Office of Academic Affairs - Hostos Community College

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This CFP invites submissions describing: (1) panels, (2) performances, (3) round-table discussions, (4) workshops, or (5) abstracts.

Proposals can address themes of: language, literature and linguistics; social sciences, cultural and ethnic studies; ethics and humanism; gender, race and class; sociology and psychology, or any other related field of study or academic discipline that can be related to the conference theme.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• African identity throughout the Americas
• Africa in the Imagination. . .
• America in the imagination . . .
• Construction of Caribbean Identity
• Derek Walcott's Omeros
• Education and the public schools
• Ethics and Humanism
• Ethnicity, and the Challenge of Diversity
• Frantz Fanon, Africa and the Caribbean
• Gender and sexual orientation
• Multicultural Perspective .
• Nancy Morejón's "Mujer negra"
• Political leadership and community empowerment
• Purviews of language, literature and linguistics
• Re-inventing the Griot
• Revisiting the Harlem Renaissance
• Sports and athletics
• The Meaning of Culture
• The Negritude Movement in the Caribbean
• The Place of the African diaspora in Caribbean, Latin American and North American studies
• The United States in the works of .
• Theme of Migration
• Images of Women
• Race and Class.

Proposal submissions are limited to one page. Each proposal must include contact information for the primary project director or abstract author: full name, title, institution/company, regular mail and electronic mail addresses, and phone number.

The postmark deadline is August 25, 2006. Electronic versions may be sent to sbrennan@hostos.cuny.edu. Hard copies may be sent to Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas, Hostos Community College, 500 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10451.

Notification of acceptance will be mailed by September 30, 2006.

Dr. Daisy Cocco De Filippis, Provost, Hostos Community College
Dr. Dominic Nwasike, Provost, Medgar Evers College

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