Ethnography of Washing: Colonial Configurations of Race, Indigeneity and Labor through Literary and Visual Sources

This panel invites presentations on literary and visual depictions of washhouses, public baths, laundry scenes as sites where colonial imaginaries constructed racialized and Indigenous identities through the labor of women. Please send a brief proposal.

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 8 September 2025

Banu Kaygusuz Tezel, U of Toronto (kaygusuzbanu@gmail.com )