InterPhil: CONF: Not Quite Equal
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Not Quite Equal Subtitle: Exploring Intersectional Power Relations in the European East-West Divide Type: International Workshop Institution: University of Augsburg Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Utrecht University Location: Online Date: 31.5.2021 __ You are invited to join the workshop "Not Quite Equal: Exploring Intersectional Power Relations in the European East-West Divide". The workshop will present and explore Central and Eastern European feminist perspectives on the hierarchising and necropolitical character of the European East-West divide as well as CEE feminist visions for just futures. In contemporary global terms, the ‘Eastern European’ region is perceived as part of Europe. After 1989, the neoliberalisation of the market, Westernisation of culture and social values, and subsequent entry into the European Union made the countries that used to be part of the so-called Eastern Block ‘finally’ European. Yet, being from ‘Eastern Europe’ carries certain devaluing connotations that lead to social hierarchisation in everyday and institutional encounters. In the West, individuals from Eastern and parts of Central Europe (CEE) - and women in particular - have long been othered, structurally marginalised and utilised as cheap labour. In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the devaluation of CEE workers obtained a literal necropolitical character when several West-European countries protected the lives of their residents through social pandemic measures, such as ‘lockdown,’ while at the same time imported, with minimal health protections, poor working conditions and low wages, a CEE migrant labour force to harvest seasonal crops and provide care work. This workshop will bring together CEE feminist scholars, who are academically located within both CEE and Western Europe, to discuss what it means to be equal-but-not-quite as CEE subjects, feminists, activists, workers and academics, in the context of being part of Europe and the world more globally. Speakers will be invited to reflect on where CEE is in intersectional theory and how CEE experiences contribute to the analysis of power relations in Europe. By relating old and new CEE scholarship with a broad range of anti-racist and decolonial feminist theories, the workshop will inform international feminist and decolonial debates, which commonly fail to include CEE voices and scholarship. Incorporating CEE perspectives is crucial for an in-depth analysis of the nuances of oppression, the broadening and deepening of intersectional debates on gender and race as social categories of power and for identifying ways to foster intersectional justice in Europe and beyond. The workshop is dedicated to the memory of feminist scholars Hana Havelková and Marina Blagojević Hughson. Programme All talks will involve 20 mins for presentations and 10 mins for Q&A 10:00-10:15 Welcome Tereza Hendl (University of Augsburg / Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich) and Magdalena Górska (Utrecht University) 10:15-10:45 Madina Tlostanova (Linköping University) Equality Revisited: a Decolonial View on the Perpetual Construction of Internal European Others 11:00-11:30 Petra Ezzeddine (Charles University) and Zuzana Uhde (Czech Academy of Sciences) Essential, Exploited and Unequal: Borderscapes of the Political Economy of Social Reproduction in Europe 11:30-12:00 Angéla Kóczé (Central European University) Configuration of "Coloniality of Power" through the Gendered Racialization of Roma in Post-Socialist Europe 13:00-13:30 Tereza Hendl (University of Augsburg / Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich) Examining Western Dimensions of White ‘Privilege’ and Supremacy: On the Need for an Intersectional Theory of Whiteness 13:30-14:00 Adriana Qubaiova (independent scholar) Between the Easts: What Can We Gain from an Inter-regional Perspective Between the Middle East and Eastern Europe? 14:15-14:45 Kateřina Kolářová (Charles University) The Cruel Optimism of Rehabilitative Postsocialism: Imagining the Crip Critique from the ‘East’ 14:45-15:15 Ewa Majewska (independent scholar) Weak Resistance in the Former East: Feminist and Queer Struggles 15:30-16:00 Čarna Brković (University of Göttingen) (South)East Europe and Geopolitics of Surprise in Anthropological Epistemology 16:00-16:45 Discussion Panel Visions for Decolonial Feminist Futures, chaired by Věra Sokolová 16:45-17:00 Closing remarks Magdalena Górska Registration Date: Monday, 31.5.2021 Time: 10-17:00 CET Online on Zoom Free registration: http://bit.ly/2RAaM4V Organisers Tereza Hendl & Magdalena Górska Contact: Dr Tereza Hendl, Research Associate Institute of Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich Lessingstr. 2 80336 Munich Germany Phone: +49 89 2180-72785 Fax: +49 89 2180-72799 E-Mail: tereza.he...@med.uni-muenchen.de
