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