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Fwding this call for papers for anyone able to go to it.
Sue McPherson
http://www.MontrealMassacre.net
Hi all
Some students in the Theory Centre at UWO have decided to put together a
conference for next year with a more overtly political theme. We are
excited
about the possibilities that this conference will bring forward in
terms of
new ideas for theory and action, and the possibility of participating
in the
drive to increase and enliven activism in academia and in the community.
In order for our dreams to be reality, though, we need your help. We
need
papers and workshops, proposals for panels or presentations. Check
out the
Call for Papers below and then put on your thinking cap and submit
something
so that we can have one of the most amazing conferences yet to be seen!
Also, the long-term plan for this project is to put together a book from
this conference, so if you submit something awesome you just may see
yourself in print in the not too distant future.
Please pass this CFP on to anyone or any list serv you think might be
interested.
Contact me with any questions at [log in to unmask]
Elise
CALL FOR PAPERS: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WILDLY
Illusions of Identity: resisting (beyond) identity politics
An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Centre for the
Study
of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, Canada
October 14-15, 2006
With the limits of contemporary leftist social movements becoming
increasingly apparent, and in the face of advanced capitalism's
relentless
appropriation of revolutionary discourses and the rise of the moral
right in
North America, we feel an urgent need to contribute to the ongoing
efforts
to rethink identity politics. We imagine this conference as an
opportunity
to work through and disseminate new frameworks for thinking social
movement
and resistance. As such, we intend to bring together students and
activists
whose works traverse disciplinary boundaries in an attempt to articulate
some of the possibilities and pitfalls of identity categories
(gender, race,
nationality, class, sexuality, ability, etc.). Coming from the point of
view that the much-contested division between theory and activism is
a false
one, our aim is that this conference will constitute a site for the
proliferation of new conceptual frameworks that will be taken up, and
hopefully transformed, by our fellow activists and academics.
We are seeking papers and panels troubling, re-articulating, and
creating
theoretical frameworks addressing identity politics in areas
including, but
not limited to:
- feminist theory;
- queer stuff;
- trans/figurations of identity;
- the appropriation and containment of resistance;
- global strategies and local tactics;
- nationalisms and national identities
- race and the racialization of identity categories;
- thinking coalition-building and other political maneuvers;
- capitalism and identity;
- 'old' thinkers, 'new' readings;
- critiques of capitalism;
- the politics of theoretical practice;
- trans/gressions, incoherences, destabilizations;
- identities and legalities
- law as constraint/law as possibility
- (dis)abilities and identities
- the politics of citizenship
- First Nations and the nation-state
- indigenous identities
Please send abstracts of 250-300 words by August 15, 2006 to:
[log in to unmask]
(Please include your academic or activist affiliation in your proposal.)
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Yours truly,
Conference organizers
--
I am lost in a frenzy, unable to find where I am.
- rene descartes
the struggle is always inner, and played out in the outer terrains.
- gloria anzaldua
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