Indiana University-Bloomington will host an international, interdisciplinary conference titled, “Variations on Blackness: Race-Making in the Americas and the World” from March 30th to April 1st, 2006 in Bloomington, Indiana. We invite proposals for both panels and individual papers that address any issue related to blackness in a global or comparative context including, but not limited to:

*Race-making and blackness
*Blackness in a European context
*Visual depictions of blackness
*International performance of blackness
*Blackness and the museum
*Blackness within the African diaspora
*Legal constructions of blackness
*Blackness and the problem of history
*Afro-Latino/a or Black European consciousness
*Dance and the black body

For more information on the conference, visit our website at:
www.indiana.edu/~vari

All submissions should consist of a 250 word abstract including the title of the paper and the institutional contact information of the participant. Full panel proposals are also acceptable. Submission Deadline: December 15, 2005