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Conference Announcement Theme: Decolonizing Justice? Subtitle: Bringing Political Theory and Postcolonial Theory into Conversation Type: International Workshop Institution: Justus Liebig University Giessen Location: Giessen (Germany) Date: 26.–27.4.2018 __________________________________________________ Contemporary claims for justice reflect the continuing presence and pertinence of the colonial past in unmediated ways. Whether it be the controversy over looted art objects and human remains in museums and research institutions, the call for a decolonization of universities and of a Eurocentric curriculum as articulated by activist scholars and students, the various movements for reparations for colonial crimes against humanity, or the debt relief for countries of the global South – the question of what is just under contemporary conditions cannot circumvent the critique of colonial continuities. At the same time, there is an apparent gap between theories of justice on the one hand and postcolonial theories on the other. Instead of enabling a critical analysis of historically grown power relations, theories of justice with a universal scope are often suspected to foster a moral paternalism, or even to provide a justification of neocolonial domination. Postcolonial approaches, by contrast, are criticized for their reluctance to lay bare their normative assumptions such as their implicit conceptions of justice. Our workshop will use this situation as an opportunity to ask if and how theories of justice and postcolonial theories can be productively connected. Therefore, we aim to bring together scholars who work at the intersection of postcolonialism and justice with different focal points as well as theoretical and methodological approaches. Program Thursday, April 26, 10:00 - 19:30 Regina Kreide & Jeanette Ehrmann (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Welcome & Introduction Megan Ming Francis (University of Washington): From Civil Rights to #BlackLivesMatter: Reimagining Justice Louiza Odysseos (University of Sussex): Ethics of/in the Flesh? Decolonising Struggles, Reparative Narrations and the Possibilities of Sociogeny Valentin Beck (Free University of Berlin): How Should We Conceptualize Current Political Responsibilities in the Light of Colonial Injustices? Julia Suárez-Krabbe (Roskilde University): From Transitional Justice to Love and Common-Unity. Contributions to the Decolonization of Justice on the Basis of the Colombian Peace Process Encarnación Gutíerrez Rodríguez (Justus Liebig University Giessen): Transversal Mourning and Transformative Justice. On Politics of Affect in the Context of EU Asylum and Migration Regimes Gurminder K. Bhambra (University of Sussex): Epistemological Justice and Reparation: Theory for a Global Age Friday, April 27, 10:00 - 16:00 Julian Culp (Goethe University Frankfurt): The Postcolonial Critique of Transnational Democratic Education Franziska Dübgen (University of Koblenz Landau): Global Injustice(s) in Academia Ina Kerner (University of Koblenz Landau): What‘s in a Name? Postcolonial Accounts of Justice and Injustice Rosalba Icaza Garza (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Encountering (Each) Other: Women and the Decolonization of Universities across the Global North/South Divide Commentaries by Greta Olson (Justus Liebig University Giessen), Vanessa Eileen Thompson (Goethe University Frankfurt), Katharina Kaufmann (Justus Liebig University Giessen), Dorothea Gädeke (Goethe University Frankfurt) Discussants: Huub van Baar (Justus Liebig University Giessen/University of Amsterdam), Mahmoud Bassiouni (Goethe University Frankfurt), Sebastian Garbe (Justus Liebig University Giessen), Kaouther Karoui (University of Koblenz Landau), Iwona Kocjan (University of Koblenz Landau), Franziska Martinsen (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Victor Nweke (University of Koblenz Landau) Venue: Senatssaal, University Main Building, Ludwigstr. 23, 35390 Gießen Organizers: Regina Kreide, Jeanette Ehrmann (JLU Giessen) No registration is required. All interested are welcome. Contact: Jeanette Ehrmann, Dipl.-Pol. Institut für Politikwissenschaft Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Philosophikum II, Haus E, Raum 114 Karl-Glöckner-Straße 21E D-35394 Gießen Germany Tel.: +49 641 99-23072 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.uni-giessen.de/faculties/gcsc/newsboard/workshop-decolonizing-justice __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
