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AFRASO - Goethe University, Frankfurt/Germany Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch/South Africa Call for Papers African-Asian Encounters (II) Re-Thinking African-Asian Relationships: Changing Realities - New Concepts 24 - 26 March 2015 Stellenbosch, South Africa The Centre for Chinese Studies (CCS) and Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO) from Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, are pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference, African-Asian Encounters (II) Re-Thinking African-Asian Relationships: Changing Realities - New Concepts. The conference will take place in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 24 to 26 March 2015. It is part of a series of international conferences on African-Asian Encounters that started with the conference "New Co-operations - New Dependencies?" which took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in March 2014. The themes for the conference are: 1. Localized African-Asian Communities Small business, petty traders, migrant communities, long-term migrant communities; the role of cyberspace in the production of community; tensions with alternative discourses of community; ethnographic accounts of localized interactions. 2. Conceptions of the Other Traditional and contemporary concepts of Africans and Asians towards each other; attitudes towards philanthropy and giving; intersections of race and gender; perceptions of the African/Asian "other" in the context of global mediascapes. 3. Re-thinking Development Changing concepts and norms: theoretical and methodological approaches, governance and diplomacy, sustainability. The role of actors and institutions: nation-states, multi-national companies, state-owned enterprises and civil society networks. 4. Trans-Regional Imaginaries Intersections between historical and contemporary concepts as well as cultural and political imaginaries of "Afrasia" as a transregional space; the role of literature, film, and other (electronic) media in the (re)shaping of Indian Ocean and/or "Afrasian" imaginaries. We invite all interested parties to submit paper abstracts by 29 September 2014. For the full conference call for papers please see annexe. Submissions can be sent to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cornelia Storz Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Frankfurt www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de\storz<http://www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de/de/abteilungen/mm/professuren/storz/institutionen-und-innovationsoekonomik-insb-japanostasien.html> ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. For information: http://aib.msu.edu/community/aib-l.asp To post message: [log in to unmask] For assistance: [log in to unmask] AIB-L is a moderated list.