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Conference Announcement Theme: Decolonising Political Concepts Type: International Conference Institution: Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), University of Aberdeen Location: Aberdeen, Scotland (United Kingdom) Date: 19.–20.9.2019 __________________________________________________ Topic Postcolonial and decolonial thinkers and activists have spent the last decades unravelling the intellectual, political and structural legacies of colonialism and ongoing coloniality in our contemporary world. Political concepts are part of these legacies. The way academics define and use them is generally mediated by traditions of political thought marked by and even framed by coloniality. However, and despite the increasing and far-reaching work of postcolonial and decolonial research, this aspect of political concepts is still too often silenced or ignored in some academic settings. Throughout this conference, we aim to engage with the coloniality of political concepts, and with how ontological, epistemological and political closures and exclusions are reproduced through their use. Besides, we seek to open up collective and collaborative reflections on how to expose, challenge and overcome the colonialities still permeating ideas and research by questioning the tools that political concepts are. We aim to engage with non-Western and indigenous political thought and experiences, exploring alternative uses and what decolonised political concepts might look like. We see such dialogues as necessary in order to find ways of living together that acknowledge and respect plurality and allow for genuinely “postcolonial” academic and political contexts. Programme Thursday 19th September 09.25 – 09.40 Welcome and Opening: Marie Wuth and Valentin Clavé-Mercier 09.40 – 11.10 Decolonial Horizons – Revealing the Coloniality of Knowledge and Power Karim Barakat (American University of Beirut): “History and Universal Politics” Chika Mba (University of Ghana): “Achieving Global Justice through Decolonising Human Dignity” Minoo Alinia (Södertörn University): “Selected knowing and the privileged ignorance” 11.30 – 13.00 Feeling Coloniality – Bodies, Sexuality and Agency Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam): “Decolonising sexuality, disrupting epistemologies, shattering the subject” Cecilia Cienfuegos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Enfleshed Political Violences. Rethinking Sexual Violence from a Postcolonial Critique” Henrike Kohpeiß (Freie Universität Berlin): “Decolonising Agency” 14.00 – 15.20 Keynote by Ritu Vij (University of Aberdeen): “The Universal Subject of Precarity: A Decolonial Reading” 15.20 – 16.20 Religion and Politics – A Colonial Dualism? Mitsutoshi Horii (Shumei University & Chaucer College): “Coloniality of 'Politics': The US-Japan Relations since 1853” Anthony Zirpoli (University of Aberdeen): “The Religiosity of Secularism and the Political form of Faith” 16.40 – 18.00 Keynote by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Birkbeck University of London): "Funk Manifesto for a Decolonised Image (With a Plea for a Decolonial International)" Friday 20th September 09.30 – 10.30 Subverting Coloniality – Decolonising the Language of Resistance Laura Galian Hernandez (Universidad de Granada): “Decolonizing Anarchism: Experiences from the South of the Mediterranean” Sheheen Kattiparambil (University of Leeds): “Fascism, Communalism and Resistance: Speaking Muslim in India” 10.30 – 11.30 Indigenous Conceptualisations – Articulations, Deployments and Negotiations Valentin Clavé-Mercier (University of Aberdeen): “Tino Rangatiratanga: A Decolonial Māori Politics of Sovereignty” Paul Rosier (Villanova University): “The Political Discourse and Diverse Dimensions of Native American Citizenship” 11.50 – 13.20 Beyond Borders – Migration and Re-thinking Citizenship Ricarda Hammer (Brown University): “The Coloniality of Citizenship: Recovering Claudia Jones, Anticolonial Imaginations and Lost Thinking beyond the Nation State” Shahin Nasiri (University of Amsterdam): “The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee” Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews): “(In)hospitality in Modernist Thought: Rethinking Hospitality through Decolonial Political Theology” 14.20 – 15.50 Lecture and workshop with Julie Cupples (University of Edinburgh): “Decolonising the Westernised University” 16.10 – 17.00 Closing Discussion Academic coordinators: Marie Wuth (marie.w...@abdn.ac.uk) Valentin Clavé-Mercier (valentin.clave-merc...@abdn.ac.uk) Conference website: https://cisrul.blog/seminarsandevents/decolonising-political-concepts/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