InterPhil: CFP: Interculturalidade e Ancestralidade
__ Convocatória de comunicações Theme: Interculturalidade e Ancestralidade Type: II Congresso Internacional de Filosofia Intercultural Institution: Associação Latino-americana de Filosofia Intercultural (ALAFI) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Location: Online Date: Quartas e sábados de Outubro de 2021 Deadline: 30.6.2021 __ (Versión española abajo | English version below) A Universidade de São Paulo e a Associação Latino-americana de Filosofia Intercultural convidam a todos para participar do II Congresso Internacional de Filosofia Intercultural da ALAFI a ser realizado online (quartas e sábados de Outubro de 2021). São bem-vindas todas as contribuições em filosofia intercultural, filosofia comparada e em todas as tradições filosóficas não-ocidentais. Podem-se enviar propostas em português, espanhol e inglês. Lembramos, para estes fins, que as propostas de comunicação serão avaliadas por uma comissão julgadora e a sua decisão será definitiva e incontestável. Com o tema “Interculturalidade e Ancestralidade” visamos, por um lado, fomentar o estudo e fazer filosófico de acordo com uma concepção mais pluralista e inclusiva de filosofia, que abranja o estudo de tradições filosóficas não- europeias e vise o estabelecimento de um diálogo intercultural entre diferentes correntes filosóficas. Por outro lado, visamos trazer à tona outra dimensão da interculturalidade, que poderia ser considerada complementar à dimensão discutida em nosso primeiro congresso. Isso porque, se, no primeiro congresso, discutimos o papel que a interculturalidade teria no futuro da filosofia, nesta edição, inspirados pelo ideograma adinkra do sankofa, representado por um pássaro que volta a cabeça à cauda e que significa "retornar ao passado para ressignificar o presente e construir o futuro", neste congresso, o enfoque estará em pensar o papel constitutivo tanto da ancestralidade em nossa compreensão da interculturalidade em filosofia (por meio da recuperação da história e do passado de culturas e tradições que são fundamentais para que seja possível, hoje, um diálogo filosófico intercultural genuíno), como da interculturalidade em nossa compreensão da ancestralidade (na medida em que, por meio dela, relembramos como as tradições de pensamento e filosóficas tiveram sua história e seu legado constituído graças a incontáveis trocas e diálogos interculturais que seriam constitutivos dessa mesma história). Neste panorama, convidamos os participantes a pensar conosco a possibilidade de construção de uma filosofia plural, descolonizada e que fomente a participação feminina. Em todo o caso, o evento está aberto a todas as temáticas dentro dos campos mencionados anteriormente. Os participantes devem ter em conta que a apresentação deve durar 20 minutos, seguindo por 10 minutos de discussão. Receberemos propostas de comunicação no e-mail: alafiofic...@gmail.com Por favor, escrever a proposta em formato Word ou LibreOffice, incluindo os seguintes dados: - Nome - Maior titulação acadêmica - Filiação institucional - Cidade e país de residência - E-mail - Título da apresentação - Resumo de entre 300 a 500 palavras - Lista de entre 3 a 5 palavras-chave As propostas devem ser enviadas até o dia 30/06/2021. Caso o arquivo tenha fontes em escrita não-românica, solicitamos que a fonte seja enviada junto com o arquivo. Solicitamos ainda que os arquivos das propostas tenham por título o nome completo do proponente em caixa alta (Ex.: FULANO DE SOUZA). Website do congresso: https://www.alafi.org/eventos __ Interculturalidad y ancestralidad La Universidad de São Paulo y la Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía Intercultural extienden a la comunidad académica una invitación abierta a participar en el II Congreso Internacional de Filosofía Intercultural de ALAFI, que se realizará en línea (jueves y sábados de octubre 2021). Todas las contribuciones en filosofía intercultural, filosofía comparada y en todas las tradiciones filosóficas no occidentales son bienvenidas. Las propuestas se pueden enviar en portugués, español e inglés. Recordamos, a estos efectos, que las propuestas de comunicación serán evaluadas por un comité de jurados y su decisión será inapelable. Con el tema “Interculturalidad y ancestralidad”, pretendemos, por un lado, fomentar el estudio y la filosofía según una concepción más plural e inclusiva de la filosofía, que englobe el estudio de las tradiciones filosóficas no europeas y tenga como objetivo el establecimiento de un diálogo intercultural entre diferentes corrientes filosóficas. Por otro lado, pretendemos visibilizar otra dimensión de la interculturalidad, que podría considerarse complementaria a la dimensión discutida en nuestro primer congreso. Esto se debe a que, si en el primer congreso discutimos el papel que jugaría la interculturalidad en el futuro de la fi
InterPhil: CFP: After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics
__ Call for Papers Theme: After Rights? Subtitle: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics Type: Project and Workshop Series Institution: University of Sussex Location: Online Date: October 2021 – February 2022 Deadline: 30.6.2021 __ A project and workshop series leading to a peer-reviewed journal special issue Societies and publics in diverse political spaces are today confronted with social and political milieus that are ‘intentionally devoid of everything that a person needs to live’ (Bradley, 2019: 137). Such ‘hostile environments’ form spaces of abandonment, debility and rightlessness, the result of the confluence of ongoing colonial legacies and neoliberal capitalism (El-Enany 2020). We are thus witnessing the coexistence of effective rightlessness, disposability and socio-economic abandonment alongside human rights abundance and expansion (Gundogdu, 2015). These differently manifesting socio-economic and political landscapes, buttressed by the rise of right-wing populism and regressive political formations, have fuelled the concerns of resistance movements and critical rights scholars about the limits and boundaries of struggling through rights. Such concerns include, but are not limited to, consideration of the limitations of rights and indeed of their prospective complicity in producing processes of abandonment, precarity and debility that create effectively rightless subjects (Brown 2004; Sokhi-Bulley 2016; Tronto, 2012). To date, scholarship and social justice activism have questioned the reliance of human rights on restrictive, racialized notions of humanity, rationality and purposive agency, asking whether rights reverberate – historically and philosophically – with the racial and extractive legacies of empire (Gilroy 2019; Tascon and Ife 2008), thereby reinforcing colonial and settler colonial politics of recognition (Coulthard 2014). Questions abound, moreover, about how and whether human rights work, whether rights are enough and whether rights are at an endtimes (Sikkink, 2017; Moyn 2018; Hopgood 2013). Whether, and in what ways, rights function as technologies of governing and managing populations (Sokhi-Bulley 2016; Golder 2015; Kapur 2018), sometimes in conjunction with other assemblages such as ‘debility’ (Puar 2017) or ‘crisis’ (Bhambra 2017). Whether still, contrary to many 20th century expectations, rights may not be the antidote to rightlessness (Odysseos 2015) and may indeed signal the end of imagination (Douzinas 2000) or its curtailment within a ‘neoliberal fishbowl’ (Kapur, 2016). And, whether struggling (through) rights encloses struggles for transformational change within a politics of optimism that secures not only the material and exclusionary status quo but also its pervasive anti-blackness (Warren 2018). These conjunctures prompt the central questions of this project: - Can we, and should we, imagine an ‘after rights’? - What comes ‘after rights’? - What are the political, ethical and aesthetic/poetic implications of thinking ‘after rights’? The project and envisioned journal Special Issue invite submissions by critical rights scholars in diverse career stages and disciplinary locations, as well as from a range of theoretical and ethico-political sensibilities. We aim to jointly interrogate both the failings in the promises of liberal conceptions of rights arising from the wide-ranging critiques mentioned above, and also co-produce work with struggles and social formations striving for alternative futures, including radical reimaginations of human rights. We encourage submissions that entwine the analyses of disposability, abandonment and effective rightlessness; that reflect on the polysemic meanings of the after in ‘after rights?’, where ‘after’ takes on a range of meanings as a move beyond, a radical reimagining, and a space of practice and possibility to remake rights otherwise. We want to encourage re-conceptualisations of critique beyond philosophical intervention, as entailing questioning of political engagement, ethical comportment, social poesis, as well as spirituality (Hartman 2019; Foucault, 2001; Hadot, 1995). We envision, in other words, that proposed papers will aim to stretch the political, ethical, aesthetic / poetic imagination of what plural futures of rights might look like. We invite both theoretical and practice- and/or case-study based contributions offering radical reflections on what ‘after rights’ might come to mean in philosophical and praxeological terms. The papers are thus intended to form a collection of radical interventions that respond to our times and may address wide-ranging issues, such as climate change, Israeli apartheid and the Palestinian calls for freedom, indigenous politics and resurgence, the Farmers Protests in India, the UK’s hostile environment (including issues of deprivation of citizenship, deportation and expulsion), Covid-
