Conferences
CAAR organized a number of conferences in the last years. Please find the details of the CAAR-conferences below.
CAAR 2009 Bremen: "Black Knowledges - Black Struggles - Civil Rights: Transnational Perspectives" at the University of Bremen Bremen, GERMANY Mar 25 - 29, 2009.
The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Collegium of African American Research explored the global epistemological, political, literary, and cultural impact of the many forms of African American diasporic knowledges and struggles and their enduring transnational manifestations
Click here for the CAAR 2009 Bremen Website
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CAAR 2007 Madrid: "Blackness and Modernities" Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia Madrid, SPAIN April 18-21, 2007.
CAAR 2007 focused upon Blackness and Modernities. The African American Experience of the Modern World can be dated to 1500, to 1776, to 1865, to 1920, to 1965, to 2000? The experience is multiple, the people many, and the modern manifold. We spoke of modernities because we did not want to define and dictate meaning; we wanted the conference to do the defining and any dictating to come from the power of the speakers. We wanted to consider ways in which peoples origined in Africa and living in the Americas have created as well as come to terms with modernism.
Click here for the CAAR 2007 Madrid Website
CAAR 2005 Tours: "The Black World: INNERspace:INNERCity:InterAction:InterNation" Universite Francois-Rabelais Tours, FRANCE Apr 21-24, 2005.
INNERSpace: The spiritual, inner world of self and soul occupies spaces along and across the boundary lines of philosophy, religion, science, and art. INNERCity: Innercity life of Harlem, Watts, Atlanta, Chicago, Paris, Brixton, Berlin. INTERAction: What kinds of interaction are now making the scene in the art, culture and politics of the new African American? INTERNation: Catching the intonations of voices at the margins as well as at the centers: what will be the intercontinental alignments of the next fifty years?
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CAAR 2003 Winchester: "The African Atlantic: The Making of the Black Diaspora" University of Winchester Winchester, ENGLAND.
This conference will seek to take the longest and widest perspectives, viewpoints, and positions that speakers, panels and contributors can bring to the notions of the African Atlantic and the Black Diaspora. It will focus on the old triangle of Africa, the Americas and Europe as in previous conferences. However, by pulling back and out, other coasts and other worlds come into view. The Pacific of cities, states and provinces stretching from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego is a boundary of the Black Diaspora which calls for our examination, exegesis, evocation.
Download Call for Papers here
http://www.caar-web.org/pdf/caar_winchesterposter.pdf
CAAR 2001 Cagliari: Fourth Conference of the Collegium for African American Research "CrossRoutes: The Meanings of Race for the 21st Century" Cagliari, Sardegna, ITALY
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CAAR 1999 Muenster: Third Conference of the Collegium for African American Research "Black Liberation in the Americas"Westphalian Wilhelms Universitaet Muenster Muenster, GERMANY
CAAR 1997 Liverpool: Second Conference of the Collegium for African American Research "Mapping African America" Liverpool, ENGLAND
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