State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY
 
                                            Elizabeth Ann Kaplan
                                            Humanities Institute
                                            516 632-7765
                                            10-Sep-1995 08:54am EDT
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CC:    Marilyn H Huether                    ( MHUETHER )
CC:    E. Anthony Hurley                    ( AHURLEY )
CC:    Mikle Dave Ledgerwood                ( MLEDGERWOOD )
 
Subject: African Lit (&Film!) Conference at Stony Brook
 
 
 
 
        I am writing to inform you all of a Call for Papers on relevant film
topics for the upcoming African Literature Association Conference being hosted
by Stony Brook this year. I am on the committee, which is Chaired by Anthony
Hurley in French Studies. The conference will run from March 27 to 31 1996, and
its theme is "Migrating Words and Worlds: Pan-Africanism Updated." Writers Kamu
Brathwaite, Shimmer Chinodya, Sonia Sanchez are doing key notes, and we are
still hoping to bring Chinua Achebe. For the main film event, I am working with
Manthia Diawara to bring the Mali film director and his brand new film (soon
showing at the New York Film Festivel) GUIMBA THE TYRANT. Diawara will also
show his new documentaries about Jean Rouch and Sembene. We will have other
film showings daily at the conference site.
        Please submit proposals for film panels or send in individual paper
proposals which the committee can form into panels as appropriate. All
questions and completed forms should be sent to Prof M.D. Ledgerwood, Dept of
French and Italian, University at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, N.Y. 11794-3359.
Phone 516-632-6914; FAX 516-632-9612; email [log in to unmask]
If you send a message to [log in to unmask] she will forward Call for
Papers form to you to fill out by October 1st, please.
        Please forward this message to film scholars working in the areas of
postcolonial film, African film, imperialism and film, alternate African
American cinema, etc. Ideological, genre, feminist, historical, cultural
studies, psychoanalytic approaches welcome.
        I'd be happy to forward more information as necessary.
 
eak
 
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