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national contexts where Africans and peoples of African descent fight out their existential and ameliorative struggles. We also encourage papers that interrogate and question the very categories of cultures, nationalities, identities, and modernities as they relate to the experiences of African and Africa-descended peoples and institutions instead of taking them as binding, fixed and self-evident frames of analysis. The definitional and semiotic latitude for interpreting these categories belongs to authors, as we have no bounded, restrictive definitions in mind.

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Paper Topics

Papers may explore one or more of the following areas. This is however not an exhaustive list and is only suggested as a guide.

• Acculturation • Afrocentricity • Afropolitanism • Atlantic Africa • Blackness
• Circum-Atlantic Africa • Citizenship • Commodification of culture • Contested identities
• Contested modernities • Creolization • Cultural Patrimony • Cultural Power
• Cultural propriety • Culture and ethnicity • Culture of Politics • Custom and the customary
• Diasporic African identities • Ethnic identity • Ethno-nationalism • Ethno-religious identity
• Gendered identities • Global Africanity • Globalizing modernities • Identity conflicts • Indigeneity
• Indigenous Movements • Internal Displacement • Material Culture • Migration • Multiculturalism
• National consciousness • Nationalities and trans-nationalities • Neo-traditionalism • Pan-Africanism
• Parallel modernities • Politics of Culture • Postcolonial dysfunction • Postcoloniality
• Race consciousness • Refugees/Returnees • Regionalism • Religious Culture • Ritual • Secessions
• Sociolinguistics • Symbolism • The modern in question • Traditional modernities
 

Participants will be drawn from different parts of the world. Graduate students are encouraged to attend and present papers. The deadline for submitting abstracts/proposals of not more than 250 words, is March 30, 2012. It should include the title, as well as the author's name, address, telephone number, email address, and institutional affiliation. Please submit all abstracts to:
  1. http://www.ibadanculturalstudiesgroup.org/toyinfalolaconference/user/register
  2. Professor Ademola Dasylva (e-mail: dasylvang@yahoo.com, a.dasylva@ibadanculutralstudiesgroup.org)
  3. Ms. Lady Jane Acquah < ljane26@gmail.com>

Mandatory non-refundable registration fee (ICSG/TOFAC administrative charges):
Participants from Nigeria and other African countries: Eight thousand Naira (N8,000)
Participants from other USA, Europe and Asia: $100 must be paid immediately an abstract is accepted.

Keynote Speakers:Barbara Harlow
  Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor in English Literature
  bharlow@mail.utexas.edu
Prof. Tim Stapleton,
  Director, History Graduate Program,
  Department of History,
  Trent University, Ontario,
  Canada. tstapleton@trentu.ca
 Dr.Michael Vickers
  Prof. of Political Science
  mvickers@mvickers.plus.com
 Plenary Keynote Speaker:
  Prof. House-Soremekun, Bessie
  Director of Africana Studies,
  Founding Executive Director, Center for Global Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development,
  Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
  beshouse@iupui.edu
 See www.ibadanculturalstudiesgroup.org/toyinfalolaconference for more information.