[URBANTH-L] CFP: Second International Conference of the Trans-Atlantic Research Group

[Angela Jancius]

Second International Conference of the Trans-Atlantic Research Group

In association with

THE ECHERUO CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
17 Otamiri Street
Owerri, Imo State
Nigeria

GENDERING TRANSFORMATIONS: GENDER, GLOBALIZATION, AND STATE TRANSFORMATION
IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
VENUE: Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria
DATE: July 28-30, 2006

The Second TARG conference aims to bring together scholars and policy makers
interested in exploring historical, policy, and development phenomena and
their intersection with gender using the methods of the social sciences.
Individual papers or panels are invited from academics, independent
scholars, and postgraduate students. We encourage submissions on a wide
range of themes relating gender to globalization, democratization, and state
transformation in Africa and the African diaspora. Papers should have some
historical context and content. Proposals are welcome but not limited to the
following areas:

Gender and Social Transformation
Transformation of Gender Roles
Gender and Language in Africa
Gender & Economic Transformation
Gender, Crime, Law, and Justice
Gender, War and Peace-making
Trans-Atlantic Encounters & Transformation
Migration\Displacement Experience
Children and Migration Experience
Globalization of Poverty
Trans-Atlantic Relations
Policy Implications of Gender and Globalization

All interested persons and groups are welcome. Those who wish to make
presentations at the conference should submit 300-word long abstracts of
their presentations. Please send abstracts by November 10, 2005 by email to
the conference coordinators:

Dr. Chima J. Korieh, Department of History, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
08028, USA. Korieh at rowan.edu Fax: 856 2564791
Dr. Femi Kolapo, History Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, On.
Canada, N1G 2W1. kolapof at uoguelph.ca

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:
Dr. Femi Kolapo, Department of History, University of Guelph, Canada
Dr. Chima J. Korieh, Department of History, Rowan University, New Jersey,
USA
Dr. Raphael Njoku, Department of History/Pan African Studies, University of
Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Dr. Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Department of Sociology, Brock University, Canada
Dr. Obijiofor Aginam, Carleton University, Canada
Dr. Jude Aguwa, Mercy College, New York, USA
Dr. JAK Njoku, Western Kentucky University, USA
Dr. G. Ugo Nwokeji, Department of African American Studies, University of
California at Berkley, USA
Mr. U. Aguwa, (Chair Local Organizing Committee)Department of
History/International Studies, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri,
Nigeria
Dr. Rose Acholonu, Dean, College of Humanities, Imo State University
Dr. Chima J. Korieh
Department of History
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
phone: 856
Fax: 856 2564791
Korieh at rowan.edu


Dr. Femi J. Kolapo
Department of History
University of Guelph
Guelph, On. N1G 2W1
Canada
phone: 519.824.4120.x53212
fax: 519.837.8634
kolapof at uoguelph.ca