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CFP: IMAGES OF AFRICAN PEOPLES: PHOTOGRAPHY, HISTORY CULTURE IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
| Location: | Illinois, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2005-11-30 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2005-07-29 |
| Announcement ID: |
147379 |
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Eastern Illinois University will be hosting an international conference on the theme ˇ°Images of African Peoples: Photography, History and Culture in Africa and the African Diaspora,ˇ± from March 31 to April 2, 2006 in Charleston, Illinois. The topics to be explored at the conference includes, but not limited to the following:
Photography and African and African Diaspora identity,
Photography as a tool for cultural expression and awareness
Photographs as sources for historical reconstruction, gender and photography;
Photography, anthropologists and the black female body;
Photography, race, ethnicity and representation
Social and political uses of photographs ¨C anti-colonial struggles and the civil rights movements
Photographs as visual and cultural memories
African and African Diaspora images in films;
Photography, black femininity and masculinity
Children as photographic subjects
Photography, environmental and ecological history.
Prospective conference participants are advised to submit a 250-word paper abstract with the following information: author's name, address, institutional affiliation, telephone, and e-mail address. The closing date for submitting paper proposals is November 30, 2005.
Conference Website: http://www.eiu.edu/~afriamer/aadc2006/
Send abstracts to: E-mail:
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