Rutgers University has issued a call for papers for a two-day conference to be held April 22 – 23, 2016, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Digital Blackness aims to:
…bring together scholars, students, activists, and artists from a range of fields and disciplines to interrogate the many new modes, customs, and arrangements of racial identity as they are mediated through digital technologies.
Suggested topics include:
1. Digital Blackness and Social Media2. Digital Blackness on Film3. Black Television in the Digital Age4. Digital Black Histories5. Digital Archives6. Digital Black Studies7. Digital Black Feminisms8. Digital Diasporas9. Digital Black Politics and Social Movements10. Digital Blackness and Musical Cultures11. Digital Blackness and Visual Culture12. Blackness in the Digital Humanities13. Black Code Studies
Papers and complete panel proposals should be submitted to proposals(at)rutgersdigitalblackness.com, by November 15, 2015.
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