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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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'Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics' Autumn Term Seminar Series

9/30/2016

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Autumn 2016 Programme
18:30, 10-11 Pavilion Parade, University of Brighton, Room G7

Thursday 6th October
Is music a language? Adorno, Voloshinov and the language character of music
Dr Mark Abel
University of Brighton

Thursday 20th October
Memorialising in the Postmodern-Neoliberal Conjuncture
Dr Nicola Clewer
University of Brighton

Thursday 17th November
Key texts in Anti-Colonial Thought Book Launch
Dr Cathy Bergin (University of Brighton)
Dr Conor McCarthy (Maynooth University)

Thursday 1st of December
Heidegger and Rights
Dr Mahon O’Brien
University of Sussex
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Workshop: Writing-Ethics/Ethics of Writing

9/27/2016

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The standard issues around 'the ethics of writing' concern either politically and ethically 'engaged' writing; plagiarism; or the presentation of scientific evidence and a range of related technical matters. Our interest is different from both of these.
 
Rather as the practice of photography has for some time now been seen as raising ethical issues (particularly around consent, use, privacy, pain and death) so we wish to raise questions about the ethical responsibilities inherent in the practice of (non-technical) writing. Biography is an obvious example; but what about autobiography? And might novelists, short-story writers, poets and playwrights also have ethical responsibilities in relation to their practices? For example, do they incur moral obligations to their likely readers? Are they in any way responsible for their work's reception and/or (mis)use? What might be the place of authorial intention in relation to readers' interpretation? And what about academic writing: do authors have responsibilities in relation not just to honesty but also to readers and/or in relation to the practices they deal with? Might terms such as 'irresponsibility', 'complicity' and 'culpable ignorance' reasonably have purchase in a range of sorts of writing?
 
CAPPE proposes to hold an informal workshop on Wednesday 7 December, 2 - 5 pm (venue to be decided) where interested colleagues present short talks on these and/or related issues with a view to initiating a more substantial project.
 
Please send brief proposals to Bob Brecher (r.brecher@brighton.ac.uk) by Friday 21 October.
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The Politics of Sex & Gender Lecture Series

9/19/2016

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Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, & Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton
Transforming Sexuality and Gender 
Research Cluster, University of Brighton
Centre for Ethics and Value Inquiry,
(CEVI), University of Gent

 
The Politics of Sex & Gender
Lecture Series
6.30pm-8.00pm
University of Brighton, Edward Street Campus Lecture Theatre
 
Arianne Shahvisi (Brighton & Sussex Medical School) - 11th October 2016
“Pro-choice” and the limits of reproductive autonomy
 
Heather Brunskell-Evans (University of Leicester) - 25th October 2016
Pornography: The Performance of Sexual Freedom
 
Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill University) - 15th November 2016
Sexual Consent: A Necessary Fiction?
 
Vicky Margree (University of Brighton) - 22nd November 2016
Women, Biology, Technology: The Dialectic of Sex Revisited
 
Conny Wächter (Ruhr University, Bochum) - 6th December 2016
Complicity and Transgender Politics
 
Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS, University of London) - 24th January 2016
How to talk about gender based and sexual violence in the Middle East? Dilemmas for transnational feminist solidarity
 
Tom Claes (University of Gent) - 7th February
Sexual Rights / Sexual Politics
 
Lisa Downing (University of Birmingham) - 21st February
Feminist Philosophy and the Politics of Selfishness
 
Katharine Jenkins (University of Nottingham) - 7th March 2017
Who's Afraid of Andrea Dworkin? Feminism and the Analytic Philosophy of Sex
 
Ros Gill (City University) - 21st March 2017
The Confidence Cult: How Neoliberal Individualism is Remaking Feminism
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Fred Moten Public Lecture

5/23/2016

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Public Lecture:

Prof Fred Moten, UC Riverside
'Resistance and Conduction'

Monday 13th June, 6-7.30pm
The Old Courtroom, Church Street, Brighton

Part of the Critical Studies Research Group's 5th International Conference, this year on 'Resistance'.

