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Call for Papers

Theme: Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond
Subtitle: Towards New Critical Understandings of Borders
Type: V CHAM Conference
Institution: Centre for the Humanities (CHAM), 
Location: Lisbon (Portugal) – Online
Date: 21.–23.7.2021
Deadline: 28.2.2021

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CHAM – Centre for the Humanities of NOVA FCSH is proud to announce
the organisation of its V International Conference on Frontiers of
Humanity and Beyond: Towards new critical understandings of borders.

This will be a semi-presential Conference held in FCSH, Lisbon.

The covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating a global-scale conscience on
the limits of human life on Earth, and is putting to the fore the
mutual interaction between social, cultural and natural processes. A
whole new understanding of the essence and role of borders needs to
be brought into focus.

The V CHAM International Conference will happen between the 21st and
23rd of July 2021.


Concept

The challenges of the early decades of the 21st century relate to the
survival of humanity as a species. While the covid-19 pandemic has
exacerbated a global-scale awareness of the limits of human life on
Earth, climate change has for long been putting to the fore the
interactions between social, cultural and natural processes. In this
context a whole new understanding of the essence and role of Borders,
in its multiple dimensions, needs to be brought into focus, and
include as well the notions of physical boundaries and territorial
control.

In this sense, the definition of the Anthropocene as a stage in the
history of the Earth entails a radical reshaping of the traditional
chronological divisions based on a vision of human history
disconnected from nature and reduced to the account of social and
technological change. Redefining the idea of border in its multiple
dimensions, in present days and through history, becomes of critical
importance.

Political and geographic frontiers require attention too. Up until
the covid-19 crisis, national frontiers seemed to be on a vanishing
process: in the post-Cold War world, mass media and popular culture
have favoured a narrative of the world open to synergic
interconnections. However, this view of globalization has always
presented an incomplete picture of reality. Borders, although
dispersed and controlled through their constant shifting and
movement, may have indeed proliferated rather than disappear, whilst
becoming more resistant to particular activities and peoples.

Additionally, the boundaries of human society require renewed
critical approaches on issues of gender, class, ethnicity, religious
beliefs or ideology.  Instituted forms of dehumanization,
animalization or reification relate to the establishment of social
and cultural frontiers throughout history. A focus on the divisions,
intersections and hierarchies between human and non-human species,
animals, plants and minerals is of paramount importance.

Finally, rethinking the traditional, culturally mediated relations
between beings and objects demands a thorough disciplinary critique.
This approach is a means of assessing frontiers in the quest for
knowledge as established by modernity in order to overcome their
normative representations and to propose new forms of
self-consciousness as well as multi- and inter-disciplinarity.


Themes

We invite scholars from all humanities and social sciences, as well
as from related natural and environmental sciences, to submit panel
proposals on the following themes:

- Boundaries of knowledge and disciplinary work: frontiers between
  the humanities, the social and the natural sciences.

- Urban frontiers: inclusion and segregation in contemporary cities.

- Ecologies of identity. Fluid boundaries: Renegotiating gender
  identity.

- Mestizo mindscapes and the new frontiers of racial constructs in
  the 21st century.

- Earth unbound: indigenous leaderships and ecocultures.

- Humans vs non-humans and other forms of specist boundaries.

- Temporalities, chronologies and the organization of time.

- Expansion, Resistance and Negotiation: agency at the edges of the
  European Empires.

- Nationalisms and the definition of frontiers.

- Overcoming frontiers: migrations and forced displacements.

- A world of trade: hubs, economic zones and global routes.

- Science at the Frontier: exploration, plunder and restoration.

- Confinement and self-isolation in pandemic times.

- Climatic change and citizenship.

- Beyond natural borders: land and sea heritage.


Submissions

Papers should be designed to be included in the Themes of the
Conference and/or in one of the Conference Panels:
http://chamconference2021.fcsh.unl.pt/call-for-papers/

Call for Papers: 15.01.2021 – 28.02.2021
Communication of Papers Acceptance: 20.03.2021


Registration

The participation at the V CHAM Conference implies a mandatory
registration and the payment of Conference fees. Since this will be a
hybrid event – presential and virtual – different registration fees
will be applied for CHAM’s members, non-members and students.


Keynote Speakers

Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences, and American Studies,
The City University of New York

Hal Langfur
Department of History, College of Arts and Sciences, University at
Buffalo

Shahram Khosravi
Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University


Conference website:
http://chamconference2021.fcsh.unl.pt





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