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Sarah Fuchs
Dec 12, 2011, 8:58:46 PM12/12/11
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Thought some of you might be interested in submitting to this.
Hope you are all getting through the end of the semester okay!
xo
Hope you are all getting through the end of the semester okay!
xo
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Date: 11 December 2011 16:36
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Call for Papers
Strategies of Critique XXVI: The Wretched of the Earth
Conference sponsored by the Graduate Program in Social and Political
Thought
York University, Toronto
April 12 & 13, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Gamal Abdel-Shehid, York University
The 2012 Strategies of Critique conference is dedicated to the 50th
anniversary of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon's book,
appearing at the end of the Algerian War of Independence and after its
author's death, galvanized and inspired those engaged in struggle against
colonialism and racial oppression. It divided the left, especially with
its thoughts on violence and the revolutionary potential of
non-proletarian actors. And it prompted extreme assessments ? from calling
the book a "revolutionary bible" to calling out its author for naiveté,
nihilism, or bloodthirstiness. Later, the book would become one of the
founding texts of Postcolonial Theory, and would be read and re-visited by
activists, psychologists, writers, artists, philosophers, and many
others. The Strategies of Critique conference seeks to revisit,
re-examine, and continue these encounters with Les Damnés de la terre and
the ideas it engages.
First, the conference invites considerations of the legacy of Fanon's
ideas in critique and in action. Fanon's ideas had a global reception,
from Vietnam to the United States, from South Africa to West Germany, from
India to Nicaragua. The dangers he warned of ? neo-colonialism, the
continued disenfranchisement of the formerly colonized masses, the
psychological effects of oppression and violence ? have had global re
sonance, suggesting the continued need to revisit and renew Fanon's
critique.
Second, the conference invites reflection on the historical context of
decolonization in its emergence, its contradictions, and its incompletion.
The Wretched of the Earth, though it took its title from the anthem of
(European) international socialism, emerged from the period of worldwide
internationalism, third-worldism, the Bandung summit, and countless
movements for the rediscovery of old cultures and the formation of new
ones. We invite consideration of this period and of its legacy. Today,
past the end of formal European colonization, what is the status of
Fanon's call for a "new man" who would leave Europe behind?
Third, we look at the present and ask, how do people become wretched, and
how do they become unwretched? What strategies can and do people
appropriate and create for themselves today against neo-colonialism,
military interventions, racial and religious discrimination, climate
change, dispossession, and war? What do they face in their struggle for
recognition, for freedom and dignity? We invite reflections on, including
but not limited to, indigenous struggles for decolonization, and the
global protest movements ? uprisings in North Africa and the Arab world,
mass protests in Southeast Asia and in Africa, anti-austerity movements in
Europe, and the occupy movement.
The graduate program in Social and Political Thought at York University is
pleased to announce the 26th interdisciplinary graduate student
conference, Strategies of Critique, on April 12 & 13, 2012. We welcome
submissions from all fields that relate to social and political theory,
activism, psychoanalytic theory and practice, art and literature, and
social justice. We encourage critical engagements with other thinkers and
bodies of thought that engage with the conference theme of ?the wretched
of the earth.?
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2012
Please submit abstracts of 300 words, along with any questions you may
have, to spt.str...@gmail.com.
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Date: 11 December 2011 16:36
Subject: Fwd: Fw: Call for Papers SPTh conference York University April 2012
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----- Forwarded message from Kathy Armstrong <p...@YORKU.CA> -----
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 10:11:07 -0500
From: Kathy Armstrong <p...@YORKU.CA>
Reply-To: "grad english MA, PhD students" <GRADENG...@YORKU.CA>
Subject: Fw: Call for Papers SPTh conference York University April 2012
To: GRADENG...@YORKU.CA
***Please forward widely***
Call for Papers
Strategies of Critique XXVI: The Wretched of the Earth
Conference sponsored by the Graduate Program in Social and Political
Thought
York University, Toronto
April 12 & 13, 2012
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Gamal Abdel-Shehid, York University
The 2012 Strategies of Critique conference is dedicated to the 50th
anniversary of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fanon's book,
appearing at the end of the Algerian War of Independence and after its
author's death, galvanized and inspired those engaged in struggle against
colonialism and racial oppression. It divided the left, especially with
its thoughts on violence and the revolutionary potential of
non-proletarian actors. And it prompted extreme assessments ? from calling
the book a "revolutionary bible" to calling out its author for naiveté,
nihilism, or bloodthirstiness. Later, the book would become one of the
founding texts of Postcolonial Theory, and would be read and re-visited by
activists, psychologists, writers, artists, philosophers, and many
others. The Strategies of Critique conference seeks to revisit,
re-examine, and continue these encounters with Les Damnés de la terre and
the ideas it engages.
First, the conference invites considerations of the legacy of Fanon's
ideas in critique and in action. Fanon's ideas had a global reception,
from Vietnam to the United States, from South Africa to West Germany, from
India to Nicaragua. The dangers he warned of ? neo-colonialism, the
continued disenfranchisement of the formerly colonized masses, the
psychological effects of oppression and violence ? have had global re
sonance, suggesting the continued need to revisit and renew Fanon's
critique.
Second, the conference invites reflection on the historical context of
decolonization in its emergence, its contradictions, and its incompletion.
The Wretched of the Earth, though it took its title from the anthem of
(European) international socialism, emerged from the period of worldwide
internationalism, third-worldism, the Bandung summit, and countless
movements for the rediscovery of old cultures and the formation of new
ones. We invite consideration of this period and of its legacy. Today,
past the end of formal European colonization, what is the status of
Fanon's call for a "new man" who would leave Europe behind?
Third, we look at the present and ask, how do people become wretched, and
how do they become unwretched? What strategies can and do people
appropriate and create for themselves today against neo-colonialism,
military interventions, racial and religious discrimination, climate
change, dispossession, and war? What do they face in their struggle for
recognition, for freedom and dignity? We invite reflections on, including
but not limited to, indigenous struggles for decolonization, and the
global protest movements ? uprisings in North Africa and the Arab world,
mass protests in Southeast Asia and in Africa, anti-austerity movements in
Europe, and the occupy movement.
The graduate program in Social and Political Thought at York University is
pleased to announce the 26th interdisciplinary graduate student
conference, Strategies of Critique, on April 12 & 13, 2012. We welcome
submissions from all fields that relate to social and political theory,
activism, psychoanalytic theory and practice, art and literature, and
social justice. We encourage critical engagements with other thinkers and
bodies of thought that engage with the conference theme of ?the wretched
of the earth.?
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2012
Please submit abstracts of 300 words, along with any questions you may
have, to spt.str...@gmail.com.
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