[AIW] CFP: Race in the Space Between, 1914-1945, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA/USA, June 4-6, 2020

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Proposals requested for the 22nd Annual Conference of The Space Between
Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945

Race in the Space Between, 1914-1945

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA/USA

June 4-6, 2020

https://spacebetweensociety.org/home/conference/

Join the Space Between Societyin Charlottesville, June 4-6, 2020, for our
22ndannual conference, Race in the Space Between, 1914-1945. Our conference
this year focuses especially on questions and problems related to race and
racial formation in the years between 1914-1945. Please send abstracts (300
words) along with a short biographical statement (100 words) to conference
organizer Carmenita Higginbotham at ch6sv at virginia.edu
<mailto:ch6sv at virginia.edu>  by December 1, 2019.

 

In the Space Between Society, scholars who study literature, history, media,
art, society, and culture between 1914 and 1945, or between and during the
two world wars of the twentieth-century, exchange ideas about their
approaches and their objects of study. This year's conference addresses the
key roles that race-including racial formation, racial ideologies and
racialist practices-played in creative, intellectual, ideological, and
political conversations from 1914-1945. Self-consciously or not, interwar
and wartime authors, artists, political figures, public intellectuals, and
public officials around the world invested in the concept of race. For some,
race was a means to assert social identity (white, black, Asian, American
Indian, Pacific Islander). For others, race informed concepts of modernity
and/or modernism. For still others, race shaped views of time and place,
structuring how interwar and wartime cultures were interpreted, received,
deployed, and exchanged. 

 

We invite conference participants to consider: 

*	What different cultural and scientific assumptions about race shape
various sites during this period and our knowledge about it?
*	What methods can we utilize in our particular fields to analyze race
as a component of cultural production?
*	What are the challenges of thinking about race and bringing such
work into conversation with scholars in the wide range of fields represented
in the Space Between Society? 

 

We welcome paper and session proposals that engage with multiple forms,
definitions, and investments in race in the space between and during the two
world wars, across all disciplines and media, on research and/or pedagogy. 

 

Possible presentations or panel topics include

*	Race, place, and regionalism  
*	Race and memory (monuments, storytelling, recollections)
*	Race and art, media, sound
*	Racial performance, racial spectacle
*	Race and science (Eugenics, technology, innovation)
*	Racial self-fashioning (passing)
*	Racism and racial hierarchies 
*	Racial invisibility and absence 
*	Language (slang, racialized vernacular)
*	Segregation, isolation, and confinement
*	Intersectionality (e.g. race and gender)
*	International and comparative contexts of race and movement
(migration, immigration, relocation)
*	Interracialism and cross-racial cultural production
*	Race and the metropolis 
*	International and comparative contexts of race and
politics/political systems
*	Economies of race (labor, consumption, commercialism)
*	Race, violence, war, and social movements
*	The Holocaust
*	Anti-Semitism
*	Racial genocide
*	Whiteness
*	Marginality and the "other"

 

We welcome longtime Space Between Society participants and invite new
members to join us in Charlottesville in 2020. Our conference will be
supplemented with tours, museum visits, performances, and walks in the
greater Charlottesville area (with proposed visits including Monticello, the
Fralin Museum of Art, the Jefferson African American Cultural Center, and
sites at the University of Virginia). The 2020 conference seeks to offer
mentoring workshops and 1:1 mentoring sessions for its participants. Some
travel grant funding will be available for graduate students and
international and independent scholars; please indicate your interest in
your cover letter. 

 

Contact Info: 

Carmenita Higginbotham, Associate Professor, Unversity of Virginia

 

Contact Email: ch6sv at virginia.edu <mailto:ch6sv at virginia.edu>  

 

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