InterPhil: CFP: Boundaries of the Natural
__ Call for Papers Theme: Boundaries of the Natural Subtitle: Matter, Territory, Community Type: Transdisciplinary Conference Institution: Universidad de la Salle Location: Bogotá (Colombia) Date: 28.–30.5.2020 Deadline: 14.2.2020 __ (Version española abajo) “Boundaries of the Natural” is a transdisciplinary conference that takes on questions about the forms of knowledge and action responsive to the political and social climate of late globalization and global environmental crisis. Responses to the past few decades’ mass migrations across oceans and continents have been emblematic of the impasses in thinking about borders as social, historical, and legal categories that shape and naturalize ideas about community, kinship, and identity. The movement of millions across inhospitable landscapes and national borders competes for attention with the rise to power of the politics of deep conservatism all over Europe, Asia, and the Americas. We are present for new, thicker accounts of the historical and economic contexts of migration: the livelihoods, ways of life, entire economies and nation states migrants seek and leave behind. The physical distance between centers of economic power and areas of poverty are diminishing: financialized service economies of the large cities have made obsolete or invisible the land-based economies, eclipsed in political discourse the urgent questions of land and water ownership and use, and profoundly changed the relationship of “developed” societies to agriculture, food production, and food security. Virtualized land and territory in financialized economies become assets rather than spaces for living and growing food. Wars are fought over access to the land and its “natural resources.” Transnational markets and technologies demand resource exploitation because the resources are exhaustible, often on the verge of catastrophic depletion. Narratives about migrants’ disregard for the conditions of national borders and labor markets elicit important questions about what kind of knowledge drives decisions about moving across the boundaries of the known, facing physical danger, and imagination about a “better life” structured around culturally and historically specific categories like citizenship and rights. The goal of the conference is community-building within and beyond academia, in order to challenge conventional models of learning and action. The conference proposes to bring scholars together with practitioners (activists, artists, educators, etc.) from the Americas and other continents, to share knowledges about the way borders and boundaries shape nature and scale of political action today. We hope to create a space for the study of denaturalized categories such as gender, tribe, nation, state, and race that now determine the shape of communities in the unsustainable world. Conference Streams We are open to a variety of formats and encourage the submission of proposals for academic papers and thematic panels, but also for round-table discussions, workshops, storytelling, project presentations, performances, film screenings, debates, installations, activist-driven reflections, reflexive exercises, and other forms of interaction. Contributions could mix or match any of the following colors: RED - Imagined communities, deimagination, ‘new’ borders - Political organization, comunidad/society, tradition/capitalism and possibilities of dissent - Communitarian work and ‘identity politics’ - Peace and conflict in the context of neoliberal state making GREEN - Tierra, territory, place, location, state; land and water ownership and use; sustainability - Critical geographies and territorialities; globalization, nationalism, internationalism and transnationalism - Migration: travel, tourism, small places, displacement, ‘South’ as ‘Nature’ and resource BLUE - Boundaries of Nature/Naturaleza, epistemologies of race and gender, science and biopolitics, liberal feminism and the ‘North’ as ‘Nature’ - Ontological boundaries: realism and aesthetics of the ‘natural’ - Natural bodies and technologies of transformation/reproduction/movement; laboring machines, feeling machines, surrogates; affect and emotion; robots, replicants, androids, and others ROSA MEXICANO - Alternative narratives/histories of the natural - Literary nature: fiction, speculation, conjecture; utopia and dystopia - Social imaginary and (un)profitable creativity - Historiography and ‘creative’ writing; style and artifice; social history/history of society Submission Guidelines We invite proposals in English or Spanish for individual presentations (250 words max), panels of up to three participants (800 words max), or alternative formats (600 words max), individual or collective (e.g., performance, screening etc.). Please include name, contact information, affiliation, and a short bio
InterPhil: CFA: Summer School on Religious Diversity and the Secular University
__ Call for Applications Theme: Religious Diversity and the Secular University Type: Summer School Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge Location: Cambridge (United Kingdom) Date: 6.