[ecrea] 2017 ASWAD Conference in Sevilla, Spain

*ASWAD Seville Deadline Extended to March 17, 2017!*
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*Call for Papers*
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*Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora*
* 9th Biennial Conference*
*Hosted by Pablo de Olavide University*
*Seville, Spain*
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*African/Diasporic Futures: Re-Envisioning Power, Interventions, 
Imaginations and Belonging*

*November 7-11, 2017 Seville, Spain*

In 2015 the United Nations launched the Decade for the People of African 
Descent to acknowledge descendants of the African Diaspora as a distinct 
group whose human dignities and rights have been violated throughout the 
globe. The Decade for the People of African Descent is a sustained 
global commitment to recognize, protect, and bring about inclusive 
social justice to members of the African Diaspora. Contemporarily, 
Europe is an epicenter of such urgent grappling with systematic and 
long-term social inequities. Politics and policies of racialized 
exclusion, particularly through its engagement with Africans and people 
of African descent, re-center Europe's non-neutral racial projects in 
their nation building.

The protection and promotion of human rights has gained greater 
significance and urgency with the crisis of African migration, and other 
forced and semi-forced migrations from Western Asia and Eastern Europe. 
As these individuals and groups have sought refuge and equitable and 
humane social participation within European societies, they have 
challenged conceptualizations of the state and citizenship formation, 
and continue to force new articulations and notions of "home" and 
belonging. These current migratory flows are newer iterations of a long 
relationship between Europe and Africa, and between Europe and the 
African Diaspora that spans centuries.

ASWAD invites panel and individual paper proposal submissions for its 
9th biennial conference to be held in Seville, Spain, November 7 to 11, 
2017 on the campus of Pablo de Olavide University to discuss, examine, 
and reflect on the critical nature of the interactions and 
transformations that African descendants experience in their diaspora, 
particularly within a European context. As an interdisciplinary 
organization, ASWAD invites presentations that illuminate the lives of 
Africans and African descendants from scholars of any discipline, 
including social sciences, physical sciences, life sciences and 
performing arts.  We aim to collaborate with activist and intellectual 
communities around sustained dialogue involving diaspora, race and 
citizenship, and historical and contemporary patterns of racial formation.

In addition to academics, ASWAD welcomes artists, activists, 
journalists, and independent scholars with specific interests in the 
African Diaspora. We are especially keen to create a platform for Black 
European Groups and NGOs.
We encourage proposals that align with the conference theme. Suggested 
panel themes include, but are not limited to the following:

a.         The African Diaspora, Modern States and (Re)Conceptions of 
Citizenship
b.         Humanitarianism and Human Rights in the Global African Diaspora
c.         Black Lives Matter Across the Globe
d.         The African Diaspora, Economics and Immigration to/in Europe
e.         Religion, Power, and Praxis in the African Diaspora
f.          African Diaspora and the Arts and Activism in Europe
g.         Spain and the African Diaspora
h.         Writing and Translating the African Diaspora and Black 
Identities in Europe
i.          The United Nation's Decade for People of African Descent
j.          Music and the Performing Arts in Africa and the African Diaspora
k.         Pedagogy, Higher Education and Activism
l.          Black LGBTQIA Social Constructs
m.        Labor and Organizing in Local and International Contexts
n.         Activism and New Technologies and Media
o.         African Diasporic Futures: Challenges and Opportunities
p.        Future Makings: Collective re-imaginations through migration
q.        Reimagining social spaces and collective identities

The city of Seville is a UNESCO world heritage site and former medieval 
capital of Euro-African kingdoms, both Muslim and Christian, and later 
head of Spain's early modern world empire. The city is a nexus of 
African Diaspora history, with a living heritage of connecting Europe, 
America and Africa. Pablo de Olavide University, ASWAD's 2017 conference 
host, has a demonstrated commitment to international cooperation and 
social justice.
For More Conference Information: http://aswadiaspora.org/conferences/
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