Dear all,
please find below and in attachment a CfP that I hope will be of interest
to many of you. Feel free to circulate in your networks. Deadline for
abstracts is 1 February 2019.
Best wishes,
Marlene Schäfers
*Call for Papers*
Symposium: AFTERLIVES - RETHINKING THE POLITICS OF LOSS AND DEMISE
7 June 2019, Ghent University, Belgium
Keynote speakers: Prof. Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Florida) & Dr Lori
Allen (SOAS)
Afterlives appear in manifold ways. From deceased ancestors and celebrated
martyrs, over decaying ruins and material remains, to past ideologies and
bygone moral orders: even after their actual life time, persons, things and
ideas often retain a presence in the here-and-now, posing vital questions
about time, justice and social order. This interdisciplinary, one-day
symposium seeks to explore how, when and why afterlives become activated,
where they draw their potency from and how they constitute social and
political communities.
Much popular discourse and scholarly thought has approached the lingering
presence of the past in the here-and-now through the notion of memory. As a
concept, however, memory remains problematically tied to an understanding
of temporality as linear progression within a frame of secular immanence.
By contrast, in this symposium we want to investigate afterlife as a
concept that brings into view manifestations of the past that defy linear
imaginations of time, question the prevalence of this-worldly presence and
become articulated through complex human-non-human assemblages.
We invite contributions that explore how afterlives are made and unmade
through material and immaterial means and how their affective and sensual
reverberations shape social and political worlds. We are particularly
interested in how afterlives, as they draw death, loss and demise into the
present, raise potentially troubling questions about social justice and
retribution, engendering fields of intense political contestation. By
investigating how afterlives exert claims on the living in this way and to
what effect, our aim is to rethink the politics of loss and demise beyond
the strictures of this-worldly presentism.
We welcome proposals from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (including
anthropology, archaeology, history, art history, geography, sociology,
political science, area studies, literature…) on, but not limited to, the
following questions and themes:
- Afterlives and the constitution of social and political communities
- The materiality of afterlives
- Afterlives and historical change
- Visual and narrative representations of afterlives
- Afterlives and the contestations they engender
- Afterlives and their potency: where does it stem from? What does it
engender?
- What makes afterlives experienced as destabilizing or haunting in
some contexts, as opposed to celebrated and sought after in others?
- What are the methodological challenges of studying afterlives, and
how may they be overcome?
Please send abstracts of max. 250 words to [log in to unmask] *by 1
February 2019*. Accepted papers will be pre-circulated amongst symposium
participants and will be due on 24 May 2019.
Unfortunately, we will not be able to cover travel and accommodation costs
for participants. Lunch, coffee and a dinner will be catered for.
Convenor:
Dr. Marlene Schäfers
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow
Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality (CARAM)
Middle East and North Africa Research Group (MENARG)
Ghent University, Belgium
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Marlene Schäfers, PhD
[Pegasus]2 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
Associate Editor Kurdish Studies Journal
Ghent University
Middle East and North Africa Research Group
Universiteitstraat 8 | 9000 Gent | Belgium
http://www.menarg.ugent.be/staff/marlene-schaefers
https://ugent.academia.edu/MarleneSchäfers
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