As part of our efforts to promote collaboration across the Atlantic, WARA promotes a variety of opportunities for scholarly exchange. These include:
- WARA participation at the ASA annual meeting
- WARA Summer Institutes
- WARA International Symposia
For more information and photographs from selected conferences, please scroll down to the headings below. |
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WARA ASA Participation
The ASA 50th Anniversary Annual Meeting was held October 18 - 21, 2007 at the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York, NY. The Annual Meeting theme was "21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights."
As a coordinate member of the ASA, WARA officially sponsored:
Researching and Responding to the NYC African Immigrant Community
Chair: Linda Beck, University of Maine, Farmington
Natasha Johnson-Lashley, Sanctuary for Families/Center for Battered Women's Legal Services
Bakary Tandia, African Services Committee
Zeinab Eyega, Sauti Yetu Center for African Women
Zain Abdullah, Temple University
Awa Ba, Uppsalla University/AROA
Beth Buggenhaggen, Indiana University
Click here to read about and view pictures from previous WARA ASA meetings.
WARA Summer Institutes
WARA Summer Institutes are held on a yearly basis, and are organized around a particular theme. Summer institutes typically last for two weeks, and are geared toward college and university faculty who wish to develop and expand teaching or research related to the topic of a given year's institute. Activities include lectures, seminars, and discussion sessions with local specialists in the focus area. Group excursions are also included to cultural and historic sites relating to that year's institute topic.
INTERROGATIONS OF FREEDOM: MEMORIES, MEANINGS, MIGRATIONS
The fourth conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), was held October 9-12, 2007, in Barbados. The University of the West Indies, with co-sponsorship from New York University. The conference featured panels organized across geographic, disciplinary, cultural, and theoretical boundaries. For details, see http://www.aswadiaspora.org/ASWAD2007.html
Click here to read about and view pictures from previous WARA Summer Institutes.
WARA International Symposia
WARA symposia occur approximately every five years, and are substantially broader in scope than summer institutes. The last international symposium, "Field Work in Africa," took place in Darker in 2002. The next symposium, “Democracy and Development in West Africa ” will be held in Fall 2007 in collaboration with the newly established Center for International Education and Sustainable Development at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin .
