Call for Papers
The Donald Blake Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture at Walla Walla University is calling for papers to be presented at its academic conference on April 20-21, 2017 at Walla Walla University in College Place, Washington.
Keynote Speaker: George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy, Emory University. Professor Yancy’s keynote address to the conference’s plenary session will be on April 20, 2017 at 7 p.m., PST.
Professor Yancy’s bio is available here: http://philosophy.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/yancy-george.html
Individual Paper Proposals and Completed Papers
Paper proposals are due by March 1, 2017. Completed papers for accepted proposals are due by April 1, 2017, and must be no more than 3,000 words. Authors whose proposals and papers are accepted for presentation will be notified by March 10, 2017. Papers will be presented on Friday, April 21, 2017 on the campus of Walla Walla University in College Place, Washington.
All proposals should be sent to: timothy.golden@wallawalla.edu.
Both proposals and papers must be prepared for blind review, with the author’s name and academic affiliation only in the body of the e-mail. The Blake Center is calling for papers from undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty.
Paper Topics
The Blake Center is especially interested in proposals and papers that discuss issues of race and racism. Essays will be considered, however, that address other topics such as:
• Diversity, culture, governance
• Indigenous knowledge and politics
• Extraction: cultures and industries
• Transforming Christianities
• Who counts in the anthropocene? gender, sexuality, race and class
• Critical and cultural theory
• Globalization
• Human/non-human relations