[Vwoolf] Space Between Society Conference CFP

[Lauryl Tucker]

*June 2-4, 2022: Labor in the Space Between, Case Western Reserve
University*



Hosted by the Space Between Society and the Medical Humanities Program at
Case Western Reserve University, the 2022 Labor in the Space Between
meeting will be held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Our
conference encourages prospective applicants to critically examine labor
practices between 1914 and 1945 and the ways these practices have shaped
our constructions of society, the body, and the self. While economics and
the social sciences have been the privileged disciplinary frameworks for
thinking about labor, this conference invites scholars working in the
various humanities to imagine what our diverse disciplines have to
contribute to contemporary critical thinking about labor. Some questions we
hope to examine include:



●      How does cultural production between 1914 and 1945 reflect cultural
attitudes toward art and labor?

●      How were cultural movements like Futurism, Modernism and the new
Documentary affected by and engaging with labor movements?

●      How do race, gender, class, disability, and national, ethnic and
religious identities intersect with labor and its representations?

●      What are the tensions between representations and constructions of
labor and the actual performance of labor?

●      What can labor activism’s past tell us about casualization and
union-busting in our own era?

●      How can the intersectionality of the various fields of the
humanities serve to enhance our understandings of and relationships to work
and labor?



Cleveland, a major center of industrialization, has been a city defined by
labor, and allows us to think of many of the intersections of labor and
culture between 1914 and 1945. It is a city where Russian Jews fled to from
the pogroms of the early 20th century and where Black Americans escaping
harsh, Southern segregationist laws and racism sought new opportunities
during the Great Migration. It is a city whose universities and hospitals
were instrumental in medical and nursing advances in both the First and
Second World Wars, and whose manufacturing industries profited hugely from
WWII. It is a city that has always opened its arms to refugees, including
995 Afghans who have recently arrived to build new lives. Cleveland is but
one illustration of how labor markets were disrupted in myriad ways between
1914 and 1945. These shifts and disruptions resulted in social and cultural
upheavals that were addressed by writers, artists, journalists, and other
individuals in a range of forms of cultural production.



Themes this conference will explore include *Labor *and



   - Medicine: disability, reproductive, war and medicine, war nursing
   - Migration
   - War: military production, resistance, collaboration, propaganda,
   killing, memorialization
   - Enslavement, indentured servitude, camps, forced, prison,
   concentration camps, ghettos, and gulags
   - Communism, and its representation
   - Postwar planning and rebuilding
   - Foodways: culinary production, agriculture
   - Technology: mass production versus individualism
   - Creativity: literature, cinema, fashion, the arts, academic production
   - Historicization
   - Hierarchies: service versus creative/research/generative
   - Domesticity: household economies, servants, gendered spheres
   - Working class art and literature
   - Invisibility: Hidden, silent, undocumented, emotional, and affective



Please note that, as of now, plans are for an in-person meeting. Case
Western Reserve University requires meeting attendees to follow university
COVID-19 protocols including masking and providing proof of vaccination.



Please submit a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio to Ravenel Richardson
at mrr82 at case.edu by December 15, 2021.

-- 
V. Lauryl Tucker (she/her)
Associate Professor, Dept. of English
Sewanee: University of the South
vltucker at sewanee.edu
Gailor Hall 23
Twitter: @LaurylTucker <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/LaurylTucker__;!!KGKeukY!kLyr7rEgt3ZgB8nZ_13Y1tzuGMLWAkpLKLjKdhAFNp22FJo52S1prIg__fhbw2BBc0w$ >
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