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CFP: Rethinking inheritance — New School Anthropology Conference, New York

01/22/2012 FYI No comments

Continuing with the pre­vi­ous post’s inter­est in “crit­i­cal her­itage stud­ies,” here’s another inter­est­ing CFP address­ing “inher­i­tance” in mul­ti­ple reg­is­ters and encour­ag­ing the sub­mis­sion of provocative/generative “objects” along­side a brief state­ment. Great CFP for­mat for a con­fer­ence that in part attempts to re-imagine “the con­fer­ence for­mat that we have inher­ited as scholars.”

Call for Participants
The New School for Social Research
2012 Anthropology Conference: “Rethinking Inheritance“
April 28th, 2012
http://​inher​i​tance​con​fer​ence​.word​press​.com

Keynote Speaker: Gil Anidjar (Religion/MESAAS, Columbia)

Closing Remarks: Miguel Robles-Duran (Urban Design, Parsons The New School for Design)

The Theme: Inheritance has typ­i­cally been con­ceived as a pas­sive process of recep­tion. Yet, inher­i­tance also implies claims to some­thing. Claiming inher­i­tance and claim­ing selves, com­mu­ni­ties, nations and other units as heirs is an active prac­tice. How can we bet­ter con­cep­tu­al­ize the labor involved in estab­lish­ing inher­i­tance? How are inher­i­tances rejected, resisted, renewed, reformed, or rene­go­ti­ated? How are iden­tity and belong­ing impli­cated in inheritance?

As we begin to think of inher­i­tance in mul­ti­ple reg­is­ters, we hope to chal­lenge its sup­posed pas­siv­ity and expand its con­cep­tu­al­iza­tion. What does it mean to inherit a cit­i­zen­ship, a nation­al­ity, a legal frame­work, or an eth­nic­ity, and what are the modes for these inher­i­tances? How can inher­i­tance be employed to think through tem­po­ral rela­tion­ships of his­tor­i­cal con­scious­ness, col­lec­tive mem­ory, and their nar­ra­tion? We also hope to think together about how active inher­i­tance relates to mate­ri­al­i­ties and economies, finan­cial insti­tu­tions, and the act of mak­ing claims on prop­er­ties, whether vir­tual or phys­i­cal. Similarly, we can con­sider inher­i­tance in terms of spaces and bound­aries, won­der­ing how ter­ri­to­ries are passed down and how bor­ders are main­tained. Read more

CFP: When “the rest” enters “the West” — Critical Heritage Studies, Sweden

01/22/2012 FYI No comments

An inter­est­ing CFP from a cul­tural geog­ra­phy list. If my sched­ule this sum­mer weren’t so hec­tic with the move to Toronto and other con­fer­ences I’ve already com­mit­ted to, I might have been curi­ous enough to respond to this CFP for the inau­gural con­fer­ence of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies. I’ve writ­ten about the Korean mis­sion­ary asser­tion that Korea is eco­nom­i­cally and geopo­lit­i­cally located between the West and the rest (and how this informs their travel/development prac­tices through­out the world), which very much relates to this theme. And even the “lan­guage trav­els” paper I’ve co-written on the South Korean tem­po­rary res­i­dents and their “cos­mopoli­tan” pur­suits in Canada might have a place in this crit­i­cal frame­work of her­itage. See more ses­sions here. Below is an excerpt about crit­i­cal her­itage stud­ies from here:

Above all, we want you to crit­i­cally engage with the propo­si­tion that her­itage stud­ies needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, which requires the ‘ruth­less crit­i­cism of every­thing exist­ing’. Heritage is, as much as any­thing, a polit­i­cal act and we need to ask seri­ous ques­tions about the power rela­tions that ‘her­itage’ has all too often been invoked to sus­tain. Nationalism, impe­ri­al­ism, colo­nial­ism, cul­tural elit­ism, Western tri­umphal­ism, social exclu­sion based on class and eth­nic­ity, and the fetishis­ing of expert knowl­edge have all exerted strong influ­ences on how her­itage is used, defined and man­aged. We argue that a truly crit­i­cal her­itage stud­ies will ask many uncom­fort­able ques­tions of tra­di­tional ways of think­ing about and doing her­itage, and that the inter­ests of the mar­gin­alised and excluded will be brought to the fore­front when pos­ing these questions.

