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39th Annual
African Literature Association Conference
Charleston, SC March 20-25, 2013
+ Why Charleston?
#3 In CNN Go’s ranking of World’s Best Cities
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Why Charleston?
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Consistently named “Most Polite City”
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Why Charleston?
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Named “Hottest” City – Travel & Leisure 2011
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Why Charleston?
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#4 in TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards for Best Food
and Wine Destination
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Why Charleston for
African Literature Scholars?
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Birthplace of African America
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Why Charleston for
African Literature Scholars?
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Africanness hidden in plain sight
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Why Charleston for
African Literature Scholars?
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Landscape shaped by African labor and know how
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Why Charleston for
African Literature Scholars?
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Music & Cuisines
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Why Charleston for
African Literature Scholars?
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Resistance
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Why Charleston in 2013?
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Jubilee Project
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Why Charleston in 2013?
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150th Anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation; first came
into effect in SC
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Why Charleston in 2013?
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50th Anniversary of mid-point of African decolonization
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Why Charleston in 2013?
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50th anniversary of desegregation of Clemson, USC, CCSD
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Conference Theme:
Literature, Liberation and the Law
• Role of writing in establishing
conditions for freedom
• Role/limits of writing in
creating and maintaining
freedom
• Role of writing in extending
notions of freedom (individual,
national, racial, gender,
environment)
+ Who Will Be There to Tackle These Ideas?
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Albie Sachs, former Constitutional Court Judge of Republic of
South Africa
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Njabulo S Ndebele, South African novelist, critic, educator
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Cleveland Sellers, survivor of SC’s 1968 Orangeburg
Massacre
+ Who Will Be There to Tackle These Ideas?
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Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer
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Leonora Miano, Cameroonian writer
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Host Institutions
College of Charleston & the African Studies program,
CLAW Program, Avery Research Center, Charleston
School of Law & Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
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Where are the Facilities?
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Joseph P Riley Conference Center at the Marriott Hotel on
Lockwood Blvd
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Conference rate of $149/night
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Additional hotels nearby
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NotSo Hostel for those on super-tight budgets
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Registration Information
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http://claw.cofc.edu/ala/conference.html
Call For Papers: November 30th, 2012
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We’ll See You at ALA 2013!