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Call for Papers Theme: Race and Sovereignty Type: 5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium Institution: School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles Location: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Date: 31.3.–2.4.2011 Deadline: 7.1.2011 __________________________________________________ We are pleased to solicit proposals for concurrent workshops for the 5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium: Race and Sovereignty. Sovereignty, like race, has been invoked, understood and deployed in contradictory ways. Historically, sovereignty has been an important vehicle through which hegemonic power has been enforced, for example, by articulating citizenship as a racial project rooted in the power to exclude. Sovereignty has also been an important tool of anti-colonial resistance crucial to liberatory struggles of people of color in the U.S. and worldwide. Race shares this complex dimension, serving as both a technology of oppression and a vehicle for resistance to that oppression. Despite these parallels, race and sovereignty have largely been engaged as separate and mutually exclusive projects, for example, sovereignty has primarily been linked to the struggles of Native Americans and other indigenous peoples, while the struggles of other people of color have been cast through a standard anti-racist narrative of citizenship and inclusion. The symposium proposes, instead, to examine how race and sovereignty intersect and are mutually constitutive – roughly, how race enters sovereignty and how sovereignty enters race – even as important distinctions remain. Structure of Concurrent Workshops While we have structured the plenary panels to focus on particular themes, we are committed to creating a space within the symposium for an inclusive conversation among a broad scope of scholars and activists extending beyond the confirmed plenary speakers. To that end, over the course of the symposium, we have scheduled three time slots for concurrent workshops. Proposals that are accepted will be slated for one of these scheduled slots. For the program schedule, including the times of the concurrent workshops, information about plenary speakers and registration information, please visit: http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=3542. The number of workshops scheduled in any given time slot will be related to the number of proposals received and accepted. Because these are concurrent working sessions, the attendance at any given workshop will fluctuate depending upon level of interest and other competing sessions. We view these as experimental spaces, where people can try out ideas and engage different perspectives on emerging issues in a more intimate setting. Submission Guidelines Proposals may be for individual papers or whole sessions. All proposals should include the session or paper title, a 300-500 word abstract, the names, affiliations and CVs or resumes of all participants, and any audio-visual requests. Panels integrating practitioners or advocates, including both junior and senior scholars and/or including graduate or law students, are strongly encouraged. All proposals must include an explanation (within the abstract or in a separate statement) of the relationship between the proposed topic and one or more of the following questions. Proposals seeking to address a question not listed here must include a statement of that question and an explanation of how it is related to the symposium theme. - How has the exercise of national sovereignty explicitly and implicitly relied upon race as a criterion of membership? - How might a sovereignty framework provide a counter-narrative to the story of inclusion often associated with civil rights? - How can a comparative racial analysis contribute to understanding the possibilities and limits of sovereignty? - How has race influenced the legibility of claims to sovereignty? - Does the assertion of sovereignty by oppressed peoples stand subject to the same or similar critiques of the exercise of sovereign power by dominant national formations? The deadline to submit proposals is January 7, 2011. Proposals should be submitted via email to <[email protected]>. After January 7th, Proposal submissions will be considered on a space-available basis. Decisions regarding the selection of proposals will be issued on a rolling basis. All decisions will be announced by February 1, 2011. For general information and questions about the event please email: [email protected] Contact: 5th Annual Critical Race Studies Symposium School of Law University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476 USA Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.law.ucla.edu/home/index.asp?page=3542 __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
