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Call for Publications Theme: African Studies Publication: Edited Volumes Deadline: 5.6.2020 __________________________________________________ Each of the following call for papers for edited volumes are meant to raise the African Studies profile of the University of Mauritius. They will be published by globally renowned publishing outlets at times in collaboration with the University of Mauritius Press. Each edited volume project includes one international virtual papers sharing global seminar and in two cases, face to face global conferences if possible. I am also looking for co-editors for each volume so please feel free to volunteer. The papers for each volume should be no more than 30 double spaced pages in length including references. 12 font. APA citation/ reference style. Paper abstracts with brief bios are due June 5, 2020 and final paper drafts are due as indicated. This internal call for papers is as well, being distributed nationally and globally. For those of you who have already submitted abstracts, bios, and papers please resubmit. 1. What is the Virtuous African Democracy? Theme: If the Westerners can ask such philosophical questions why can' t we of African and African Diasporic descent? So this is a think piece oriented writing project-- idealistic and futuristic..wishful thinking about a particular topic such as governance, civil society, climate control, medicine and health, rule of law, media, economy, human rights, food security, education, academia, sciences, technology, faith, peace, built environments, anti-corruption, etc. Virtual Seminar: September 14, 2021. Final papers are due on November 19, 2021. 2. Best Practices for Justice and Peace In Africa and African Diasporas Theme: No justice no peace! faith, interfaith, and secular best practices justice and peace concepts, applications, and case studies in African nations and nations outside Africa with significant African Diasporas populations. Final papers due April 1, 2021. Papers supplement papers presented in an April 5-7, 2021 Justice and Peace in Africa and in African Diasporas Conference. 3. African and African Diasporas Indigenous Roots of Scientific Knowledge (Behavioral, Physical, Social) Theme: African Heritage epistemological, ethical, theoretical, methodological, and applications roots of sciences broadly defined as knowledges and logics of inquires originating in the East, West, and in Africa. Final papers due November 16, 2021 with a virtual seminar. 4. 2015-2020: National Elections and Civil Societies in Africa - Case Studies Theme: Using relevant non-western and western perspectives to explore the most recent cases of national elections and the emerging roles of civil societies in inducing regime changes or close calls. Virtual Seminar: January 20, 2021. Final papers due March 12, 2021. 5. Best Practices in Preventing Sexual Violence Against Girls and Women in Africa and in African Diasporas. Theme: Papers for an edited volume recommending best practices to prevent sexual violence against girls and women for high government and civil society bodies in Africa and in African Diasporas nations. Edited volume generating virtual/face to face conference in November, date to be determined. Final papers due January 29, 2021. 6. Rethinking African Sustainable Development Theme: What REALLY IS African Sustainable Development? How often is this phrase a political myth or ideology or based upon mismeasurements and other Eastern/Western biases or lingering colonial and Social Darwinist presumptions, and what are more relevant and empowering ways to conceptualize what African Sustainable Development is. Virtual Seminar: October 12, 2021. Final papers due on January 28, 2022. 7. Who Is An African? Theme: Not only but certainly including Mauritius, the question of Who Is An African is a hot button issue across the continent and around the world. It is an exacerbated paradoxical issue of individual and collective identity too often politicalized or on the other extreme, taboo topic in need of much more cool-headed impartial analysis. Virtual Seminar in October 2021. Final papers due January 25, 2022. 8. New Studies of Race and Racism in Africa and Asia Theme: Conceptions and narratives of race and racism in Africa and Asia with special attention being paid to the Indian Ocean Region, China, India, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Virtual Seminar: January 26, 2021. Final papers due April 9, 2021. 9. Comparative Post-Slavery/Indenturehood Studies Theme: What happens when African Slavery/Asian Indenturehood legally ends regarding the human rights, human rights violations (such as discriminatory employment and housing policies, lynchings, massacres, mass incarceration), and quality of life prospects, problems, improvements through human rights movements lead by legally freed people and their allies? In what ways does slavery/indenturehood continue or is transformed into authentic equality and freedom? Virtual Seminar in February 2021. Final paper due April 7, 2021. 10. Media and Public Intellectuals in African Democracies Theme: What are the roles of media venues and houses and public intellectuals in African democracies with comparisions and contrasts with Eastern and Western democracies? Virtual Seminar: November 16,2021. Final Papers due January 21,2022. 11. Africanizing The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Theme: Africans as innovative owners as well as consumers in the fourth industrial revolution; extending decolonizing studies to the fourth industrial revolution. Virtual Seminar in November 2020. Final Papers due February 5, 2021. 12. Living in and After The COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa and Asia and in Asian and African Diasporas Theme: The cultural, economic, education, emotional, political, social, and technological impacts of living in and after the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa and Asia and in African and Asia Diasporas. Though many journals and publishing houses are rushing to press on this matter, our time frame for writing and submitting papers is to provide time to observe a bit more about how COVID-19 and aftermath impacts unfold. Virtual Seminar: October 14, 2020. Final papers due: February 12, 2021. Please feel free to email me here if you have any questions or proposals for other edited volume/virtual seminar in projects in African and African Diasporas Studies: lea...@asarpi.com SSR Chair of African Studies Mandate The SSR Chair mandate is to leverage the number 1 democracy in Africa status of Mauritius and to transform the University into a high profile beach head of innovative best practice policy ideas about and for the continent of Africa and for global African Diasporas, through national and international partnerships around the continent and otherwise world, and through hosting publication generating virtual and face to face lectures, conferences, seminars, and workshops. We will also be establishing a multi-thematic virtual global Ph.D. and Masters Program in African and African Diasporas Studies. It will be embedded in a consortium of faculty drawn from a number of national, continent, and otherwise global universities, government agencies, corporations, faith communities, nonprofit organizations, and media houses. This is all to say though Mauritians deservingly are proud of their phenomenal beaches renowned worldwide, it would be beneficial to the nation as well to become distinguished as an admired African democracy through its foremost public university, in select areas innovative policy thinking, advocacy, and effective practice. Contact: Professor John H. Stanfield, II SSR Chair of African Studies Center for Innovation and Lifelong Learning (CILL) University of Mauritius 4th Floor, Core Building, Ebene Reduit 80837 Mauritius Phone: +230-5443-2001 Mobile: +230-5935-7602 Email: lea...@asarpi.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________