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Un-Fair Trades: Artistic Intersections with Social & Environmental Injustices in the Atlantic World, 1500-Present

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Posted by: The Graduate Center, CUNY
Deadline: Wed, May 15th, 2019

"Un-Fair Trades: Artistic Intersections with Social & Environmental Injustices in the Atlantic World, 1500-Present"

DATE: October 10–11, 2019

LOCATION: The Graduate Center, CUNY

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr. Alan C. Braddock & Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson

 

Artists have engaged with issues of oppression and exploitation—byproducts of colonialist and capitalist systems—throughout the history of transatlantic encounters: from slavery and resource extraction; to exploitative labor practices and the environmental consequences of industrialization; and human rights movements and climate change anxieties of the past century. When examined through the lens of our contemporary social and environmental concerns, artworks whose motifs intersect with these imbalances of power compel us to analyze the visualizations of oppression and environmental degradation from a new perspective. Amid the 21st-century activist revival (with movements like Occupy Wall Street, #BlackLivesMatter, #NODAPL, and #MeToo) it is more prescient than ever to examine both historic and perpetuating inequalities.

“Un-Fair Trades” seeks to establish a forum for intersectionality, Pan-American approaches, and transnational perspectives. We welcome papers that address the visual culture of the Americas, Europe, and Africa and intersect with the issues of equity, equality, and environmentalism. Proposals could include, but are not limited to, depictions of:

- Native artists and indigenous forced migration and assimilation

- Harvested land and plantations

- Forced labor and the Middle Passage

- American West expeditions and extractive industries

- The Industrial Revolution’s exploitative labor practices, trades, and environmental damage

- Women’s work, expanding economic independence, and the suffrage movement

- Immigration and xenophobia

- African Diaspora and Pan-Africanism

- Social Reform initiatives

 

DEADLINE: Please submit a 300-word abstract and CV to Caroline L. Gillaspie and Alice J. Walkiewicz at unfairtradesconference@gmail.com by May 15, 2019.

Posted on Thu, April 4th, 2019
Expires on Wed, May 15th, 2019

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