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> From: Nadia Valman <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed Dec 11, 2002 7:15:24 pm Europe/London
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: CFP: "The Jew" in Edwardian Culture (UK) (2/28/03;
> 7/28/03-7/29/03)
>
> Between the East End and East Africa: "The Jew" in
> Edwardian Culture
>
> A two-day colloquium organised by the AHRB Parkes Centre
> for the Study of Jewish/ non-Jewish Relations, University
> of Southampton in association with Ben-Gurion University of
> the Negev
>
> 28 - 29 July 2003, University of Southampton, UK
>
>
> August 2003 marks the centenary of the "Uganda Plan", in
> which the British government proposed to the Zionists the
> establishment of "a Jewish colony of settlement" in the
> East Africa Protectorate "on conditions which will enable
> members to observe their national customs." While the
> British proposal undoubtedly stemmed from a genuine concern
> for the persecuted Jews in Russia, it also reflected the
> fantasy of diverting the flow of Jewish immigrants who were
> making their way to London's East End. Indeed, it is hardly
> surprising that the proposal coincided with the work of the
> Royal Commission on Alien Immigration, which recommended in
> its Report of August 1903 to place stringent restrictions
> on the Jewish immigration to Britain. The Jew, in other
> words, was sufficiently white to colonize the Empire for
> King and country, though not white enough to settle in the
> metropolitan centre itself.
>
> As Bryan Cheyette has persuasively shown, ambivalent
> representations of "the Jew" lie at the heart of modernity.
> Even so, the years from the Boer War (1899-1902) to the
> introduction of the Aliens Act (1905) stand out in British
> history as a turbulent period exceptional for its
> contradictory imaginings of the Jew: white and yet black;
> infinitely wealthy and yet infinitely poor; refusing to
> assimilate and yet assuming a false English identity;
> "alien" and yet almost overly familiar.
>
> Shifting between these two emblematic sites, the East End
> and East Africa, this conference seeks to highlight the
> range of myths, inconsistencies and contradictions that
> characterise the representation of the Jew in all aspects
> of Edwardian culture, high and low. The organisers are
> particularly interested in interdisciplinary papers that
> explore the cross-exchanges between Jewishness and
> Englishness, between metropole and Empire, and between
> Zionism and colonialism.
>
> Possible themes could include:
>
> ¢² "Degeneration", race science and the Jewish/ English body
> ¢² The Boer War and "the Jew"
> ¢² Zionism in England
> ¢² East End life and Jewish ethnography
> ¢² The fourth Zionist Congress in London, 1900
> ¢² Imagined Metropolitan/ imperial geographies
> ¢² The imperial and colonial novel, and travel literatures
> ¢² The Royal Commission on Alien Immigration and the
> making of the Aliens Act
> ¢² The Uganda Proposal
> ¢² The British Brothers League
> ¢² The Dreyfus Affair and its aftermath
> ¢² Antisemitism/ Allosemitism/ Philosemitism
> ¢² Israel Zangwill and the ITO
> ¢² The popular press
>
>
> Please send abstracts in English, of no more than 250
> words, to Nadia Valman, [log in to unmask], and Eitan
> Bar-Yosef, [log in to unmask] by 28 February 2003. The
> language of the conference will be English.
>
> ----------------------
> Dr Nadia Valman
> Department of English
> University of Southampton
> Highfield
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
> UK
>
> 023 8059 3841
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