15244: Bellegarde-Smith: KOSANBA -- Fifth International Colloquium (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>


	KOSANBA

	Colloquium V
	Saturday, June 7th, 2003

	From 8:30 AM until 6:00 PM

	NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY


	The Congress of Santa Barbara (KOSANBA),
	(a scholarly association for the study of Haitian Vodou)

	announces its Fifth International Colloquium to be held at
	Nova Southeastern University, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

	Theme: "Lot Bo Dlo: Dyaspora Peyi d Ayiti Ak Tout Vodou li."
	       	"Across the Waters: The Haitian Religious Diaspora."

	Under the eagis of the Lwa:

			Ezili Freda Danhomin and Hevioso
			(Ochun and Chango)

	Scholarly presentations are about the transfer of Haitian Vodou to
	North America, the Caribbean and the world, the transformations
	inherent in such diasporas, and the new meanings of Vodou in
	religious discourses worldwide.


	Additional information can be obtained at the
	<mayoub@omni.ucsb.edu>. For local information,
	contact the Site Committee, Dr. Florence Bellande-
	Robertson at <fbellande@hotmail.com>

	Secretariat, Congress of Santa Barbara
	Center for Black Studies,
	University of California, Santa Barbara
	Santa Barbara, CA 93106
	Tel. 805.893.3914
	Fax  805.687.4712

Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, PhD
Vice-President, KOSANBA
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
<pbs@uwm.edu>