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EASA Africanist network meeting, 28.08.08, minutes

Report from the EASA network coordinators meeting (Dmitri Bondarenko)

- Necessity to create a website and mailing list using the EASA portal & system
- report on the activities in the last two years, especially the organisation of the workshop 2008
- discussion of future network meetings and workshops outside the EASA
- Pilzen, April 2008, Conference “VIVA Africa”- including contributions from anthropology

http://viva.culturaafrica.org/files/program.pdf

thematic  workshop “as promoted by our network” during  the next ECAS (AEGIS)
4-7 June 2009 in Leipzig : new media entrepreneurs in Africa (planning stage),

Tilo Grätz together with B. Meyer;)
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ecas2009/

Anthropological conference Moscow, end of June 2009: (Organised inter alia by Dmitri)
http://conf2009.ru/index-eng.html

Discussion on topics for the next EASA meeting
 Tentative title: Tourism and Travelling: Encounters, Effects, and Images in/on Africa (including: Eco-Tourism, but also African travellers etc.)

Plus:
-Roundtable, Human rights in Africa from anthropological perspectives  
(Other proposed topics should not be forgotten, as potential topics for future workshops: Africa and the non-alignment movement, African Arts and Museums, Eco-Conservation as Intervention etc.)  

A discussion revolved around the issue whether to organise open or thematically precise workshops, whether to organise several workshops at the same EASA conference or one. With regard to the growing number of workshops, it transpired that is better not organise two many workshops and sessions and rather focus on relevant topics, also to attract scholars not specialised in Africa.  

Election of the new steering committee and chairmen
- Chairmen for the next two years: Tilo Grätz
- Network committee: Dmitri Bondarenko, Armando Cutolo, Tilo Grätz, Sarah Lunacek, Giulia Casentini, Petr Skalnik  

-New network members are welcome; membership is easily constituted by joining the mailing list. We encourage network members to become EASA members too, although EASA membership is not mandatory to join us.  

publication plans- EASA workshop 2008
- After a statement of interest, we will discuss possibilities among the paper presenters.  

Those who do not want to be on the mailing list, please send a short notice

30.08.2008     Tilo Grätz