[Vwoolf] BWWC 2021 Virtual Conference, 1-4 June

[Angela Runciman]

Greetings, everyone!

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!

All best,
Angela

-- 
Angela E. Runciman, Ph.D. (she/her)
Writing Initiative & Comparative Literature
Binghamton University (SUNY)
runciman at binghamton.edu


Reorienting the BWWC

Revised: February 2021.



For its virtual 2021 annual conference, the British Women Writers
Association announces “Reorientations.” 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.



The 2021 conference will open with a workshop on antiracist pedagogy by
Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison). 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), Jazzmen Lee-Johnson
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.jazzmenleejohnson.com/my-work__;!!KGKeukY!mliyakXoDD-Wmi8rbAAR_MI4ZweHJWGfT8Ou2aXXXV33sZ6I3JvnjC5xX3Z1xMqrfY8$ > (2020 Artist Fellow at the RISD
Museum), Ryan Fong (Kalamazoo College), Hilary Nicholson
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://sta.uwi.edu/crgs/september2015/hilarynicholson.asp__;!!KGKeukY!mliyakXoDD-Wmi8rbAAR_MI4ZweHJWGfT8Ou2aXXXV33sZ6I3JvnjC5xX3Z1NoDf9vA$ > (*Video for
Change*, 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 *The Age of Phillis *(2020) and Jackie
Sibblies Drury’s *Marys Seacole *(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.



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.



Please follow the conference website for registration information at
2021BWWC.wordpress.com <https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://2021bwwc.wordpress.com/__;!!KGKeukY!mliyakXoDD-Wmi8rbAAR_MI4ZweHJWGfT8Ou2aXXXV33sZ6I3JvnjC5xX3Z1OOrMK4E$ >.
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