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Deadline for abstracts has passed and decisions have already been communicated. Speakers have been maintained for 2021, but we may issue a further call for abstracts later in the year.

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Kind reminder that deadline for abstracts for 'Global Classics and Africa' is in less than two weeks.

3rd CfP (Extended Deadline: January 30, 2020): Global Classics and Africa: Past, Present, and Future

8th to 11th October 2020
University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana

Keynote Speakers

Professor Folake Onayemi (University of Ibadan)

Professor Philip Bosman (Stellenbosch University)

The late 1950s and early 1960s ushered in a period when many African countries were gaining political independence. Immediately, there was an agenda to unite African nations, and a policy of Africanization began to gain ground. In the area of education, this Africanization process was vigorously pursued. In Ghana the Institute of African Studies was established, and an Encyclopaedia Africana project, originally conceived by W. E. B. DuBois, was revived. In Nigeria, new universities were established to counter the colonial-based education that was present at the University of Ibadan, and in some East African countries there were fears that foreign university teachers would not be able to further the Africanization of university education.

One of the fields of study singled out in this process of Africanization was Classics. Classics was believed to serve the interests of colonialism and neo-colonialism. Part of the agenda of this Africanization was to highlight African contributions to world civilization and to show that the ‘Western’ world could not lay claim to any superior heritage. As part of restitutive measures in the field, scholars have begun exploring the idea of ‘Global Classics’, showing how the Classics connects with the broad spectrum of humanity and society. While there is evidence to show that this kind of link has been explored since (or even before) the independence of African nations, it has begun to garner attention across the world. Yet, there are still places in Africa and other continents where Classics continues to be inward-looking and does not open itself to interdisciplinarity, collaborations, nor to other civilizations besides the Graeco-Roman world.

In the present context of globalization, and the decolonization and Africanization of education in Africa, how might we account for the role of Classics in Africa, and to what extent can the idea of ‘Global Classics’ be the way forward? We seek papers that explore these questions, from the earliest presence of Classical scholarship (broadly defined, and including archaeology, literature, material culture, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, etc.) in Africa, and project what the future holds for Classics in Africa. We also welcome papers that draw lessons from non-African contexts. Papers may explore any of the following, as well as related, themes:

• academic freedom and politics
• African studies and global history
• Africanists/African-Americanists and the Classics
• art, museums, and architecture
• citizenship, migration, and cosmopolitanism
• classical connections with cognate and non-Classics disciplines
• comparative cultural reflections
• decolonization, pedagogy, and curriculum development
• economy, trade, and diplomacy
• gender and sexuality
• geography, environment, and development
• globalization, capitalism, and education
• race, ethnicity, and identity
• science, technology, and society
• war, peace, and democracy

Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words for 20-minute papers to iccg [at] ug.edu.gh by January 30, 2020. We aim to send notifications of acceptance by the end of February 2020.

Conference Registration

Conference registration includes the conference pack, snack breaks and lunch.

A. Before July 15, 2020

Non-students US$ 120
Students US$ 50

B. After July 15, 2020

Non-students US$ 150
Students US$ 80

Online registration opens: April 15, 2020
Online registration closes: August 30, 2020

Information regarding dinner, excursions, travel and accommodation will be communicated later. All enquiries should be sent to Gifty Katahena (kemgift [at] gmail.com) or Michael Okyere Asante (kwadwoasante1 [at] gmail.com).

Collaborating Departments/Institutions
The Classical Association of Ghana
Department of Philosophy & Classics, University of Ghana
Department of Classics & Philosophy, University of Cape Coast
Department of Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch University
Department of Classics, King’s College London

Organizing Committee
Gifty Etornam Katahena (University of Ghana)
Peter K. T. Grant (University of Cape Coast)
Michael K. Okyere Asante (Stellenbosch University)
Daniel Orrells (King’s College London)