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Obioma Nnaemeka
French and Women's Studies
Cavanaugh Hall, Room 001C
Indiana University
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Phone: (317) 278-2038
(317) 274-0062 (messages)
Fax:   (317) 274-2347
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WOMEN IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN
DIASPORA

THEME:  WOMEN IN AFRICA & THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA OCTOBER 22-27, 1998

In July 1992, over 700 researchers, activists, students and policy makers
from all continents gathered in Nsukka--a small, rural town in
Nigeria--for the first international conference on Women in Africa and the
African Diaspora (the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe). The conference
focused on disciplinary and interdisciplinary issues related to women in
Africa and the African diaspora. In addition to generating ten volumes of
proceedings, the conference provided the space for much needed global
networking and collaboration. At that meeting, it was agreed that the next
conference would focus on health and human rights and be held in the
African diaspora. For the purposes of the second conference, health will
be discussed not only as a physical and medical question but, in a broader
sense, as a social issue; thus allowing participants to debate health
issues in their relatedness to the economy, education, human rights,
militarization,the environment, the arts, ethnic conflicts, refugee
problems, etc. in the context of global interdependence and international
politics.

For example,the campaign against female circumcision in Africa and the
Arab world could be debated simultaneously as a health issue, a human
rights question and an economic issue. One might also examine how health
issues are imagined in the arts or how the health of the economy affects
the health of artistic productions, etc. Discussions could also focus on
the impact of changes in economic and social policies (the welfare system
in the US and the immigration question in Europe,for example) and the
escalation of ethnic politics and armed conflicts on the African continent
on the health and human rights of women.This announcement extends an
invitation to agencies, researchers, students, activists, policy
makers,and interested individuals--irrespective of gender, race, religious
affiliation and national origin--to participate in the second WAAD
conference.

DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: MARCH 15, 1998

Handwritten, faxed or e-mailed abstracts will NOT be accepted.  Please
include your name (in full) and address on your proposal.

REGISTRATION FORM

        Please indicate your interest in the following categories:

        ___ Attend the conference

        ___Present a paper.

        Title _________________________________________________________

        ________________________________________________________________

        ___Organize a panel, workshop or exhibition. Area of interest:

        ______________________________________________________________________

        _______________________________________________________________________

        ___Chair a session. Area of interest:

        __________________________________________________________________

        ___Serve as discussant. Area of interest:

        ___________________________________________________________________

        ___Serve as resource person. Specify:

        _________________________________________________________________

        ___Other. Specify______________________________________________________

        Name:__________________________________________________________________

        Affiliation:_______________________________________________________

        Address:_______________________________________________________________

        ________________________________________________________________________

Phone:(home)______________________________(work)_______________________

        Fax:__________________________e-mail:_______________________________
REGIS
TRATION FEE :    US$ 85 by March 15,1998
                                 US$ 125 after March 15,1998

                Make checks payable to Indiana University, Indianapolis
                Checks/money orders must be in US dollars drawn on
                US banks.

Mail to/For more information contact:

Professor Obioma Nnaemeka, Convener
Second WAAD Conference
French and Women's Studies
Cavanaugh Hall 001C
Indiana University
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
U. S. A.

Phone: (317) 274-0062 or (317) 278-2038
Fax: (317) 274-2347
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