Call for Papers announcement

Writing Change: Transitions in African History
Postgraduate Conference, 18th- 19th May, 2009

Department of History, University of Sheffield

Confirmed Keynotes:
Professor Megan Vaughan (University of Cambridge)
Professor Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Following successful events in 2006, 2007 and 2008, postgraduate members of the
International History Group at the University of Sheffield are holding their
fourth annual conference. Following last year’s overwhelming response, this
year we will be extending our conference over two days.

Postgraduate researchers from across the arts, humanities and social sciences
are invited to submit abstracts for 15-20 minute papers, on any aspect of
colonial and post-colonial African history, which reflect on the problem of
conceptualising and writing about aspects of change in Africa. Papers might
intersect with one or more of the following themes:
• African Nationalisms
• Decolonization and Transitions
• Borders, Boundaries and Partitions
• Belonging, Exile and Identity
• Colonial and Postcolonial States
• Conflict, Resistance and Violence
• Religion and the Supernatural
• The Local and the Global

Abstracts not exceeding 250 words should be submitted to:
[email protected] by Friday 27th March 2009.