[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Illusions of Identity: resisting (beyond) identity politics (University of Western Ontario, Canada; October 14-15, 2006)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: illusionsofidentity at gmail.com


CALL FOR PAPERS

Illusions of Identity: resisting (beyond) identity politics

An interdisciplinary graduate conference hosted by the Centre for the
Study of Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario, Canada

October 14-15, 2006


With the limits of contemporary leftist social movements becoming
increasingly apparent, and in the face of advanced capitalism's
relentless appropriation of revolutionary discourses and the rise of the
moral right in North America, we feel an urgent need to contribute to
the ongoing efforts to rethink identity politics. We imagine this
conference as an opportunity to work through and disseminate new
frameworks for thinking social movement and resistance. As such, we
intend to bring together students and activists whose works traverse
disciplinary boundaries in an attempt to articulate some of the
possibilities and pitfalls of identity categories (gender, race,
nationality, class, sexuality, ability, etc.). Coming from the point of
view that the much-contested division between theory and activism is a
false one, our aim is that this conference will constitute a site for
the proliferation of new conceptual frameworks that will be taken up,
and hopefully transformed, by our fellow activists/academics.

We are seeking papers and panels troubling, re-articulating, and
creating theoretical frameworks addressing identity politics in areas
including, but not limited to:

-         race and the racialization of identity categories;
-         First Nations and the nation-state;
-         indigenous identities;
-         feminist theories;
-         queer theories and queeries;
-         gay/lesbian/bi/trans/two-spirit identities;
-         trans/figurations of identity;
-         (dis)abilities and identities;
-         capitalism and identity/critiques of capitalism;
-         class-based identities and critiques;
-         nationalisms and national identities;
-         thinking coalition-building and other political maneuvers;
-         the appropriation and containment of resistance;
-         global strategies and local tactics;
-         'old' thinkers, 'new' readings;
-         the politics of theoretical practice;
-         trans/gressions, incoherences, destabilizations;
-         identities and legalities (e.g. identity-based rights claims);
-         law as constraint/law as possibility;
-         the politics of citizenship.


Please send abstracts of 250-300 words by August 15, 2006 to:
illusionsofidentity at gmail.com

(Please include your academic or activist affiliation in your proposal.)


Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.


Yours truly,

Conference organizers

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