Calls for Papers

[Clare O'Farrell]

For conferences, journal issues, books, etc.

[Margaret Freund]

.CALL FOR PAPERS
Foucault: 25 years on
The Centre for Post-colonial Studies will mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault with a conference to reflect on the influence of his work.
Provocation:
Twenty five years after his death, reflecting on Foucault is an enormous task. His influence permeates disparate and innumerable fields and informs so much of our thinking, along with that of many great theorists who have followed him. Foucault’s influence is one of ramifying and far reaching interdisciplinary complexity, but he draws us together too, providing a common theoretical baseline to diverse disciplinary endeavours. He shows us the connections between things. Just as his life and his work connects up theoretical pursuits as diverse as queer theory and postcolonial studies, so his influence draws together and draws bridges between theorists. In so doing, Foucault’s legacy muddies the theoretical waters, forcing strange synergies and theoretical configurations such as the antifoundational humanist. Growing from the murky ferment of French colonial history, the father of poststructuralism’s story is as complex as that encounter, and his legacy is as mutating, unsettling and transformative. A reflection on Foucault needs to accommodate a consideration of the enormity of the shadow which such a legacy casts over continuing intellectual production.
Submissions:
We invite proposals (300 words or less) responding to the above provocation, particularly those which engage with the Foucault’s influence on the intellectual production of the author.
Selected papers will be presented at a conference to be held on 25 June 2009, with peer reviewed proceedings to be published online.
Please send proposals to [e-mail] by February 27 2009. Proposals should include an abstract, a short biography of the author/s, name, institutional affiliation and email contact details.
Further details and enquiries:
Ian Goodwin-Smith, [e-mail], 8302 4515.
CPCS website: http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/cps/default.asp
CPCS on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Hawke-Cpcs/1405028034

[David McInerney]

Thanks Margaret for posting this, looks like an interesting day. I might see if I can develop a proposal for a paper relating my reading of James Mill's History of British India to Foucault's Discipline and Punish.

[Margaret Freund]

Hi David
I think it should be good. You've got until the 27th of Feb. to send it in. Its local too!
margaret


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[David McInerney]

Thanks ... I submitted a proposal to Ian today, the paper is called "Scarecrows and Monsters: The Embodiments of Despotism in Les Anormaux and Montesquieu" and it will discuss the lecture on 'political monsters' together with Althusser's analysis of Montesquieu's use of 'Oriental despotism', in the context of my research on the Scottish Enlightenment reading of Montesquieu and James Mill's use of 'Oriental despotism' in The History of British India. I hope that some people turn up to hear my presentation!

[David McInerney]

CALL FOR PAPERS – Special Issue of Deleuze Studies on “Deleuze and Marx”

Writings on Deleuze and Guattari’s twin volumes, Capitalism and Schizophrenia, have often focused on questions about desire, body without organs, the schizophrenic etc. There have been a few notable exceptions that have attempted to articulate and expound upon the numerous political problems that Deleuze and Guattari attempt to resolve through analyses of concepts such as de-/re-territorialization, coding and re-coding etc, however a specter is haunting Deleuze and Guattari that has yet to be explained, articulated and debated; the specter of Karl Marx. This volume attempts to analyze the relationship between Deleuze (and Guattari) and Marx and their respective works. This volume is an intervention into the fields of Deleuze Studies, Marxist and Marxian philosophy and political economy, and critiques of capitalism through an examination of the relationship between Deleuze and Marx. This volume will be of interest to people interested in Deleuze Studies who are interested in questions of politics and critiques of capitalism, Marxist theory and philosophy and people interested in political economy.

Themes that will be covered in this volume include (but are not limited to):

1) hegemony and theories of imperialism

2) the role of philosophy in changing the world,

3) theories of surplus

4) tensions between the virtual and the potential

5) ideology and noology

6) modes of production

7) the nature of anti-capitalist politics in Deleuze’s work.

Please limit the length of papers to no more than 10 000 words. The deadline for submission of papers is March 30, 2009.

Please include your name, e-mail address, and phone number. Papers should be e-mailed to [e-mail]. All papers will undergo a double-blind review.

[David McInerney]

I quick bump of this thread to remind people that proposals for Foucault: 25 Years On are due in on Friday. I hope to see many of you there. My proposal is on the lecture on 'political monsters' in Foucault's The Abnormals. The CFP appears above in Margaret's post.

