From: "Peter P. Jones" <petelo-AT-students.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Fw: Call for Papers
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 11:37:59 -0600




 
> Call for Papers
> 2nd Annual Midwest Graduate Student Conference in African Studies
> February 28-March 2, 1997
> 
> Also available at:  
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~nt-cook/AfricaGrad.html
> 
> The Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign is pleased to extend an open invitation to graduate
> students to participate in the 2nd Annual Midwest Graduate Student
> Conference in African Studies, February 28-March 2, 1997, at the
University
> of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
> 
> Purpose: The conference is intended to provide an opportunity for
graduate
> students with a shared academic interest in Africa to present and discuss
> their work with their counterparts from other universities in an
atmosphere
> of collegiality.
> 
> Participation: We are seeking graduate papers, primarily in the social
> sciences and humanities. Graduate students in natural sciences, applied,
> and professional disciplines are also welcome, if their work is not
heavily
> technical in nature and is of general interest.
> 
> The conference is intended primarily to facilitate linkages and
cooperation
> between graduate students in the Midwest, but grad students from
> institutions anywhere are encouraged to attend.
> 
> Students who do not feel they have work to present are also encouraged to
> attend. The conference is meant, however, as a forum for sharing between
> all persons at the graduate level, and as experience for later
professional
> work. All relevant contributions are desired!
> 
> Contributions: The focus and format of contributions vary. Examples of
work
> we seek are research proposals and papers; preliminary results of
> research/field data; methodological, theoretical, or conceptual papers;
> thesis & dissertation chapters (in-process or complete!); research or
term
> papers; and the like. If you have work that you think is interesting or
> otherwise significant, we want to hear about it.
> 
> History: Last year, the first three day Midwest Graduate Student
Conference
> in African Studies was held, very successfully, at Northwestern
University.
> The conference is an annual event whose sponsorship will rotate yearly
> between universities in the Midwest. The Center for African Studies-UIUC
> wishes to thank last year's conference organizers at the Program of
African
> Studies at Northwestern University for conceiving and initiating this
> unusual and valuable African-focused forum. 
> 
> Submissions: Please submit a short abstract by January 21, 1997.
Completed
> papers and the $10 registration fee are due by February 21, 1997.
> Presentations should be a maximum of 15 minutes in length, i.e., seven
and
> one half double-spaced, typed pages of text if read verbatim. Do not
> include your name on the abstract; attach to it a page containing the
> paper's title; the author's name; institutional affiliation; address,
phone
> number and/or e-mail address.
> 
> The above deadline is firm. We will, however, consider "late breaking"
> work, and incorporate it into the conference, but *no guarantee* of a
place
> on the schedule is assured; late papers may end up on a final,
> miscellaneous panel.
> 
> Accommodation: Please inform us of whether you require accommodation. We
> will make every effort to find free lodging with University of Illinois
> students.
> 
> Please send submissions and queries to:
> 
> Center for African Studies-UIUC
> Att'n: Graduate Conference in African Studies
> 210 ISB/ MC 485
> 910 S. Fifth St.
> Champaign, IL  61820 
> 
> E-mail contacts: 
> Nicolas Cook (nt-cook-AT-students.uiuc.edu) or 
> Tunde Brimah (brimah-AT-students.uiuc.edu)
> 
> 
> --Addendum to Call for Papers (UIUC Circulation)--
> 
> UIUC students may be interested to know that two other initiatives are
> linked to the organization and conceptualization of the conference. 
> 
> First, the Center for African Studies is currently working on increasing
> ethnic minority student recruitment. The Assistant Director of the
Center,
> Dr. Alex Winter-Nelson, is now planning a program that will introduce a
> select group of these prospective students to the academic life of the
> Center and of our University at large. Their attendance at the Conference
> is envisaged as a crucial component of their visit here.
> 
> Second, the graduate students of the Center have just registered a new
> academic student organization, the Africa-in-Academics Student
Association,
> that will act as the organizational and fiscal home for the Conference.
> Through the Association, a Web
> site--http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~nt-cook/AfricaGrad.html--has been set
> up to publicize the conference. Please look for updates on the page,
e.g.,
> conference agenda, abstracts, etc. 
> 
> 
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