The conference will be research driven and will feature panels organized in ways which effectively stimulate discourse across geographic, disciplinary, cultural, and theoretical boundaries.Ý The concept of the Diaspora is global; hence, all geographic areas will be represented, including the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.Ý Paper and panel proposals that incorporate gender and women as categories of analysis are encouraged.

Examples of projected panels include: Ethnicity and Slave Resistance; Carnival; Conjuring; Communities; Therapeutic Strategies; Individual and Self-Expression; Cross-Regional Slave Labor; Religion as Resistance/Religion as Community Builder; Comparative Slavery and Anti-Slavery Movements; Gender and Cultural Continuity; Slave Labor and Capitalism; Shifting Definitions of African Liberation; Past and Present in the Expressive Imagination; Interpretations of the Past Through Music/Art/ Dance/Literary-Oral Traditions; Cultural Transmissions; Africans as Workers; Burial Grounds as Sites of Testimony; and African Perspectives on the Diaspora.