Managing Uncertainty: Death and Loss in Africa Conference
Call for papers: Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg, South Africa, 8-10 April 2010,Co-hosted by:
• Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
• Department of History, Goldsmiths College, University of London
• Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand
Please visit the Death in African History project website for further information and to view the call for papers.
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore ‘ways of dying’ in Africa within specific regional contexts, and to meaningfully locate contemporary dynamics within older, historical processes of contestation and change. We encourage submissions across the broad range of humanities and social sciences. We aim to encourage sustained dialogue among scholars working throughout sub-Saharan Africa, and to connect academics to practitioners, activists and organisations in the public health sector and civil society, many of whom constitute the ‘front-line’ in mediating African responses to death and the dying process.
This conference is co-funded by the Arts Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom and by WISER.
The conference will be held over three days, with no parallel sessions. In addition to academic panels, there will be a programme of guest speakers and events/exhibitions, drawing from NGOs, public health institutions, religious organisations and the heritage industry.