[van-announce] Conference reminder and updated CFP

[élise recluse]

HI all, 

Just a reminder that the deadline for submissions to the upcoming conference (in Ontario) is 2 weeks away. PLEASE submit something if you are interested and available. We'd like to make this a good event, and we have had interest from some publishers who would like to possibly publish the proceedings if they are good enough. 
So help make it good enough if you can.

Papers and workshop proposals accepted to Aug 15th. Make the proposal as simple as you want. Just make them!

Conact me with any questions.

 CALL FOR PAPERS: PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WILDLY
 (**apologies for cross-postings**)
   
 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/academics.
 
 
 We are seeking papers and panels troubling, re-articulating, and creating theoretical frameworks addressing identity politics in areas including, but not limited to:
 
   race and the racialization of  identity categories;
  
   First Nations and the  nation-state;
  
   indigenous identities;
  
   feminist theories;
  
   queer theories and queeries;
  
   gay/lesbian/bi/trans/two-spirit  identities;
  
   trans/figurations of identity;
  
   (dis)abilities and identities;
  
   capitalism and identity/critiques  of capitalism;   
  
   class-based identities and  critiques;
  
   nationalisms and national  identities;
  
   thinking coalition-building and  other political maneuvers;   
  
   the appropriation and containment  of resistance;
  
   global strategies and local  tactics;
  
   ‘old’ thinkers, ‘new’  readings;
  
   the politics of theoretical  practice;
  
   trans/gressions, incoherences,  destabilizations;
  
   identities and legalities (e.g.  identity-based rights claims);   
  
   law as constraint/law as  possibility   
  
   the politics of citizenship
 
 
 
 Please send abstracts of 250-300 words by August 15, 2006 to: illusionsofidentity at gmail.com
 (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  
 
 
 

 				
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