Conference: Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa

IV CHAM International Conference

CHAM is proud to announce the organisation of its IV International Conference on Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa. Following very successful previous editions we are now focusing on Africa, its heritage, challenges and achievements.

As a leading centre in the Humanities, CHAM aims in this edition to foster the presentation and discussion of multiple disciplinary approaches and contributions to the understanding of cultural, literary, historical, social, educational, artistic, ecological, and political landscapes in Africa. The conference will bring together students, academics, policymakers, community leaders, artists. It will promote a broad disciplinary approach to African Studies and a dynamic forum for discussion and knowledge production. A particular attention will be dedicated to the importance of future leaderships and to the role of young policymakers, researchers and artists.

Read more about the conference concept.

Registrationremains open but Early-bird registration has now passed.Everyone attending the conference, whatever your role needs to register.The registration categories and fees are listed on the registration page.

The conference daily and panel timetables are online, so please view this page to see when and where your panel will take place.

Some student accommodation rooms are available for CHAM2019 delegates to book directly on a first-come, first-served basis. Please see all the details on the accommodation webpage.

The call for papers is now closed and all papers have been allocated to panels. The daily and panel timetable are both online.

We have received an invitation from the prestigious publishing house Routledge to publish an edited volume about Innovation, Invention and Memory in Africa in the wake of the conference. A selection of papers will be included in this publication.
If you wish for your paper to be considered for publication please provide a full paper by the end of the confrence (19 July 2019) to the conference organisers. Papers should be 3000-3500 words in length and APA referencing style.

Please note that the working language of the conference is English. Presentations may be delivered in Portuguese, although proposals (titles/abstracts) should be presented in English, and consideration given to the global audience.

You can also see videos from the previous conferences here.

About CHAM

The Portuguese Centre for Humanities (CHAM) is an inter-University research unit of the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and of the Universidade dos Açores, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. CHAM’s team includes researchers from different disciplinary fields (Archaeology, Art History, Heritage, Literature, Philosophy and History of ideas), different domains of History (Economic, Cultural, Political, Social, Religious, History of Science and History of books and reading practices) and specialists from various geographic spaces. From 2015 to 2020, CHAM’s strategic project will focus on “frontiers”. This multi-disciplinary project considers frontiers as limits that distinguished, throughout history, a plurality of societies and cultures, but also as social and cultural constructs that promoted communication and interaction.
www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt

Further information:CHAM Conference 2019

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