Dear Colleagues,
Registration is now open for the In the Shadow of Empire? Situating Black British Writing conference.
Dates: Friday 22 and Saturday 23 September 2023
Venue: London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Rd, London EC1R 0HB
CONTEXT
As an area of study, ‘Black British Writing’ – despite neglect of the field as an object of study by Anglophone Arts/Humanities research communities in Britain – currently attracts global interest. The neglect is especially regrettable given the growth in visibility of Black British writers, including the 2021 Nobel Laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and considering the creation of the first postgraduate programme in Black British Writing (Goldsmiths, 2015).
Through the historical perspective of 400 years of contested writing, this conference will focus on situating the field in relation to the Humanities, critical thought, a continuously changing understanding of the signifier ‘Black’, and the impact of UK publishing politics on Black British writing.
Our ‘situating’ project builds on pioneering research and teaching interests established on both sides of the Atlantic. This includes the co-founding, teaching, and inaugurating of the UK’s/world’s first Black British Writing postgraduate programme, following on, and interlinking with the teaching and researching of Caribbean and diaspora literatures.
Similarly, the part played by Africa is certainly also key to the corpus. That such intersections with Black British writing speak to transglobal connections and complexities, helping to define the body of work and its wide-ranging transcultural influences, goes to the heart of the concerns of the conference. We are especially interested to include Black voices that remain largely missing from the UK’s scholarly debate. The conference therefore invites researchers and Black British writers alike to present new thinking about Black British writing (all genres).
The conference aims to:
*Promote dialogue between specialists that include Black British writers and scholars
*Reflect critically on the many intersections and meanings of diaspora and diasporic frames of analysis in Black British literary and cultural criticism
The conference is funded through a Leverhulme Emeritus Professor Fellowship with support from Goldsmiths University and London Metropolitan Archive
Link to register: https://shorturl.at/mqxSY
Conference programme will be confirmed shortly but panels include:
Day 1
Roundtable – Situating Black British Writing | Poetry, Children’s Fiction & Relational Poetics: Writing & Communities of Care | Form and Innovation in Black British Writing | Keynote Address – TBA | Archival Silences: Resistant Writing | Placemaking & Black Geographies of Writing
Day 2
Roundtable – In the Margins: Black British writing & UK Publishing | Routes, Roots, and Black British Writing | Life Stories, Educational Research & Teaching | Keynote Address – TBA | Situating Black British Writing in UK Higher Education | CREATIVES UNLEASHED
We hope to see some of you there!
With best wishes,
Degna Stone
Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs
Research Assistant: Situating Black British Writing
IN THE SHADOW OF EMPIRE? SITUATING BLACK BRITISH WRITING CONFERENCE
22 & 23 September 2023
LMA, 40 Northampton Road, London, EC1R 0HB
Visit https://www.bbwasa.org.uk/conference for updates.
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