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Reparative Histories 2: The Making, Re-making and Un-making of ‘Race’

10/31/2016

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Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories

Call For Papers

Reparative Histories 2: The Making, Re-making and Un-making of ‘Race’

6-7 April 2017, University of Brighton, UK

This interdisciplinary conference aims to build on the momentum created by the first Reparative Histories symposium held in 2014 and by the subsequent publication of a special issue of Race & Class (‘Reparative Histories: radical narratives of ‘race’ and resistance’, Race and Class, 57, 3 (2016)). That first event was interested in critically addressing the ways in which conceptions of the ‘reparative’ are currently shaped and understood, and in exploring what it means to turn to history in the appeal for recognition and redress. We set out to explore the question of how to relate the past to the present in the context of ‘race’, narrative and representation. Significant issues stemming from the first symposium concerned the importance of thinking through forms of historical interconnectedness both spatially and temporally, and ways of addressing, the dialectics of anti-colonial struggle, anti-racist resistance and mobilisation. This conference aims to further develop the concept of ‘Reparative Histories’ and to build on these concerns.

Given that racialised meanings continue to powerfully structure understandings of identity, belonging and exclusion within multiple social, cultural political and economic spaces. How might we further trace the history and politics of the making and unmaking of ‘race’? How might we connect effectively these historical formulations and to the maintenance of particular contemporary power relations? This conference aims to explore critically the ways in which processes of making, re-making and un-making ‘race’ are rooted in particular histories, politics and cultures. The conference aims to further elucidate the processes of racialization associated with histories of imperialism, colonialism, transatlantic enslavement and other forms of global labour production. It also aims to question how ‘legacies’ might be traced in the light of contemporary social and economic formations. ‘Race’ continues to signify either by glossing its historical provenance, or by drawing upon it.
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At the same time, ‘race’ and its histories, offer a powerful political platform for those engaged in anti-racist, anti-colonial resistance. These traditions of struggle are currently being re-activated and re-articulated in ways that confront the power and pull of the universalism of liberal orthodoxy and they are increasingly exposing its fault-lines and occlusions. What is the role of history and indeed, memory, in relation to these resistant political processes. How might representations of the past be activated for the now?

Possible themes for this symposium could include ‘race’ and colonialism, ‘race’ and labour; anti-slavery resistances; decolonisation and de-colonial struggles; capitalism and ‘race’; interracial class solidarity; gendered racialization; anti-racist resistance movements; the racializing of ‘suspect communities’; anti-Semitism and Islamaphobia; Whiteness studies and the limitations of privilege theory; ‘race’, representational form and expressive culture; and contemporary anti-racist politics.


Questions for consideration might include (but are not limited to the following):
  • How does tracing the historical making of ‘race’ contribute to reparative history?
  • How do re-makings of ‘race’ in the contemporary moment draw on raced histories of the past?
  • How has an anti-racist insistence on racialization functioned in forms of political mobilisation and/or political resistance?
  • What are the limits of liberal humanism in accounting for normalising discourses of ‘race’?
  • How can the history and legacies of transatlantic enslavement, colonialism and imperialism be drawn upon for the purposes of resisting contemporary racisms?
  • What sort of politics do histories and memories of inter-racial mobilisations either enable or delimit?
  • How are migrants placed within the language of racialized labour practices both historically and in the present?
  • What does the treatment of refugees tell us about contemporary politics of ‘othering’?
  • What is the role of literary and other forms of cultural representation in securing/subverting racialized imaginaries?
  • How can memories and/or memorialisation negotiate the contested histories of ‘race’?

We invite proposals from across the disciplines. They may concern historical and/or contemporary issues or moments and address any representational form. We welcome proposals for single papers, panels, or for plenary discussions. (Please provide a brief rationale for a panel or a plenary.) If your proposal speaks to one of the conference questions listed above, please specify this in your submission. Postgraduate submissions are of course welcome.

Proposals of 250 words and a brief biography/CV should be sent to Anita Rupprecht (A.Rupprecht@brighton.ac.uk) and Cathy Bergin (C.B.Bergin@brighton.ac.uk). Closing date for proposals: December 31st, 2016.

The conference fee is £80. There is a fee of £40 for graduate students and for those with no institutional affiliation.

The conference will be held at the Grand Parade Campus, University of Brighton.
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Giving Life to Politics: The Work of Adriana Cavarero

10/17/2016

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19th-21st June 2017
Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics
University of Brighton
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Keynote speakers: Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler, Bonnie Honig
Deadline for abstract submission: 28th February 2017
Conference Fee: £200 / £100 (concession/unwaged - limited places) 

This three-day conference is a sustained engagement with, and celebration of, the life work of Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero. It also marks the publication of her most recent text Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude (Stanford University Press, 2016).

