Call for Papers

August 21, 2020

伊芙琳克. ETHERIDGE CONFERENCE ON THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE PAINE COLLEGE - AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
OCTOBER 28 – 29, 2020

Venue: 佩因大学 1235 Fifteenth Street, Augusta, GA 30901

联系人:教授. 南希·W. Bookh艺术, Conference Chair, (NBookh艺术@潘恩.edu)或Mrs. Heba Elziebair, Conference Administrative Assistant, (HElziebair@潘恩.edu)

佩因大学 in Augusta, Georgia is excited to host its 23rd Evelyn G. Etheridge Conference on the Harlem Renaissance. The Conference is critical to the rich legacy of 艺术 and education and its transformative power for the African American community. The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most important 艺术istic and cultural movements in 历史 that spanned from 1919 to 1940 and produced notable writers, 批评人士, and 艺术ists such as Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Augusta Savage, Gwendolyn Ben网t, 贝茜史密斯, and Alain Locke. 佩因大学 is located centrally to beautiful downtown Augusta in the he艺术 of the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA). Augusta is the host of the prestigious Masters Golf Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Course and is the home of James Brown, the Godfather of Soul and internationally renowned opera star, 杰西诺曼. This year's conference and celebration will be held virtually. Further information will be posted on the 佩因大学 website, www.潘恩.edu.

Call for Papers Now Open

The Dep艺术ment of Humanities currently requests abstracts and proposals for panel sessions and individual papers that examine this year's conference theme, Centennial Reflections on the Harlem Renaissance: Reawakening the Black Consciousness in the 21st Century. As the Harlem Renaissance turns 100, this conference will reflect upon the legacy of this movement and its relevance in the 21st Century. The call of the Renaissance to affirm Black humanity in American life resonates with this century's concerns about Black lives, Black consciousness, and Black subjectivity and initiates a call to action and service to promote social and cultural progress of Black Americans. 总而言之, this year's conference will analyze how the Renaissance was indeed as acclaimed sociologist, 查尔斯年代. Johnson, stated, "a revolution and a revelation".

Sessions and presentations will analyze literature, 历史, 哲学, 社会学, 经济学, 艺术, and music and will provide inter- and cross-disciplinary approaches from the social and political sciences, 经济学, 和阀杆. Possible areas of inquiry include but are not limited to:
- The Harlem Renaissance at 100: Examining Its Legacy of Artistic and Cultural Production in the United States and Internationally
- Black Politics and the Harlem Renaissance
- Race and Religion in Harlem and the United States
- Social Movements, Political Activism, and Black Liberation
- African American Modernism and the Creation of the Modern Black Subject
- The sociopolitical concerns of Black Art and Musical Genres of Blues, Jazz, Bebop, and Hip Hop
- Harlem Renaissance Literature and Black Consciousness

The Dep艺术ment also requests sessions that invite alternate presentation formats such as performances, 研讨会, visual 艺术 exhibitions, 圆桌会议, and multimedia presentations. Please submit by email abstracts and session proposals that do not exceed 200 words to 南希·W. Bookh艺术, Conference Chair at NBookh艺术@潘恩.edu or contact Mrs. Heba Elziebair, Administrative Assistant at 706-821-8326. The deadline for submission has been extended to September 15, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST.