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jr FFVL /?£2 C » FRO SCHOLAR __ ___ Afro Scholar Fall 1983 CALENDAR OCTOBER 1983 5-7 Amer Assoc of Minority Vet Program Admin Memphis, TN Nicholas Early Annual Conference 216/241-5966 X463I 5-7 Illinois Affirmative Action Officers' Chicago, IL Illinois Affirmative Association Action Off Assoc 6-7 4th Multicultural Conference Oshkosh, WI Melvin C. Terrell 414/424-1246 6-7 Minorities Involved in Catholic Higher Chicago Charles J. Kennedy Education Annual Conference 815/838-0500 6-8 The American Historical Assoc. Lafayette, IN 7-9 "Equality: The Education of Black Oberlin, OH Mary Durling Sesque Americans" 216/775-8167 8-9 National Student Anti-Apartheid New York, NY Conference 12 National Scholarship Service and Houston, TX Fund for Negro Students 12-14 National Black Child Development Atlanta, GA Institute-13th Annual Conf 12-14 Society of Ethnic and Special Jackson, MS Students 14 National Scholarship Service and Fund New Orleans, LA for Negro Students 13-15 The North American Labor Detroit, MI History Conference 14-15 8th Annual Midwest Black Detroit, MI 313/224-3482 Theatre Alliance Conf 19 Michigan Council of Black Studies Detroit, MI Norman Harris 313/577-3067 19-20 National Security and the Black Washington, DC Dr. Ron Walters Community 202/636-6720 19-23 Afro-American Assoc for the Study Detroit, MI of Afro-American Life and History 20-23 28th Annual Meeting of the Society Tallahassee, FL Prof. Kay Shelemay for Ethnomusicology Mew York University 21 National Scholarship Service and Richmond, VA Fund for Negro Students 21-22 Symposium on Race, Class and Socialization Chicago, IL 312/962-1435 and Life Cycle: In Honor of Allison Davis 22 New England Regional NCBS Conf Storrs, CT 22 The 60s Speak to the 80s: Ann Braden 413/545-0111 23-25 National Conference on Counseling East Lansing, Minorities MI 24 Socialist and Capitalist Paths to Evanston, IL African Economic Development: A Comparison of Ghana, Tanzania 26-29 National Conference - National Scholar Atlanta, GA ship Service and Fund for Negro Students AFRO-SCHOLAR, Volume 2: Number 1, Fall 1983. STAFF: Abdul Alkalimat / Roland Brown / Sundiata Cha- Jua / Howard Dodson / Doug Gills / Lynell Hemphill / Kina McAfee / Aysha Mibitl / Renelda Kay Smith Jeanzell Walker / Addie Williams. Additional information can be obtained from the AFRO-SCHOLAR 1204 West Oregon, Urbana, IL 61801 U.S.A., 217/333-7781. I - 2 - II - (S cholar Fall 1983 OCTOBER 1983 26-30 Write on, Chicago: A Festival of Chicago, IL Public Library Literary Arts 312/269-2882 27-29 6th Annual Conference on Third Omaha, NE World Studies 27-29 The Black Women's Caucus of Chicago, IL Dr. Ayana Johnson Northeastern Illinois University 312/268-7500 X126 27-30 American Folklore Association Nashville, TN 617/287-1900 NOVEMBER 1983 2 5th Annual Richard Wright Lecture New Haven, CT 203/436-8371 3-5 Southern Political Science Birmingham, AL Association 3-6 American Studies Association 215/898-4508 4-5 Illinois Council for Black Studies Charleston, IL Prof. Johnetta Jones 217/581-5719 4-6 Great Lakes Women's Studies Ann Arbor, MI 5 California Association of Non-White Los Angeles, CA 213/825-3081 Concerns in Personnel Guidance 6-8 Mid-America Association Fontana, WI of Educational Opportunity Prog 8-9 National Scholarship Service Miami, FL and Fund for Negro Students 9-12 Southern Historical Society Charleston, SC 404/542-8848 16-20 Association of Black Anthropologist Chicago, IL \ 18-19 Common Differences: Women's Studies Fayetteville, NC 919/683-6271 and Black Women ' 20-22 10th Anniversary Celebration - The Wooster, OH Black Studies Program 25-27 Southern Black Cultural Atlanta, GA Atlanta Neighbor A11iance hood Arts Ctr 29-30 National Conference of Black Washington, DC 202/636-7480 Bibliophiles and Collectors DECEMBER 1983 7-10 African Studies Association Boston, MA 19-23 American Academy of Religion - Worcester, MA 617/793-2497 Annual Conference 27-30 Modern Languages Association New York, NY 212/741-5588 28-30 Allied Social Sciences Association Nashville, TN 615/322-2592 28-30 American Historical Association San Francisco, Amer Historical CA Assoc. Wash., DC JANUARY 1984 12-13 Minorities, Bureaucracy and Washington, Politics DC 20-22 The State and Direction of Black Los Angeles, CA 213/642-2810 Studies: Academic and Professional Challenges Toward the Yr 2000 FEBRUARY 1984 24-26 1st Annual Ancient Egyptian Los Angeles, CA 213/299-6124 Studies Conference 24-25 The Southern Conference on Afro- Jackson, MS American Studies, Inc. 29 - 3 National Association for Inter Kansas City, disciplinary Ethnic Studies M0 29- 3 National Council for Black Studies Charlotte, NC Dr. Bertha Maxwell 704/597-2371 - 3 - Afro Scholar Nil? MARCH 1984 8-10 11th Annual National Conference Louisville, KY Dr. Joseph H. on the Black Family in America MacmiIlian 502/588-6678 8- 10 Missouri Valley History Association Omaha, NE 9- 10 Indiana Association of Historians Muncie, IN 28- 31 10th Annual Third World Conference Chicago, IL 312/534-500 X2429 29- 31 Southern Labor History Conference Arlington, TX APRIL 1984 1-8 "1984 and AFTER" International Black London, England And Radical Book Fair 4-7 Association of College and Research Seattle, WA Julie C. Virgo Libraries 312/944-6780. 