Call for papers-Rethinking Africa’s Transcontinental Continuities in Pre- and Protohistory

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The African Studies Centre is organizing a conference in Leiden, The Netherlands, on 12 and 13 April 2012 to mark the retirement of Prof. Wim van Binsbergen after 35 years as a senior researcher at the ASC.

The occasion marks the 65^th anniversary of African Studies Centre, Leiden (the Netherlands).

The conference is open to Africanists, archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, comparative mythologists, comparative anthropologists / ethnologists, palaeoanthropologists, historians, classicists, Egyptologists, Assyriologists, Mediterraneanists, Afrocentrists, and to any scholars who propose to make an original and path-breaking contribution to the topic.

Interested participants can submit an abstract paper with title by 15th September 2011 to Marieke van Winden : winden@ascleiden.nl.

For more information, visit the orgnisations website on: www.ascleiden.nl

 

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