–17.7.2020 Deadline: 10.2.2020 __ The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project 'Religious Diversity and the Secular University' is pleased to announce the third annual two-week summer workshop for early career scholars across the humanities and social sciences (Cambridge, 6-17 July 2020). Following two highly successful Summer Workshops on 'Religious Diversity and the Secular University' in July 2018 and July 2019, the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge invites applications from outstanding early career scholars to participate in a two-week summer workshop in July 2020, devoted to some of the most critical issues in the emergence of the modern university and our historical moment: the related questions of secularism and religious diversity. We are grateful to be joined by four world-class senior scholars, who will be in residence to lead the workshop: Homi Bhabha (Harvard University) Lyndsey Stonebridge (University of Birmingham) Khaled Furani (Tel Aviv University) Olivia Harrison (USC Dornsife) For two weeks, twelve junior scholars will work with the scholars-in-residence as well as with the members of the CRASSH project, Simon Goldhill, Theodor Dunkelgrün and Sami Everett. Together, participants will study a set of primary sources selected by the senior scholars and engage critically with work-in-progress by each participant. We welcome applications from scholars in any academic discipline whose work engages with the dynamics of religious interaction in historical and cultural perspectives, with the study of religion(s) in one way or other, and with the intellectual, methodological and conceptual foundations thereof. Candidates will be no more than seven years beyond obtaining their doctorate (having been awarded their doctorate in July 2013 or later). Applications from doctoral students in the final stages of their dissertations may also be considered. The workshop will run from 6-17 July 2020. We shall award a maximum of twelve scholarships that provide up to £500 towards travel, as well as two weeks of room and board in Cambridge. Applications are made online and should include a CV, two letters of reference, a writing sample and an indication of the topic of the likely work in progress for discussion: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/applications/ Applications will be accepted until midday on 10 February 2020. Contact: Dr Theodor Dunkelgrün Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) University of Cambridge Alison Richard Building 7 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DT United Kingdom Email: tw...@cam.ac.uk Web: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/28868 __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CFP: In the Wake of Red Power Movements
__ Call for Papers Theme: In the Wake of Red Power Movements Subtitle: New Perspectives on Indigenous Intellectual and Narrative Traditions Type: International Symposium Institution: Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick Location: Coventry (United Kingdom) Date: 15.–16.5.2020 Deadline: 15.3.2020 __ This symposium explores North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that were recovered, reclaimed, or (re-)invented in the wake of Red Power movements that emerged in the 1960s in the settler colonial societies of Canada and the USA. It asks: which new perspectives and visions have been developed over the last 50 years within Indigenous studies and related fields when looking at Indigenous land and land rights, Indigenous political and social sovereignty, extractivism and environmental destruction, oppressive sex/gender systems, and for describing the repercussions of settler colonialism in North America, especially in narrative representations? The symposium is guided by the idea that North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions developed and recovered since the 1960s offer new and reclaimed ways of being, organizing, and thinking in the face of destruction, dispossession, and oppression; Indigenous ways of writing and righting are connected to ongoing social struggles for land rights, access to clean water, and intellectual and socio-political sovereignty; they are, as Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill (2013) have pointed out, “a gift” from which most academic disciplines can benefit greatly. In the face of ongoing exploitations of Indigenous knowledges and resources, it is paramount that researchers who focus on Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions, especially those who come from settler-colonial backgrounds, carefully examine their implications in settler-colonial ways of dispossession. It is in this context that the symposium encourages self-reflectivity and invites participants from all positionalities to include reflections on how to act, think, and write in a non-appropriative manner about the intellectual achievements of Indigenous academics, activists, artists from North America. What kind of challenges does an engagement with Indigenous intellectual and narrative achievements from North America pose, and how do these achievements enable their audience to think differently and to develop visions that go beyond settler colonial hegemonies that make themselves felt in customs, laws, property-relations, or gender roles? Possible topics include: - North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that emerged or were rediscovered over the last 50 years; - Indigenous representations of land and water, community-building, the other-than-human world; - connections and frictions among and within different Indigenous traditions and/or settler societies in North America; - Indigenous understandings of sex/gender; - methodologies for reading across ethnic divides, alliance-building tools in academia and activism. Please send your proposals (max. 300 words) plus a short bio (max. 150 words) to in_the_w...@outlook.com by March 15, 2020. You will be notified by March 29, 2020, if your paper is accepted. For any questions, please refer to the organizer Dr. Doro Wiese, IAS, University of Warwick. Keynote speakers: Dr. Mishuana Goeman Associate Professor of Gender Studies, UCLA Dr. Robert Warrior Distinguished Professor of American Literature & Culture, University of Kansas Contact: Dr. Doro Wiese Institute of Advanced Study University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL United Kingdom Phone: +44 24 76150565 Email: in_the_w...@outlook.com Web: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/calendar/in-the-wake __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
