The Southern Interdisciplinary Round table on African Studies (SIRAS) is an annual forum that brings together to KSU, scholars, KSU students, and professional from various disciplines and from institutions of higher learning across the country and abroad to celebrate the African heritage. The Roundtable seeks to fasten social, cultural, and historical links between peoples of African descent and exposes participants to the historical, social, political, artistic, and economic trends on the continent and in the diaspora. SIRAS also enables KSU students and participants to discuss past and present social, cultural, and political challenges confronting the continent and the diaspora, as well as those that lie ahead.
2012 CONFERENCE INFORMATION
April 5-8, 2012. Frankfort, Kentucky. Theme: Human Activities and Environmental Preservation: Land, Religion, Politics, and Climate Change in Africa and the African Diaspora
Download SIRAS 2012 flier
2012 SIRAS Conference Poster
PAST CONFERENCES
2011 SIRAS Conference
The 2011 SIRAS conference was helpd on April 7-10, 2011 and was one of the best ever. As part of the conference, a complementary visit to the Lovers Leap Winery and Vineyard was organized. The visit will be followed by a reception with KSU President Mary Evans Sias.
SIRAS 2011 Conference Handbook
2011 Conference Information and Call For Papers
2011 SIRAS Conference Poster
2010 SIRAS Conference:
SIRAS - Conference Speakers
SIRAS - Conference Handbook
News Article - Diplomat discusses African Challenge at KSU SIRAS Conference
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Notes and Records: The International Journal of African and African Diaspora Studies has been published.
Dear All,
On behalf of the Editorial Advisory Board, we are very delighted to announce the publication of the maiden issue of Notes and Records: The International Journal of African and African Diaspora Studies Volume 1, Number 2 (2011).
Notes and Records is primarily devoted to publishing original studies related to the linkages and relationships between Africans and the African Diasporas. The idea is to encourage those engaged in the study of the Black world to explore the varied webs of connections between the Africans and the African Diasporas in an interdisciplinary approach: history, politics, culture, literature, gender, music/dance, folklore, religion, economy, globalization, war and resistance, civil rights movements, and so on.
Please see below for the Table of Contents, Submission Guidelines and instructions on making subscriptions.
Articles
Editor’s Note
Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Teaching Ancient African Philosophy in Continental and Diaspora Africa
Kazeem A. Fayemi and Sharon Omotoso
Poetic Verses and Historical Analyses as a Pathway to Students’ Learning of the African Diaspora
Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani
Kente Cloth – An Art Form in Transition into the Twenty-first Century
Ida Kumoji- Ankrah
The Influence of Igbo Traditional Music on Modern Igbo Music
Ruth Stellamaris Opara
Book Reviews
The African Diaspora: A History through Culture. By Patrick Manning. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Chandra D. Bhimull
African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game. By Peter Alegi. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2010.
Tyler Fleming
Africa. By Ivan Bargna. Trans. Rosanna M. Giammanco Frongia. Dictionaries of Civilization. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.
Matthew Teti
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. By Judith Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Gregory D. Smithers
Stirring the Pot: A History of African Cuisine. By James C. McCann. Africa in World History Series. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009.
Jeremy Rich
Spirit, Structure, and Flesh. By Deidre Helen Crumbley. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
Douglas Thomas
The Art of Livelihood: Creating Expressive Agri-Culture in Rural Mali. By Stephen Wooten. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2009.
Laura L. Cochrane
Africa and the New Face of Mission: A Critical Assessment of the Legacy of the Irish Spiritans among the Igbo of South Eastern Nigeria. By Charles A. Ebelebe. Lahman, University of America Press, 2009.
Uyilawa Usuanlele
Submission and review process: Notes and Records is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal published twice a year. It emphasizes original research, aspiring to be one of the elite journals in the field of African and African Diaspora studies. Manuscripts should be prepared double-spaced, using font size 12 Times New Roman on one side of the paper. The in-house referencing and citation style is the Chicago Manual of Style 15th edition.
All submissions accepted for consideration must be evaluated anonymously by at least two external reviewers. The submissions must be original works that have not been published previously and are currently not under consideration by another publisher. For more details please visit the journal’s website: www.kysu.edu/NotesAndRecordsJournal
Article submissions on topic related to African Studies should be sent to:
Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Department of History
University of Louisville
Louisville Kentucky, USA
Email: rc.njoku@louisville.edu
Article submissions on topic related to African Diaspora Studies should be sent to:
Matt Childs
Department of History
University of South Carolina, USA
Columbia, SC 29208
Email: childsmd@mailbox.sc.edu
All book reviews and review articles should be sent to:
Tiffany F. Jones
Department of History
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University Parkway, SB335
San Bernardino, CA 92407-2397, USA
Email: tjones@csusb.edu
For subscription and all correspondence should be addressed to:
Notes and Records Managing Editor
Egbunam Amadife
Division of Behavioral Sciences and Social Sciences, HH 231
400 East Main Street
Kentucky State University
Frankfort, KY
Email: egbunam.amadife@kysu.edu
Annual Subscription Rate 2011: (Individual: $30.00). (Institution: $60.00). (Single copy: $25.00). Add $6.00 for mailing.