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Dear colleagues, please find below the call for paper for the stream "Re-thinking political violence, memory and law" at the London Conference in Critical Thought 2015. Please note that the deadline for abstracts is next Monday 16th March. Best, Federica Rossi PhD in Political Science Postdoctoral researcher at LIER - EHESS (France)Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology, ISC-Royal Holloway University of London Re-thinkingPolitical Violence, Memory and Law Stream organisers: Ozan Kamiloglu, Federica Rossi According toWalter Benjamin the only possible messiah is the collective one: it is theoppressed humanity that can bring emancipation. Likewise, Chantal Mouffe,Ernesto Laclau, Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou and other critical thinkers havetheorised the emancipation of the oppressed over the last 30 years. On theother side, the liberal humanitarian tradition constructs the concept of human andits rights against any form of violence. This different subject of emancipationin the neo-liberal discourse and in the radical thought and social movementsalso reflects the difference in the source of the rule of law, in thelegitimation of violence and whose memory is audible and sayable. National liberationand decolonisation struggles, revolutionary groups, indigenous and separatist movementsaround the world have resorted to violence in various ways. Often labelled as'terrorism' by states and international governmental actors, those groups claimto act in the name of the oppressed and challenge the state's monopoly onphysical legitimate violence (M. Weber). However, contemporary debates on suchpolitical struggles seem to be trapped between the imperative of moral andlegal condemnation of physical violence and the call for a civil reconciliationbased on a consensus upon rights and punishments. In parallel, memory becomesmore and more a field of struggle that reflects the tensions between thepolitics of emancipation of the oppressed and the liberal approach to the rightto individual integrity or noli metangere (A. Brossat). Thus, memories of past struggles become audible asfar as they have a part in what Ranciere calls the 'distribution of thesensible', what is sayable, what is visible and what is not. Memories of'perpetrators' can be accepted into the society only after condemnation of thepolitical violence and principles that legitimise it. The field of memorycreates what Robert Meister defines as 'good victims', the ones accepting theconsensus, and 'bad victims', that refuse the reconciliation and the consensusupon shared responsibility of past violences. In this perspective, thechronicles of law represent the memory of the State. This streaminvites papers from different disciplines, presenting case studies ortheoretical reflections questioning fields where law, political violence andmemory intersect. Papers mayconsider, but are not limited to, the following topics:· Processes of radicalisation and legitimation of PoliticalViolence· Transitional justice processes and the refusal ofreconciliation· Political Violence, Memory and Consensus· Conditions of remembering and forgetting politicalviolence· Memory of anti-colonial struggles in times of austerity· References to armed struggles in today's social movements· Politics of history writing and law· Memoirs, films, and other narrations and State controlmechanisms· Literary and cinematographic representations of politicalviolence Please sendsubmissions to: [log in to unmask] / twitter:@LondonCritical | | | | | LCCT 2014: Call for Streams | | View this email in your browser | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | London Conference in Critical Thought 2015: Call for Papers LCCT 2015: UCL 26-27 June 2015. CFP DEADLINE: 16 MARCH 2015. Call for papers The fourth annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) will offer a space for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for scholars who work with critical traditions and concerns. It aims to provide opportunities for those who frequently find themselves at the margins of their department or discipline to engage with other scholars who share theoretical approaches and interests. Central to the vision of the conference is an inter-institutional, non-hierarchal, and accessible event that makes a particular effort to embrace emergent thought and the participation of emerging academics, fostering new avenues for critically-oriented scholarship and collaboration. The conference is divided into thematic streams, each coordinated by different researchers and with separate calls for papers, included in this document. We welcome paper proposals that respond to the particular streams below. In addition, papers may be proposed as part of a general stream, i.e. with no specific stream in mind. Spanning a range of broad themes, these streams provide the impetus for new points of dialogue. - The Return of Actor Network Theory - Art and its Externalities - Bad Language, Wrong Signification - Eating as Encounter - Legacies of the Immaterial in the Arts and Practice - Interruptions - The Politics and Practice of "Just Making Things" - Music and Sound at Work - Re-thinking Political Violence, Memory and Law - The Digital 1: Noology and Technics: Algorithmic governmentality, automation and knowledge in the age of the digital economy - The Digital 2: ‘Questioning the Digital’: Critical Approaches to Digital Worlds - Theory Lessons: Theorizing the Classroom - Radical Transfeminism - Truthful Politics Please send proposals for 20 minute papers or presentations, with the relevant stream indicated in the subject line, to [log in to unmask] Submissions should be no more than 250 words and should be received by the deadline of Monday 16 March 2015. 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