The study of her­itage has his­tor­i­cally been dom­i­nated by Western, pre­dom­i­nantly European, experts in archae­ol­ogy, his­tory, archi­tec­ture and art his­tory. Though there have been pro­gres­sive cur­rents in these dis­ci­plines they sus­tain a lim­ited idea of what her­itage is and how it should be stud­ied and man­aged. The old way of look­ing at her­itage – the Authorised Heritage Discourse – priv­i­leges old, grand, pres­ti­gious, expert approved sites, build­ings and arte­facts that sus­tain Western nar­ra­tives of nation, class and sci­ence. There is now enough sus­tained dis­sat­is­fac­tion with this way of think­ing about her­itage that its crit­ics can feel con­fi­dent in com­ing together to form an inter­na­tional organ­i­sa­tion to pro­mote a new way of think­ing about and doing her­itage – the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.

CALL FOR PAPERS

For the inau­gural con­fer­ence of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies on the topic of “Re-theorisation of Heritage” in Gothenburg, Sweden, 5 – 8 June 2012 (http://www.gu.se/infoglueCalendar/digitalAssets/1775484548_BifogadFil_Conference_Announcement_ACHS%202012_Third_CALL.pdf), I seek con­tri­bu­tions to the fol­low­ing session:

When ‘the rest’ enters ‘the West’: Heritage in a Postcolonial Age
Since the begin­ning of moder­nity, inter­na­tional her­itage tourists’ travel routes have typ­i­cally led from “the West” to “the rest” of the world (“the West and the rest”, cf. Stuart Hall). In the last few years, how­ever, the expan­sion and lower cost of travel oppor­tu­ni­ties on the one hand, and the eco­nomic upturn in parts of the global “East” and “South” on the other hand, have made west­ern des­ti­na­tions acces­si­ble for more and more peo­ple from the for­mer “rest of the world” in the frame­work of leisure-time travelling.

This ses­sion enquires whether and how western-influenced pat­terns of world order, con­struc­tions of iden­ti­ties, as well as inter­ac­tions in tourist space change when “the West” no longer tours “the rest”, as has been prac­ticed for cen­turies, but when “the rest” starts to knock on Western doors in order to con­sume locally, now in the role of tourists to be served,

- their own her­itage in the west­ern world, and/or
 – “the West” in the vari­ety of its local heritages.

With which con­se­quences, re-establishing or thwart­ing exist­ing power rela­tions between cul­tures, will heritage(s) in these touris­tic set­tings be (re-)negotiated and (re-)experienced? Read more

CFP: Deception: the 12th annual East Asian Studies graduate student conference, University of Toronto

01/05/2012 FYI No comments

DECEPTION:
The 12th Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Toronto
10 March 2012

EXTENDED DEADLINE: JANUARY 20th

We are cur­rently seek­ing orig­i­nal aca­d­e­mic papers on the theme of “decep­tion.” Establishing as our start­ing point the dis­tinc­tion between truth and false­hood, we are inter­ested in the ques­tion of how and to what pur­poses that dis­tinc­tion might be inten­tion­ally blurred. We wel­come con­tri­bu­tions that dis­cuss the human, and also non-human, fac­ulty to deceive, as well as the human poten­tial to be deceived. Deception can take the form of pro­pa­ganda or a glance, an image or an utter­ance, a pres­ence or an absence, a ploy or a pledge, an action or a silence. The ques­tion of decep­tion invites a mul­ti­tude of dis­cus­sions: polit­i­cal, lin­guis­tic, artis­tic, cul­tural, his­tor­i­cal, anthro­po­log­i­cal, philo­soph­i­cal, psy­cho­log­i­cal, and many more besides. Thus we wel­come papers from any and all dis­ci­plines will­ing and able to engage aca­d­e­m­i­cally in the issues, intri­ca­cies, and illu­mi­na­tions of the topic of decep­tion in an East Asian con­text, from the ways decep­tion is defined and fig­ured in East Asian soci­eties and cul­tures, to the very work­ings of decep­tion in the fig­ur­ing and def­i­n­i­tion of East Asia.

For those inter­ested, we request that you pro­vide an abstract (300 words max­i­mum) as well as your per­sonal and con­tact infor­ma­tion by January 20, 2011. Submissions from both indi­vid­u­als and pan­els of three (pan­elists should send indi­vid­ual abstracts and a panel abstract) are encouraged.

