The New York Public Library
Call For Proposals: The State of African American and African Diaspora Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Langston Hughes Auditorium (Map and directions)
First FloorPartially accessible to wheelchairs
Thursday, January 6, 2011 - 9:00 AM EST
How to register: First come, first served - Please fill out registration Form.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at the City University of New York extend a call for papers for their regular conference on the state of scholarship in African American and African Diaspora Studies. Entitled, The State of African American and African Diaspora Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research, the conference will take place on January 6-8, 2011 at the Schomburg Center, located at 135th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard in Harlem, and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, located at 365 Fifth Avenue.
The conference is designed to bring together scholars, students, and the general pubic to assess the current state of African American and African Diaspora Studies as an intellectual field of inquiry. It will provide an opportunity for scholars to examine ways in which the study and teaching of the Black experience have evolved since the 1960s.
Proposals are invited from scholars in all disciplines. Scholars may wish to address particular problems through their own disciplinary optic. We welcome papers that are historical in nature, philosophical, literary, and so on. The principal criterion is that such papers have some bearing on the Black experience and condition. Papers that are interdisciplinary in nature are encouraged.
The conference organizers will also welcome papers that focus on pedagogical issues. We invite proposals on innovative teaching methods, course syllabi, textbooks, archival collections, and other source materials. Papers that raise new and creative research questions and propose new research methodologies will be given serious consideration.
Proposals should be submitted electronically and must include your name, title of the paper, panel, or roundtable, and an abstract of 150 words. They should also include the institutional affiliation of each presenter, phone numbers, and email addresses. Submit proposals by November 1, 2010 to:
Aisha H.L. al-Adawiya
State of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York NY 10037-1801
E-mail: aaladawiya@nypl.orgRegistration $20, Students: Free
Hotel Information:
Hotel Pennsylvania
401 Seventh Avenue
New York NY 10001-2062
Toll Free Reservation: 800-223-8585
Conference Rates: Single - $120.00; Double - $140.00Individuals must call the Hotel Pennsylvania during business hours to reserve their room under the group name SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE. Make reservations by December 6th 2010.
Travel Information:
Attachments & Options
American Airlines
Group Name: SCHOMBURG CENTER
Authorization Number: A9411AD
