From: "Beers, Daniel - beersdj" <beersdj@xxxxxxx>
Hello,
I am writing with information about a conference of possible interest to
Corbett List members. This year's conference will held virtually as a
4-day webinar series due to Covid-19. Would you kindly post the CFP
announcement below to the listserv?
Best wishes,
Daniel Beers
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Daniel J. Beers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Justice Studies
Affiliated Faculty, African, African American & Diaspora Studies
James Madison University
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11th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD)
Interdisciplinary Conference,
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
February 17-20, 2021
The African, African American, and Diaspora Studies program at James
Madison University invites proposals for its annual interdisciplinary
conference, to be held virtually as a webinar series from Wednesday,
February 17, to Saturday, February 20, 2021. This year's theme is
"Movement(s), Collectives, and Collectivity." Ranging across topics from
archival practices to Black Lives Matter, the conference will bring
together a group of scholars and archivists from a wide variety of
overlapping and intersecting fields. The conference will feature a
keynote presentation by poet and scholar-activist Claudia Rankine,
co-founder of The Racial Imaginary Institute and author of _Citizen: An
American Lyric_ and _Don't Let Me Be Lonely_ (claudiarankine.com,
theracialimaginary.org).
We welcome proposals from scholars in all relevant disciplines at any
point in their scholarly careers. Proposals for 20-minute presentations
or 60-minute panels could address topics such as these:
Black Lives Matter
Political, artistic, literary, and environmentalist movements
Pan-Africanism
Black Power
Indian Ocean Studies
Wakanda
Afrofuturism
Ubuntu
#Blacktwitter
Liberation theology
The Divine and divination systems
Black periodicals and publishing histories
Queer collectives/Queering collectivity
Feminist collectives
Collecting and preserving Black history
Museums
Virtual collectives and collections
Families
Motherhoods and Maternalities
Informal economies
Prisons
Transport systems
Architecture and housing
Black humanisms, anti-humanisms, and post-humanisms
Indigenous sciences and technologies
Black communities and environmental justice
African, African American, and Diaspora Studies
Please send any questions and/or 300-word presentation proposals (or
1000-word panel proposals) to aaadstudies@xxxxxxx by November 1, 2020.
Proposals should include a presentation and/or panel title, along with
each presenter's name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a
brief bio. Panel proposals must include at least three panelists.
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