Kent State: Transnational Studies Reading and Working Group (TSRWG)

10/19/2016

Dear all,

The next meeting of the Transnational Studies Reading and Working Group will take place on October 28th, 2016, from 12 noon to 3:15 p.m. in the Reading Room (114 Satterfield Hall). We will watch the documentary, I Bring What I Love, and discuss it while eating Senegalese beignets (doughnuts).This film examines the work of Youssou Ndour, who is one of Senegal’s and Africa’s major singers and band leaders. He is known as a global and cultural ambassador and a superstar who recently became the Minister and culture and tourism in Senegal before returning to singing again. Besides, Ndour will be the first African musician to perform in the Bataclan nightclub of Paris this coming November 18, 2016, since last year’s tragedy. One can learn a lot about transnationalism through his music.

Gratefully,

Babacar M’Baye
Facilitator of the Transnational Studies Reading and Working Group (TSRWG)
Associate Professor
Department of English
Department of Pan-African Studies
Kent State University
http://tsrwg.blogspot.com/
http://www.kent.edu/english/profile/babacar-mbaye

-DeGroat, Judith and Mansour Bonakdarian. “Area Studies/Transnational Studies in the Classroom.” Radical History Review.76 (2000): 208-211.

03/20/2014

Reading Africa Through Film: A course on the cinemas of Africa and the Black Diaspora

02/01/2013

113 Sattersfield Hall, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44240

10/16/2012

Dear colleagues,

This is a reminder of the presentation that Mr. Doug Sheldon, a Graduate Student and an Instructor in the Department of English, will give for the Transnational Studies group. Mr. sheldon’s talk is entitled “Writing Protest: Rejection of Nationalism in Imperial Japan” and will take place on October 26, 2012, between 12 noon and 1 p.m., in room 215 Satterfield Hall (Kent campus).

See you on the 26th!

12/15/2011

… DEADLINE EXTENDED...

CALL FOR PAPERS

PAN AFRICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY
Presents
“Slavery, Colonialism and African Identities in the Atlantic World”
When
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012

While there are a variety of approaches to studying and teaching Africana Studies nationally and internationally, such methods have not yet been sufficiently examined by scholars and students of the discipline. Yet, there are many opportunities to discuss these approaches since institutions of higher education in the state of Ohio (and also in the rest of the United States) mirror the diversity of Africana Studies. The Department of Pan African Studies invite papers for a symposium that illustrate the various ways in which scholars are addressing the diversity within Africana Studies in their teaching, writing, and other activities. We are particularly interested in papers and/or panels from scholars and students (undergraduate and graduate) that examine important issues about slavery, colonialism and African identities in the Atlantic World.

The contributors are encouraged to explore the conference theme through various disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches that touch on questions such as:
What are the historical legacies of being black in the Atlantic World?
What does it mean to be a person of African descent in the 21st century?
How have processes and dynamics of racialization and gendering of black subjects materialized and been contested in the Atlantic world?
What are the historical legacies of being black?

Other possible topics include:
Theory and Africana Studies
Approaches to Africana Studies
The humanities and Africana Studies
Social Sciences and Africana Studies
The future of Africana Studies
Social Justice and Africana Studies
Public Policy and Africana Studies
The role of arts in the development of Africana Studies
Geography and identity
Gender, sexuality, and the black body
Diasporic economics and labor markets
Migration and identities of modern immigrants
Redefinition of the African American identity
Culture, representation and performance
Obama Phenomena
Jobs for Africana graduates

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION:
Please submit a working title and a brief abstract of 250 words, an abbreviated CV (1 page), your full name, institutional affiliation, phone number, and e-mail address.
The NEW due date is Jan 3, 2012.

Please send all materials electronically to:
[email protected] or by mail to
Dr. Amoaba Gooden,
Department of Pan-African Studies,
Kent State University,
P.O. Box 5190,
Kent, Ohio, USA, 44240

12/15/2011

New deadline for submission of proposals to read a paper or present a panel discussion at the conference on "Slavery, Colonialism and African Identities in the Atlantic World” that is being sponsored by the Department of Pan African Studies at Kent State University, OH on 27 April 2012. This is a great opportunity for colleagues from other disciplines throughout the university to participate in this interdisciplinary and multi-disciplined review and reflection of African and Neo-African culture in the Americas. It is also an opportunity to bring together some of those ideas, observations, and reflections that you've had for years as a result of your studies, investigations, and general research, and get some feedback on them.

You are invited and encouraged to submit an abstract to be considered for a presentation at this conference.

09/30/2011

The Transnational Studies Reading and Working Group (TSRWG) facilitates scholarly exchange between faculty members of our Department of English and those of other departments on the history, directions, and potentials of the field of transnational studies. The group intends to reach these objectives through meetings and conversations on bibliographies, articles, books, films, music, and other resources that will expand our knowledge of the cutting-edge field of transnational studies and allow us to better help our students, who have similar interests, take part in the conversations.

While it will be housed in the English Department, the TSRWG intends to be an inclusive group and will, thus, invite faculty and students of various departments and disciplines from across Kent State University, who do research on or are interested in transnational studies, to join the research collective. Moreover, instead of being a top-down model with ideas and directives coming from any singular entity, the TSRWG will be a bottom-up model of inquiry in which faculty members themselves define the meaning of transnational studies and the objectives and orientations of the group.

Please address any questions to Dr. Babacar M'Baye, who is one of the group's facilitators, at the following email address:

[email protected]

The group’s address is:

http://tsrwg.blogspot.com/

Thank you.


Sincerely,

Babacar M'Baye, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of English and Department of Panafrican Studies
(Office Address)
113 Satterfield Hall
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44240
Tel: 330-672-1742
Fax: 330-672-3152
[email protected]