

- Critical engagement of neo-liberalism and the current economicage; included in this topic are questions addressing colonialism, neo-colonialism, late capitalism, and/or globalization, US imperialism and the mobilization of the image of women, long-term effects of economic and social policy for women around the world .

- Consumption studies: women defining space through consumption;
women being defined by consumption; the cultural politics of changing
consumption in urban areas, etc.

- Explorations of the role of gender, race, class and sexuality in transnational social networks.

IV. Feminist Subjectivities.

- Grassroots activists.

- International organizations.

- Transnational coalitions.

V. Feminist Theories, Methods, and Theorizing (including ethics and theology).

- Emphasis will be placed on interdisciplinary essays, though essays
addressing single and multiple disciplinary approaches will be
considered.

VI. Feminism(s) in the Academy.

- Envisioning a feminist classroom.

- Discussions and/or examples of globalizing the curriculum, methods, and theory.

- Addressing the successes and the needs of Women's Studies from a women of color perspective.

We welcome both traditional essays and creative works (literary and
visual) that address these issues. A limit of two pieces will be
accepted for final publication. Please submit a 250-word abstract by August 15. Authors chosen will be asked to submit a full manuscript for review in mid-October for second review.

Submissions accepted at globalanth@hotmail.com

18th Annual Conference "Transfronterismo: Crossing Ethnic Borders in U.S. Literatures"
Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (MELUS), The University of Texas at San Antonio
10-14 March 2004

We invite paper abstracts and complete panel, workshop, and roundtable
proposals on all aspects of multiethnic literatures of the United States. We especially encourage those that engage in the conference theme. Transfronterismo highlights the theoretical, ideological, pragmatic practices and possibilities of hybridity, mestizaje, and diaspora in the formation of subjectivities, geopolitical coalitions, and literary cartographies. Transfronterismo serves as an alternative space that gives birth to distinct imaginaries, one with alternative mappings for the local, the global, and their shared/overlapping boundaries. What is it that we do when we affirm, deny, or transgress the border? We offer the following list as suggestions:

- Internal diasporas and subject positions

- Transnational and comparative approaches

- Borders of genre and frontiers of lived experience

- Reverse migration and cross cultural transnationalism

- Class boundaries and capitalist borders

- Patriotism and post-nationalist politics

- Interstices and aporias of ethnic identity

- Inter-racial and inter-ethnic encounters

- Hegemonic and geopolitics negotiations

- Gender and sexual crossings

- Literacy education and pedagogy

All proposal abstracts (250 words maximum) should be submitted in
triplicate. We strongly encourage proposals of complete panels,
roundtables, and workshops that should include a brief description and
abstracts for individual speakers. Abstracts should be postmarked December 1st, 2003, addressed to:

Professor Bill Mullen
Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy
The University of Texas at San Antonio
6900 North Loop 1604 West
San Antonio, TX 78249-0643.

Fax and e-mail for international submissions only: (210) 458 5366

All presenters must be members of MELUS. For information about
membership and renewal, visit the MELUS website.