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CALL FOR PAPERS: International Conference
>
> Title: “DIASPORAS AND ‘RACE’”
>
> Conference dates: October 25-27, 2012
>
> DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: February 1, 2012
>
> Place: Wake Forest University (North Carolina, USA)
>
>
> In the wake of the 2011 conference on “Diasporas and Cultures of
> Migration” that was held at Montpellier, University Paul Valéry, the
> convenors of this conference wish to extend and expand the reflection
> on the concept of diaspora, its uses, its limits, or even its outright
> rejection as a useful concept, by focusing on the links between
> diasporas and “race.”
>
> Diasporas have always had to negotiate new articulations of ethnic/
> racial identities while individuals had to make do with contexts
> already defined by certain types of racial relations and the
> evolutions of racial transnational references. The emergence of new
> racisms and of new racialized identities reconfigures class
> hierarchies, which often results in violence against migrants.
>
> Does the prism of diaspora allow for a clearer conceptualization of
> the concept of “race” as a socio-historical construction and a surface
> of projection that depends on context? Does diasporic belonging
> constitute a response to racism and imposed ethno-racial identities?
> How have populations appropriated it to foster local and global
> socialities and practices?
>
> The terms creolization, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, which
> certain scholars prefer to diaspora, entertain certain specific
> relations to “race”: do these new concepts help or create blind spots
> when it comes to racial identity, racialization, multiracialism or the
> erasure of “race”?
>
> What happens when we also address these issues in terms of gender and
> class? What role does the mediation of art and literature play in
> these evolutions? Are there specific artistic creations that emerge
> from/at this juncture? Is there an aesthetics that simultaneously
> addresses issues of race and diaspora? Can one point to the
> appropriation, the creation and the circulation of images that
> translate diasporic sensitivity? Is race a component of this
> aesthetics or is it left out as irrelevant?
>
> If diaspora moves “beyond race”, how does diaspora intersect with
> gender relations, religious identities and concepts of geography and
> space? Can we address the link between the environment and the
> migrations linked to diasporic movement? Can we speak of a
> postcolonial ecology? Can these issues ultimately be thought within
> the wider frame of the human and the natural?
>
> DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS (maximum 250 words): February 1,
> 2012
> Please submit a short bio-bibliographical notice as well (maximum 200
> words) and copy the five co-convenors of the conference in your email.
>
>
>
> “Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’” Conference series This
> will be the second meeting in the series organized by the research
> center EMMA (University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France) over
> 2011-13 which gathers leading scholars in the field to identify and
> assess the joint evolutions of “Diaspora Studies” and “Race studies”
> to better understand: 1) how these approaches can be cross-
> fertilising; 2) how socio-economic and political changes have affected
> race relations and diasporic communities; 3) how literature and the
> arts, the social sciences and cultural studies have seized that
> question. This project entails a redefinition of terms and concepts
> and the confrontation of different, but not necessarily divergent,
> perspectives.
>
> A preparatory symposium, “Diasporas and Cultures of Migration” was
> held at University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3 in June 2011, in
> partnership with CAAR (Collegium for African-American Research), the
> Centre de Recherches Littéraires et Historiques de l’Océan Indien
> (CRLHOI, University of La Réunion), the Centre of South Asian Studies
> (CSAS, University of Edinburgh, UK), the Department for Continuing
> Education (University of Oxford), the Institut de Recherche Intersite
> Etudes Culturelles (IRIEC, University Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3), the
> International Institute of Migration (IMI, University of Oxford), the
> MSH-Montpellier (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme-Montpellier), Wake
> Forest University (North Carolina, USA), Wesleyan University (USA).
> Leading scholars assessed the state of the debate in preparation for
> this second event. The third conference, “African-Americans, ‘Race’
> and Diaspora”, scheduled for June 13-15, 2013 at University Paul-
> Valéry, Montpellier 3, will be specifically dedicated to the
> interlocking issues of “race” and the Black Diaspora. The concluding
> symposium, scheduled for October 25-26, 2013, at the University of
> Oxford, UK, will allow for final reflections.
>
>
> Partners for the conference at Wake Forest University:
> CAAR (Collegium for African American Research) (to be confirmed)
> Department for Continuing Education (University of Oxford, UK) IRIEC
> (Institut de Recherche Intersite Etudes Culturelles, Université
> Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France) EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du
> Monde Anglophone, Université Paul- Valéry, Montpellier 3, France)
> MIGRINTER (CNRS, Université de Poitiers, France) Wake Forest
> University (North Carolina, USA)
>
>
> Co-convenors:
> Dr Sally Barbour (Wake Forest University, USA) [log in to unmask] Dr
> David Howard (University of Oxford, UK) [log in to unmask]
> Dr Thomas Lacroix (IMI, Univ. of Oxford, UK; MIGRINTER, Université de
> Poitiers, France) [log in to unmask] Dr Judith
> Misrahi-Barak (EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3,
> France) [log in to unmask]
> Pr Claudine Raynaud (EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3,
> France) [log in to unmask]
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>
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> f.y.i.
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> Prof. Dr. Sabine Broeck
> American Studies/Black Studies
> English-Speaking Cultures
> University of Bremen
> fon: 00 49 421 218 68130
> president CAAR: www.caar-web.org
> director INPUTS: www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/inputs/
>
>
>
> From: Whitney Battle-Baptiste [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>
> The African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter works to
> provide a focal point for archaeological, cultural and historical
> studies of African Diasporas, with news, current research, information
> and links to other web resources related to the archaeology and
> history of descendants of African peoples. We also seek contributions
> that facilitate a contextual bridge between material culture and
> social history to better understand the textural footprints of African
> Diaspora culture. Through this engagement the ADAN seeks to connect an
> intellectual community that considers the historical processes of
> racialization, gender, power, and culture operating within and upon
> African descendant communities. Our quarterly Newsletter reaches an
> international readership of at least several thousand for each issue.
>
> **Special Note: Please send us any announcements for upcoming field
> schools for 2012 and/or field school reports from last summer.
>
> Please contact either co-editors Whitney Battle-Baptiste at
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> project reports, announcements, or news updates that you'd like to
> contribute to the African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter. The
> Newsletter is published quarterly, in March, June, September, and
> December, and is available online at:
>
> http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/newsletter.html
>
> Please send all submissions by December 1, 2011.
>
> Thank you,
> The ADAN team.
>
> Whitney Battle-Baptiste, PhD
> Assistant Professor
> University of Massachusetts Amherst
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