Starting March 18, 2016 - Ending April 18, 2016 Expired
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON
PROMOTING HUMANITIES RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA
15 – 17 June 2016
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
UNIVERSITY OF GHANA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Extension of Deadline for Receipt of Abstracts– Tuesday ,March 22, 2016
The College of Humanities of the University of Ghana is pleased to issue a Call for Papers for its 2nd Annual International Research Conference on the theme Promoting Humanities Research for Development in Africa. The event will provide a global platform for academics, practitioners, policy makers, and students to share their research on the role of the Humanities in Africa’s development.
The Humanities is a multidisciplinary area encompassing the Arts, the Social Sciences, Business and Law. As such, this international conference seeks to explore diverse theoretical and disciplinary perspectives and methodologies to researching the humanities. We especially encourage papers that interrogate how humanities research may support social transformation on the continent.
Guidelines for Abstract Submission
The Conference will be organized around a competitive call for papers and panels that include, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Approaches to researching the Humanities
- Alternative paths to development
- Law and society
- Entrepreneurship, business and technologies
- Macroeconomic Management and Growth
- Environment and ecologies
- Citizenship: rights and identity
- Youth and the demographic dividend
- Education: quality, relevance and access
- Labour, employment and industry
- The Performing Arts and social transformation
- Urban lives and livelihoods
- Migration and transcultural exchanges
- Managing modernity: tradition, culture and religion
- Languages and language planning for development
- Literature in print, performance and broadcast
- Communications: social and new media
- Diversities: gender, sexualities and dis/abilities
Format and language:
Each paper proposal must consist of a research title, an abstract of 250 words, a list of author(s), and the institutional affiliation. Panel proposals should, in addition, include a brief rationale of no more than 100 words, and abstracts for all papers.
All submissions should be in Word format. (For abstracts with special characters, also submit a pdf version).
The main language of the conference is English; however, papers in French will be considered. Abstracts for papers to be given in French should be submitted in both French and English.
Funding:
Limited funding in the form of travel grants are available for Young African Scholars from the sub-region. Applicants may apply for funding after they have received confirmation of the acceptance of their abstracts.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: 22 March 2016
Notification of acceptance: 7 April 2016
Deadline for submission of full paper: 15 May 2016
[NOTE: Inclusion in the final program is subject to receipt of a full paper].
