Call for Papers "Empire and Its Discontents" Graduate Student Conference Department of Social and Political Thought, York University Toronto, Ont. (Canada) April 15-16, 2005
Among both academics and activists there has been much discussion of the idea of Empire - often centering on the U.S. as Empire's latest formation. Engaging with this discussion, this interdisciplinary graduate student conference seeks to interrogate and contextualize the "newness" of current forms of imperialism and explore the emergence of multiple struggles that disrupt contemporary imperialist practices. We invite graduate students in all disciplines to submit proposals for papers that examine the continuities and discontinuities between contemporary and historical manifestations of empire, explore past and present forms of anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist resistance and struggles, and/or envisage forms of popular democracy that challenge Western liberal formulations of democracy. We welcome a broad range of submissions including, but not limited to, the following themes: - Militarism and the Gendering of Empire - Racism, Racialization, and Processes of Differentiation - Narratives of Empire and Resistance: Memory, History, and Forgetting - Neoliberalism, Globalization, and the Marketing of Democracy - The Spatialization of Empire and Resistance - Psychopathology of Imperialism - Pedagogies of Empire - Forms of Everyday Struggle - Aesthetics of Empire and Resistance - Identity and Affinity: Solidarity and the Politics of Affiliation - The War at Home: Security, Policing, and Criminalization - Possibilities and Problematics of Decolonization - Exit and Exile - Dis/continuities of Empire: The Historiography of Empire and Resistance - Empire Building and Occupation - Re-Imagining Democracy Abstracts for papers can be sent to <[email protected]>, and should be a maximum of 250 words in length. The deadline for abstracts is January 14, 2005. Participants will be notified of acceptance by January 21, 2005. For more information, email Dana Dawson at the e-mail address shown below. Visit the SPT web-site at the following web address. Contact: Dana Dawson Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.yorku.ca/spt/ _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
