*CFP (SEE BELOW):*
*The Black Studies Association presents*
*Blackness in Britain 2015:*
*‘The Black Special Relationship’: African American scholarship and its
impact on Black intellectual life in Britain*
Friday 30th- Saturday 31st October
Birmingham City University
Confirmed Keynotes:
Professor Patricia Hill Collins
Associate Professor Barnor Hesse
Professor Gus John
Professor Denise Ferreira De Silva
The Blackness in Britain conference series is concerned with the past and
future histories and narratives of Black populations in the UK and the
wider African diaspora. In our second interdisciplinary conference we
invite scholars, intellectuals and activists to examine how Black British
intellectual life has been influenced by African American scholarship.
Despite the absence of Black Studies programmes in British Universities,
Black communities in the UK have a long history of community activism that
has been deeply engaged with the scholarship of Black America.
The conference invites papers that begin to reframe and trouble ideas of
African American exceptionalism as it relates to ideas of Blackness and
Black intellectual thought in the UK and the wider African diaspora. We
invite papers that discuss new formations of Black intellectual life inside
and outside of the academy that consider critical points of unity, utility
and solidarity alongside the limits, differences and points of departure
between Blackness in Britain and Black America.
We are looking for a wide range of contribution on topic covering
interdisciplinary fields including (but not limited to): Politics,
Education, Sociology, History, Theology, Media, Criminology, Literature,
Philosophy, Geography, Psychology.
For full details of the call for papers visit
http://www.blackstudies.org.uk/conference-and-events/blackness-in-britain-2015/
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Thomas Glave
Professor
Dept. of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric
SUNY Binghamton
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
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