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Dear all,
Please see below the call for papers to the conference of the new
edition of our awesome project (see
http://centrulpentrustudiereamodernitatiisialumiirurale.ro/en/home/) of
decolonising and decentering academia in a beautiful location, in a
village in County Bistrita-Nasaud, Romania. The deadline for sending
your abstracts for the 8th Telciu Summer Conference is this Saturday.
All the very best,
Ágota
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Ágota Ábrán, PhD
Center for the Study of Modernity and the Rural World
<http://centrulpentrustudiereamodernitatiisialumiirurale.ro/en/home/>,
Romania
History and Art Muzeum of Zalău <http://muzeuzalau.ro/>, Romania
8th Telciu Summer Conference
Race, Sovereignties, and South-Eastern Thought
8-11 August 2019, Telciu, Romania
<https://telciusummerconferences.wordpress.com/2019/02/12/8th-edition-2019-race-sovereignties-and-south-eastern-thought/>
Call for Papers deadline: 18 May 2019
For a long time, mainstream historiography and social science viewed the
rise of nation-states as the gradual overcoming of multinational
political organizations and multi-ethnic empires throughout the world.
The resulting conceptualization of empires and nation-states as mutually
exclusive and chronologically discrete political formations and of the
nation-state as the modern norm generated its own anomalies. The
Habsburg, the Ottoman, and the Tsarist Empires, powerful global actors
until well into the twentieth-century, were explained away as
anachronistic survivals of the old order in the face of mounting
national challenges. In spite of ample evidence for the coexistence of
imperial and national state structures in the nineteenth century and
most of the twentieth, the dominant view is that they no longer coexist
in the twenty-first. Dozens of state formations which are still
colonized in the twenty-first century, such as Europe’s and the United
States’ outermost regions and overseas territories, continue to be
viewed as exceptions from the above trajectory from empire to nation and
as anomalies in a modern world of sovereign nation-states, while their
inhabitants retain colonial citizenships and unequal rights with respect
to their counterparts in the metropole.
At the same time, as outright authoritarianism plays havoc with the
facades of parliamentary liberalism in places as different as Brazil,
India, and Hungary, the term “sovereignty” has become a compulsory
signifier of the far-right chorus. Once associated with emancipatory
calls for radical democracy, the “sovereignty” churned out by these
authoritarians is little more than a signaling device for ethnocentric
politics, oligarchic capitalism, and a revival of racist, xenophobic,
and anti-gender tactics.
This year’s Telciu Summer Conference engages with the entanglements of
race and sovereignty from both the Global South and the European East,
in an effort to explore the potential of a common decolonial,
politically radical South-Eastern thought. It traces the origin of both
processes of racialization and (sovereign) state formation to a colonial
imaginary that still shapes racial state politics today. Since all the
states emerged with the European colonial expansion in the Americas were
new creations, so were all the major ethnic categories, in turn linked
to the position of sovereign states within the interstate system and of
social groups within states. Thus, while the crude sociocultural
hierarchy between Europeans and non-Europeans mirrored the economic and
political power differential between colonizer and colonized countries,
the various ethnic categories within each state reflected and at the
same time justified the division of labour created in the wake of the
colonial occupation of the Americas: slavery for Black Africans, various
forms of serfdom for Native Americans, and indentured labor for the
White European working class. At the same time, ethnicization produced a
worldwide racist discourse, in that the devalued segments of the work
force appeared as on the whole racially inferior to the dominant ones,
regardless of the particular ethnic hierarchy that the process of
ethnicization generated in individual locations. While the upper end of
the hierarchy mostly included a White privileged segment and its lower
end a Black underprivileged one, it was the constant (re)creation of
reified racial and ethnic entities that characterized capitalism as a
racist system.
Against this background, can sovereignty be recovered into a field of
emancipatory politics at a time when transnational issues like climate
catastrophe and mass migration are the defining condition of our times?
