[AIW] CFP: Migrations, Meeting Grounds, and Memory [WHA Conference], Albuquerque, NM/USA, October 14-17, 2020

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Call for Papers

60th Annual Western History Association (WHA) Conference

Migrations, Meeting Grounds, and Memory

Hyatt Regency Albuquerque & Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque,
NM/USA

October 14-17, 2020

https://www.westernhistory.org/2020

 

Session and Paper Deadline: December 5, 2019

 

We're living once more in a moment where our collective knowledge and
understanding of the migratory streams and movements that have built the
ecologically diverse, Indigenous, multi-racial, and multi-cultural West that
we care for are being questioned and even rejected outright.

 

Our understanding of the West as a set of meeting grounds where diverse
peoples have come together and interacted in myriad ways, from the most
positive and productive to the most violent and destructive, has to be
conveyed beyond the confines of the academy to the larger public.

 

We are the responsible mediators and moderators of a set of connected
regional histories curated through books, archives, and artifacts, but also
through memories (from recorded oral histories to storytelling traditions)
and are currently misremembered in the cause of cultural division.  

 

The WHA will gather in Albuquerque for its 60th Annual Conference and we
encourage scholars and teachers of the North American West in all
fields-history, American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Native American,
Chicana/o, Asian, and African American Studies, literature, film, music, art
and art history-members and non-members, tenure stream, renewable, and
contingent faculty and professionals at all colleges, universities, and K-12
schools, independent scholars, graduate students, public practitioners in
museums, art galleries, historic sites, government agencies, and others who
care about the West to join us. We have a collective responsibility as
conveyors and guardians of the West's diverse cultural heritage to convey
the full richness of the region's histories of migrations, meeting grounds,
and memories to a larger national and global public.

 

To that end, we invite submissions on all topics relating to migrations,
both human and non-human, into and out of the West throughout human history,
from individual and family stories, to the voluntary migrations of religious
and other cultural groups, the involuntary migrations of Native peoples, the
displacement and accompanying refugee migrations resulting from wars in
Mexico, Central and South America, and Asia, migratory labor streams, both
officially sanctioned and sin papeles, and changing immigration law and
enforcement policies, as well as the migrations of animal and plant species.


 

We seek sessions on all cultural interactions in the region in all
periods-from war, conquest, massacre, enslavement, confinement, mass
incarceration, and elimination to resistance, cultural unions and exchanges,
self-determination, and survivance. We welcome investigations at every
historical scale, from the local to the global, from micro-histories to
trans-national movements and world systems that impact the western region,
as well as interactions with its lands and landscapes. We encourage
proposals that connect to broader public conversations on contested memory
of western events, through the written record, literary accounts, artistic
renderings, museum exhibits, historic sites and reenactments, monuments,
memorials, and markers.

 

We encourage workshops, for example, on teaching, digital humanities, public
history, oral history, art and museum representation, and dissertation
chapter workshops, along with readings centered seminars, and other
innovative and non-traditional formats are welcome. Paper sessions (with
two, three, or four papers) are also encouraged, along with roundtable
formats, lightening rounds, poster sessions, film screenings, and
performances. We strongly encourage full session submissions, although we
will consider single papers.

 

To submit a full session or individual paper, follow the directions and
guide for electronic submissions:
https://www.westernhistory.org/2020#cfp2020. The deadline is December 5,
2019. If you have questions please contact the 2020 Program Co-Chairs: Leisl
Carr-Childers (Colorado State University), Lori Flores (Stony Brook
University), and Amy Lonetree (University of California, Santa Barbara). 

 

Diversity of Session Participants:

In 2018 the WHA Council adopted the following policy to ensure the WHA
conference programs reflect the diverse representation of the association
and field: 1) The Program Committee will actively promote the full and
equitable inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities, religious minorities,
people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ people on the Annual Meeting
program. 2) Although not all sessions can reflect the entire diversity of
the profession, the Program Committee will encourage proposers of sessions
to include diverse sets of participants, addressing gender diversity, racial
and ethnic diversity, sexual diversity, religious diversity,
disability-based diversity, and/or LGBTQ diversity. 3) The Program Committee
will encourage session proposers to consider the benefits of including on
their panels historians in various career paths and of various ranks (i.e.,
senior scholars, public historians, graduate students, independent
historians, etc.) within their organizations/institutions.

 

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