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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!