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November 4, 2009
Call for papers: Changing Images of India and Africa, SARI/CICC,
Paris, 3-4 June 2010
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CFP: Changing Images of India and Africa, SARI/CICC
Location: France
Call for Papers Deadline: 2010-02-15
Date Submitted: 2009-10-31
Announcement ID: 171649
CFP: Changing Images of India and Africa, SARI/CICC
A colloquium organized by SARI and CICC at the Salle des confences,
UniversitCergy-Pontoise(France) on the 3d and 4th June 2010.
Call for Papers
The very mention of the word image brings back memories of colonial clich.
Any picture of Africa with no mention of poverty, wars or starvation seems
nowhere to be found. As regards India, it is still the land of miserable
slums and neglected widows. But the purpose of this SARI/CICC colloquium
is to move beyond the colonial rhetoric and decidedly look at contemporary
India and Africa in order to create,first of all, a South-South dynamics
of interaction. The idea of movement is conveyed by the continuous form of
the verb in the title.
Researchers familiar with the difference between looking and seeing and
the politics of the gaze can now think about other ways of theorizing
representations of India and Africa by Indians or Africans living in India
or vice versa, by diasporic Indians and Africans or by Western
cosmopolitans. Language being what Derrida calls the invincible body of
the other, it would be interesting to go beyond Anglophone or Europhone
languages and explore how self-representations of India or Africa are
being made in other/mother tongues in order to set up a different
enmeshment of currents of thought. Paper proposals might:
1. Contrast earlier images of India/Africa with current images
2. Study the influences that brought about the change
3. Discuss the new politics of representation
4. Examine the role of the location and position of the observer in the
process of change
5. Explore the theme not only in literature but also in painting, cinema,
music and generally the media (press, videoclips, advertisements)
6. Identify the core set of images that resist change and explain the
reasons for their persistence
Please send your title, an abstract of 200 words and your email and snail
mail addresses to both the coordinators: Geetha Ganapathy-Dore and Michel
Olinga from the Universite Paris 13
Contact:
geethagd@hotmail.com, geetha.dore@univ-paris13.fr,
michael.commonwealth@yahoo.co.uk
NOTE: Last date for submission of proposals is 15th February 2010. The
proposals could be in English or French. However, for the publication of
the proceedings, you would be required to contribute your text in French.
Geetha Ganapathy-Dorand
Michel Olinga
from the Universitde Paris 13
Email: geethagd@hotmail.com, michael.commonwealth@yahoo.co.uk
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