XX Festival Del Caribe
July 3rd Thru 9th 2000
Santiago De Cuba
"Dedicated to Africa"

    The University of Colorado Department of Ethnic Studies
        AFRICAN ATLANTIC RESEARCH TEAM
            announces
        NORTH AMERICAN PROPOSALS FOR PAPERS ON
    "African Religious Influences in Our Americas"
                at the
            XX FESTIVAL DEL CARIBE

Proposals are now being considered for scholarly roundtables at the XX Festival del Caribe (An Annual Educational and Cultural Event) July 3-9, 2000, Santiago de Cuba.

Casa del Caribe of Santiago de Cuba has authorized the African Atlantic Research Team (AART) to invite North American scholars, activists, researchers, educators and other interested professionals to submit research papers for this historic event. We are particularly interested in presentations developed from author's research as well as papers that consider salient theoretical issues on the topic "Religious Traditions of Africans in the Atlantic Diaspora. '

Roundtables will be tailored toward exploring and challenging the existing theoretical issues and literature about religious traditions of Africans in the Atlantic Diaspora. Special consideration will be given to papers that are: based on the authors' research; that engage current theoretical issues; and that review literature related to African religious traditions and their descendants in the Americas.

Papers that link issues of gender and religious traditions also will be given particular consideration. Some suggested topics are:

    * African descendants and New World/American religious traditions
    * Contact of religious traditions in the Americas (e.g., Asian,
        Middle Eastern, African, European)
    * Transforming Carnival: sacred content in public discourse
    * Influences of the African presence on healing and medicinal
        practices
    * African traditions encounter religions of/in the Americas.

For information on submission and travel, please contact
dodsonj@spot.colorado.edu

Kim Burnett, Research Associate
Kimberly.Burnett@Colorado.EDU

Subject: XX Festival del Caribe Information

Dear Colleagues,

Please know that if you wish to read a paper at the Religious Influences Roundtables of xx Festival del Caribe, it is imperative that we receive your abstract, short vitae, and permission to publish should your paper be accepted. These must be in our office no later that March 14th, 2000. after that time, we have no assurance that your paper will be considered. 

Kimberly Burnett, Research Assistant

African Atlantic Research Team