Table-ronde : « Decolonizing Book History?: Concepts, Challenges, Strategies »

Un appel à communications pour une table-ronde intitulée « Decolonizing Book History?: Concepts, Challenges, Strategies » a été lancé. Cette table-ronde s’inscrit dans le cadre des activités du congrès SHARP 2019, qui aura lieu à Amherst (MA).

Les propositions doivent être envoyées avant le 26 novembre 2018.

Retrouvez ci-dessous plus de détails concernant cet appel.

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CFP for SHARP 2019:

Roundtable - Decolonizing Book History?: Concepts, Challenges, Strategies.

We are looking for (at least) 3 colleagues to join Melanie Ramdarshan Bold (University College London) and Padmini Ray Murray (Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology) on this roundtable. Each participant will give a 5 minute position paper. We are, ideally, looking for 1 colleague who works in Africa, 1 in North America, and 1 in Australasia/Oceania, but colleagues from any region are welcome.  We would especially like to encourage early career scholars and indigenous scholars to join the roundtable: we will do our best to support you if you’ve never participated in this format before, or if this is your first SHARP conference.

Conference rules allow you to contribute both a full presentation and to participate in a session that is organized around a different format, e.g. roundtable, so you may have already submitted or be about to submit a full paper proposal on another or on a related subject.  (And that’s okay!)

The exact framing of the panel will be finalized once the roundtable is complete but we offer the following draft description as a starting-point for possible contributions:

Can the field of book history be decolonized or is the phrase ‘decolonized book history’ an oxymoron?  In this roundtable, presenters from different continents will speak for 5 minutes each about a concept, challenge or strategy that they have identified as important to the process of decolonizing book history as they understand that institutional formation to exist in and/or beyond their current professional geographical location.  Following these brief position papers there will be some questions and discussion among the roundtable participants, before the session is opened to the audience. We hope that those present will use the roundtable as an opportunity to explore issues of colonization/decolonization, indigenisation, race politics, social justice and equity with regard to, for example, the types and modes of research undertaken in BH, teaching practices, hiring policies and access to academic publication/s.

If you would like to join the roundtable, please email us: Danielle Fuller (U of Alberta, Canada) and Melanie Ramdarshan Bold (University College London, UK) via  dfuller@ualberta.ca and m.bold@ucl.ac.uk with a short abstract (max. 250 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words) as soon as possible/ by 26 November 2018 latest.