Adriana Cavarero has been at the forefront of continental feminist philosophy for the past four decades, working in the interstices of sexual difference theory, post-structuralism, political philosophy, literature and classical thought. Her books have addressed a range of themes, including feminist political philosophy (In Spite of Plato, 1995; Stately Bodies, 2002), narrativity (Relating Narratives, 2000), the voice and vocality (For More than One Voice, 2005), and contemporary forms of violence (Horrorism, 2009). Common to all of Cavarero’s work is an extension of Hannah Arendt's conceptualisation of uniqueness, an insistence on the vulnerability of the human condition, and an immanent critique of western metaphysics.

Abstracts of up to 500 words which respond to any aspect of Cavarero’s work should be submitted by no later than 28th February 2017 to Ian Sinclair: I.A.Sinclair@brighton.ac.uk.There are however a limited number of places at this conference. We will prioritise abstracts as they arrive.

The University of Brighton’s City Campus is in the centre of Brighton, a ten minute walk from Brighton railway station. Brighton is thirty minutes by train from Gatwick Airport and around an hour from central London. The campus is near many hotels, guest houses, restaurants, bars and pubs. Brighton and Hove is a major tourist destination in the south-east of England. Consider staying longer to see more of the city if you are able to.
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For any queries please contact Ian Sinclair: I.A.Sinclair@brighton.ac.uk.​
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iota Seminar Series 2016/17

10/14/2016

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The iota seminar runs on alternative Tuesdays at 5.00pm, Room 502, Dorset Place, University of Brighton, BN2 1ST.

ALL WELCOME
For more information contact: l.purbrick@bton.ac.uk
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/research/design-art-history/events2/i-iota-seminars

25th October 2016 - reading group
Elisabetta Bertolino, 'Beyond Ontology and Sexual Difference: An Interview with the Italian Feminist Philosopher Adriana Cavarero', differences, 19 no.1, 2008.

1st November 2016 - lecture
'
Ontological disorientation: Recuperating the mouth that speaks in textual analysis'
Elisabetta Bertolino, University of Palermo

15th November 2016 - reading group
Claire Colebrook, 'Introduction: Framing the End of the Species: Images Without Bodies, The Death of the PostHuman, Open Humanities Press, 2014.
Lesley Green, ‘The Changing of the Gods of Reason: Cecil John Rhodes, Karoo Fracking and the Decolonizing of the Anthropocene’.
John Johnston, 'Machinic Vision', Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 27-48.

29th November 2016 - lecture
'Geo-visualities of Diamond mining in Kimberly South Africa'
Gareth Hoskins, University of Aberystwyth

24th January 2017 - reading group
Bhabha, H. K. (2004) 'Foreword: Framing Fanon' in Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, New York: Grove Press, vii-xii.
Meier, Prita (2010) 'Authenticity and its Modernist Discontents: the Colonial Encounter and African And Middle Eastern Art History', Arab Studies Journal, 18(1), 12–45.

7th February 2017 - lecture
'Draw Me a Gun: Radical Children's books in the trenches of Arab Hanoi'
Zeina Maasri, University of Brighton

21st February 2017 - reading group
Rebecca Schneider, 'Performance Remains', Performance Research, 6, No.2, 100-108.

7th March 2017 - lecture
'Fashion Remains: Rethinking Fashion Ephemera through Performance Theory'
Marco Pecorari, The New School, New York
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'Emotional Histories' Seminar Series

10/7/2016

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Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories Seminar Series 2016-17

Emotional Histories


All seminars are at Grand Parade, University of Brighton, 5:30pm to 7pm. Room opens at 5pm

Wednesday 19th October 2016: GP 202
Dr Carolyn Pedwell (University of Kent)
'Affective habits: Rethinking progressive social change'

Wednesday 9th November 2016: GP 202
Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick)
'Self-Harming Memorial Architecture: Death, Ontological Insecurity and the Commodity Fetish in post-terrorist design'

Wednesday 14th December 2016: G4
Dr Helen Parr (Keele University)
'Grief After the 1982 Falklands War'

Wednesday 18th January 2017: G4
Professor Joe Moran (Liverpool John Moores)
'A Tentative History of Shyness'

Wednesday 15th February 2017: G4
Professor Graham Dawson (University of Brighton)
'Memory, 'post-conflict' temporalities and the afterlife of emotion in conflict transformation after the Irish Troubles'

Wednesday 15th March 2017: G4
Professor Claire Langhamer (University of Sussex)
'Astray in a dark forest? The emotional politics of reconstruction Britain'

No need to book. Just turn up on the day.

For further information email Sam Carroll: memoryhistorynarratives@brighton.ac.uk
or visit http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/mnh

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