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Call for Papers Theme: Territorial Escape Subtitle: Anti-Authoritarian, Fugitive and Subterranean Spaces of Historical Agency Type: Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University Location: San Francisco, CA (USA) Date: 9.–11.10.2014 Deadline: 15.5.2014 __________________________________________________ A follow up to the 2012 conference entitled “Anarchism: No Gods, No Masters, No Peripheries,” held at Cornell University’s Institute for Comparative Modernities, this conference examines spaces of resistance and prefigurative manifestations of anti-authoritarian practice in historical perspective. Territoriality, the foundation of modern Nation-States, is critically challenged by archetypes of physical and symbolic itinerancy. To the legal incarceration of citizens (and nomads, slaves, etc.) into bounded territorialities and objectified identities, the revolutionary and internationalist suggestion is that “spaces in-between” are not just the itinerant transgressions of migrant peoples in a globalized world, as post-colonial and post-national critics would have it; they also hark back to the multiplicity of forms of social action, political praxis and representations of freedom that accompanied pressures on communal societies and fragmentations of Empire, preceding and accompanying the rise of modern States, eluding and undermining bonds of terror, servitude and colonialism. These hidden stories are a veritable treasure-trove of historical memory for the purposes of contemporary transnational and cooperative resistance to global capitalism and its neo-fascist, ultra-nationalist and individualist antinomies. Whether explicitly anarchist, nominally utopian, couched in idioms of tradition or insurgency, fugitive and subterranean forms of historical agency are often uncategorized in academic and intellectual discourse because they defy preconceived notions of power, modernity, liberation and agency. The conference invites an open and non-partisan discussion of their commonalities and contradictions, and their lessons for present-day redefinitions of social activism as necessarily grounded in what Kamau Brathwaite called “cores and kernels, resistant local forms, roots, stumps, survival rhythms and growing points.” The conference will result in a collective interdisciplinary volume of relevance to both academic inquiry and cultural/socio-political resistance. Submit paper abstracts (max 500 words, 5 key words), title, institutional affiliation, and E-mail address to the Coordinators by 15 May 2014: Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University, USA Email: gdelaforc...@nsu.edu Andrej Grubacic, California Institute of Integral Studies, USA Email: agruba...@ciis.edu Contact: Andrej Grubacic California Institute of Integral Studies 1453 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103 USA E-mail: agruba...@ciis.edu Web: http://www.ciis.edu __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
