Announcement

CONFERENCES--

• Pre-, Post-, and Neo-Colonialisms: Wole Soyinka and Contemporary Theatre, October 2001
• IV International Workshop "Women in the New Millennium," November 2001
• First International Conference on African Literature (Berlin), 2002
  

 

PRE-, POST-, AND NEO-COLONIALISMS: WOLE SOYINKA AND CONTEMPORARY THEATRE

The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto, together with Modern Drama, are presenting an international conference, Pre-, Post-, and Neo-Colonialisms: Wole Soyinka and Contemporary Theatre, October 19-21 2001.

Guest speakers include Dapo Adelugba, Susan Z. Andrade, Martin Banham, Yvonne Brewster, Ted Chamberlin, Femi Euba, James Gibbs, Gareth Griffiths, Biodun Jeyifo, Chuck Mike, Laura Moss, Molara Ogundipe, Tejumola Olaniyan, Don Rubin, Brian Singleton and Stephen Slemon.

The conference aims to bring together some of the best of African and world dramatic scholarship, to debate issues of colonialism and neocolonialism in Africa and beyond, and to locate the intersection of Soyinka's dramatic and theoretical writings with urgent concerns in contemporary theatrical scholarship and practice.

The debate will address the formation and revision of canons; issues of identity; writing post-coloniality; multilingualism; performing diaspora; feminism and womanism in the works of Soyinka, with speakers from Canada, Ireland, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, U.K., and the U.S.

We are pleased to announce that Wole Soyinka has accepted an invitation to participate.

To register for the conference or for more information, please contact:

SoyinkaConference@yahoo.com
http://gradrama.sa.utoronto.ca
Fax.: 416-971-1378

All information is subject to change without notice

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PLEASE EMAIL TO: SoyinkaConference@yahoo.com

POSTAL ADDRESS: GRADUATE CENTRE FOR STUDY OF DRAMA
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
TORONTO, ONTARIO M5T 2Z9
FAX: 416 971-1378

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IV International Workshop "Women in the New Millennium," November 2001

Center for Development Studies
and Travel Agency Viajes América.

Women senior scholars at the University of Havana, are calling on those who may be interested in participating in the IV International Workshop "Women in the New Millennium," that will be held in Havana, Cuba in November 19th-23rd, 2001. The Center for Development Studies and the Travel Agency Viajes Amèrica would be pleased to invite you to participate in this workshop which will include a variety of activities including exchanges of experiences among the participants, and many other options specially designed for you knowledge about the history, nature and traditions of our beautiful country.

Sponsorship.
Department of Psychology.
Date and Venue.
University of Havana.

Themes.
· Feminist Thought. Theory and Methodology
· Gender and History.
· Women in the history. History of prominent women.
· Gender and socio-economic development of women, women and employment. Women in rural life.
· Gender and environment.
· Women and migration.
· Gender in regard with health, family, sexuality, education, art, literature, social communication, Power, science and technology, violence, domestic violence, races, and social classes.
· Women's trade and prostitution.
· Human rights and women.
· Female identity and vital cycle, Young , adult and elderly women.

Registration fee.
Delegates and Presenters: $80:00 USD

Official Language.
English, Spanish

PROGRAM

Plan CP, lodging with breakfast only. Hotel Villa Panamericana. *** Province City of Havana Rate Double room x Pax $154.00USD Rate single room.	Plan MAP is lodging with breakfast and dinner Hotel Villa Panamericana. *** Province City of Havana Rate Double room x tax $234.00USD Rate single room.
Vedado. *** City of Havana $228.00 USD $308.00 USD	Vedado. *** City of Havana $308.00 USD $388.00 USD
Nacional ***** City of Havana $618.00 USD $848.00 USD	Nacional ***** City of Havana $768.00 USD $998.00 USD

These rates include:
· Transfers in/out in Josè Martì Airport.
· Transfers to the different programmed activities.
· Lodging for 7 nights and 8 days in the selected hotels, with breakfast only, or breakfast and dinner depending on your selection.
· City tour in the City around the Old Havana.
· Tour guide service and personalized treatment.

Viajes América
Agencia Especializada
Hotel Novotel Miramar 5 ta Ave e/ 72 y 76 Miramar
La Habana. Cuba
telef 243584 ext 164 , 24-9764 , telefax 24-9762
E-mail: viajesamerica@teleda.get.tur.cu

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First International Conference on African Literature (Berlin)

CALL FOR PAPERS

This is the first international conference on African literature to be hosted in Berlin after the reunification of the two Germanies. It aims at raising attention to the field of African literary studies within German academia, and to assemble scholars, writers, publishers and students from Africa, Europe and around the world to enter into debates about newly emerging, thought-provoking, inspiring topics and concepts in African literary criticism.

VERSIONS & SUBVERSIONS stand for the multiple facets, themes, styles emerging currently in African literatures that question hegemonic discourses in this field.

Keynote addresses will be delivered by renowned writers and scholars such as Simon Gikandi and Yvonne Vera. Other scholars prominent in the respective fields will be invited to chair panels and present papers, among them Homi Bhabha, Chantal Zabus, Obioma Nnaemeka, Chikwenye Ogunyemi, Eileen Julien, Alain Ricard, and Janos Riesz.

Panel sessions will be devoted to the following topics to which proposals are invited:

· Popular literatures - conformist or subversive?
· Body, illness, insanity
· Orature and literature: Continuity or discontinuity?
· Sexuality and homosexuality
· Gender roles and subversion in orature and literature
· Literatures in the "new" and the "old" African languages: New impulses, themes, styles
· Comparatist approaches to African literatures
· Racism in literature
· Postcoloniality in relation to modernity and postmodernity
· War, violence, and memory
· Gendered Racialism: The relationship of "race," gender and sexism in African literature
· Cross-references: Possibilities and limitations of intertextuality
· Theatre in Africa: New trends, new meanings
· Film, video, and the new media

Furthermore there will be round table discussions on the history of African literary studies in East and West Germany as well as Austria; the feminist controversy; and a presentation of writers' associations from Africa. There will also be readings by different generations of African writers: we are going to invite, amongst others, Ahmadou Kourouma, J. M. Coetzee, Nuruddin Farah, Boubacar Boris Diop, Calixthe Beyala, and Yvonne Vera to read from their works.

Abstract Submission Deadline October 30, 2001

Language
English and French are the official languages of the conference. Proposals and papers in both languages will be accepted

Contact and further information
Prof. Flora Veit-Wild and Dr. Susan Arndt, Conveners,
Dept of African Studies,
Humboldt University at Berlin
Unter den Linden 6,
10099 Berlin
Tel.: 0049/30/20936699
Fax: 0049/30/2093 6666
E-mail: versions@rz.hu-berlin.de
Web: www2.hu-berlin.de/asaf/Afrika/versions/

Conference Fee
Participants from Europe and North America -- 200DM/100 Euro
Students from Europe and North America -- 50 DM/ 25 Euro
Participants from Africa -- 30 DM/ 15 Euro
Students from Africa -- 10 DM/ 5 Euro

All participants are asked to pre-register. All presenters MUST pre-register and pay the fees for their names to appear on the conference program. On-site registration is therefore not possible for presenters.

Payments can be made by bank transfer. Please transfer the money to the following account:

Flora Veit-Wild
Berliner Landesbank, Acc. no. 114018286, BLZ 10050000.

If you choose this option, you MUST pay all bank charges at your end. If you are sending a personal cheque, please make sure that you add an extra 18 DM or 10 Euro to the amount in order to cover our expenses as a result of cashing a cheque.

Please register by November 30, 2001

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