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Dec.2-4, 2010 |
33rd
Annual African Studies Association of Australasia and the
Pacific |
Melbourne Austrilia |
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October 21, 2010 - Friday October 22, 2010
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First Annual Pan-African Global Trade Conference
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California State University, Dominguez Hills |
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27th- 29th
October, 2010 |
1st International Africana Womanism Conference |
University of Zimbabwe |
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Sep
23, 2010 |
THE ORGANIZATION US. 45th
Anniversary Celebration . For Ourselves and Us. |
African American Cultural Center |
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2008 |
Black Male
Development Symposium 2008 |
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2000 |
The Challenges of African Studies Departments in
the Twenty-First Century (NCBS Conference 2000)
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March 15, 2000 |
Gender Relations in African Culture, Women
Center and Department of Africana Studies
Lecture, |
California State University, Dominguez Hills |
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April 13, 2000 |
African Literature as an expression of African
history and culture, Department of African
American Studies Lecture, |
Loyola Marymount University |
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May 3, 2000 |
African History and Culture as Sources of Values
for the Empowerment of African Women, Department
of Africana Studies Lecture, |
San Diego State University |
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March 30, 2000 |
Africana Theories of Knowledge, California
Statewide Africana Studies, Curriculum
Development summit, |
California State University, Dominguez Hills |
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March 25,2000 |
The role of culture in African liberation and
freedom movements, Department of Africana
Studies Lecture, |
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March 3, 2000 |
African Religions, Department of Africana
Studies Lecture Series, March 3, 2000
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2000 |
Key Issues in African and African Diasporan
Literature and Thought (Global Diaspora
Conference 2000) |
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December 6, 2001 |
Africana Languages and Creative Productions:
Recreating Africana Presence into the Global
Community, (co-presented with Dr. Selase
Williams, Global Diaspora Project Conference,
CSUDH, December 6, 2001) |
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2001 |
Black Student Organizations and African Centered
Consciousness, (Collective Minds Student
Conference, CSUDH, 2001) |
CSUDH |
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2002 |
Celebrating Africana History and Culture Through
Africana Literature and the Arts, (African
American Heritage Month, CSUDH, 2002) |
CSUDH |
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6-10 March, 2002 |
Re-conceptualizing Africana Studies
(co-presented with Dr. William A. Little, NCBS
Conference, San Diego, 6-10 March, 2002)
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San Diego |
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6-10 March, 2002 |
African Worldview and Africana Theories of
Literature, (NCBS Conference, San Diego, 6-10
March, 2002) |
San Diego |
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6-10 March, 2002 |
African Culture, Literature and Literary
Criticism, (NCBS Conference, San Diego, 6-10
March, 2002) |
San Diego |
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September 2002 |
The Challenge of Self-Definition in the African
Diaspora, Black Student Union Meeting, CSU,
Northridge, September 2002. |
CSU, Northridge |
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Theorizing the African World Through the Broken
Lenses of Postcoloniality, (NCBS Conference,
Atlanta, Georgia, 2003) |
Atlanta, Georgia |
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2004 |
African Writers and the Art of Healing a
Dismembered Community, (NCBS Conference,
Atlanta, Georgia, 2004) |
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August 3, 2004 |
Re-visiting the Contested Role of African
Studies Institutes, Programs and Departments
Located Outside Africa, (Zimbabwe International
Book Fair Indaba, August 3, 2004)
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August 3, 2004 |
The Role of African Scholars in Shaping
Discourses on Africa, (Zimbabwe International
Book Fair Indaba, August 3, 2004) |
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. Below are notes on
the Current conference . |
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33rd AFSAAP
CONFERENCE
December 2-4, 2010
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Prof. Furusa
will present the paper "Re-imagining identities:
Continuities and changes in African cultural
knowledges in the African diaspora"
"This paper critically examines
discourses on the formation of African and
African Diaspora cultural identities. The essay
focuses specifically on discourses that engage
the questions of continuities and changes in
African cultural knowledges in the African
Diaspora and thus provide broad discussions of
the conceptual issues relating to the study of
politics of identity construction in Diaspora
societies. Utilizing the terminology of “the
politics of identity construction” at the group
or societal level as well as including
individual or personal dynamics allows one to
perceive, according to Homi Bhabha, where memory
acts as the hazardous bridge between trauma of
the past experience and cultural identity.
Furthermore, the study recognizes the
interactions between perceptions of the African
self and the contexts within which identities
are performed and conceptualized as well as the
need to confront the struggles and conflicts of
African identities in exile. Both phenomena are
deeply embedded in power dynamics at both the
group and personal levels. As Nawal El Saadawi
puts it, identity politics remains the exclusive
tool of the powerful against the peoples who are
being postcolonized (1997). Consequently,
perceptions of individual and group identities
tend to evolve from relational economic,
political, and cultural dynamics within a given
society. Research shows that marginalized groups
are more cognizant of their unique identities as
part of processes of self-affirmation (Steck et
al., 2003). Cultural identity is also often
times conceptualized and theorized as dynamic,
incomplete, always in process, and always
constituted within and not outside (Stuart
Hall). This paper therefore investigates the
subject of African cultural identity in the
diaspora with its enduring themes of “migrating
words and worlds” (Saadawi), difference and
belongingness, “authenticity” and “hybridity” as
both a theoretical and an existential question
(Stuart Hall)".
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