CFC: Call for Conveners: Seeking Host for AfroEuropeans Conference, 2019Posted in Europe, Media Archive, Wanted/Research Requests/Call for Papers on 2017-07-05 22:29Z by Steven |
CFC: Call for Conveners: Seeking Host for AfroEuropeans Conference, 2019
H-Black-Europe: dedicated to the study of Europe and the Black Diaspora
Friday, 2017-06-30
Kira Thurman
CfC – Call for Conveners:
7th AfroEuropes Conference 2019
The research network behind Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe conferences is now looking for a scholar or a team of scholars and activists based at a University or with strong ties into the academy to host the next bi-annual conference in 2019. After hosting a series of large, international, and interdisciplinary conferences in Spain (Leon in 2006, 2008; Cadíz 2011), Britain (London 2013), Germany (Münster 2015), and Finland (Tampere 2017), we envisage the conference moving to a new European destination.
Black and African European Studies explore social spaces and cultural practices that are characterised by a series of contemporary and historical overlaps between Africa, the African diasporas, and Europe. Our conferences are designed to contribute to the existing scholarship in this field – with a view to establishing it more firmly in its several disciplinary locations and beyond…
Read the entire call for conveners here.