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CfP for Early Career Researchers: International Symposium “Karl Marx, Marxism, and the Global South”

INPUTS International Symposium

University of Bremen, City University of Applied Sciences, Bremen

4-5 May 2018

“Karl Marx, Marxism, and the Global South”

On 5 May 2018 the 200th birthday of Karl Marx will be commemorated with a variety of events and exhibitions throughout the world.

The symposium aims at critically acknowledging, reviewing and discussing Marx’s ideas, influences and legacies from a variety of perspectives of the Global South, focusing on postcolonial interpretations and adaptations as well as on circulations of utopian ideas. During the 20th century and the liberation movements in the Global South, often memorized traditional-societal and Marxist ideas (on modernization) were interwoven into utopian visions of the future (e.g. in the writings of José Mariátegui/Peru, Kwame Nkrumah/Ghana or Ali Schariati/Iran). Marxist thoughts had and still have an effect on visions of a fairer world in the Global South and beyond. The question how more just societies and sustainable modes of production could be designed, is not only a historical and utopian but also a question of contemporary relevance, deserving closer attention in the humanities.

Beside invited senior scholars, the symposium aims at integrating the work of junior scholars into scholarly debates. At this point we seek contributions from young scholars to present their projects with relations to the symposium topic. Depending on our budget, we intend to support each young scholar with a subsidy of approximately 100 €.

See the full CfP here.

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Appel – Colloque « La télévision québécoise dans tous ses états »

Colloque organisé par Pierre Barrette (CRILCQ à l’UQAM) et Stéfany Boisvert.

Chicoutimi, 8-10 mai 2018, dans le cadre du 86e congrès de l’ACFAS, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Le colloque « La télévision québécoise dans tous ses états » proposera un état des lieux des télévisions au Québec en 2018, à l’ère d’une transformation des paysages médiatiques et législatif au pays. Le terme « télévisions » est ici employé au pluriel, afin de tenir compte du fait que la « télévision au Québec » recouvre de nos jours plusieurs réalités ou états distincts. Il sera donc certes question de la production québécoise francophone dominante, mais également de la production anglophone – notamment des séries canadiennes anglaises qui sont de plus en plus souvent tournées à Montréal –, ainsi que des productions télévisuelles autochtones produites au Québec. Plus généralement, cet événement s’intéressera aux trois grands pôles de la communication télévisuelle (production, contenu des émissions, réception), permettant ainsi une analyse multidimensionnelle et interdisciplinaire des enjeux qui touchent la production médiatique dans la province.

See full CfP here.

Deadline for Proposals: Feb. 15, 2018.

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Call for Proposals: Strategies of Critique XXXII, 2018

Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, Annual Conference, York University

April 27-28, 2018

York University’s Social & Political Thought Graduate Program is pleased to invite papers and creative works for presentation at its 32nd annual conference, Strategies of Critique: Great Black North: Study, Resistance and Existence in Black. We organize this conference with an aim to understand and affirm Black experience in/of Canadian contexts where ideas of a Great White North too often prevail. Intending a scholarly intervention within an academic landscape shaped by neoliberal governance and racial capitalism, we know that we must look to challenge the academic industrial complex’s entanglements with white supremacy, settler-colonialism, enslavement, patriarchy and neoliberal logics of domination, as well as other regimes and instances of violence to understand its own “underground” constituted by Black Canadian experiences. Such modalities function to pacify or make invisible anti-racist and anti-colonial resistances within the academy. This year’s Strategies of Critique responds to the absence of a Black Canadian Studies stream as one such instance of invisibility and pacification, which must be interrogated and denaturalized. Thus it asks: what is at stake in the ongoing production of new forms of collectivity and struggle, the making and re-making of a Great Black North that exceeds the idea of Canadian experience? Under what constraints do anti-racist and anti-colonial resistances labour within the academy over questions of justice and collective liberation, and what are the various forms of intervention, academic or otherwise, through which people take up these political struggles?

The organizing committee welcomes individual and panel proposals critically engaged with Canadian experiences of Blackness, both in and outside the university contexts. We also welcome proposals from activists and community members.

See full CfP and further information here.

Deadline for Proposals: Feb. 15, 2018.

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2nd CfP: Tenth Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS)

“Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America”

Stockholm, September 28–30, 2018

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2018*

The Swedish Association for American Studies (SAAS) will hold its 10th biennial conference in Stockholm on September 28–30, 2018. Confirmed keynote speakers are David R. Roediger (University of Kansas), Sylvia Mayer (University of Bayreuth), and Frida Stranne (Halmstad University).

We hereby invite proposals on any subject in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. The overarching theme for the conference is “Open Covenants: Pasts and Futures of Global America,” which highlights central tensions in American culture and politics: the relation between isolationism and internationalism, openness and closure, migration and borders, exceptionalism and universalism. We particularly welcome submissions engaging with this broader theme.

See full CfP and further information here.

Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2018.

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CfP: 20th Bienniel CHEA Conference Cultures, Communities and Challenges: Perspectives on the History of Education

October 18-21, 2018, Crowne Plaza | Fredericton, New Brunswick

Canadians spend their formative years in institutions of education. Moreover, they are now expected to be part of a culture of lifelong learning. They are shaped by and in turn shape formal educational structures and informal networks, from scouts to amateur sports, YMCAs to literacy programs. While framed as individual development, educational programming is also centrally about communities and community-building. This is not always an easy relationship, as tensions over community values demonstrate. As a result, education is a site of contention, be it over religious and ethnic differences, language rights, or social and cultural expectations. Presentations at this conference will examine education’s relationship to notions of community and its role in community-building. They will also explore how new educational developments such as insights from neuroscience, the emphasis on social and emotional learning, the consequences of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, or the impact of inclusive education, are reshaping ideals and understandings of community and the enterprise of educational history itself.

See full CfP here.

Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2018.