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GMT-5Subject: [SUNTA] Politics of Movement: Racialization, Religion, Migration
- Graduate Student Conference, April 5-6, 2018 NU (CfP)
Hello,
My name is Hafsa Oubou, a graduate student in anthropology at Northwestern
University. I was wondering if you could please forward this CfP (below and
attached here) to the listserv. Please share with your colleagues and graduate
students. Thank you.
Best,
Hafsa Oubou
PhD Student
Anthropology, Northwestern University
Buffett Institute for Global Studies, Northwestern University
Graduate Student Conference, April 5-6, 2018
CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
Politics of Movement:
Racialization, Religion, and Migration
Whether discussing the management of refugees by nation-states, Brexit, the
ever-expanding carceral state, the fugitivity of unarmed Black bodies captured
on film fleeing the police, or the organized assemblage of citizens protesting
the neoliberal regimes, one could argue that the problem of Movement is one of
the most pressing themes of the 21st century.In the aftermath of the election
of Donald Trump and the Supreme Court’s reinstatement of the international
travel ban, questions about religion, race, and migration have moved center
stage. The racialization of Islam and Islamophobia have become transnational
phenomena in the politics of secular nation states. Elsewhere the
(necro)political aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the mudslides in Sierra Leone
have put into relief the politics of mobility when natural disasters displace
thousands. The rise of carceral regimes and police states raise questions about
the afterlives of slavery and the continual confinements that render Black Life
precarious. Taken together these challenges invoke new and important questions
about national security, immigration policy, the logic of coloniality,
antiBlack violence, secular law, border patrol, and sovereignty.
The Politics of Movement: Racialization, Religion, and Migration graduate
conference will bring students and faculty together to facilitate an
interdisciplinary exploration of the multiplex ways of theorizing the politics
of movement—broadly defined in the US and abroad. This not only includes
various forms of mobility—migration, diasporas, refugees, settlements, travels,
transportations, etc.—but also the often racialized political techniques that
restrict, contain, indoctrinate, limit, manage, or move people to create
various forms of im/mobility—dislocation/remova l, borders, prisons and
confinements, ghettos and reservations, militaries and policing, colonies and
camps, etc.
The conference will feature keynote speaker
Dr. Darryl Li (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Organizers of the Politics of Movement invite graduate student papers from a
wide range of disciplines that explore issues such as (but not limited to):
Migration
Diaspora
Transnationalism, global politics
Ethics
Gender/Sexuality
The Politics of Religion/ Political Theology
Secularism, secularity, secularization
Refugees
Undocumented, “Illegal”, and “Alien”
Settlement, indigeneity, settler colonialism
Militarism, Policing
Empire
Political economy
Citizenship
Race/racialization/ racism
Afro-Pessimism/Afrofuturism
Mass incarceration, carcerality
Solitary confinement/Carcerality, torture
Surveillance, national security
Necropolitics
Coloniality of Space
Climate change
Law
Performance
Please submit an abstract of your proposed paper (maximum 300 words) to
buffett.northwestern.edu/ programs/grad-conference The deadline for submission
is December 1, 2017. Acceptance notification is January 15, 2018.
The Buffett Institute will provide hotel accommodations and will subsidize
travel costs (fully for US-based graduate students and partially for
international students)
Co-organizers:
James Hill, PhD Student (Religious Studies)
Hafsa Oubou, PhD Student (Anthropology)
Matt Smith, PhD Student (Religious Studies)
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