{"id":246,"date":"2020-04-27T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?page_id=246"},"modified":"2020-04-27T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:28:54","slug":"cfp-doing-southern-studies-today-berlin-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/conferences\/cfp-doing-southern-studies-today-berlin-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Doing Southern Studies Today (Berlin 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This conference aims to bring together scholars who want to share their work on \u201cthe South\u201d and \u201cdoing Southern Studies\u201d in an uncommon place: Berlin \u2013 a place outside \u201cthe South.\u201d
\nThe conference will take place at Humboldt University, 14-15 January 2021. Read on for details.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doing Southern Studies Today<\/strong>
\nInternational Conference<\/strong>
\nHumboldt University in Berlin<\/strong><\/a>
\n14-15 January 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the field of Southern Studies, the first twenty years of the 21 st century were defined by attempts to formulate and visualize the future of Southern Studies, as evidenced by publications such as Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith\u2019s South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (2002), Jon Smith\u2019s Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies (2013), or Zackary Vernon\u2019s Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies (2019) \u2013 to name only a few. The \u201cfuture,\u201d most publications propose, lies beyond traditional narratives of Southern exceptionalism and sectionalism that promote a specific \u201csense of place\u201d that cannot be found outside the South. A more dynamic and global understanding of the South needs to be implemented if Southern Studies wants to contribute to a critical engagement with current and past cultural and social developments, in and outside the U.S. Despite the expansion of the scope of Southern Studies though, the \u2018old\u2019 questions remain: What and where is \u201cthe South\u201d? What is \u201csouthern\u201d? While \u201csense-of-place\u201d-regionalism,
\na rather essentialist and nativist approach to being \u201csouthern,\u201d is outdated, the concern with the \u201cplace of \u2018place\u2019\u201d in Southern Studies remains.<\/p>\n

This conference aims to bring together scholars who want to share their work on \u201cthe South\u201d and \u201cdoing Southern Studies\u201d in an uncommon place: Berlin \u2013 a place outside \u201cthe South.\u201d We don\u2019t expect definite answers to the \u2018old\u2019 questions (although we welcome them). We rather want to explore the trajectories of Southern Studies in and outside the U.S. We owe our title to Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson who claim that \u201c[d]oing Southern Studies is unmasking and refusing the binary thinking \u2013 \u2018North\u2019\/\u2018South,\u2019 nation\/South, First World\/Third World, self\/other,\u201d it is \u201cthinking geographically, thinking historically, thinking relationally, thinking about power, thinking about justice, thinking back\u201d (2016: 4). We take their definitions as this conference\u2019s objective and seek an exchange of these thoughts. We are particularly interested in papers that tackle the South as a \u201cmultiplicity of communities\u201d (Gray 2002: xxiii), factoring in race, gender, sexuality and ethnicity; the role (or rather the problematic exclusivity) of whiteness in Southern Studies; imaginations of \u201cthe South\u201d in popular media; the Global South and the possible transnational routes of Southern Studies.The first confirmed keynote speaker is Martyn Richard Bone (University of Copenhagen), author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (2005).<\/p>\n

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short biographical info to
\nconference organizers Evangelia Kindinger (Humboldt University in Berlin) and Greta Kaisen (Humboldt University in Berlin) at
\ndoingsouthernstudies@gmail.com<\/a>.
\n<\/strong>The deadline for paper proposals is 1 August 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This conference aims to bring together scholars who want to share their work on \u201cthe South\u201d and \u201cdoing Southern Studies\u201d in an uncommon place: Berlin \u2013 a place outside \u201cthe South.\u201d The conference will take place at Humboldt University, 14-15 January 2021. Read on for details. Doing Southern Studies Today International Conference Humboldt University in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-246","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/246\/revisions\/255"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}