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As part of the Empires and Cultures Workshop at the Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, we invite paper proposals for a two-day workshop/conference to be held on May 14 and 15, 2005, under the title “Bandung and Beyond: Rethinking Afro-Asian Connections during the Twentieth Century.” This conference intends to mark the 50th anniversary of the Bandung Conference held in Indonesia in 1955 that brought together various leaders and intellectual figures from Africa and Asia to chart the trajectory of the early postcolonial world. We welcome paper proposals from the humanities and social sciences that address the historical repercussions of this event, though we are also broadly interested in gathering together scholarship that examines Afro-Asian relations and South-South connections generally.
Possible topics may consequently include:
- The Event of Bandung and Its Political Impact
- Antecedents to Bandung (e.g., Pan-Africanism, Négritude, the League Against Imperialism, the Comintern)
- Comparative Studies of Imperial Rule and Resistance in Africa and Asia
- The Nature, Impact, and Meaning of Precolonial Afro-Asian Connections
- The Soviet Union and China in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds
- The Cold War and the Afro-Asian world
- Pan-Islamism and Pan-Arabism
- Gendered Histories of Connection in the Global South
- Post-Colonial Theory and Afro-Asian Solidarity
- Counter-modernities and the Circulation of Social Knowledge between Africa and Asia
- Subaltern Studies and their Connections in Asia, Africa, and Latin America
- Immigration/Diaspora as Comparative Experience/Frame of Analysis
- Ocean Basins as Realms of Historical Inquiry
- Black-Asian Tensions and Solidarity in the West and elsewhere
We invite local/empirically-based case studies, as well as more broadly conceived papers that are theoretical/ interpretive in orientation. We plan to publish the best papers in a special issue of _African and Asian Studies_ (Brill), a commitment that has already been secured: we want to have a tangible outcome to this workshop.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE: DEC. 20, 2004
Paper proposals (500-750 words) and queries may be sent to:
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