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Call for Submissions
The Africa Seminar (AfriSem) at Northwestern University’s Program of African Studies
6th Annual Graduate Students’ Conference
June 10-12, 2021 via Zoom
"Africanist Knowledge That Agitates"
With keynote speakers:
Frank Mugisha
Executive Director, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), Robert Kennedy Human Rights Awardee, Thorolf Rafto Memorial Prize Awardee, Finalist Nobel Peace Prize
and
Kwame E. Otu
Assistant Professor of African-American and African Studies at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia
Submissions may engage with but not limited to the following:
- Dis/connections between academic and activist knowledge
- Scholar activisms, organizing, collaboration, and engagement
- Decolonization, unsettling of African Studies, science, and government
- Interrogations of epistemological approaches, theories, methods of disciplinary research
- Inquiry into the economic, social, historical, linguistic, genetic, geopolitical, ecological, and biomedical factors that shape and have shaped African societies
- Disciplinary and transdisciplinary research that informs questions that relate broadly to Africanist knowledge
- Art, poetry, performance which interrogates expertise on Africanist knowledge, Africanisms, critical inquiry, and our futures
Contribution formats may include:
- Paper presentation, reading
- Visual media (artwork, photography, fashion)
- Film
- Audio
- Performance (live or recorded)
Abstracts of not more than 250 words should be submitted through this form: https://forms.gle/Li1jEZ35VcixfYqK8
Submission deadline: April 8, 2021.
For more information, please email us at [email protected]
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