A Knowledge beyond Text. Looking at each other, sharing interrogations
14-20 November 2009 - Paris, Musée de l'Homme

Presentation in English / Presentation en français

CALL FOR PAPERS / CONTRIBUTIONS

The Comité du Film Ethnographique is organizing an International seven-days Conference to be held in Paris in November 2009. This Conference is to honor the scientific and cinematographic work of Jean Rouch, his founding father and leader.

Our purpose is to explore the many research works and investigations pursued to improve the imagetic languages for anthropology in the fields Jean Rouch has pioneered and initiated.
This call for contributions is open to filmmakers, critics, teachers, researchers, and students concerned with the different ways to experiment and to translate the "real" through various audiovisual languages.

Propositions have to focus on one of the chosen topics:
• The colonial ordeal and a contemporary's anthropology.
• The "real" as imaginary, the fiction tells the world.
• A shared anthropology.
• Direct cinema and a making of the "real".
• A new Anthropology, a today's anthropology.

Abstracts of 1500 characters maximum have to be sent electronically to the Comité du Film Ethnographique, together with the applicant information form, by September 15th 2008. The definitive programme will be set on November 1st, 2008. All accepted participants will be expected to submit a full draft of their paper (text and audiovisual documents for a 20 minutes maximum length) by 31st of May, 2009, to allow their circulation among Conference participants.

Please find attached the applicant information form and a detailed presentation of the Conference purpose, partners and proceeding.

Important Dates:
September 15, 2008; Deadline for abstracts
November 1st, 2008; Notification of acceptance
May 31st, 2009: Submission of Final Papers
September, 2009: Conference programme

Contact :
Comité du Film Ethnographique
Musée de l’Homme
17 place du Trocadéro – 75116 Paris – France
Tél. : 33 (0)1 40 79 36 82 - 33 (0)1 47 04 38 20
colloquejeanrouch@...
www.comite-film-ethno.net

Race Conference at Monmouth University, November 2008

For more information see: http://FutureofRace.googlepages.com/home

Seeking papers, panels, workshops, on race from multiple disciplines.

Contact hwilliam@monmouth.edu for questions.

Dear Friends,

I hope this email find you well.

I will be participating in the conference, "Race, Sex, Power: New
Movements in Black and Latina/o Sexualities" @ the University of
Illinois in Chicago, presenting my American Exotic Photographic
series. Registration is now open for the conference and the tentative
schedule can be found at: http://condor.depaul.edu/~rsp2008/ There are
several panel discussions, performance pieces and arts exhibitions
that will take place over the course of two days.  Please take a
moment to check out the schedule and I hope to see any of you there
who may be available!


Ifé
--
Ifétayo Abdus-Salam
www.iasalam.com

Conference

New Critical Perspectives in African American Art History

University of Maryland

March 7-8, 2008

Sponsored by The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora and the Department of Art History and Archaeology

New Critical Perspectives in African American Art History is a conference framed in relation to the landmark 1976 exhibition Two Centuries of Black American Art that redefined the parameters for the study of African American art. Now, more than thirty years later, scholars will reassess the field of African American art as it has evolved, shifted and grown in the last quarter of the 20^th century and into the present. Presenters from around the nation will address themes of cosmopolitanism, race and the black body, diasporic identities, reconsiderations of the canon, and more.

The conference will take place at the University of Maryland in College Park on Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8, 2008. For more information please contact Renée Ater at rater@umd.edu or Adrienne Childs at alchilds@umd.edu To register please visit the David C. Driskell Center website at http://www.driskellcenter.umd.edu/conferences/index.php

Here & Now: African and African American Art and Film Conference

UPDATE:

Harlee Little shares his photos from the conference at

http://harleelittle.com/Here_and_Now/

Tisch/NYU Event

Date and Time:

November 15, 2007 – November 18, 2007
Please see schedule link below for more information (I'm participating in a panel on Friday)
Location: Multiple Venues

Here and Now: African and African American Art and Film Conference focuses on contemporary expressions in art and cinema from multiple perspectives within the realm of African and African American visual culture. This four-day conference looks at how African and African American artists interpreted, documented, chronicled, and created images over the last twenty years. By re-examining visual history through the voices of artists, art historians, filmmakers, photographers, activists, editors, writers, collectors and gallerists, "Here and Now" encourages a diverse perspective of the imagery created in the 21st century. For more information and a schedule of events please visit:

www.hereandnownyu.com

The conference is free, but space is limited. To pre-register email: register@hereandnownyu.com or call 212-864-4500 x264.

