Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Who Needs Asian Studies and Why?CFP for A Conference Panel

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Who Needs Asian Studies and Why?

Being Panel for International Conference on ASIAN STUDIES IN AFRICA: Challenges and Prospects of a New Axis of Intellectual Interactions Organized by the Association of Asian Studies in Africa A-Asia with The International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS),Accra, January 15-17, 2015

Abstract

This panel will address the extent to which it is desirable to promote Asian studies with specific reference to Africa. It is a theoretical engagement with Asian studies that will attempt to locate the current state of human knowledge industry, the context under which Asian studies has become an urgent imperative; the specific role (if any) that should be assigned to Asian studies and the desired consumable products of this intellectual engagement. The panel will locate and deliberate on the variables that define modernity and modernization in Africa especially in relation to knowledge production and consumption to see whether the imperatives of African modernity demands Asian studies. It will also address the relevant audience for this engagement; such as whether it should serve the academy, the global capital industry, the different political formations of the world; or all or none of the above. The panel will discuss the challenges that arise from Asian studies and the implication of mapping out this subject of enquiry. It will attempt to compare and contrast Asian studies with such disciplines as African studies, Area studies or Cultural studies and articulate whether Asian studies should constitute a specific field of study and lead to specialists such as can be called "Asianists" or whether it should encourage multi-disciplinary approaches; and the implications of these.

Convener: Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi, Ph.D,Visiting Associate Professor Great Zimbabwe University/UNIABUJA

Confirmed Panelists:(i) -Chinweizu(Ghana)

(ii) -Erasmuns Maistera (Great Zimbawe University,Masvingo)

(ii) -Munamato Chemhuru(Great Zimbawe University,Masvingo)

On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 11:45 PM, OLADMEJI ABORISADE <olaaborisade@msn.com> wrote:

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Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 22:33:39 -0800
From: ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Who Needs Asian Studies and Why?CFP for A Conference Panel
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Prof,

Thanks for you expression of interested .

Details of the conference are supplied in the panel proposal attached.

I wait to get your abstract.

L.O.Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
Visiting Associate Prof
GZU-Zimbabwe

On Monday, March 3, 2014 7:05 PM, "Sackeyfio, Rose"<sackeyfior@wssu.edu> wrote:

Dear Professor:

I am excited about your CFP because I am an expert on African Women's Literature and Culture. Within the last 2 years I have expanded my reserach interest on the literature of South Asian women esoecially the Dalit people. I have visited India, Nepal and China and the intersection of African and Asian cultures and religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism is profound. I will send my Abstract, a bio etc. by the end of this week! I presented three talks on African Women at Lady Shri Ram University in Oct. and will present a paper in Hyderabad in August at the Women's World Congress.

Where is the conference please?

Warmest Regards,

R.A.S.

Rose A. Sackeyfio Ph. D.
Associate Professor, English
Phone: 336-750-2026
E-Mail: sackeyfior@wssu.edu
301 Hall Patterson
Winston Salem State University
601 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive
Winston Salem NC 27127

From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] on behalf of ugwuanyi Lawrence [ugwuanyiogbo37@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2014 3:58 AM
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Who Needs Asian Studies and Why?CFP for A Conference Panel

Dear All,

You are invited to submit abstracts for the Conference Panel attached.

At least six speakers can still be admitted to the panel.

Scholars who write and publish on modern African experience are invited even as experts on African and area studies are particularly desired.

Expression of interest should be followed with a short abstract of four to five lines latest by March 15,2014.

Thanks

L.O.Ugwuanyi,Ph.D

Visiting Associate Professor

GZU-Zimbabwe.

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