[David McInerney]

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE INAUGURAL ISSUE OF SEXTURES TO BE PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2009

QUERYING SEXUAL CITIZENSHIPS: DIFFERENCE, SOCIAL IMAGINARIES AND EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP

'Harbingers of death', 'the shame and ruin of humanity', 'anti-life', 'threat to the survival of the human race', 'moral and physical cripples', and 'vampires sucking the life blood of the nation' are only some of the images of radical alterity invoked and regularly rehearsed by major political figures in post-socialist European countries when faced with native lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) claims to citizenship. Citizenship, understood here as the practicing of social, cultural, political and economic rights, and the active involvement in the organized life of a political community, is still firmly tied in most countries of Central and Eastern Europe to a heteropatriarchal social imaginary in which the nation continues to be metaphorically configured as the exclusive home of the traditional heterosexual family - the purveyor of pure ethnic bloodlines based on rigid asymmetrical power system of gender relations. The conflation of heterosexism with ethnic nationalism that permeates this imaginary also fuels a vicious politics of national belonging where the use of highly inflammatory, offensive and dehumanising language has led to a dramatic increase in violence against members of various sexual minorities, which in turn has resulted in the effective silencing of queer voices in the public sphere and the paradoxical feeling that sexually different people were somehow 'more free' under the previous regime.

The Amsterdam Treaty, a legal document attempting to define the evolving concept of European citizenship, intends to temper the current trend of hyper-nationalist integration into 'Europe of nations' by moving to a vision of Europe of (individual) citizens. The Treaty, particularly Article 13, clearly states that the respect for human rights and the principle of non-discrimination based on sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation forms the basis of 21st century European citizenship. However, many new member-states of the EU and candidate-countries blatantly and proudly flout their human rights obligations derived from their (current or future) accession into the EU and continue to devise a raft of laws and policies denying basic human and citizenship rights to lesbians, gays, transsexuals and queers, including the right to assembly and free expression.

Deep historical distrust in identity based organizations and identity politics, a weak civil society, a fragile rule of law, and the ignorance about, or unpreparedness to use, the legal and political instruments of European citizenship, create a very unique set of challenges for LGBTQ people in post-socialist Europe on their road to freedom and equality. Transnational LGBTQ rights movements arising from the institutional, legal, social, political, economic and intellectual successes of the gay, lesbian and queer movements in Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand become increasingly aware that a western model of sexual politics and citizenship based on political and economic (capitalist) liberalism is simply unworkable in post-socialist Europe.

Given this context, SEXTURES invites theoretical, conceptual and empirical essays from scholars of all disciplines (philosophy, women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, Slavonic/Eastern European/ Balkan studies, cultural studies, sociology, geography, anthropology, political science, history, and comparative literatures) who are working on topics related to gender, sexuality and citizenship in post-socialist Europe.

We are particularly interested in inter- and transdisciplinary essays, critically drawing from feminist, gay and lesbian, transsexual, queer, postcolonial and critical race theories, that examine the concept of (sexual) citizenship in all its complexity; from being a social relationship inflected by intersecting sexual, gender, ethnic, national, class and religious identities; positioning across various cross-cutting social hierarchies; cultural assumptions about 'good' and 'bad' citizens and 'humans' and 'aliens'; to institutional practices of active discrimination and marginalization, and a sense and politics of belonging to an imagined community like the nation or 'united Europe'.

We welcome thoughtful philosophical reflections on the relationship between ideology, utopia and European citizenship with a particular emphasis on the productive function of the social imaginary as understood, for example, by Deleuze and Ricoeur. In this context, we particularly encourage submissions examining the promises and limits of the concepts of 'flexible' or 'nomadic' citizenship for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals, and queers living in post-socialist Europe.

We are also interested in empirically grounded close examinations of actual practices of social belonging (or non-belonging) as lived by ordinary LGBTQ people in a number of everyday social situations at home, school, work, dealing with the state, etc. In this context, we welcome submissions that explore the emotional dynamic, and the cultural politics of emotions, played out in these situations.

While we focus on Central and Eastern Europe, we welcome submissions that cover issues of sexual citizenship in other parts of the world.

Submissions should be no longer than 8000 words. Please consult our guide for contributors when preparing your manuscripts. The guide can be found at http://www.sextures.net/guidelines-for-contributors. Deadline for submission of papers is 2 June 2009.

