Conference information on a forthcoming event
lose Encounters of an Other Kind:
New Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and American Studies
University of Joensuu, Finland, 6-8 June 2003
First Call for Papers
Differences in race have generally been seen as the main point dividing
people in North American society. The dichotomy has traditionally been
expressed in terms of black and white. The conflict has even been examined
between black and one segment of the white population—there is a growing
body of critical works concerning the dialogue between blacks and Jews, a
relationship which seems to have been exacerbated in the last third of a
century. How have relations between whites and other people of color
evolved? Have some achieved a status of "honorary white?" How is
"whiteness" currently defined? How do globalization and transnationalism
affect the construction of communities? How can we characterize relations
between and representations of blacks and other people of color or even
between African and Caribbean Americans/Canadians? The racial violence of
the last decade shows that they too are far from harmonious. And what of
the ties between various seemingly related groups, is there no friction in
these relationships? How has American Studies as a discipline addressed
these issues?
We invite papers (maximum 20 minutes) for this international conference
exploring new directions in American Studies: literature, history, cultural
studies, sociology, film, art, music, linguistics etc. We encourage
submissions focusing on the relationships and representations of race in
the contemporary context as well as in earlier periods in the Americas.
Invited speakers include Amritjit Singh (Rhode Island College), co-editor
of the Postcolonial Theory and the United States: Race, Ethnicity and
Literature, and Cheryl Greenburg (Trinity College, Hartford), whose
Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century will
soon be published by Princeton University Press. A conference website is
currently under construction and will include information concerning
registration and the conference fee, accommodation, the city of Joensuu and
travelling here, and the University of Joensuu.
Please send an 300-word abstract to: roy.goldblatt@joensuu.fi
or Close Encounters of An Other Kind, Department of English, University of
Joensuu, P. O. Box 111, 80101 Joensuu, Finland.
The deadline for submissions is 15 March 2003.
Welcome!
Jopi Nyman, PhD
Head of Foreign Languages Department
University of Joensuu
P O Box 111
80101 JOENSUU
FINLAND
Tel +358 13 251 4331
Fax +358 13 251 4211
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