CURRENT CALLS FOR PAPERS/PANELS

CFP AFRIQUE DES GRANDS LACS

Les éditeurs de l’annuaire ‘Afrique des Grands Lacs’ invitent des contributions – The editors of the annual journal l’Afrique des Grands Lacs invite papers – more information here

 

PREVIOUS CALLS FOR PAPERS/PANELS

AFRICAN STUDIES AT KEELE – NOV 15 2011

Reuben Loffman organizes a work shop on Congo at the University of Keele on Nov 15 2011.

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INTERNATIONAL WORK SHOP ON CONFLICT, IDENTITY AND THE STATE IN THE DRC – JUNE 29 2012 

Dr. Miles Larmer calls for papers for a work shop to be held at the University of Sheffield (UK) on June 29 2012. Click here for more information

CONGO STREAM AT THE ASAUK CONFERENCE IN 2012 (Leeds, Sept 6-8)

The ASAUK (African Studies Association in the UK) is already preparing their biannual conference of September 2012 (Leeds, Sept 6-8). The organizers have invited the Congo Research Network to participate in this. 12 Congo related panels have been accepted.

If you wish to participate, you can join already accepted panels or you can submit a stand-alone paper. Participants should submit their paper abstracts via the ASAUK website. First, they should register as authors, then select the panel in which they want to participate, and then enter their abstract.

The following link gives you more information about registration: http://www.asauk.net/conferences/asauk12.shtml

The deadline for the submission of paper abstracts is 27 April 2012.

The following panels have been accepted. Click on the panel titles to see panel abstracts.

1. Nourishing the state, feeding the people: The political economy of state building in the DRC

2. Between tutelage and policy space: Exploring the multiple logics in the DRC’s ties to international stakeholders in the country

3. The Congolese military in context

4. Rebelling without an end: analyzing armed groups & militia in the DRC

5. Navigating the cultural and environmental past of the Congo River

6. Politics of home, identity and transnationalism in the Congolese diaspora

7. La conversion religieuse et les tensions sociales: religion, inclusion et exclusion 

8. An Imperial Hangover? Rethinking Katangan Nationalism, 1960-1969

9. Theatre in DR Congo

10. Congolese Popular Music: local and global practices and their contexts, strategies and stakes.

11. Congo and the Politics of Culture

12. Revisiting the Congolese Sixties

If you wish to join an already accepted panel, contact the panel organizer. You can also submit a paper without adhering to a particular panel of course!

To attend the event without presenting a paper, contact the conference organizer David Kerr (conference@asauk.net, +44 (0)121 414 5124)