The conference is organized and hosted by the Tisch School of the Arts and the Institute for African American Affairs at New York University. Co-sponsored by the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Friends of MOMA.

SAVE THE DATE - NOVEMBER 2ND, 2007

RECONSTRUCTING WOMANHOOD: A FUTURE BEYOND EMPIRE
A SYMPOSIUM CELEBRATING THE WORK OF HAZEL V. CARBY

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College,
Columbia University, New York, NY

Conference Schedule

9:30am
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
**Coffee available to participants

10:00am
Keynote 1: "Paranoid Empire, Masculinities and Other War Zones"
               Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin-Madison

11:15am
Keynote 2: "The Stranger's Work: Desire, Intimacy, Violence, and
Cultural
               Restoration"
               Robert Reid-Pharr, CUNY- Graduate Center

12:30
Lunch Break

2:00pm
Keynote 3:  "Reading and Reckoning Histories of Loss"
                Lisa Lowe, UC-San Diego/Yale University
(in-residence)
** Coffee available to participants

3:15pm
Keynote 4: "Reconstructing Manhood; or the Drag of Black
Masculinity"
               Rinaldo Walcott, University of Toronto

4:30pm
Closing Keynote: "Lost (and Found?) in Translation"
                Hazel V. Carby, Yale University

6:00pm
Reception

The symposium celebrates the 20th anniversary of Hazel Carby's
groundbreaking text, Reconstructing Womanhood, which traces the
emergence of the novel as a forum for political and cultural
reconstruction and examines the ways in which dominant racial and
sexual ideologies influenced the literary conventions of women's
fiction. The work of reconstruction announced by the title is
three-fold: it describes the efforts of nineteenth-century writers
and activists to redefine the meaning of womanhood and to challenge
the color-line that placed blacks outside the boundaries of the
human; it entails political efforts to transform and refashion the
state; and it encompasses the critical labor of imagining a future
beyond Man. Honoring the interdisciplinary significance of Carby's
scholarship in Literary and Cultural Studies, feminist theory,
critical race theory, Marxism, and post-colonial criticism, this
one-day symposium revisits the import of this work in relation to
an extended set of issues that include re-writing the human, the
production of disposable life, refashioning masculinities and queer
sexualities, and creating a world beyond empire.

The symposium is free but space is limited so please R.S.V.P. by
emailing fkb2104@columbia.edu.

The symposium has been made possible by the generous funding of the
following institutional partners:

Office of the Provost, Yale University; Institute for Research on
Women and Gender Studies, Columbia University; Women's Studies
Program, Duke University; Barnard Center for Research
on Women,Barnard College; Institute for Research in African American
Studies, Columbia University; Africana Studies, Barnard
College and Columbia University Libraries

overdue

Please see the above announcement for a symposium in October about Judith Wilson's scholarship. Papers will be presented by Renee Ater, Huey Copeland, Cheryl Finley, Jacqueline Francis, Juergen Heinrichs, and Charmaine Nelson.

SAVE THE DATE

Here and Now: The Second African American Art Conference

November 15-18, 2007

New York University

AAAC-3.pdf (download a PDF flyer; please note that not all speakers are listed here, as I am one)

Conference organizers:

Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell, Professor Deborah Willis, and Professor Manthia Diawara


For more information contact:

The Department of Photography & Imaging
Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
721 Broadway, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10003
212.998.1930
secondaaac@gmail.com

Co-sponsored by

Department of Photo & Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Department of Art and Public Policy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Department of Art and Art Professions, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
Kanbar Institute of Film & Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
Institute for African American Affairs, New York University
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
The Studio Museum in Harlem