KOSANBA: The Congress of Santa Barbara

Le passe est le regulateur du present comme de l'avenir

The past regulates the present as it does the future

Lontan, Kounye-a, ak Demen: Feme Sek-la

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KOSANBA Tenth Anniversary • Colloquium 8

8eme Colloque • Womble 8
10eme anniversaire • diziem fet

November 2 - 3, 2007
University of Massachussetts, Boston

KOSANBA, A Scholarly Association for the Study of Haitian Vodou, is accepting proposals for panels in English, Ayisyen (Haitian Creole), Français, Castellano. Suggested panels/ateliers might include:

Shifting patterns in religious ideology and practices
The "climate" in North America
Opportunities and hardships within Protestant countries
Healing arts in foreign contexts
Connections to other African diasporic systems
Case studies of particular houses: hounfo, terreiros, Santeria houses
Pitit kay: initiates' obligations in strange surroundings
Rituals: change and continuity
Lwa speaking in strange tongues: adaptations in visualizing deities
The work of Herza Barjon
Yoruba, Akan, Igbo and Others: How do they do what they do?
Vodou post-Katrina
Haitian Vodou in the eastern Caribbean and/or Cuba
Literary frameworks
How Vodou ideology changes
Worldviews and the world sense
The Lwa and the law
Psychology and Haitian marginalization in Canada and the United States

Please submit your proposals for a panel, or for one paper by sending a one-page typewritten abstract to the address below by August 31st, 2007 or by e-attachment. Include a short biographical note and contact information includine phone numbers, mailing address, and e-mail address. Send by attachment to pbs@uwm.edu or by mail to:

Professor Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
attn: KOSANBA/Conference
Department of Africology
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA

Co-Sponsors:
The Willian Monroe Trotter Institute, the Department of Africana Studies, University of Massachussetts, Boston and the Center for Black Studies Research, University of California, Santa Barbara.