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Call for Papers "'Postcolonial' Futures in a Not-Yet Postcolonial World: Locating the Intersections of Ethnic, Indigenous, and Postcolonial Studies" Interdisciplinary Conference Ethnic Studies Department, University of California at San Diego San Diego, CA (USA) 5-7 March 2008 __________________________________________________ The purpose of this conference seeks to put ethnic, indigenous and postcolonial studies in conversation with each other, we may theorize new epistemologies that may better address the violences and injustices of the contemporary world. To this end we solicit papers that address questions including, but in no way limited to, the following: - What are the epistemological frameworks that inform postcolonial, ethnic and indigenous studies? What is their relationship to modernity and how do they challenge and/or complement each other? - What constitutes the subject of postcolonial and ethnic studies? How does the construction of these subjectivities limit possible conversations with indigenous studies? - What are the limitations and pitfalls of sovereignty as popularly envisioned? How do postcolonial and indigenous communities reaffirm or rearticulate sovereignty within their respective contexts? - What are the different theories and strategies of decolonization as laid out by postcolonial and indigenous studies, and how do they inform each other? - How does the political status of indigenous peoples complicate dominant discourses on immigration and citizenship? Moreover, with regards to settler nation-states such as the U.S., how does the nations-within-nations status of indigenous communities complicate the project of ethnic and transnational studies? Abstracts must be submitted to: [email protected] Requirements: 250-word abstract, specifying if the proposal is for individual or roundtable presentations. Information including name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address. Deadline for Submission: January 16th, 2008. Contact: Michael Lujan Bevacqua or Rashné Limki Email: [email protected] Web: http://futures0308.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
