Fw: Conference call on Race, Racism and Empire

thought some of y'all might be interested in this...

adam 

--- Charles McKinney <kmt188@duke.edu> wrote:
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 12:04:19 -0500
> From: Charles McKinney <kmt188@duke.edu>
> To: gsoc@duke.edu, aaasgsa@duke.edu,
> histgsa@duke.edu
> CC: progressive@duke.edu
> Subject: [progressive] RACE, RACISM AND EMPIRE: THE
> GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL
> 
> 
> 
> Call for Proposals RACE, RACISM AND EMPIRE: 
> THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL
> 
> Articulation of race and racism in the "New World
> Order" has
> incited lively debate from a variety of theoretical
> and
> political
> perspectives. It is our understanding that
> race/racism in the
> post-9/11 period is a continuation, in a
> re-articulated form,
> of the historical processes of racialization
> associated with
> colonialism, imperialism, Eurocentrism and, more
> recently,
> globalization.
> We argue that the local (the regional/national) and
> the global
> (the imperial) are interconnected phenomena and act
> upon one
> another to construct indigeneity and racialized
> identities in
> ways that engender inequalities, restrict human
> rights, and
> infringeon the democratic and civil rights of the
> colonized,
> both locallyand globally. At the same time, they
> also create
> conditions of resistance, providing an opportunity
> for the
> creation of counter-hegemonic ideas, _expressions,
> and
> structures.
> 
> This conference seeks to generate debate on the
> re-articulation
> of race in the current phase of
> globalization-misnamed New
> World
> Order-and its role in shaping contemporary politics
> and
> cultural
> constructions and practices at the local, national,
> and global
> levels. We invite papers that focus on
> interconnections between
> race and other socially significant forces, such as
> class,
> gender, sexuality, nationhood, indigeneity and
> citizenship, in
> the present context. Papers interrogating the
> academy as a
> racialized site and dealing with the resistance and
> agency of
> people at the margins are particularly encouraged.
> Presentations of historical cases are welcome,
> provided they
> demonstrate their relevance to the present.
> 
> Some examples of topics that we particularly
> encourage:
> 
> n Racism in the Making of a Hegemonic Ideology; n
> Indigenous
> People and the New World Order; n Race in the
> Restructuring of
> the Labour Market; n Role of Race in Globalization
> and
> Internationalization; n Re-emergence of Old Notions
> of Racial
> Hierarchies in New Forms; n Race and Representation
> in Popular
> Culture/The Academy/The Media; n The Role of
> Intellectuals and
> the Academy in Producing Racialized Knowledge; n
> Employment
> Equity in the Academy and Beyond; n War against
> Terrorism: The
> Racial Subtext; n Racializing Religion; n New
> Imperial Order
> and Reconstruction of Islam; Reconstructing the
> Middle East.
> 
> The conference will be held April 29-May 1, 2004 at
> York
> University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Please send
> your
> proposals (maximum 250 words) to the Centre for
> Feminist
> Research, 228 York Lanes, York University, 4700
> Keele Street,
> North York,
> ON, M3J 1P3, Email: cfr@yorku.ca or Fax:
> 416-736-5416.
> 
> Program Committee: Vijay Agnew (Chair), Ena Dua,
> Shubhra
> Gururani, Merle Jacobs, Carl James, Narda Razack,
> Sherene
> Razack, Hira Singh, Maria Wallis, Jody Nyasha
> Warner.
> 


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