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Call for Papers Theme: Aimé Césaire / La Négritude Subtitle: Poetics, Africana History/Identities, and Political Thoughts Type: International Symposium Institution: Department of World Languages and Cultures, Howard University Location: Washington, DC (USA) Date: 16.–17.10.2013 Deadline: 30.9.2013 __________________________________________________ The Department of World Languages and Cultures, at Howard University, will host an international and interdisciplinary symposium on October 16-17, 2013, on the centenary of the birth of Aimé Césaire, one of the founders of the movement of Négritude. We invite individual papers or group proposals from the various disciplines that contribute to Césaire’s paradigm shifts in black poetics, play writings, aesthetics, and political thoughts/theories, as well as from individuals and groups engaged in artistic, political, and intellectual work outside the academy, including writers, artists, and community activists. Suggested sub-themes for the International Symposium (not exhaustive, nor limited to): - Africa in Césaire - Césaire and African and African Diaspora Writers - Césaire in African and African Diaspora Plays and Films - Playing Césaire on Stage - Césaire and the Political Heritage in the Caribbean - Césaire and the discourse on the colonialism - Césaire’s Black Radical Identity and the Idea of France - Césaire, Senghor, and Damas: Approaches to Construct the Fundamental Black Identities - Political Thoughts, Black Identities, and Freedom in Césaire - Césaire, Frantz Fanon, and the Political Revolution - (Pan-) Africa in Césaire, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah and Amilcar Cabral - Césaire/La Négritude, Wole Soyinka, and La Tigritude/the Tigertud - The Imagen of Black Women in Césaire/La Négritude - Haiti in Césaire/La Négritude - Césaire and the Haitian Writers - Reception of Césaire/La Négritude in Germany - Césaire, La Négritude, the Creole, and la Créolité - Césaire, La Négritude, and the Negrismo in Latin America - The Negritud in Brazil - Du Bois, Senghor, Damas, and Césaire - Harlem Renaissance and La Négritude - Césaire in the Genealogy of the Postcolonial and Africana Theories - Postcolonial African Diaspora Movements and their Approaches to the African Identities/Négritude - Translating and Reading Césaire and African/Diaspora Works - How to Teach Africa and African Diaspora through Césaire - The Heritage of Césaire/La Négritude, Today Please, send proposal titles and abstracts to Clement Akassi at: [email protected] Deadline: September 30, 2013 (no late submission will be accepted) Contact: Dr Clement Akassi, Program Chair Department of World Languages and Cultures Howard University Locke Hall, Room 350 2441 Sixth Street, NW Washington, DC 20059 USA Email: [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