Submitted papers are also eli­gi­ble for con­sid­er­a­tion for the East Asia Forum, a jour­nal edited and pub­lished by grad­u­ate stu­dents in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Please indi­cate whether you wish to have your com­pleted paper con­sid­ered for publication.

Selected par­tic­i­pants will be asked to sub­mit com­pleted papers by February 15, 2012. Those who wish their papers to be con­sid­ered for pub­li­ca­tion should sub­mit a publication-ready copy (about 4000 words) by March 31, 2012. During the con­fer­ence, par­tic­i­pants will be given 20 min­utes to present their work; actual pre­sen­ta­tion papers should be about 1500 – 2500 words long.

Please e-mail sub­mis­sions and queries to eas.​gsc@​utoronto.​ca. Further infor­ma­tion as it becomes avail­able will be posted on the con­fer­ence web­site at http://​groups​.chass​.utoronto​.ca/​e​a​s​g​sc/.

CFP: Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives

01/02/2012 FYI No comments

As always, I don’t know any­thing beyond the CFP below, so please con­tact the orga­niz­ers for more infor­ma­tion.

Call for papers
Conference on ‘Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives’
12 – 14 September 2012, Munich

We wel­come papers for a con­fer­ence on Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia, which will be held at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich, Germany from September 12 to 14, 2012.

This con­fer­ence fol­lows an ear­lier book project enti­tled “Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western Constructions and Eastern Reactions” (Brill, 2012). In that project, about half of the par­tic­i­pants sur­veyed and exam­ined the roots of racial con­struc­tions of East Asians (prin­ci­pally, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) in the West and their man­i­fes­ta­tions dur­ing the last 150 years, whereas the other half focused upon the char­ac­ter­is­tics of local racial con­struc­tions and indige­nous racism in mod­ern East Asia, with par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to the man­i­fes­ta­tions of racial thought and racism as the result of the eth­nic encounter dur­ing Japanese colonialism.

During the com­ing con­fer­ence, we would like to exam­ine the fol­low­ing top­ics in the con­text of East Asia:

  • Sources of mod­ern racism – the inter­play between indige­nous and for­eign perspectives
  • The link between nation­al­ism and racism
  • Racial the­o­ries in a transna­tional perspective
  • The impact of racial thought on mutual images
  • Gender and racial thought

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CFP: Religion and Civilization in International History, Harvard

12/06/2011 FYI No comments

Call for Papers
ConIH 12: The Twelfth Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History
“Religion and Civilization in International History“
March 8 – 9, 2012

Proposal dead­line extended to December 30, 2011

The ConIH Committee invites grad­u­ate stu­dents to sub­mit pro­pos­als for the Twelfth Annual Graduate Student Conference on International History to take place at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on March 8 – 9, 2012.

Historical actors have used reli­gion and civ­i­liza­tion as potent tools for the cre­ation and recre­ation of cul­tural and polit­i­cal iden­ti­ties, as well as other types of social cohe­sive­ness. Studying reli­gion and civ­i­liza­tion, as dis­tinct but often closely related con­cepts, raises ques­tions about the the­o­log­i­cal under­pin­nings of the inter­na­tional order and inter­na­tional law, as well as the civ­i­liza­tional ref­er­ences that reli­gious move­ments use to define their transna­tional mis­sions within national, impe­r­ial, and other supra­na­tional frame­works. ConIH con­se­quently invites grad­u­ate stu­dents from all con­ti­nents and dis­ci­plines to sub­mit stud­ies that explore the inter­na­tional dimen­sions of reli­gion and civilization.

We wel­come sub­mis­sions that exam­ine reli­gion and civ­i­liza­tion in inter­na­tional con­texts. Possible paper top­ics include, but are not lim­ited to, the role of reli­gion and civ­i­liza­tion in shap­ing the rela­tions between states, transna­tional elites, dias­po­ras, and polit­i­cal and reli­gious minori­ties; the cre­ation of new ortho­dox­ies and het­ero­dox­ies; sec­u­lar­ism; impe­r­ial frame­works; polit­i­cal resis­tance; nar­ra­tives on the ascen­dancy and decline of civ­i­liza­tions; eco­nomic struc­tures; transna­tional net­works; and inter­na­tional devel­op­ment.
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