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56th Annual Meeting of the African Studies AssociationMOBILITY, MIGRATION AND FLOWSNovember 21-24, 2013Marriott Baltimore Waterfront Hotel                                               DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: MARCH 15, 2013Program Chairs:Jamie Monson and Dianna Shandy, Macalester College&#160;We are soliciting proposals for papers, panels, and roundtables. Presentations may focus on thetheme of “Mobility, Migration and Flows” or on broader social science, humanities, and appliedthemes relating to Africa. We strongly encourage the submission of formed panels.On a geographically diverse continent, Africanists examine the multi-directional movement ofpeople, things, capital, and ideas at many levels. We study not only the movements of peoplewithin the Global South and between the Global South and the Global North, but also the bordersand the institutions created to police them, in relation to war, environmental change, and outsideinfluence. We look at the transport of materials from one space to another by train, plane, andvehicle across mountains, deserts, lakes, and oceans. Increasingly we are discussing the fluidcrossings of boundaries of identity in Africa, be they of religion, ethnicity, gender, language, orsexuality. In our era of social media and technology, we are examining the influence of massmedia on the mobility of ideas, symbols, and material objects as well as their commoditization –both within Africa and between Africa and other continents. We look at the ways in whichmovement can create, sustain and reconfigure human relationships. Recent changesin governments prompt us to think about movement of power and privilege within and outsideof state institutions. ... More details here