[Wamvan] [RAGA] Call for Proposals

[Lindsay Miles]

FYI


A Thorn in the Side of Feminism: Interventions to Challenge Complacency

The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of British
Columbia invites scholars to submit to an interdisciplinary Graduate
Student Conference entitled A Thorn in the Side of Feminism: Interventions
to Challenge Complacency.

The conference will be held on April 4th, 2012 from 10am-5pm at the Liu
Institute for Global Issues on UBC’s Vancouver campus.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Sunera Thobani

Sunera Thobani is Associate Professor in CWaGS, College for
Interdisciplinary Studies /Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and
Director of the Centre for Studies in Race, Autobiography, Gender and Age
(RAGA) at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests
include race, gender and nation-formation, migration and globalization, and
media, violence and the War on Terror. She is also the author of Exalted
Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada (University of
Toronto Press, 2007). During her tenure as President of the National Action
Committee on the Status of Women (1993-1996), Canada’s then largest
feminist organization, Dr. Thobani was committed to making anti-racism
central to the women’s movement.

Our conference aims to challenge complacent feminist scholarship, and to
support inclusive and innovative approaches in both academic and
community-based feminist projects.

To this end, we invite submissions not only of academic papers, but also of
narratives of autobiographical experience. Our conference will consist of
several academic panels, addressing such themes as queer and trans
subjectivities, disability studies, anti-colonial and critical race
studies, and intersectional approaches to feminism.  Each panelist will be
granted 15 minutes in which to present. Additionally, each panel will
include a five minute autobiographical presentation, grounding each
academic discussion upon a foundation of lived experience. With this
approach, we hope to balance and (re)focus attention on the promise that
academic work can hold for our various communities. One of the aims of our
conference is to seek out approaches that connect, renew, and strengthen
alliances among activist and academic communities in the interests of
social justice.

Please send abstracts of 500 words and a working title of your presentation
(either autobiographical and/or academic), as well as a short (max 200
words) biography to F. Z. Swain at cwagsconference2012 at gmail.com by
February 22nd, 2012.

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2. Critical Ethnic Studies: An Anthology

Rather than attempting to pose and answer the question, “What is critical
ethnic studies?,” this anthology seeks to catalyze a more wide-ranging set
of critical problems for emergent scholarly work and new forms of
knowledge. Building on longstanding critiques of race, imperialism, and
capital in ethnic studies and related fields, some broadly framed key
conceptual questions for this anthology include: Is it necessary to rethink
and reframe some of the central – even taken-for-granted – analytical and
theoretical rubrics of ethnic studies, such as “race,” “gender,”
“sexuality,” “citizenship,” and “class?” How do long histories of multiple,
incommensurable racial genocides (e.g., land conquest, racial slave trade,
militarized extermination) constitute the historical present? How do we
apprehend and theorize the persistent systems and structures of gendered
racial violence, on the one hand, while attending to the resilience of
political agency and transformation, on the other?  How can we rethink the
question of (racist/state) violence in rigorous and creative ways, neither
reifying nor pathologizing it, but asking instead how a violence of
condition produces a condition of violence? What do notions of the
“subaltern,” “collective,” “popular,” and “multitude” mean in a white
supremacist and settler colonial formation such as the U.S.? What is the
relationship between critical ethnic studies and related emergent fields,
such as critical prison studies, queer ethnic studies, and settler colonial
studies? How can we create the conditions and framework for the ongoing
appreciation of marginalized yet dynamic modes of critique, contestation,
and inquiry within (and across) various fields, such as: critiques of
sovereignty and recognition within Native and Indigenous studies;
anti-Blackness as an analytical rubric within Black studies; debates about
the politics and theorization of Asian settler colonialism within Asian
American studies; and critiques of First World privilege and mobility
within (U.S.) queer of color studies?