4-7 Organization of American Historians Los Angeles, CA Joan Hoff Wilson 812/337-7311 12-14 Southern Council on Latin American 502/588-6817 Studies 12-15 African Literature Association Baltimore, MD Jonathan Peters U of MD-Bal timore 14-15 Western Association of Women Pasadena, CA Historians 17- 20 International Association of Detroit, MI 212/749-0470 Black Social Workers Ann Conf 18- 24 Midwest Sociological Society Chicago, IL 612/376-3829 19- 21 College Language Association Nashville, TN Ann Young Morgan St. Univ. 26-29 Marxist Scholars Conference Berkeley, CA Dept of Anthropoloqy U of MN- Minneapolis JULY 1984 19-21 National Black United Front 5th Chicago, IL 312/373-5000 Annual Convention 29- 1 Urban League Cleveland, OH 212/310-9000 AUGUST 1984 4th Congress of Black Culture Quito, Ecuador in the Americas RECENT DEGREES I 1983 M.A.'s in Afro-American Studies YALE UNIVERSITY Karin Shapiro, "The Convicts Joseph Brown, "Voices Stirring the Must Go: The East Tennessee Waters: Reflections on the Coal Miners Rebellion" (winner Religious Impulse of Afro- of the Alexander Bouchet prize American Art" for best thesis of year in Afro-American Studies) Joyce Davis, "Composite Textiles for Barbados Markets" UNIVERSITY OF CALIF0RNIA-L0S ANGELES Naida M. Parsons, completed Gloria Naylor, "Linden Hills: A comprehensive exam in Black Novel" Studies and Clinical Psycho- Linda Scott, "Holding Fast: Psychology (received The Vision of Modern Black American Psychological Women's Drama" Association Minority Doctoral Fellowship) - 4 - i Scholar F a ll 1983 OCTOBER 1983 19-20 The Political Science Department at Howard University is sponsoring a conference on "War and Peace - National Security and the Black Community," October 19-20, at the Blackburn University Center Ballroom. The conference features four plenary panels around key issues of U.S. military policy. Topics are: 1) "National Security and the Defense Build-up," 2) "Industrial Implications of the Defense Build-up," 3) "Socio-Political Implications of the Defense Build-up," and 4) "U.S. Military Policy in Africa and the Caribbean." Featured speakers include Ambassador Donald McHenry (the keynote speaker) Congressman Ronald Dellums, (providing the luncheon address) and special guest speaker, Dr. Randall Forseber, Director of the Institute of Defense and Disarmament Studies in Brookline, MA (on "Nuclear Freeze and the Third World"). For further information, contact: Dr. Ron Walters, Howard University, Washington, DC; 202/636-6720 X6722/6999. 19-23 The 68th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and Hi story will be held in Detroit, MI, October 19-23. The Convention site will be the Westin Hotel-Renaissance Center. The preliminary program suggest some of the most socially relevant and academicly stimulating topics of research, scholarly reporting and theoretical debate in recent years. Some of these sessions are: On Black Electoral Politics, Case Studies in Race, Class and Color, the Status of the Black Family, the Political and Economic Experiences of Black Women, the Oral History of Blacks in Mississippi, etc. Also, the theoretical sessions on the interrelations between race and class as operative variables in the Black experience and the "continuing debate" between Nationalist and Marxist paradigms — and their respective implications for social action may prove to be at the cutting edge of the production of ideas advanced in the convention. For more info- mation contact: National Program Committee, Talmadge Anderson, Chair, Conference Registration Office, Westin Hotel Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI 48243. Phone toll free 1-800-228-3000. 21-22 The Black faculty, the Department of Education and the School of Social Service Adminis tration pf the University of Chicago are sponsoring a Symposium in Honor of Allison Davis, former John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education at the University of Chicago. The Symposium on Race, Class,Socialization and the Life Cycle will occur on October 21-22, 1983. The symposium will seek to focus the energies of a group of scholars on the important problems which engaged Allison Davis during his life time. Panels take up such topics as "Race Relations in the 1980s," "Family, Socialization and Class," Social Class, Ethnicity and