{"id":966,"date":"2016-04-25T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T17:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/?p=966"},"modified":"2016-04-25T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T17:10:17","slug":"radicals-under-the-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/radicals-under-the-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"American Networks: Radicals Under the Radar (1868-1968) Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"under-the-radar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An International Interdisciplinary Conference <\/strong>
\nLocation: 1-4 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG
\nDate: 11-13 July 2016<\/p>\n

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Keynote Speakers:<\/dt>\n
Professor Winston James, University of California
\nAssociate Professor Rhonda Williams, Case Western University<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Conference aims:<\/strong>
\nAmerican Networks: Radicals Under the Radar aims to challenge dominant narratives of artistic and political collaboration by investigating networks in the Americas which are often submerged \u2018under the radar\u2019 of conventional scholarship.<\/p>\n

Pan-American and transnational in focus, the conference sets out to investigate literary and artistic movements which are poorly served by strict linguistic and national boundaries. Artistic and political movements are never predicated upon \u2018great\u2019 individuals in isolation, but are always reliant upon networks. Across the Americas, affiliations between artists and radical thinkers have led to paradigm shifts that have changed world history. Communists, Wobblies, revolutionaries, socialists, Fabianists, Pan-Africanists, Pan-Americanists, revolutionaries, anarchists, political exiles and Garveyites all played their role in shaping American literature, art and politics.<\/p>\n

Whether such networks exist in tangible social enclaves\u2014homes, bars, caf\u00e9s, galleries, offices or neighbourhoods\u2014or in virtual form\u2014an edited book\u2014they inevitably draw together collaborators from different cultural, national and linguistic backgrounds. In American studies, scholarship on some of the most significant artistic movements of the twentieth century, such as Modernism and the avant-garde\u2014which often combine artistic and politically radical components\u2014has often been dominated by national, US-centric and Anglocentric paradigms.<\/p>\n

In Americanist scholarship more broadly, Caribbean, Latin American and Southern contributors are often overlooked in favour of their Northern counterparts. American Networks interrogates received wisdom about discourse on American arts and writing and is attentive to cultural geographies which are Pan-American, transnational and intercultural in nature.<\/p>\n

Registration:<\/strong>
\nRegistration is \u00a355 or \u00a340 concession. For more information, please visit: https:\/\/www.essex.ac.uk\/lifts\/news_and_seminars\/american-networks.aspx<\/a>
\nTo register for the conference, please visit:<\/p>\n

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An International Interdisciplinary Conference Location: 1-4 Suffolk Street, London SW1Y 4HG Date: 11-13 July 2016 Keynote Speakers: Professor Winston James,<\/p>\n

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