Call for papers, abstracts and panel proposals for a symposium on

Black Women's Studies and the Academy
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN

February 27- March 1, 2003

  

The symposium will provide an opportunity for scholars, faculty, students, professionals and 
other researchers to trace the development of Black women's studies as a discipline; discuss 
theory, pedagogy and epistemology as related to the study of Black women; and consider issues of 
institutionalization and canonization.  The symposium will also provide a forum for scholars to 
consider critical issues facing Black women and explore possibilities of a collective research
agenda toward effecting positive social change.

Topics:


Africana womanism
Anna J. Cooper's A Voice from the South
Black feminism
Canonization
Collection development and library services
Curriculum development
Cultural aesthetics
Ethics
Globalization
Institutionalization
Literature
Origins and development of the discipline
Pedagogy
Science and technology
Spirituality
Writers and thinkers

Submission -  Send abstract (no more than 500 words) with bibliography for paper and panel proposals 
by September 30, 2002  to:


Dorothy Ann Washington, Coordinator
Black Cultural Center
Purdue University
1100 3rd Street
West Lafayette, IN  47906

phone: (765) 494-3093
email: dwashin2@purdue.edu
fax: (765) 496-1915

Notification of proposals accepted will be sent on November 1, 2002. 

Planning Committee:

Susan Curtis, Ph.D.       
American Studies

Carolyn Johnson, Ph.D.                   .
African American Studies 
and Research Center            

Karen Hall         
Women's Resource Office

Ruth Salvaggio, Ph.D.
Women's Studies

Dorothy Simpson-Taylor, Ph.D.
Diversity Office

Marcia Stephenson, Ph.D.
Women's Studies         

Dorothy Ann Washington
Black Cultural Center

"when and where I enter ... the whole ... race enters with me"--Anna J. Cooper