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A principal polemic of postcolonial theory to date has been the centrality of history in the (re)production of mastering/emancipatory narratives. But if, as John Berger suggests, “it is space not time that hides the consequences from us,” then perhaps we should finally attend to space/spatiality of human being/becoming with the same criticality lavished upon time. This is the call of the so-called spatial turn in the U.S. academe. For Americanists, this “turn” is nothing new. Space has facilitated conversations across time period and case study for some time now, defining the converging fields of American and Latin American Studies. Religion, empire, commerce and natural disaster have all generated a rich palimpsest of spatial relations to investigate and serve as nodes for hemispheric cross-reference. We invite emerging scholars to present works that consider space/spatiality in the Americas broadly defined: south-north, precontact-present, or as part of a comparative study. For a complete CFP see:
http://spatial.americas.googlepages.com/home
http://www.arthistory.ucsb.edu/newsandevents/
Abstracts due January 22, 2007, send to spatial.americas@gmail.com
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