[Commlist] CFP: Confronting Cinematic Slavery: Re-presenting Transatlantic Enslavement

*Confronting Cinematic Slavery: Re-presenting Transatlantic Enslavement*

We seek submissions for chapters for inclusion in an interdisciplinary 
book that seeks to examine the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its 
re-telling through cinematic representation and pedagogical instruction. 
Chattel slavery (enslavement through conquest, birth, gender, race, 
ethnicity, kinship, and exploitation of indebtedness) has long been 
endemic to varied societies. Its Transatlantic iteration saw at least 10 
million Africans were brought to the Americas. Now, two centuries after 
its legal abolition, how do we conceptualize, represent, and teach about 
that period, its legacy, and its relationship to both media and 
education without centering our practices on neither trauma and 
suffering nor on Eurocentric viewpoints and paternalistic resistance? We 
aim to create a conversation on past/present filmmaking techniques, 
archival practices, digital projects using films, educational approaches 
to using cinema, and more—all in the service of broadening how the 
complexities of Transatlantic Slavery can be better understood. We aim 
to include a variety of angles and voices on this topic and are open to 
receiving chapters that include, but are not limited to:

• Intersections of ethnoracialization and slavery

• Less understood, unofficial, or repressed histories or methods of 
enslavement

• Intersecting institutions (religion, capitalism, science, medicine, etc.)

• Media and historiography

• Educational initiatives and pedagogy

• Practices of both resistance and reproduction

• Deployments of film with other artistic forms of cultural production

• Slavery and its aftermaths

• Decoding of media representations

• Reparations and/or transitional justice

• Memorialization, museums, exhibits, and archives

We welcome chapter proposals from people from all walks of life and 
identities, including academics, civil society members, professionals, 
government actors, and global citizens with personal and/or legacy 
connections to slavery. We particularly encourage submissions from those 
in the Global South.

To be considered for inclusion, submit the following before 1 June 2025 
to the co-editors (listed below):

1. Tentative Title

2. Extended Abstract (500-800 words)

3. Keywords (maximum of 10)

4. Author Biography (maximum of 300 words)

Notifications of accepted chapter proposals will be sent in mid-June 
2025. The first drafts of the chapters will be due to the co-editors in 
January 2026.

Co-editors:

Matthew Hughey, Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut (USA) 
- (matthew.hughey /at/ uconn.edu)

Leonora Masini, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of College Cork 
(Ireland) - (leonora_masini /at/ alumni.brown.edu)

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