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]
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Cornelia Storz
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Frankfurt
www.wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de\storz