HUCONFERENCE2019: "African/Diaspora Migrations, Displacements and Movements: Histories, Politics and Poetics" Howard University Washington, DC, United States, October 30-November 1, 2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 15, 2019 |
Submission deadline | June 15, 2019 |
HUCONFERENCE2019 is the acronym for the intenational and inter/disciplinary conference, "African/Diaspora Migrations, Displacements and Movements: Histories, Politics and Poetics", scheduled on October 30 - November 1, 2019 at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA. As for the organization of the first two international and inter/multidisciplinary conferences, this conference will echo both the U.N.’s Proclaimed Year (2011) and Decade for People of African descents (2015-2024), while it is an attempt also to weigh in the conversation about the recent non-banding Migration Pact of Marrakech (Morocco, December 10, 2018). In this context, this international conference aims to invite local, national and international scholars from all disciplines, students, artists, journalists, film(makers) critics, activists, policy makers, NGOs, community organizers, and Human Rights Organizations to address one of the most challenging and paradoxical human experience, i.e. African/diaspora migrations in a world self-defined as “global(ized)”. They are invited also to discuss, among other issues, the acute human rights crisis generated by the discriminatory laws on (African/Diaspora) migrations, or by the reproduction of the enslavement derived from the contemporary middle passage. Moreover, they will exchange/cross ideas about how races and cultures have a continuous influence on the politics of (im/e)migration or on the (im/e)migration as political project of phobia. Participants will analyze discourses on migrations are produced on a historical, social and ideological contexts and reveal the problematic representation of African/Diaspora in the construction of the identities and nations in Africa, Europe, the Americas (including Latin America, USA/Quebec-Canada), Asia, Oceania, etc.
Submission Guidelines
For the submission guidelines, please, visit the website, https://cakassi.wixsite.com/howardconference
Committees
Program Committee
- Person 1: Clément A. Akassi, Ph.D., Program Committee Chair
- Read more on website, https://cakassi.wixsite.com/howardconference. Click on "Organization"
Organizing committee
- Person 1: Clément A. Akassi, Ph.D., Organizing Committee Chair
- Read more on website, https://cakassi.wixsite.com/howardconference. Click on "Organization"
Contact
For all inquiries, contact Dr. Clément A. Akassi, cakassi@howard.edu
Send proposals to: howardconference2019@gmail.com