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Date: 9 – 12 December, 2002
Theme:
Africa in the New Millennium
Venue: Nile International Conference Centre, Kampala,
Uganda.
The
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce its 10th General Assembly which is
coming up in Kampala, Uganda, from 8 – 12 December, 2002. The
Assembly, Africa’s biggest triennial gathering of scholars actively
involved in social research, will be held under the broad theme: Africa in the New Millennium.
Among the sub-themes around which scientific sessions will be organised
are:
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Higher Education in
Africa: Crises, Reform, and Transformation;
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Academic Freedom in
Africa: The
Kampala Declaration Revisited;
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Health, Politics and Society in
Contemporary Africa;
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Reforming the African Public
Sector:
Retrospect and Prospect;
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The Changing Political Economy of
Land in Africa;
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Colonialism, Customary Law and
Post-Colonial State and Society;
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Africa and the Challenges of
Globalisation in Africa;
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Continuity and Change in African
International Relations;
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The Popular Arts, Identity and
Culture in Contemporary Africa;
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Conflict and Reconstruction in
Africa;
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State, Political Identity and
Political Violence;
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Political Pluralism and the
Management of Diversity;
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Re-thinking
(African) Development;
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Africa Beyond Structural
Adjustment;
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Migration Dynamics and Changing
Rural-Urban Linkages;
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New Regionalist Impulses in
Africa;
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The African Diaspora and Diaspora
Linkages.
Abstracts for the presentation of
papers are invited from the community of social researchers within and
outside Africa on any of the above-mentioned sub-themes. The Council
will also welcome abstracts on any other topics, which cannot be
accommodated within the sub-themes outlined above. Furthermore,
independent proposals for the constitution of panels are strongly
encouraged. All paper abstracts and panel proposals must be received at
the CODESRIA Secretariat by 31 August 2002. For abstracts and
panel proposals, which are selected, all full papers should be received
at the CODESRIA Secretariat by 31 October 2002. Assembly
participants will receive, by e-mail, copies of all papers to be
presented by 20 November 2002.
Abstracts and panel proposals should
be addressed to:
The
Secretary,
CODESRIA 10th General Assembly,
BP 3304,
Dakar, Senegal.
E-mail: general.assembly@codesria.sn
Fax: +221-824 5795
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