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Rodney D. Coates

Professor of Sociology and Gerontology

Miami University

Oxford, Ohio 45056

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Dear All, We would love to see scholars from all over in Liverpool next

April for a truly Transatlantic symposium.

best

alan rice



Liberating Sojourn 2: Transatlantic Abolitionists 1845-1860



Symposium: University of Liverpool, 23rd-25th April 2009

             Keynote Speaker: Richard Blackett - Vanderbilt University



Call for papers:



In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Frederick Douglass’s

second visit to the United Kingdom, 1859-1860, we invite proposals for

papers focusing on black abolitionists in Britain and Ireland in the

period 1845-1860.  Liberating Sojourn 2, expands on the colloquium

concentrating on Douglass’s first transatlantic voyage, held at Keele

University in 1995, and will take place in Liverpool, the former slave

port from which Douglass began his second UK tour.



The juncture of Douglass’s return trip to Europe on the eve of the US

Civil War offers an opportunity to review contemporary shifts in the

transatlantic abolitionist movement and international reform community,

and to consider afresh the various encounters, transformations and

tensions resulting from the circulation of black abolitionists,

reformers and ex-slaves, and their work, beyond the Americas.  The aim

of the symposium, therefore, is to bring together international

scholarly perspectives on Douglass’s second visit, as well as on the

activities of other abolitionist campaigners and sojourners in the

period.  These include, but are not limited to: Harriet Jacobs, Henry

Box Brown, William and Ellen Craft, William Wells Brown, Henry Highland

Garnet, James McCune Smith, Martin Delaney and Sarah Parker Remond.



Literary, Historical, Cultural and interdisciplinary approaches are

encouraged.  Papers are invited across a range of subjects, examples of

which might include: race, gender and reform; African Colonization;

popular entertainment and racial performance; travel; religion and

ethical culture; reform movements; resistance and revolt; constitution

and law; blackness and empire (Portuguese, Spanish, British, American);

nationalism; romanticism; the economics of slavery and anti-slavery;

liberalism; philosophy and freedom; literary and political afterlives.





There will be a session on Abolitionists in the North West of England,

and on Comparative Luso-Iberian perspectives.  In addition, there will

be a dedicated teaching session and proposals for papers with a specific

pedagogical focus are welcome.  Topics might include:

●       Practical approaches to teaching Douglass in 2009

●       Interdisciplinary teaching: a case study

●       Teaching abolition and transatlantic studies in literary,

historical, American or Latin American studies programmes

●       Teaching textual and material culture in partnership with

libraries and archives

●       Texts and technology: Using web 2.0 technology to teach

transatlantic studies

●       Using archives and independent research in the classroom



Proposals of no more than 250 words should be sent to Alan Rice,

([log in to unmask]) or Fionnghuala Sweeney, ([log in to unmask]) by

23 January 2009.  Papers should be 20 minutes in length.  Completed

papers should be sent to individual panel chairs by 1 April 2009.



Liberating Sojourn 2 is associated with the Commemorating Abolition

initiative based at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLAN) - see

www.uclan.ac.uk/abolition .  Following on from the 200th anniversary

of the abolition of the slave trade in 2007, this project engages

undergraduates in archival research into the visits of transatlantic

abolitionists to Northern Britain.  An exhibition of the findings of

this research will feature at the colloquium.



Panel sponsors include the English Subject Centre, the British

Association for American Studies, the UCLAN Centre for Research Informed

Teaching, the Centre for the Study of International Slavery in Liverpool

and the Institute for the Study of Slavery at the University of

Nottingham.





Dr. Alan J. Ri

ce

National Teaching Fellow

Reader in American Cultural Studies

Dept. of Humanities

Fylde 429

University of Central Lancashire

Preston

PR1 2HE

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www.uclan.ac.uk/abolition

Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic (Continuum, 2003)