BrANCA-sponsored panels
This page is a listing of panels organised by our members. If you would like to put together a panel, please email your CfP to branca1865@gmail.com or post on our Facebook group
The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA) invites submissions to two panels to be submitted to the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Conference, which will be taking place wholly online between April 6 and April 11, 2021.
More information about this Digital BAAS Conference can be found here: https://www.baas.ac.uk/conferences-events/digital-baas-the-digital-conference-2021/
1. OPEN PANEL ON NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICANIST TOPICS
Each year BrANCA hosts a special panel at BAAS showcasing progressive, interdisciplinary work on the United States in the long nineteenth century. This year BrANCA invites paper proposals on any relevant topic to be included within a sponsored panel at the BAAS Conference.
We invite proposals for papers from all researchers working in the field. We are particularly interested in global, hemispheric and transatlantic approaches to key themes in nineteenth century literary studies, and papers that propose new ways of conceiving the field, but are open to all submissions. Researchers at all stages are welcomed, and papers from postgraduates are particularly encouraged.
250 word proposals for 20-minute presentations (including a provisional title and brief biography) and related queries should be sent to the BrANCa Conferences Coordinator, Dr. Matthew Pethers at matthew.pethers@nottingham.ac.uk by Sunday 22nd November 2020.
2. ABOLITION: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM AND OF THE 19th CENTURY
Reform or abolish? This is a question many social activists in the twenty-first century are increasingly asking of American social institutions such as the police force and the prison system that have been identified as being at the heart of the perpetuation of oppressive racial structures that have their roots in a deeper past. It is a question, as the historian Sasha Turner has recently pointed out in an essay entitled "Distinguishing Abolition from Reform," that might also be asked of the social institution that many scholars would see as the seed of these structures: nineteenth-century slavery. Is it time to dispense with the monolithic term "abolitionism" as a descriptor of the variegated social movements that constituted the campaign against slavery in the decades before the Civil War? How did these movements wrestle with the conflicting impulses to reform and revolution that flowed through them? To what extent did the Reconstruction-era see either the abolition or the reform of slavery's cultural, economic and ideological dimensions? And what lessons do the failures or successes of nineteenth-century "abolitionism" have for the present moment? BrANCA invites submissions considering these questions and in particular papers addressing the different cultural articulations of and responses to abolition and reform.
250 word proposals for 20-minute presentations (including a provisional title and brief biography) and related queries should be sent to the BrANCa Conferences Coordinator, Dr. Matthew Pethers at matthew.pethers@nottingham.ac.uk by Sunday 22nd November 2020.
The British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (BrANCA) invites submissions to two panels to be submitted to the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) Conference, which will be taking place wholly online between April 6 and April 11, 2021.
More information about this Digital BAAS Conference can be found here: https://www.baas.ac.uk/conferences-events/digital-baas-the-digital-conference-2021/
1. OPEN PANEL ON NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICANIST TOPICS
Each year BrANCA hosts a special panel at BAAS showcasing progressive, interdisciplinary work on the United States in the long nineteenth century. This year BrANCA invites paper proposals on any relevant topic to be included within a sponsored panel at the BAAS Conference.
We invite proposals for papers from all researchers working in the field. We are particularly interested in global, hemispheric and transatlantic approaches to key themes in nineteenth century literary studies, and papers that propose new ways of conceiving the field, but are open to all submissions. Researchers at all stages are welcomed, and papers from postgraduates are particularly encouraged.
250 word proposals for 20-minute presentations (including a provisional title and brief biography) and related queries should be sent to the BrANCa Conferences Coordinator, Dr. Matthew Pethers at matthew.pethers@nottingham.ac.uk by Sunday 22nd November 2020.
2. ABOLITION: NEW PERSPECTIVES FROM AND OF THE 19th CENTURY
Reform or abolish? This is a question many social activists in the twenty-first century are increasingly asking of American social institutions such as the police force and the prison system that have been identified as being at the heart of the perpetuation of oppressive racial structures that have their roots in a deeper past. It is a question, as the historian Sasha Turner has recently pointed out in an essay entitled "Distinguishing Abolition from Reform," that might also be asked of the social institution that many scholars would see as the seed of these structures: nineteenth-century slavery. Is it time to dispense with the monolithic term "abolitionism" as a descriptor of the variegated social movements that constituted the campaign against slavery in the decades before the Civil War? How did these movements wrestle with the conflicting impulses to reform and revolution that flowed through them? To what extent did the Reconstruction-era see either the abolition or the reform of slavery's cultural, economic and ideological dimensions? And what lessons do the failures or successes of nineteenth-century "abolitionism" have for the present moment? BrANCA invites submissions considering these questions and in particular papers addressing the different cultural articulations of and responses to abolition and reform.
250 word proposals for 20-minute presentations (including a provisional title and brief biography) and related queries should be sent to the BrANCa Conferences Coordinator, Dr. Matthew Pethers at matthew.pethers@nottingham.ac.uk by Sunday 22nd November 2020.
