MINORITY CULTURES IN NORTH AFRICA CONFERENCE:

The Berbers and Other Minorities in North Africa: A Cultural Reappraisal
Information publi�e le samedi 25 septembre 2004 par Jean-Louis Jeannelle (source : Nabil Boudraa )

Berber culture and the cultures of historically rooted North African minority groups (Jewish, Coptic, Turkish, among others) are not common foci of study in higher education. These cultures also remain shadowed in public discourse and in public policy. The same cultures have existed and thrived for a long period of time under the dominance of successive colonial powers in North Africa. Unfortunately, there is still a huge misunderstanding and a knowledge-gap regarding the diversity that constitutes the richness of a large region, situated between the East and the West and between Europe and Africa.

This conference's purpose is to promote a clearer comprehension of the complexity of these North African cultures. It will situate them in space (from Egypt to the Canary Islands) and in time (from early history to the present) within the larger dynamics of successive colonial epochs.

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The conference seems to be taking place in Oregon and 1-page paper-proposals should be turned in by 1 December 2004.