[ecrea] Inaugural Rastafari Studies Conference

> Negotiating the African Presence: Rastafari Livity and Scholarship
>
> Rastafari Conference 2010
>
> August 17 â?? 20, 2010
>
> University of the West Indies Mona
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> Overview
>
> 2010 will mark 50 years since the "Report on The 
> Rastafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica" was 
> first published by the then University College 
> of the West Indies. The Report, authored by M.G. 
> Smith, Roy Augier and Rex Nettleford, validated 
> the Universityâ??s sense of its social 
> responsibility and remains one its most 
> successful monographs, having gone through eight 
> reproductions without change in form or content, 
> becoming a most highly referenced document on the Movement.
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> 2010 also marks the 80th anniversary of the 
> Rastafari Movement itself, which has grown from 
> a few visionaries struck by the coronation of 
> the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I in 
> November 1930, into a vital force in 
> reconstructing and elevating the African Presence in the Western landscape.
>
> In recognition of these two anniversaries, and 
> on the birthday of Pan-African champion, the 
> Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the Institute 
> of Caribbean Studies announces the inaugural 
> Rastafari Studies Conference to be held August 
> 17 - 20, 2010 at the Mona Campus of the 
> University of the West Indies, under the Joint 
> Chairmanship of Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, Prof. 
> Rex Nettleford and Prof. Emeritus, Sir Roy Augier.
>
>
>
> Call for papers
>
> Interested scholars are invited to submit 
> abstracts of no more than 150-200 words by April 
> 21, 2010, for presentation of papers on any of the following themes:
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>
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> Conference themes:
>
> â??Reasoningâ?? and Articulating African â??Freedomâ??
>
> Rastafari Thought and Philosophy
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> Rastafari and the City
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> Historicising Rastafari and the State
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> Rastafari Reflections: The Visit of HIM Emperor Haile Selassie I to Jamaica
>
> Theocracy, Resistance and the Elaboration of Black Religion
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> Routinization and New Religious Movements
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> Interrogating Rastafari Icons & Iconographies
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> Rastafari Studies and Institutions of Higher Learning
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> Rastafari Communities and Sustainable Development
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> Rastafari and the Black Intellectual Tradition
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> Rastafari Tributes & Testimonies
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> Repatriation to Africa as Practice: Case Studies
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> Rastafari Geographies and Demographics
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> Regional and Global Reach of Rastafari
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> Rastafari and other Caribbean Worldviews
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> Universities and Corporate Social Responsibility
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> Social Movements, Change and Identity
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> Diasporan Citizenry
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> Youth, Pedagogy and Rebuilding African Diaspora Communities
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> Family, Gender & Power in Rastafari
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> Staging/Representing Rastafari: Literature, Film, Media & Reggae Festivals
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> Rastafari Drumming Rituals
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> Health and Healing: Rastafari Ministries
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> Negotiating the Twenty First Century: Rastafari in the Global Moment
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> Rastafari and the Caribbean Arts
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>
>
> The conference welcomes creative and 
> non-academic contributions through workshops, 
> video presentations, artistic displays and other forms of expression.
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> Abstracts may be submitted to (rastafaristudies2010 /at/ yahoo.com)
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> Final date for the submission of abstracts is April 21, 2010.
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>
>
> For more information visit our website: 
> http://ocs.mona.uwi.edu/ocs/index.php/irc/

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