Category: Conferences
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Black Studies Association Conference: Blackness in Britain 2015 (Birmingham City University, 30-31 October)
The theme of the Black Studies Association annual conference is “The Black Special Relationship: The US influence on British Black Studies.” This two-day event takes place at Birmingham City University, 30-31 October 2015, and its programme is concerned with an examination of ways in which Black British intellectual life has been influenced by African-American scholarship…
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RC21 International Conference: ‘The Ideal City: between myth and reality. Representations, policies, contradictions and challenges for tomorrow’s urban life’ (27-29 August 2015 – Urbino, Italy)
The RC21 Conference 2015 (The Ideal City: between myth and reality…’) will be hosted by the School of Social and Political Sciences – Department of Economics, Society, and Politics at the University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy. It has been organised to enable sociologists, geographers, urbanists, town planners, artists and other creative professionals to consider…
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Call for Papers: African European Studies Conference (AfroEurope@ns V) – University of Münster, 16-19 September 2015
The fifth African European Studies conference (AfroEurope@ns V: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe) will be held at the University of Münster (Germany) from 16th to 19th September 2015. The event has been organised as an inter-disciplinary conference with papers covering literature, history, music, theatre, art, translation, politics, immigration, youth culture and European policies. Afroeurope@ns V…
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Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories (Florence – 28-31 May, 2015)
Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories (Florence, Italy, 28-31 May 2015) is the sixth in a series of highly successful conferences staged by New York University (NYU) in collaboration with Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research. “This conference will bring together artists and scholars from an assortment of disciplines…
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Placing the Museum: Towards Museum Geography (AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago – April 2015)
Advance notice and call for papers, re. the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting in Chicago, USA (April 21-25, 2015) Geographers are increasingly contributing to understanding the multiple functions museums serve, much like their colleagues in history, anthropology, and museum studies. In her 2010 article “Museum Geography: Exploring Museums, Collections and Museum Practice in the…
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