Call for Proposals/Abstracts
The New York State African Studies Association (NYASA) will hold its 2010 annual meeting on March 26-27 at Binghamton University. In view of the impending change in the global order and power relations, and in light of the accelerating interactions between Africa and Asia, the annual meeting will deliberate on the following general theme and its variations:
GLOBAL-AFRICA, GLOBAL-ASIA: AFRICA AND ASIA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
The institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, the host of the 2010 annual meeting of NYASA, hereby invites abstract of papers which seek to address the wider theme of the conference, including:
- Non-alignment: Rise and Fall
- Asia’s major Powers and Africa
- Strategies for Afro-Asian Solidarity
- Civil Societies in Asia and Africa
- African and Asian Diasporas in Comparative Perspective
- Comparative Regionalism in Africa and Asia
- Black Pacific and Black Indian Ocean
- Science and Technology in Asia and Africa
- Religion and Politics in Africa and Asia
- African Union and Association of South East Asian Nations: Comparative Regionalism
- Knowledge Production and Knowledge Distribution
- Music in Africa and Asia
- Africa, Asia and International Relations Theory
- Race Relations from Gandhi to Obama
- Africa and Asia in the World Capitalist System
- Culture and Development: What can Africa and Asia Learn from One Another?
- Democracy and Development: Lessons from the Afro-Asian Experience
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Africa and Asia
- African and Asian Studies: State of Research
- Afrabia and the Black Crescent
- Contemporary Pan-Africanism: Challenge sand opportunities
- Diaspora and Development
- Between Bollywood and Nollywood: Comparative Cinema in Africa and Asia
- Language and Politics
- Africa in the International System
- Pan-Africanism, Foreign Policy and Economic Development
- Ecological Catastrophe, Environmental Justice and Social Movements
OTHER TOPICS FOR PAPERS WILL BE CONSIDERED AS WILL PROPOSALS TO ORGANIZE COMPLETE PANELS AND TO PROMOTE STUDENT PARTICIPATION. There is high expectation that Africanists and Asianists as well as comparativists who are based outside North America will attend and share their perspectives.
Please send abstracts of papers and panels of not more than 150 words by December 5, 2009 to the Local Organizing Committee at igcs@binghamton.edu and nyasa10@binghamton.edu
The committee will notify those who have submitted successful proposals on January 7, 2010. For general updates please visit the website of the conference at http://igcs.binghamton.edu/ or http://nyasa.org/
Please also indicate, if you could, which category of the sub-themes suits your topic or and specify if you would need for your presentation media resources (such as power point).
In celebration of the 2009 launching of proposed ALI MAZRUI CHAIR and THE ALI MAZRUI CENTER FOR GLOBAL STUDIES IN MAKERERE UNIVERSITY, Uganda, there will also be high-powered plenary panel about public intellectuals and intellectuals in politics. (For details see http://igcs.binghamton.edu/igcs_site/mazruichair.html)
