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Rethinking the Modern: Colonialism, Empire, and Slavery
An international conference organised by the British Sociological
Association's Theory Study Group and the ESRC-funded Network, Rethinking
the Global: Connected Histories and Connected Sociologies
11-12 July, 2011, Birmingham Midland Institute
http://bsatheory.org.uk/category/rethinking-the-modern/
**The deadline for submission of abstracts is 25th February 2011**
Keynote Speakers:
* Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished University Professor of
Sociology, University of Maryland
* Priyamvada Gopal, Lecturer in the Faculty of English, University
of Cambridge
* Catherine Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural
History, UCL
* Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature,
Duke University
* Nikhil Pal Singh, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural
Analysis, History Department, NYU
In recent times, a number of academics and commentators have sought to
offer a revisionist history of colonialism. This history presents
colonialism as either something that was not as bad as some others make
out, something that actually made the modern world and so was
essentially a good thing from which the current search for a new global
order should have much to learn; or as something to be understood simply
in terms of networks of circulation and distribution. The sense of
colonialism as a wretched episode of human history that continues to
distort the life chances of those unfortunate enough to live under its
legacies is slowly being eroded. Similar attempted revisions seek to
alter public understandings of modern transatlantic slavery and its
continuing legacies. We believe that the historical processes of
imperialism, colonialism and slavery shaped, and continue to shape, our
common world in ways which have been and continue to be problematic.
This conference seeks to confront head-on these new revisionist
histories and provide the space for a more adequate understanding of
these processes and their legacies as they continue into today.
There will be 12 key streams in the conference and abstracts should be
submitted under these streams:
1. Imperial Enlightenment and Critical Thought
2. The Place of Minorities in Modernity and Coloniality
3. Decolonial Thought and Other Philosophies
4. Migration and Empire: Voluntary and Forced
5. Is Global History / Sociology Possible?
6. Reassessing Anti-Colonial and Liberation Movements
7. Coloniality / Modernity
8. Recovering Forgotten Histories
9. Slavery and its Legacies
10. Colonial Desires and Eastern Empires
11. From Empire to Neo-Imperialism
12. The Colonial Context of the European Integration Project, Past and
Present
Special Events:
* Workshop on the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project led
by Catherine Hall
* A screening of Unravelling, a film from the Noise of the Past
project led by Nirmal Puwar
* Theologian and public intellectual Robert Beckford will be
holding a film screening and discussion on his documentary film 'The
Empire Pays Back'.
For more information on the conference, details on the streams, and
contact details for stream co-ordinators see:
http://bsatheory.org.uk/category/rethinking-the-modern/
For general queries, email Gurminder K Bhambra
([log in to unmask]) or Lucy Mayblin ([log in to unmask]).
The deadline for submission of abstracts is 25th February 2011
See website for abstract submission details.
Please circulate this email and display the attached call for papers.
Conference Team: Gurminder K Bhambra, Ipek Demir, Peo Hansen, Gary
Hazeldine, Stefan Jonsson, Vicky Margree, Lucy Mayblin, Søren Rud,
Robbie Shilliam, Rolando Vazquez, Ozan Zeybek
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