[ecrea] CfP: In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation: A Centennial Assessment of Griffith's Film

CFP
In the Shadow of The Birth of a Nation: A Centennial Assessment of 
Griffith's Film
Commonwealth Fund Conference in American History
University College London
London, United Kingdom
June 25-27, 2015

2015 will see the centennial of the release of David W. Griffith's 
highly controversial film The Birth of a Nation. The time is ripe for a 
scholarly review of the movie and its after-effects - one of which has 
been the eclipse of Griffith's historical reputation because of the 
rampant racism of his film (in 1999 the Directors Guild of America 
abolished its D. W. Griffith award for lifetime achievement). The 
conference will assess what the film meant and still means in terms of 
race relations, American history, and film history. Keynote speakers 
will be Jane Gaines (Columbia University); Robert Lang (University of 
Hartford); Paul McEwan (Muhlenberg College); Cedric Robinson (University 
of California, Santa Barbara); Jacqueline Stewart (University of 
Chicago) and Linda Williams (University of California, Berkeley).

Conference organisers: Melvyn Stokes (UCL) and Iwan Morgan (UCL)

Further information and CfP: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/birth-of-a-nation


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