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Call for Papers Theme: Afrocentricity in Visionary Conversations with African/Black Radical Intellectualism and Afro-Futurism Type: 29th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference Institution: Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DISA) Location: Philadelphia, PA (USA) Date: 21.–22.10.2017 Deadline: 1.8.2017 __________________________________________________ The African world is thriving in spite of bearing witness to dystopic and threatening political, social, and cultural change and upheaval. Society is responding to reassertions of supremacist thought, ethos, insanity, and regression, and there is a caution to avoid a pessimist trap. In challenging chronophobia, known as a fear of the future, African people continue to maintain and pursue not only optimum liberation but also a technological awareness updated from past ingenuity to present creative consciousness. This year’s conference welcomes papers that explore the traditions and praxis of Afrocentric thought with a particular innovation based on the paradigm’s visionary conversations with sources from the broad inheritance of African/Black radical intellectualism and contemporary Pan-African frameworks of Afro-futurism. As the conceptualization of African freedom will never become stagnant, this year’s conference solicits cutting-edge and future-building idea formation to help order responses to the present condition of African people, saturated with the culture’s tools of victorious consciousness and preservationist acuity. This year’s conference aims to generate discourses of reflection and imagination by advancing research that consider what cultural tools and techniques we have generated that will be useful and effective for African people’s future needs. Papers should reflect the highest critical consciousness of Afrocentric and African-centered epistemologies of the discipline of Africana Studies. Participation is highly competitive. Formal, 250-word abstracts are due by August 1, 2017. Submit your abstract online: https://www.diopianinstitute.org/index.php/abstract-submission Registration Registration for the 29th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference is open. General Registration: $170 -- Early Bird Registration (now through September 30, 2017) $200 -- General Registration (after September 30, 2017 and On-Site) Other Registration Types (Flat Rate): $100 -- Graduate Students $40 -- Undergraduate Students $100 -- Unaffiliated Community Members $80 -- Unaffiliated Senior Citizens For more information please visit the conference website: http://www.diopianinstitute.org/index.php/conference/29th-annual-conference-2017 Contact: Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DISA) Email: i...@diopianinstitute.org Web: http://www.diopianinstitute.org __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
