CfP: “Race” and the Academy since 1800

“Race” and the Academy since 1800

On Wednesday 23^rd November 2016, the second Callaloo Graduate and Early Career Researcher workshop will take place at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). The colloquium precedes the annual Callaloo conference that will begin that evening and end on Saturday 26^th November. The theme for the workshop is ‘“Race” and the Academy since 1800’.

We welcome papers from graduate and early career researchers in any field; topics to be covered may include, but are not limited to, the following:

– Decolonising the curriculum

– “Black Studies” beyond the US

– Rethinking the canon

– Intersectionality

– Creating new spaces

– Power structures

– Student access and welfare

– Staff recruitment

– The Academy and public life/policy

Please submit abstracts of up to 250 words to callaloo2016@gmail.com by 1^st June 2016. We plan to submit a selection of essays from this workshop to Callaloo for consideration for publication, subject to peer-review.

CfP available here

Elleke Boehmer, Justine McConnell, Stephen Tuck, Imaobong Umoren