[ecrea] CFP Pocahontas & After

Please see below for details of a major international interdisciplinary 
conference, ‘Pocahontas and After: historical culture and transatlantic 
encounters, 1617-2017’.

In 2017 the Anglo-American world will mark the 400th anniversary of the 
death of Pocahontas.  Her story has been romanticised at many points 
over the centuries, and multiple representations of Pocahontas (as Noble 
Savage, Mother of a Nation, propaganda icon, seductive temptress) have 
materialised in historical accounts, in literature, and in visual, and 
material culture, and performance art.  From a range of historical and 
literary perspectives, and for a variety of social and political 
purposes, Pocahontas has left an enduring legacy among Indigenous, 
local, national, and international communities.

This conference will explore the continued interest in Pocahontas as a 
subject of study.  It will examine the academic challenges posed by the 
multiple versions and the contemporary appropriations of this 
Powhatan/Pamunkey woman variously known as Amonute, Matoaka, Pocahontas, 
and Rebecca.  In exploring the life and afterlives of Pocahontas, it 
aims to open new interdisciplinary discussions.

Papers are thus welcomed from all disciplinary perspectives, including 
(but not limited to) literary studies; film and media studies; cultural 
studies; gender and indigenous studies; art history; transatlantic and 
early modern studies; and particularly, from Native American 
perspectives.  Comparative work is also encouraged, as are contributions 
from early career researchers.

Suggested themes include:

-Indigenous feminism

-Pocahontas’ literary afterlife

-Pocahontas on film

-Pocahontas and political resistance

-Pocahontas in material culture

-The commodification of Pocahontas

-Comparative approaches to Pocahontas (eg. La Malinche)

-Pocahontas and Bloomsbury

-Teaching Pocahontas, and Pocahontas as subject of academic enquiry.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Professor Mishuana Goeman (UCLA)

Professor Karen Kupperman (NYU)

Professor Camilla Townsend (Rutgers)

Dr Karenne Wood (Virginia Indian Heritage Programme)

The Satuday 18th^h will also host a range of cultural activities, including:

-Screening of /Reel Injun/ and /Indigenous London/ with director Q&A’s

-A special session: ‘Historic Jamestown and new perspectives on 
Pocahontas’ with Jim Horn and Bill Kelso.

-A panel debate on the iconography of Pocahontas and its relationship to 
contemporary indigenous women’s political and social issues.  Confirmed 
speakers: Joanne Prince of Rainmaker Gallery, Bristol; Shelley Niro, 
Mohawk film-maker and artist; Dr Max Carocci, Chelsea College of Art, MA 
Museums and Curating; Dr David Stirrup, Reader in Indigenous and Settler 
Literatures of the Americas at the University of Kent; and Dr Buck 
Woodard, Colonial Williamsburg, American Indian Initiative.

-A musical performance by singer-songwriter ElizaBeth Hill

250-word abstracts together with a short biography should be submitted 
to (eccles-centre /at/ bl.uk) <mailto:(eccles-centre /at/ bl.uk)>(please include 
subject line: Pocahontas and After conference) *by Sunday 13 November 
2016*.  We aim to offer a number of bursaries for postgraduates and 
early career researchers to offset costs.


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