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Call for Papers Theme: Race, Memory, and Identity Type: 6th Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race Institution: Monmouth University Location: West Long Branch, NJ (USA) Date: 14.–16.11.2019 Deadline: 1.7.2019 __________________________________________________ This conference aims to bring together scholars from multiple disciplinary perspectives to broadly explore the intersections of Race, Memory, and Identity. Contemporary social, political, and media discourses demonstrate the continued need to evaluate the differing ways that race and identity impact memory in connection to history, trauma, loss and remembrance. Understanding memory as both a subject and a tool can act to promote conversations about how memories of the past impress upon individual and collective memory to affectively shape racial and cultural identities. How might we remember the legacies of personal and historical injustices in the present while at the same time shaping the future to allow for an exploration of the persistently entangled forces of remembrance, identity, and justice? This year, historian Dr. William Sturkey, UNC, Chapel Hill, will deliver the opening plenary lecture. Dr. Qiana Whitted, USC, and other distinguished speakers will also participate in this conference (TBA). The Interdisciplinary Conference on Race program committee eagerly invites proposals from students, scholars, researchers, artists, and teachers around the world on topics related to the scholarly and/or pedagogical aspects of the conference’s themes. Some examples of topics one could pursue under the conference theme include, but are not limited to: - Art, artifacts, comics, sequential art, visual culture, murals, street art - Collective, public, and personal memory - Ethnic, cultural, or national identity - Fluidity of identity - Social memory - Memory construction, remembrance, maintenance - Identity: imagined and real - Authenticity, acculturation, appropriation - Social practice / social relevance - Erasure / forgetting - Counter memory - Social justice - Individual / Sociocultural processes of identity - Representations of the past - Monuments, memorials, markers, museums - Preservation - Oral history / storytelling / narrative identity - Intersectionality - Commemoration, nostalgia, memorialization - Transmission of memory - Sense of place and displacement - Cultural production and consumption - Ritual, rites of passage, celebrations Formats include: - Organized Panels (3 to 4 panelists, one chair, and optionally, one discussant) – Individual papers, maximum of 20 minutes in length (panels of 4 have a maximum of 15 minutes in length for papers) - Single papers (not part of an Organized Panel) - Roundtables (between 4 to 6 participants) – 5 minute opening statements from participants and then conversational dialogue with the audience - Workshops on specific teaching techniques or practices - Proposals for poster displays and presentations - Meet the Author/Podcaster/Artist sessions — an opportunity for exchanges between authors and end-users of various media to explore explanations of methods, and suggestions for use Proposals should be sent to [email protected] by July 1, 2019 and should include: a maximum 250-word abstract, with title, for each paper, a panel title for organized panels, and brief a one page curriculum vitae for each participant. While we intend to have full A/V capabilities, A/V is subject to failure, regardless of location. As always, handouts are welcome. Conference conveners: Brooke Nappi Lecturer of Cultural Anthropology, Department of History and Anthropology [email protected] Maryanne Rhett Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and World History, Department of History and Anthropology [email protected] Contact: 6th Biennial Interdisciplinary Conference on Race Email: [email protected] Web: https://www.monmouth.edu/race __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