About the journal

Sextures is a refereed international, independent, transdisciplinary electronic scholarly journal that aims to provide a forum for open intellectual debate across the arts, humanities and social sciences about all aspects affecting the intricate connections between politics, culture and sexuality primarily, but not exclusively, in the Balkans, Eastern and Central Europe. It is published in English twice a year. Sextures is dedicated to fast turnaround of submitted papers. We expect this special issue to be published in September 2009. More information about the journal can be found on its website: www.sexturesnet.

Please direct all inquiries regarding this special issue or send manuscripts to:

Dr Alexander Lambevski
Founding Editor and Publisher
[e-mail], [e-mail]
www.sextures.net

[Clare O'Farrell]

CALL FOR PAPERS: Culture and Civic Purposes: In Search of Harmony in the Local and Global Educational Context

33rd Annual Pacific Circle Consortium Conference
Taipei City, Taiwan, May 25-29, 2009
Department of Civic Education and Leadership
National Taiwan Normal University

http://cve.ntnu.edu.tw/pcc2009/
http://cve.ntnu.edu.tw/pcc2009/index.php/homepage

[David McInerney]

The following is probably of interest to people here. Posted by Jeremy Hunsinger, he needs submissions very soon but I guess there's a good chance that one of you has something suitable ready to go.

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CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Special issue of the journal Learning Inquiry
(http://www.springerlink.com/content/120592/)
Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger
Papers Due: May 15th 2009
Please contact the editor to discuss topics at jhuns.(@)vt.edu (remove brackets)

In the last 20 years, the learning infrastructures of the social sciences and humanities
have transformed dramatically toward a more plural set of practices, methods, systems,
and tools. In this issue, we are looking for contributions from social informatics,
humanistic informatics, cultural informatics, digital humanities, internet studies, design
research, media studies, and related fields dealing with the learning infrastructures. I am
seeking papers that deal empirically, analytically and/or critically with the learning
infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities. Cyberinfrastructures, physical
infrastructures and organizational infrastructures have been transformed through the
politics, economics, and technologies surrounding our learning infrastructures.

Learning infrastructures are part of professors and students scholarly experiences
everyday. These infrastructures are part of how students begin their engagement with the
social sciences and humanities and perhaps become part of how they maintain that
engagement throughout their lives. Beyond our professors, departments, centers and
institutes, our learning infrastructures are mediating our disciplinarity and
interdisciplinarities to our students. In short, learning infrastructures are a part of how
students learn to be scholars in various disciplines and citizens in the world-at-large.

Part of the debate surrounding learning infrastructures in the social sciences and
humanities is the over/under-definition and over/underdetermination of terms such as
learning and infrastructure in disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses. In this CFP, I
want to encourage papers that help to define and critically engages those terms.

Possible topics:
• Transformation of institutions in relation to learning infrastructures
• New methods, new understandings in the social sciences and humanities related to
learning infrastructures
• New disciplines, interdisciplines and transdisciplines and learning infrastructures
• Political economics of learning infrastructures
• Ethics, norms, and politics surrounding learning infrastructures
• Openness and/or closedness in learning infrastructures
• Social/Cultural/Informatics informatics and learning infrastructures
• New directions for learning infrastructures based on social sciences and humanities
• Cultural environmentalism and learning infrastructures
• Knowledge/Design ecologies and learning infrastructures

Review process will be double blind peer review following editorial selection. We expect
to place fewer than 8 papers in this special issue. We would prefer papers between 4000-
16000 words. Papers should be submitted tohttp://www.editorialmanager.com/linq/
Please contact the editor to discuss your paper and/or when you submit your paper.



Jeremy Hunsinger
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Virginia Tech
Information Ethics Fellow
Center for Information Policy Research

http://www.stswiki.org/ sts wiki
http://cfp.learning-inquiry.info/ Learning Inquiry-the journal
http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
-Pablo Picasso

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[David McInerney]

Papers for the conference Foucault: 25 Years On were submitted last Thursday, and the arrangements are currently being finalized. Anyone who is not presenting but would like to attend can obtain a provisional program and registration form by contacting Ian Goodwin-Smith (see above). I'm not sure how long people have to register but the cost for non-presenters is $55 for the day (not sure of arrangements for postgrads).