The Collegium for African American Research
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mapping African America
Liverpool 24-27 April 1997
The world of African America extended throughout the northern,
central, southern and insular parts of the American continent.
The 1997 CAAR conference, "Mapping African America," to be held
in Liverpool, England, 24-27 April, takes the creation of that
world as a single object of study, tracing significant routes and
contacts, building comparisons and contrasts.
The conference brings together three areas with common interests
whose students too infrequently enter into dialogue with each
other: African American Studies, with its almost exclusive focus
on the United States; Caribbean Studies which--in Britain and the
United States--tends to limit itself to the English-speaking
Caribbean; and Latin American Studies, which has begun in recent
years to pay much more attention to the African diaspora in
northern South America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, as
well as in Brazil.
The conference will include workshops, panel discussions,
readings by writers, films, and an excursion to the permanent
exhibition on the slave trade at Liverpool's Maritime Museum.
We are inviting proposals for workshops and papers that examine
some aspect of the world of African America. We encourage
proposals that have a comparative and/or interdisciplinary focus.
We would also welcome proposals that deal with the teaching of
African American Studies as well as proposals that focus on the
city of Liverpool as a leading slave port. Workshop proposals
should have open slots so the conference committee can add
participants.
One page proposals should be submitted to Professor Maria
Diedrich, the President of CAAR, at the address below by 15
January 1997.
Prof. Dr. Maria Diedrich
Englisches Seminar/Amerikanistik
Westfdlische Wilhelms-Universitdt
Johannisstr. 12-20
D-48143 M|nster GERMANY
Tel.: +49 251-83 4296 Fax: +49 251-83 4652 e-mail:
diedri@uni-muenster.de
Carl Pedersen
Center for American Studies
Odense University
Campusvej 55
5230 Odense M
Denmark
Tel. +45 66 15 86 00 ext. 2129
FAX: +45 65 93 04 90
e-mail: c.pedersen@hist.ou.dk