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Dr Patricia Noxolo, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT UK Email: [log in to unmask] Website: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/gees/noxolo-patricia.aspx Twitter: @patnoxolo PGR lead for Human Geography. (Alternative contact Dr Rosie Day: [log in to unmask]) 1st year tutor. (Alternative contact Dr Steve Emery: [log in to unmask]) Co-editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers: https://rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/14755661 (Alternative contact Dr Phil Emmerson: [log in to unmask]) Chair of the Society for Caribbean Studies: http://community-languages.org.uk/scs/ (Alternative contact Dr Anyaa Anim-Addo: [log in to unmask]) Secretary of the RACE group of the Royal Geographical Society: https://raceingeography.org/ (Alternative contact Dr Margaret Byron: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Due to restricted campus opening I am working flexibly at home. ________________________________ From: A forum for critical and radical geographers <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Linda Lapina <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 24 August 2021 10:02 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: CFP: Racialization, knowledge production and researcher positionality Dear all, I hope this e-mail finds you well. This call for papers for our online symposium on October 11-13 (afternoons) could be relevant to some of you. The deadline is September 6th. Feel free to spread the word in your networks. Best, Symposium organisers: Anna Wojtyńska (University of Iceland), Irma Budginaitë-Mačkinë (Vilnius University, Lithuania) and Linda Lapiňa (Roskilde University, Denmark) Racialization, knowledge production and researcher positionality “Racialization, Whiteness and Politics of Othering in Contemporary Europe” (Study Circle 5) Nordic Summer University Symposium: 11-13 October 2021, online Invitation The Nordic Summer University study circle 5 “Racialization, Whiteness and Politics of Othering in Contemporary Europe” is pleased to invite proposals for our symposium to be held from Monday, the 11th October through Wednesday, the 13th October 2021. The symposium will take place online on Zoom. We are also considering a possibility to host the symposium in a hybrid format, if pandemic situation allows some of the participants to travel to Denmark (Copenhagen/Roskilde). Theme of the symposium The symposium of the study circle 5 will focus on racialization, knowledge production and positionality. How do our (researcher) positionalities, shaped by intersecting markers of difference, constrain our ability to pose questions and recognise what can emerge as knowledge? What are the politics of knowledge production on whiteness and racialization? Who can engage in this research/conversation, and in what ways? Even though often not articulated explicitly, these questions illustrate underlying tensions in discussions on racialization and whiteness unfolding around daily encounters, classrooms, conference panels, keynotes and symposia. In conditions of online meetings, it can be even more challenging to have these conversations. Consequently, avoiding the topics of privilege and inequality instead of addressing them/ critically engage in them, occasionally resulting in silencing and self-censorship. We feel that addressing these topics directly can help moving beyond binary approaches based on race, gender, West/East, North/South and the like, helping to arrive at more nuanced understandings of how our positions (gender, age, sexuality, race, body shape, nationality etc.) in life and research open access to certain knowledges, while foreclosing others. This approach can help exploring how racialization and whiteness manifest in various forms, and how we navigate these structures in our local contexts. We seek to create an open space for critical conversations and plurality of knowledges, where productive tensions can emerge as we acknowledge our racialised positionalities and “blind spots”. We welcome participants who are working on these and related issues either as academics, activists, artists or practitioners, as well as others who are interested to discuss the above topics. When applying please tell us why you are interested to participate and indicate how you would like to contribute to the symposium. Format We are aware that topics related to researcher positionality can be vulnerable to engage with explicitly. We aim to create an online space that facilitates engaging with each other’s work with the principles of care, nourishment, and solidarity. We value doubt, modesty and curiosity. The symposium will take place over three afternoons of work-in progress sessions and in-depth discussions (with breaks), focusing on the participants’ needs, for instance, exploration and playfulness, advice on publishing, or comments related to coherence, and/or a sense of community with other scholars working in relatively isolated circumstances. We will group the abstracts by topic and chair one afternoon session each. We will circulate abstracts in advance to enable the presentations to be relatively brief, giving more time to discussions and exchange of ideas. To apply Please fill out the google form by the 6th of September: https://forms.gle/mfPFCkoUCrqvTA886 In your application, please indicate the following: • • Short biographical statement and explain your interest in the topic • • What do you hope to get out of (and contribute with) at the symposium? • • Would you like to keep open the possibility of actually traveling to Denmark to present in person? (Travel and accommodation costs are covered by participants) NSU membership Participation in the seminar requires NSU membership, which is connected with a small fee: • • Students, unemployed and independents, West Nordic & Baltic residents: 10 euro • • Those associated with institutions or companies: 25 euro To join NSU, please visit: https://www.nsuweb.org/product-category/nsu-membership/. About the circle The study circle “Racialization, Whiteness and Politics of Othering in Contemporary Europe” discusses how processes of racialization and ideas of whiteness shape present Nordic, Baltic and European spaces, identities and politics. The circle invites interdisciplinary debates about Europe’s condition/integrity and poses questions about who and what counts as “European”, “Nordic” and “Baltic” from different locations, practices and subject positions. The circle wants to broaden and develop existing research networks on race, racialization and whiteness in the Nordic with perspectives and knowledge from the former Soviet countries in order to enrich existing scholarship by combining post-Soviet and post-colonial perspectives. About NSU The Nordic Summer University (NSU) is a Nordic network for research and interdisciplinary studies. It is a nomadic academic institution that organises workshop-seminars across disciplinary and national borders. Since it was established in 1950, NSU has organised forums for cultural and intellectual debate in the Nordic and Baltic region, involving students, academics, politicians, artists and intellectuals from this region and beyond. The backbone of NSU is its thematic study circles, where researchers, students and professionals from different backgrounds collaborate in scholarly investigations during regular summer and winter symposia. ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the RACEINGEOGRAPHY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=RACEINGEOGRAPHY&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/RACEINGEOGRAPHY, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/