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Call for Papers: "Civil Rights and the Body in the American South."
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“Civil Rights and the Body in the American South,” will be held at the Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 29 – March 1, 2008. Keynotes: Keith Wailoo (Rutgers) and Davarian Baldwin (Boston College). Over the last two hundred and fifty years, modern ideas about the body have developed alongside various freedom movements in the United States. Nowhere has the human body served more as a cultural battleground than in the American South, where the politics of race, class, gender, and morality clashed so prominently. This conference will explore the various ways actors in the American South used representations of the body to promote or oppose freedom movements. We invite papers addressing the ways human bodies have become sites of government intervention, legal proscription, cultural representation, or political empowerment. Send a c.v., title, and 300-word abstract to Professor Harry Watson, inrig@email.unc.edu by December 17.
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Professor Harry Watson
Director
UNC Center for the Study of the American South
Love House and Hutchins Forum
CB# 9127, 410 E. Franklin Street
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Email: inrig@email.unc.edu
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