Second International Conference of the Trans-Atlantic Research Group In association with THE ECHERUO CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY 17 Otamiri Street Owerri, Imo State Nigeria GENDERING TRANSFORMATIONS: GENDER, GLOBALIZATION, AND STATE TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA VENUE: Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria DATE: July 28-30, 2006 The Second TARG conference aims to bring together scholars and policy makers interested in exploring historical, policy, and development phenomena and their intersection with gender using the methods of the social sciences. Individual papers or panels are invited from academics, independent scholars, and postgraduate students. We encourage submissions on a wide range of themes relating gender to globalization, democratization, and state transformation in Africa and the African diaspora. Papers should have some historical context and content. Proposals are welcome but not limited to the following areas: æ Gender and Social Transformation Transformation of Gender Roles Gender and Language in Africa Gender & Economic Transformation Gender, Crime, Law, and Justice Gender, War and Peace-making Trans-Atlantic Encounters & Transformation Migration\Displacement Experience Children and Migration Experience Globalization of Poverty Trans-Atlantic Relations Policy Implications of Gender and Globalization> All interested persons and groups are welcome. Those who wish to make presentations at the conference should submit 300-word long abstracts of their presentations. Please send abstracts by November 10, 2005 by email to the conference coordinators: Dr. Chima J. Korieh, Department of History, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA. Korieh@rowan.edu Fax: 856 2564791 Dr. Femi Kolapo, History Department, University of Guelph, Guelph, On. Canada, N1G 2W1. kolapof@uoguelph.ca CONFERENCE COMMITTEE: Dr. Femi Kolapo, Department of History, University of Guelph, Canada Dr. Chima J. Korieh, Department of History, Rowan University, New Jersey, USA Dr. Raphael Njoku, Department of History/Pan African Studies, University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA Dr. Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Department of Sociology, Brock University, Canada Dr. Obijiofor Aginam, Carleton University, Canada. Dr. Jude Aguwa, Mercy College, New York, USA Dr. JAK Njoku, Western Kentucky University, USA Dr. G. Ugo Nwokeji, Department of African American Studies, University of California at Berkley Mr. U. Aguwa, (Chair Local Organizing Committee)Department of History/International Studies, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria Dr. Rose Acholonu, Dean, College of Humanities, Imo State University <<back