Friday, March 5 2021, 12am Virtual Call for Papers University of Georgia May 21-22, 2021 The University of Georgia Department of History and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce its second Capitalist Souths interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held May 21-22, 2021. Because of the ongoing pandemic, it will be held virtually. This conference is part of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts Global Georgia Initiative. Our conference invites graduate students to submit proposals that illuminate new work that draws together the history of capitalism and the U.S. South in its Atlantic World and Global South contexts. The theme, Capitalist Souths, addresses the increasing difficulty to understand the development of capitalism in the U.S. South without understanding its embeddedness in transnational and global flows of capital, labor, ideas, and people. The interdisciplinary aims of our conference exemplify the growing importance of diverse methodologies in the study of capitalism’s developments and changes in the U.S. and Global South. We welcome single paper and panel proposals concerning, but not limited to: · Transnational histories of the U.S., Latin America, Africa, and/or Asia · Development of capitalism in the U.S. South · Labor and capital migrations · The “Nuevo South” · Contested citizenship · Hybrid global identities · Environmental and geological impacts of capitalism Individual proposals should include a 250 word abstract and a short bio of the presenter. Panel proposals should include a 250 word panel abstract and short bio and paper abstract for each presenter. All proposals should be submitted electronically in Word format to the committee at capitalistsouths@gmail.com. Final papers should be submitted to commentators a week before the presentation. The deadline for proposal submission has been extended to March 5, 2021. Download a PDF of the Call for Papers here. Questions? Contact capitalistsouths@gmail.com See the conference web site for more details at https://history.uga.edu/capitalistsouths.
