Regional Undergraduate Student Research Conference – The Department of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, in collaboration with Delaware State University, Morgan State University, and Bowie State University, is pleased to announce our inaugural regional undergraduate student research conference to be held at Arsht Hall on the University of Delaware Wilmington Campus on Saturday, March 19, 2011, from 9:00 am-3:00 pm.
Please encourage your students or students that you know to submit papers or consider designing a student panel for the conference. Deadline for abstracts is Friday, December 3, 2010.
Regional Undergraduate Student Research Conference
March 19, 2011 (Saturday)
9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. (includes lunch)
Lite Breakfast & On-site Registration: from 8:00-8:45 a.m.
Arsht Hall, University of Delaware, Wilmington, DE
The Department of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, in collaboration with Delaware State University, Morgan State University, and Bowie State University, extend a call for papers for an inaugural regional undergraduate student research conference related to the theme-broadly conceived-Black Studies in the Age of Obama: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Black Identity. Complete panels and individual paper submissions may be submitted from a wide range of disciplines, including, but not limited to, journalism and public relations, Africa and Africans in the diaspora, Caribbean Studies, education, labor, community engagement, gender, sexuality, visual culture, and any aspect of the Humanities. – Deadline: 3 December 2010 (Friday)
Proposals should be submitted electronically and must include your name, title of the paper, panel, or roundtable format, and an abstract of 150 words. They should also include the institutional affiliation of each presenter, phone numbers, and email addresses. Submit proposals by Friday, December 3, 2010 to: Carol Henderson or Myrna Nurse (see addresses below)
Carol E. Henderson, Assistant Professor of English
Interim Chair, Department of Black American Studies
University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716
Email: ceh@udel.edu
Myrna Nurse, Assistant Professor of English
Department of English & Foreign Languages
Delaware State University Dover, DE 19901
Email: mnurse@desu.edu
Preregistration: $15.00 for non-students; Students (with ID) are Free, On-site Registration: $20.00
For more information contact Tammy M. Jackson-Harmon, Senior Administrative Assistant – Department of Black American Studies at University of Delaware – at tjharmon@udel.edu or call 302-831-2897.