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Call for Papers
"Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations:
Decolonizing the Social Sciences and the Humanities"
International Graduate Conference 2011
Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies (FRCPS),
Goethe-University Frankfurt
Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
16-18 June 2011
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In the past two decades postcolonial perspectives are increasingly
influential in the Social Sciences and the Humanities. In particular,
postcolonial-feminist interventions have contributed decisively by
revealing the pivotal status and stubborn persistence of colonial
gendering and racialisation processes for the structuring of the
postcolonial late-capitalist world. The epistemic and material
conditions that underpinned European colonialism continue to shape
current socio-political constellations and global relations; so that
the formal end of European colonial rule has not translated into
decolonisation of the global North and the global South. If the
Social Sciences and the Humanities seek to overcome this violent and
exploitative historical legacy and contribute to the processes of
decolonisation, they need to adopt a critical perspective that
involves a reassessment of their disciplinary powers and
responsibilities.
It is against this backdrop that the Frankfurt Research Center for
Postcolonial Studies (FRCPS) seeks to contribute to ongoing debates
in the Social Sciences and the Humanities by hosting the
International Graduate Conference on Postcolonial Studies. Conference
presentations are sought particularly to examine those fields in
which postcolonial theory has largely been underrepresented.
Postcolonial-feminist theory comprises a key point of reference for
the conference, because it has simultaneously led to an increasing
differentiation and crucial revisions both within Postcolonial
Studies as well as within Gender and Women’s Studies.
The conference’s goals are twofold: first, we seek to illustrate the
epistemological and methodological relevance of a postcolonial
(feminist) perspective within the various disciplines of the Social
Sciences and the Humanities by example of concrete research projects;
second, we aim to facilitate (trans-)disciplinary networking. The
conference is conceived of as a graduate conference for early career
researchers; contributions with a reference to postcolonial
(feminist) theory from advanced students, doctoral candidates and
postdocs in the Social Sciences and the Humanities are most welcome.
Keynotes:
Prof. Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland)
Prof. Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
Panels:
1. Political Practice and Third World/Feminist Approaches to
International Institutions
2. Saving Brown Women? Deliberating the “Post” in Post-colonialism
and Post-conflict
3. Transnational Social Movements and the Post-colonial Condition
4. Building Bridges: Critical Political Economy and Postcolonial
Theory
5. Culture vs. Capitalism: Postcolonial Emancipations and the
Ambivalences of the Market
6. Postcolonising Methodologies
7. Teaching Emancipatory Postcolonial Knowledge
8. Between Subjection and Subjectivation: Postcolonial-Queer-Feminist
Perspectives
9. Postcolonial Perspectives on Human Rights
10. Postcolonial Power and Capitalism – Critical Approaches to
Contemporary International Aid
11. Secularism, Religion and Politics: Critical Interventions
12. Transnational In/justice in a Postcolonial World / In/justice/s
transnationales dans une monde postcolonial
13. Revolution Reconsidered –Slavery, Enlightenment and the Haitian
Revolution
14. Postcolonial Perspectives after Auschwitz
15. Postcolonial Thought and the Problem of Periodization
16. Taking Postcolonialism elsewhere? Post-Soviet Postcolonialities
17. Representations: the (Post)colonial ‘Body Politic’ in Historical
Perspective
18. Postcolonial Perspectives on Corruption and Statehood
19. Weak States, Failed States, Developmental States – Problems and
Challenges in Conceptualising Political Formations in Postcolonial
Africa
20. African Cultural Production in the Global Economy
21. Postcolonial Representations of Urban Spaces
Submission of proposals:
For your paper proposal to be considered, we request that you email
the respective panel conveners directly. An abstract (max. 500 words)
and a short bio-note (max. 100 words) should accompany your proposal.
The closing date for applications is 30th November 2010.
Conference languages are English, French and Spanish. Abstracts may
be submitted in a language as stipulated in the relevant panel’s Call
for Papers. For the French and Spanish-language panels translations
will be made available. The conference rooms are accessible for
people of all abilities. Please indicate if any further aides and/or
support are needed when registering for the conference.
Registration and participation:
There is no conference fees, but we kindly request registrations
until 31st May 2011 under <[email protected]>. Kindly
state ‘registration’ in the subject heading.
A limited number of travel bursaries will be provided, especially for
panellists from the global South. Please motivate your application in
a short accompanying letter (max. 300 words).
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Nikita Dhawan
Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
Senckenberganlage 31
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
Tel: +49 69 798-25377
Fax: +49 69 798-25378
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/?page_id=729
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