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Call for Papers "African Athena: Black Athena 20 Years on..." Interdisciplinary Conference University of Warwick Coventry (UK) 6-8 November 2008 __________________________________________________ African Athena was the original title of Martin Bernal's epochal "Black Athena". This conference seeks to re-open dialogue on the urgent and pressing questions and issues Bernal's work poses: can a myth of Afrocentrism ever be a useful narrative in contemporary culture? How do Africanizing and classicizing cultures interface and interpenetrate in the arts and lives of Africans, Europeans, Caribbeans and Americans? Does Black Athena offer new possibilities for comparison between African and Jewish diasporas, cultures and struggles? How do we deal with the difficult collusion of essentialist and poststructuralist discourses in postcolonial thought? These are merely points of departure... Keynote Speakers: Martin Bernal Paul Gilroy Shelley Haley Stephen Howe, Partha Mitter Valentin Mudimbe Patrice Rankine Robert Young This is a call for papers for scholars from African Studies, Black British Studies, African American Studies, of South Asia, of the Middle East, of classicists, philologists, anthropologists, sociologists, and any intellectual beyond these borders. Send proposals of up to 500 words for papers by March 31, 2008 to Daniel Orrells. Contact: Dr. Daniel Orrells Department of Classics and Ancient History University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL UK Tel. +44 24 76523023 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/staff/dan/african.athena.call.jpg __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
