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Call for Papers: Nigeria�s Eastern Writers� Forum: Creative Writing and the African Environment |
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Nigeria�s Eastern Writers� Forum is pleased to announce an International conference/ Writer�s Convention on Creative Writing and the African Environment in honour of African writers Gabriel Okara, J. P Clark, Elechi Amadi and Christian Otobotekere. Proceedings of the conference which holds at Okoya Auditorium and Gloryland Conference Centers in Bayelsa Nigeria on 12th � 14th March 2012 will be collated and edited by the International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC).
Past and present imaginative works including films, songs, dances, orature, writing and folk traditions in Africa bear evidence of the consistent reevaluation of African human, natural and socio-cultural environments. With globalization and the Information Age the frontiers of 21st century African environment widen to present new challenges to individual, collective national and continental survivals. And so the question remains as to how have contemporary Africa�s creative outpourings �voiced� and re-imagined Africa in the realm of contemporary art and literature of varied human circumstances. The conference provides opportunity for scholars to explore, in its broadest sense, the interface of writing and creativity with the African global environment, not excluding, perhaps, their relationships with other disciplines in history, politics, culture, anthropology and the sciences.
The Editorial committee of International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC) will review select papers that meet international and double-blind review standards for the Journal of African Poetry and Journal of African Literature. Conference participants are therefore encouraged to expand and revise their papers for peer review and possible publication in the NP and JAL journals.
There will be panel presentations, workshops and creative presentations around the following conference themes:
� Language, Creative Writing and African Environment � Communication Arts, Creative Writing and African Environment � Media, Creative Writing and African Environment � Music, Creative Writing and African Environment � Conflict resolution, Creative Writing and African Environment � Peace, Creative Writing and African Environment � Poetry and African Environment � Drama and African Environment � Short story and African Environment � Children�s literature and African Environment � The Novel in an African Environment � Performance and the African Environment � Indigenous Theatre in the 21st Century African Environment � Films, Creativity and African Environment � Gender, Creative Writing and African Environment � sexuality, Creative Writing and African Environment � Women�s Writing and African Environment � History, Creative Writing and African Environment � Philosophy, Creative Writing and African Environment � Linguistics, Creative Writing and African Environment � Religion, Creative Writing and African Environment � Popular Culture, Creative Writing and African Environment � Theory, Creative Writing and African Environment � Post-modernism, Creative writing and African Environment � Post colonialism, Creative Writing and African Environment
Submit a proposal (IRCALC recommends a comparative approach) of 250 to 300 words, including title, abstract, to the organizers [email protected] and [email protected] by January 15, 2012. Full Papers should be submitted by February 15 2012. The proposal should include name of presenter(s), academic affiliation and email contact. MLA 2009 latest documentation style sheet should be used for all conference papers. Visit the IRCALC website www.africaresearch.org for sample details. � NB If you are interested in organizing a panel, workshop or creative performance, please send your proposal to the same address. In order to help us with planning, we would appreciate an earlier email indicating your intention to attend.
Workshops Six workshops shall be organized for creative writers and actors during the period of the conference. These workshops shall provide the forum for professionals to interact with younger writers on how the creative activity. These workshops shall be interactive and participants are expected to make submissions for Possible Awards (�Outstanding Writer�s Award� and �Outstanding Critic�s Award�) at the end of the conference.
First keynote speaker: Prof Alagoa Second Keynote speaker: Prof Romanus Egudu
Registration fee: 140USD/100 Euro/ 5,000NGN (academics/attendees).
G.M.T Emezue (IRCALC Regional Rep.) Dept of English Language and Literature Ebonyi State University Abakaliki Ebonyi State
Cammilus Ukah President Eastern Writers� Forum |