AfricanColours: “What's Culture Got to Do with it?”
“What's Culture Got to Do with it?”
“What's Culture Got to Do with it?”
A conference 15–18 June 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite abstracts by 10 October 2008 with 100-300 words or one A4-page, to be sent to both Mai.Palmberg@nai.uu.se and Caroline.Kyhlback@nai.uu.s
Aims
The conference has two main aims:
To discuss the role of culture – here creative cultural expressions – in understanding change in contemporary Africa;
To discuss roles of culture in African social change.
There will also be room for discussion on how to continue and strengthen the Nordic-African network created by the Cultural Images programme. We invite reflection papers and essayistic overviews rather than academic research results, even though these can fruitfully be referred to as basis for the reflections. Papers should not be previously published. The best papers will be edited in collaboration with their authors to form an anthology to be presented for publishing through the Nordic Africa institute. Both researchers and artists are invited.
Themes
We seek papers on, for example, examples of ways in which cultural expressions intersect with political and socio-economic issues; ways in which the arts offer an other language and vision than the political language and media; the links between cultural expressions, audiences or readership, and activism; the concept, and role of popular culture; modes of ‘reading’ culture; art as aesthetics and as ‘informer’; ways in which arts in Africa as ’witness’ has been understood or construed; what happens in translation and export, cultural exchange or distortion? These are offered solely as possibilities, more takes are possible.
Time plan
10 October 2008: Deadline for abstracts
5 December 2008: Selection of participants is notified
6 May 2009: Papers to be submitted
15–18 June 2009: Conference is held in Uppsala, Sweden
Status
This conference concludes the long-lived “Cultural Images in and of Africa” programme at the Nordic Africa Institute, which has been in existence since 1995. It has built up a large network of scholars in the Nordic countries, Africa and the African diaspora, and also with cultural workers in Africa. These activities have been led by Mai Palmberg, whose work at the Nordic Africa institute will end January 2010. The activities and research have spanned the genres of music, film, literature, dance, pictorial arts, and theatre. It has resulted in five books, countless articles, a tricontinental mailing list (NAI-Images list), four African guest writers’ grants, a website publication with interviews with artists in Zimbabwe, and a book in Swedish on cultural dynamics in Africa is fortcoming. The conference looks ahead to make cases for a continued and strengthened role for studies on culture in the Nordic countries and elsewhere.
source:http://www.nai.uu.se/event
Please visit: http://www.africom.museum/
[http://www.africom.museum/
http://list.africom.museum
A conference 15–18 June 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite abstracts by 10 October 2008 with 100-300 words or one A4-page, to be sent to both Mai.Palmberg@nai.uu.se and Caroline.Kyhlback@nai.uu.s
Aims
The conference has two main aims:
To discuss the role of culture – here creative cultural expressions – in understanding change in contemporary Africa;
To discuss roles of culture in African social change.
There will also be room for discussion on how to continue and strengthen the Nordic-African network created by the Cultural Images programme. We invite reflection papers and essayistic overviews rather than academic research results, even though these can fruitfully be referred to as basis for the reflections. Papers should not be previously published. The best papers will be edited in collaboration with their authors to form an anthology to be presented for publishing through the Nordic Africa institute. Both researchers and artists are invited.
Themes
We seek papers on, for example, examples of ways in which cultural expressions intersect with political and socio-economic issues; ways in which the arts offer an other language and vision than the political language and media; the links between cultural expressions, audiences or readership, and activism; the concept, and role of popular culture; modes of ‘reading’ culture; art as aesthetics and as ‘informer’; ways in which arts in Africa as ’witness’ has been understood or construed; what happens in translation and export, cultural exchange or distortion? These are offered solely as possibilities, more takes are possible.
Time plan
10 October 2008: Deadline for abstracts
5 December 2008: Selection of participants is notified
6 May 2009: Papers to be submitted
15–18 June 2009: Conference is held in Uppsala, Sweden
Status
This conference concludes the long-lived “Cultural Images in and of Africa” programme at the Nordic Africa Institute, which has been in existence since 1995. It has built up a large network of scholars in the Nordic countries, Africa and the African diaspora, and also with cultural workers in Africa. These activities have been led by Mai Palmberg, whose work at the Nordic Africa institute will end January 2010. The activities and research have spanned the genres of music, film, literature, dance, pictorial arts, and theatre. It has resulted in five books, countless articles, a tricontinental mailing list (NAI-Images list), four African guest writers’ grants, a website publication with interviews with artists in Zimbabwe, and a book in Swedish on cultural dynamics in Africa is fortcoming. The conference looks ahead to make cases for a continued and strengthened role for studies on culture in the Nordic countries and elsewhere.
source:http://www.nai.uu.se/event
Please visit: http://www.africom.museum/
[http://www.africom.museum/
http://list.africom.museum
