(NCBS) 39th Annual Conference

National Council For Black Studies 39th Annual ConferenceThe Foundation and Future of Black Studies: Reaffirming Our Emancipatory Mission & Value March 11 – 14, 201539th NCBS Annual Conference The Westin Los Angeles AirportLos Angeles, Ca. The National Council for Black Studies (NCBS) announces its 39th annual conference. Theme: We welcome presentations for our upcoming annual meeting on all topics pertinent to Africana/Black Studies. In addition to topics from all disciplinary, inter- and trans-disciplinary perspectives, we especially call for papers that explore the foundations and future of our work of cultural grounding, academic excellence, and social responsibility. In the diverse, international metropolis of Los Angeles, CA, we invite papers that examine the emancipatory mission of our discipline/field from local to global spaces. As a special feature, we will host a legislative hearing in partnership with members of the California Legislature who are engaged in a statewide effort to save and build Africana Studies in our state universities. The session will hear from leaders in higher education, discuss recent and pending legislation as well as efforts to get the state chancellor to put a moratorium on all program reductions and elimination, and to engage in a statewide study on the value of ethnic studies to California and beyond. General Guidelines: Submit a 150-400 word abstract for a panel (one for the panel subject and one for each panelist), individual presenter, and poster presentation. For a roundtable discussion submit a 500-word abstract for the discussion topic. Panels, presentations, posters, and roundtables should explore the experiences and perspectives of African people, locally, nationally, globally or comparatively from interdisciplinary frameworks rooted in the agency of African people. Of particular interest are presentations that approach the discipline of Africana/Black Studies using multi-layered frameworks and mixed methodologies that incorporate various combinations of class, gender, race, and sexuality, through the lens of Afrocentric, cross and multicultural, postmodernist, post-colonial, transnational, comparative, and diasporic interpretative schemes. Call for Papers Submission Deadline: December 31, 2014 Register Today! www.ncbsonline.org/conference_registration1Reservations phone number: 1-800-WESTIN-1 5400 West Century Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90045 MARCH 11-14, 2015 Los Angeles, Ca. Call for Papers Deadline: December 19, 2014 For more information: 2015 Annual Conferencewww.ncbsonline.org We are excited to announce our 39th Annual conference in the great city of Los Angeles, California. As we celebrate our 39th conference, we invite you to share this moment with us and create new memories. Please feel free to share with your colleagues. The 2015 Local Host Committee: Department of Africana Studies, California State University – NorthridgeDepartment of African American Studies, University of California – Los AngelesDepartment of African American Studies, Loyola Marymount UniversityAfricana Studies Department, California State University – Dominguez HillsDepartment of African American Studies, California State University – Long BeachDepartment of Pan-African Studies, California State University – Los Angeles NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR BLACK STUDIESUniversity of Cincinnati | P.O. Box 210370 | Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0370