CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
The 7th Annual Global Souths Conference
March 23-25, 2023
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
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Call for Papers: "Face to Place"
The Global Souths Conference seeks proposals for its 2023 gathering, with its theme of “Face to Place.” We feel is especially important because people are, once again, gathering face to face following years of isolation. “Face to Place” emphasizes the building and rebuilding of connections and communities collectively, spatially, and environmentally. As communities begin interacting face-to-face again, physical place and bodies take on greater importance than has been the case the last few years. That place-based and corporeal element of life requires adapting to the return of in-person events, classes, and other engagements. As such, rebuilding communities in the wake of COVID-based isolation is integral to current experience.
In connection to this theme, we are especially interested in proposals that deal with the following topics:
- Historical and modern connections between communities and the environment
- Impacts of social groups and on the environment and its preservation
- Impacts of urban expansion on nature spaces
- Place-based folklore and its impacts on folk groups and identity
- Media’s impact on communities’ conceptions of space, place, and physical interaction
- Shifts and trends in social dynamics, especially for in-person gatherings
- Digital communities and potential transitions from digital to physical presences
- Social media and its impacts on physical place and space
- Collective trauma, responses to it, and its impact on physical spaces
- Community activism and organization
- COVID-related effects on social groups and physical locations
About the Conference: Global Souths is a three-day interdisciplinary conference that aims to explore the connection between the southern U.S. and the Global Souths. The South is more than a place: it is a point of connection, a nexus of ideas exceeding geographical and ideological boundaries. As an interdisciplinary conference, we are open to all subject areas, especially the humanities, the arts, history, and social sciences. In general, we accept proposals that deal with the following topics:
- Challenging notions of “Global North/South”
- Regionalism, regional identity, and their complications
- Regional history, literature, art, folklore, and demographics
- The language of global and regional identity
- Pedagogy in the wake of globalization
- War, revolution, and generational trauma
- Race and ethnicity, and their relationship to place and history
- Anticolonial and anti-racist movements
- Global- and Southern-focused gender and queer studies
- Activism and social justice
- Environment and sustainability efforts
- Urban development and gentrification
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Please direct questions to globalsouths@gmail.com.
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