In association with

THE ECHERUO CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
17 Otamiri Street
Owerri, Imo State
Nigeria

GENDERING TRANSFORMATIONS: GENDER, GLOBALIZATION, AND STATE TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

VENUE: Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria
DATE: July 28-30, 2006

The Second TARG conference aims to bring together scholars and policy makers interested in exploring historical, policy, and development phenomena and their intersection with gender using the methods of the social sciences. Individual papers or panels are invited from academics, independent scholars, and postgraduate students. We encourage submissions on a wide range of themes relating gender to globalization, democratization, and state transformation in Africa and the African diaspora. Papers should have some historical context and content. Proposals are welcome but not limited to the following areas:

• Gender and Social Transformation
• Transformation of Gender Roles
• Gender and Language in Africa
• Gender & Economic Transformation
• Gender, Crime, Law, and Justice
• Gender, War and Peace-making
• Trans-Atlantic Encounters & Transformation
• Migration\Displacement Experience
• Children and Migration Experience
• Globalization of Poverty
• Trans-Atlantic Relations
• Policy Implications of Gender and Globalization

All interested persons and groups are welcome. Those who wish to make presentations at the conference should submit 300-word long abstracts of their presentations. Please send abstracts by November 10, 2005 by email to the conference coordinators:

Dr. Chima J. Korieh, Department of History, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA. Korieh@rowan.edu Fax: 856 2564791

Dr. Femi Kolapo, History Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, On. Canada, N1G 2W1. kolapof@uoguelph.ca

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:
Dr. Femi Kolapo, Department of History, University of Guelph, Canada

Dr. Chima J. Korieh, Department of History, Rowan University, New Jersey, USA

Dr. Raphael Njoku, Department of History/Pan African Studies, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA

Dr. Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Department of Sociology, Brock University, Canada

Dr. Obijiofor Aginam, Carleton University, Canada

Dr. Jude Aguwa, Mercy College, New York, USA

Dr. JAK Njoku, Western Kentucky University, USA

Dr. G. Ugo Nwokeji, Department of African American Studies, University of California at Berkley, USA

Mr. U. Aguwa, (Chair Local Organizing Committee)Department of History/International Studies, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria

Dr. Rose Acholonu, Dean, College of Humanities, Imo State University