<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">Greetings, everyone!<br><br>Writing to share the announcement for the 2021 BWWC virtual conference (below and Word copy attached), which will be held via Zoom from 1-4 June.  Registration information is forthcoming, and will be available on the conference website (linked below).  Take good care, and happy spring!<br><br>All best,<br>Angela</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#20124d" face="georgia,serif"><font face="garamond,serif">Angela E. Runciman<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">, Ph.D. (she/her)</span> </font></font></div><font color="#20124d" face="garamond,serif">
</font><div><font face="garamond,serif"><font color="#20124d"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">Writing Initiative & </span></font></font><span style="color:rgb(32,18,77);font-family:garamond,serif">Comparative Literature</span></div><div><font color="#20124d" face="garamond,serif">Binghamton University (SUNY)<br><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"><a href="mailto:runciman@binghamton.edu">runciman@binghamton.edu</a> <br></span><br><br><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#20124d" face="garamond,serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span></font><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:black;font-size:12pt;text-align:center">R</span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:black;font-size:12pt;text-align:center"></span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;color:black;font-size:12pt;text-align:center">e</span><span class="gmail_default" style="color:black;font-size:12pt;text-align:center">orienting the BWWC</span></div></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black;font-size:12pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif">Re</span>vised: February 2021.</font></span><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"></span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:13pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:8pt 9pt 0.0001pt 5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">For its virtual 2021 annual conference, the British Women Writers Association announces “Reorientations.”</span><span style="font-size:8pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">In the past, the British Women Writers Conference has featured panels, plenaries, and keynotes that address race and representation, but in response to the ongoing transformations of the field, we seek to reorient the conference with a singular focus on the work of women of color, both from the 18th- and 19th-centuries and today. This year, the conference will be held June 1-4 over Zoom. </span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 9pt 0.0001pt 5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 9pt 0.0001pt 5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">The 2021 conference will open with a workshop on antiracist pedagogy<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"> by Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison)</span>. Days two and three will feature two panels of plenary speakers bringing innovative approaches to archival materials and women of color in the Revolutionary and Victorian periods. The plenary addresses will be delivered by Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins), Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers), </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jazzmenleejohnson.com/my-work__;!!KGKeukY!mliyakXoDD-Wmi8rbAAR_MI4ZweHJWGfT8Ou2aXXXV33sZ6I3JvnjC5xX3Z1xMqrfY8$" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt">Jazzmen Lee-Johnson</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> (2020 Artist Fellow at the RISD Museum), Ryan Fong (Kalamazoo College), </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/september2015/hilarynicholson.asp__;!!KGKeukY!mliyakXoDD-Wmi8rbAAR_MI4ZweHJWGfT8Ou2aXXXV33sZ6I3JvnjC5xX3Z1NoDf9vA$" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hilary Nicholson</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> (<i>Video for Change</i>, Jamaica), and Samantha Pinto (University of Texas at Austin). On the fourth and final day of the conference, participants will discuss two recently published texts centering Black women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s <i>The Age of Phillis </i>(2020) and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s <i>Marys Seacole </i>(2019). The Common Reads event, new to this year’s BWWC, is an opportunity to host virtually the kind of fellowship that makes the annual conference so special, while expanding the conference’s historical focus to include work by contemporary Black writers. </span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 9pt 0.0001pt 5pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 5pt 0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">We are grateful for the feedback we received on the initial Call for Papers. We apologize for perpetuating the institutional racism which pervades the profession and which this year’s conference seeks to counter. The revised Announcement aligns more clearly with the goals for this year’s conference. Inclusivity and equity have always been at the core of the BWWA by surfacing the work of underread women writers. This task demands continual reorientations and re-examinations, specifically to combat a history of canon formation that privileges whiteness. We are aiming to stage an inclusive, antiracist virtual conference that practices a conscious engagement with the history of exclusion within the field.</span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:4.5pt"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Please follow the conference website for registration information at </span><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://2021bwwc.wordpress.com/__;!!KGKeukY!mliyakXoDD-Wmi8rbAAR_MI4ZweHJWGfT8Ou2aXXXV33sZ6I3JvnjC5xX3Z1OOrMK4E$" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt">2021BWWC.wordpress.com</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">.</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"></div><div><span style="text-align:center"> </span><font color="#20124d" face="garamond,serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif"></span><br></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>