We invite essay submissions on a wide range of topics that may include but
are not limited to the following:


·    Race, colonialism, and capitalism
·    Warfare and militarism
·    Theories of violence
·    Settler colonialism and white supremacy
·    Critical genocide studies
·    Cultural studies, the politics of aesthetic and cultural practice
·    Critical feminist epistemologies
·    Queer ethnic studies
·    Decolonization and empire
·    Social movements, activism, insurrection, and revolution
·    Immigration and labor
·    Multiculturalism and colorblindness
·    Critical race studies
·    Critical legal studies
·    Liberationist epistemologies
·    Critical ethnic studies, undisciplinarity, and relationship to other
fields
·    Professionalization, praxis, and the academic industrial complex
·    Relationship between racism and environmental justice movements
·    Sovereignty, the nation, and the nation-state
·    Ethnic studies in relation to past and current eras of the
privatization, corporatization, and defunding of the university
·    Tension between institutionalization and movement-building in ethnic
studies
·    New frameworks for the comparative analysis of differential racial
histories, e.g., immigrant and indigenous histories
·    The erotic and sexual outlaw
·    Academics of color and the erasure of class privilege


Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012
Word Limit: 4,000 - 6,000 words including notes
Format: Word document with citations in Chicago Style
Email Submission to: cesanthology at gmail.com


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3. Graduate Students Symposium, University of Toronto In association with
Aboriginal Awareness Week 2012

Date: February 7, 2012

Title: Wiicihitinaaniwak - A Gathering: Helping Each Other

Hosted by Supporting Aboriginal Graduate Enhancement (SAGE) and the
Indigenous Education Network (IEN).

**Call for Papers**

The objective of the symposium is to provide graduate students across the
disciplines whose research addresses theory, methodology or themes related
to the study of Indigenous issues, a forum to meet and discuss experiences
relating to advancement of Indigenous knowledge and protocol. Graduate
students that have submitted papers and are accepted will take part in a
student panel to share their work.
Presenters should be available to present on Tuesday, February 7th.

Paper submissions will address any of a wide array of issues relating to
negotiating Indigenous worldview and perspective in the academy.

Here are some guiding questions:
-       What are some of the challenges in bringing Indigenous knowledge,
and ?ways of knowing? forward at the university and research level?
-       How can you assert your place and perspective(s) in class
discussions outside of Indigenous studies/ABS environment?
-       Negotiating Indigenous community expectations and protocol with
university ethics and research methods - personal experiences/critical
reflections?
-       Overall, how do we negotiate Indigenous knowledge/community
expectations and the academy?

This call for paper submissions will end on January 8th Each submission
should include:

-       your name and department of affiliation
-       a bio
-       a title and a 250-word abstract describing your topic and the stage
of your research.

Please send submissions, along with all other information to
sage at utoronto.ca

We invite submissions that showcase Indigenous scholarship. Master and
Doctoral students in the process of defining their thesis or MRP proposal,
currently writing or who have recently completed their research or thesis
are invited to submit a proposal.


There is no conference fee.


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4. The California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race

CRPR announces a call for papers for its ninth annual roundtable. This
roundtable brings together philosophers of race, and those working in
related fields in a small and congenial setting to share their work and to
help further this sub-discipline of philosophy.  Philosophical papers are
invited on any issue regarding race, ethnicity, or racism, and including
those that take up race in the context of another topic, such as feminism,
political philosophy, ethics, justice, culture, identity, biology,
phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, metaphysics, or epistemology.

Submissions are encouraged from junior scholars and philosophers of color.
We seek to foster a productive and intellectually stimulating environment
for those working in philosophy and race. The Roundtable also aspires to
bring together junior and senior scholars to develop and enhance
constructive mentoring relationships.

Submission Deadline: Feb 24, 2012

Please see http://www.caroundtable.webs.com/ for submission instructions

For questions, please contact us at crpr2012 at gmail.com (new email address!)


Organizers:

Darrell Moore, Philosophy, DePaul University
Mickaella Perina, Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Falguni A. Sheth, Critical Social Inquiry, Hampshire College


Guest Organizers:
Frank J. Kirkland and Linda Martín Alcoff, Philosophy, Hunter College


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