CFP - Black Diasporas: Reimagining Race, Space, and Community

The Ninth Annual Herman C Hudson Symposium at Indiana University emphasizes the complex ways in which the concepts of “Black” and “Geography” inform each other and shape the formation of individual and community identities by examining the relationships between “Geography” and “Race” in historical and contemporary diasporic space and through the lived and imagined experiences of diasporic communities. Although the symposium privileges “Black” Diasporas, we welcome abstracts that can offer comparative perspectives. We encourage papers and artwork that deal with (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Writing the Body and Geographies of Race
• Queer Geographies/Diasporas
• The Body as a Geographic Object
• The Mind as a Geographic Space
• Displacement/Dislocation & Race
• Memory & Space
• Futuristic Geographies of Race
• Environmental/Social Justice
• Sound, Space & Race
• Sexualized Space(s)
• Religion & Space
• Eroticism & Space

We welcome submissions from graduate and undergraduate students, scholars, creative artists and community and cultural workers. Interested panelists should submit a 150-word abstract and a 50-75-word bio. Presenters who are interested in displaying visual art should submit a CD with a digital copy of their work in JPEG format along with a 150-word project statement that speaks to the symposium’s theme. Those interested in exhibiting their topic via poster board should follow the guidelines for submitting a paper and visual art abstract.

Proposals for panels should include the name and description of the panel, a 150-word abstract of each paper, the name of the panel

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012

For submission instructions, please click HERE.