Does the inclusive definition of popular sovereignty resonate less with
mass publics than its exclusionary recovery by the “take our country
back” reactionaries because of ingrained racial logic? Why was it so
easy for authoritarians to convert popular sovereignty into a veneer for
racism and homophobia? Do we still need sovereignty as a basis of
emancipatory politics or are “postcolonial sovereignty games”
(Adler-Nissen/Gad 2013) increasingly the rule and “non-sovereign
futures” (Yarimar Bonilla 2014)?
*Keynote speaker*: Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes University
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The language of the conference is *English*.
There are no fees for conference participants. The organizers will cover
meals for the speakers and will book (but not cover) the accommodation
(single: 80RON/night; double: 120 RON/night). In case you cannot cover
the accommodation please let us know as we are able to cover it for up
to 5 speakers based on need and by request. Independent researchers or
junior researchers will be given priority with accommodation.
The conference proper will take place on the 9th and 10th of August with
a welcome dinner on the 8th and community activities on the 11th.
If you would like to participate, please send us your title, a *300
words* abstract and your affiliation in English by the *18th of May* to
*[log in to unmask]* <mailto:[log in to unmask]>. If
you are a speaker of Romanian, please send us your abstract both in
English and Romanian, so as to ease the work of our translators (we like
to print our materials in both languages in order to showcase our work
for the non-English speaking public).
Please note that the *Telciu Summer Conference* is followed by the
*Telciu Summer School *(11-18 August), in English and Romanian, this
year with the same topic. The Summer School is designed around longer
seminars and other cultural and artistic activities and has a more open
structure as the Summer Conference. If you would like to participate,
the Summer School has a separate registration process that will be open
from March. However, please let us know if you would like to stay for
the Summer School as well. For more information, please visit
http://telciusummerschool.ro/.
Organized by the *Center for the Study of Modernity and the Rural World*
<http://centrulpentrustudiereamodernitatiisialumiirurale.ro/en/home/>* (CSMLR,
Telciu, Romania)* and the *County Museum of History and Art, Zalău*
<http://muzeuzalau.ro/>.
Funded by *Telciu City Hall and Village Council* & *Bistrița-Năsăud
County Center for Culture*
*Partners:* Institut für Soziologie, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
(Germany), Secondary Technical School of Telciu, Tact Publishing House,
Transilvania Print, Observator Cultural, Baricada, CriticAtac, Gazeta de
Artă Politică, Prăvălia Culturală, Platzforma, Transindex, Liga
Oamenilor de Cultură Bonțideni, Bistrițeanul, Observator BN, Timp
Online, Mesagerul de BN
*Scientific Board:*
* *Cornel Ban*, City University of London, UK/Copenhagen Business
School, Dennmark
* *Manuela Boatcă*, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
* *Alina Branda*, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
* *Daniela Gabor*, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
* *Sorin Gog*, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
* *Anca Pârvulescu*, Washington University, St. Louis, US
* *Norbert Petrovici*, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania
* *Julia Roth*, Centre for Inter-American studies, University of
Bielefeld, Germany
* *Ovidiu Țichindeleanu*, IDEA arts+society, Cluj, Romania
* *Madina Tlostanova*, Linköping University, Sweden
*Main Organizers:*
* *Ágota Ábrán*, Museum of History and Arts, Zalău, Romania
* *Ștefan Baghiu*, „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania
*Organizing Committee:*
* *Andreea Aștilean*, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
* *Theodor Constantiniu*, Folk Archive Institute of the Romanian Academy
* *Valer Simion Cosma*, Museum of History and Arts, Zalău, Romania
* *Emil Florea*
* *Vlad Emilian Gheorghiu*, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* *Cristian Grecu*, Pagini Libere Publishing House
* *George Valeriu Henciu*
* *Andrei-Sorin Herța*, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
* *Andreea Iorga-Curpăn*
* *Adina Mocan*, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
* *Anastasia Oprea*, University of Coimbra, Portugal
* *Adrian Rista*
* *Bogdan Vătavu*, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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