Symposia
CAAR sponsored a number of symposia in the past and is willing to continue to do so in the future (Please check Contact Data who to address this request to). A selection of symposia can be found below.
"Russian-American Links: African Americans and Russia" St. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg, RUSSIA, Sep 20-21, 2007
The main purpose of the Conference was to bring to light a less known area of Russian-American interaction and explore various contacts of African Americans with Russia as well as the changes in appreciation of African-American history and culture in Russia in pre-Communist, Communist, and post-Communist time.
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"The fierce urgency of now: Textual Dissensions and Political Dissidence: Dissent in Racial, Sexual, Gender-Related and National Identity Formations" Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot Paris, FRANCE, Mar 23-25, 2006
Epistemology and Cross Perspectives (Cahiers Charles V, Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot, forthcoming March-April 2006) was a collective work which brought together essays written by African, European and North American researchers specialised in various disciplines of social science. The volume examined the new epistemological configuration of the object identity originating in the emergence and consolidation of African American, Queer and Gender Studies.
Besides the critical examination of a transdisciplinary perspective in terms of both its shortcomings and strengths, this collection layed specific emphasis on reflexivity and on the researchers’s subjectivity in their relation to their object of study.
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"Crossovers: African Americans and Germany" Westphalian Wilhelms Universitaet Muenster, GERMANY, March 22-26, 2006
In close cooperation with scholars who have contributed to this field, the conference/project seeks to unite and to synthesize research from various disciplines and from different historical perspectives. Subjects to be explored included (but were not limited to) the representations of encounters between African Americans and Germans in literature, visual arts, film, media, etc.
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"Bridges Across the Nations: African American Culture in the 21st Century" Pulawy, POLAND February 2-5, 2006
"Bridges Across Nations: African-American Culture in the 21st Century," the African-American Studies conference held in Pulawy, Poland between February 2 and 5, was the first seminar in this part of Europe dedicated solely to black literature and culture.
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