All welcome for Prof Moten's lecture. To register for the conference and for more information, please click here.

Abstract:

I want to think about resistance by way of the music of Lawrence “Butch” Morris, a musician I greatly admire whose work I have been trying to study for years. I am interested in his theory and practice of conduction as a mode of (black) aesthetic resistance but I am also interested in something like the resistance to conduction as a particular mode of improvised compositional leadership in music making. Morris’s performances were amazing examples of group dynamics and organization but they were also profound examples of the age-old tension between the imperative to resist external domination and the danger of reifying or acceding to forms of internal domination. At stake are old questions concerning sovereignty, which in black musical terms is usually manifest in relation to the figure of the soloist but which, in Morris’s work, is played out in relation to his own instantiation of the figure of the conductor. Anyway, I hope that by trying to consider the tension between resistance in conduction and resistance to conduction that it might be possible to make a small and tentative contribution to the study of the thermodynamics of revolution.
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2nd Verona-Brighton PhD Research Workshop

5/10/2016

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2nd Verona-Brighton PhD Research Workshop

15th June 2016
Boardroom (M2), Grand Parade, City Campus, University of Brighton

Co-organised by
The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton
The Research Centre on the Politics and Theories of Sexuality (PoliTeSse), University of Verona

For more information and to attend, please contact Tim Huzar: T.Huzar@brighton.ac.uk


10.00-10.15 | Introduction
Tim Huzar, University of Brighton

10.15-11.15 | Session One
Joel Roberts, University of Brighton
‘Pastoral Melancholia in The Crying of Lot 49’
Respondent: Cathy Bergin, University of Brighton

11.15-11.30 | Break

11.30-12.30 | Session Two
Carlotta Cossutta, University of Verona
‘Mary Wollstonecraft and the Intersection of Feminism and Republicanism’
Respondent: Clare Woodford, University of Brighton

12:30-13:30 | Lunch

13:30-14.30 | Session Three
Lars Cornelissen, University of Brighton
‘The Economisation of Democracy: Wendy Brown on Neoliberal De-democratisation’
Respondent: Darrow Schecter, University of Sussex

14.30-14.45 | Break

14.45-15.45 | Session Four
Melayna Lamb, University of Brighton
‘On the Critique of Violence and Police Power’
Respondent: Olivia Guaraldo, University of Verona

15.45-16.00 | Closing Comments
Gianmaria Colpani, University of Verona
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'In' or 'Out' of Europe - Which Way for the Left?

5/10/2016

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'In' or 'Out' of Europe - Which Way for the Left?

A debate:
Caroline Lucas (Green MP for the Brighton Pavilion Constituency)
and
Tom Hickey (Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Economy)

8pm, Thursday 12th May
The Old Courtroom, Church Street, BN1 1UD

 
The first half of the referendum debate has been a distortion of the central issues. One side has argued for British withdrawal to escape the constraints of EU legislation on UK policy, and to restore UK sovereignty.  The other argues for continued British membership but in a EU whose protective legislation and regulations are weakened in the interests of those who benefit from the free market and neo-liberal policies.
 
There is another debate entirely. It is one that is not confined to pursuing neo-liberal policies outside the EU against those who want the same policies pursued within the Union.
 
This different debate is one about justice, equality and environmental sustainability.  It is between those who think these values are best pursued as part of the EU, and those who think the nature and structure of the EU to be incompatible with them.
 
The different positions in this debate do not defend 'little England' as a preferable place to be.  Nor are they about the best conditions for the operation of market capitalism.  They are about human need and flourishing, and whether the EU offers a route, or an obstacle, to those objectives.
 
That is the discussion that ought to have dominated the EU Referendum debate. Here is a contribution to that discussion: two introductory and contrasting perspectives, and plenty of time for participation in the debate.

Hosted by the Politics, Philosophy, Aesthetics Seminar Series, School of Humanities, University of Brighton

ADMISSION FREE & ALL WELCOME BUT SEATING AND ADMISSION ARE LIMITED

Doors at 7.30pm
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