THE CRTICIAL ETHNIC STUDIES
ASSOCIATION is extending its submission deadline to Monday, December 4 at 11:59
PST for its “Critical Insurrections: Decolonizing Difficulties, Activist
Imaginaries, and Collective Possibilities” conference. This conference will be
held from June 21-24, 2018 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. For
more information, see below. To submit, click here.
To register, click here.
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The 4th Critical Ethnic Studies Association
Conference
June 21-24th, 2018 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Unceded Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Squamish Territory
We are in a moment in which the activist and scholarly work of
Critical Ethnic Studies is at once urgently relevant, life-sustaining, and
more under attack than ever. The apparent global ascendancy of
state-sanctioned hatred and violence against Black, Indigenous, Muslim,
immigrant, queer, trans, and disabled communities - targeting women and
genderqueer folks of all these communities in particular ways - makes it
clear that we have a lot of work to do. Many of us are doing this work, and
have long been doing this work. Still, we see how much there is to do. In
this context, we call for proposals that relate to the theme of Critical
Insurrections: Decolonizing Difficulties, Activist Imaginaries, and
Collective Possibilities.
With this theme, we seek to signal the urgency of rising up
together against unjust violence and the
necessity to reflect, learn and advance how we organize. As inspiring and
meaningful as activist work can be, organizing is difficult - in many senses.
The work requires long, often unpaid and unacknowledged hours; the work is
persistently gendered; the work is stymied by conflicts in personalities and
ideologies. It is a kind of work that is beyond institutional and individual
delineations of labor and is instead a lived practice. Such work challenges
us to imagine ways of being with ourselves and with others in spaces and in
manners, of which we are often not meant to commence together. By June 2018,
the date of the conference, we expect much cross-community work across a
range of urgent, global issues has already happened, and is happening. We
imagine the conference as a space to reflect on that work, in all its thorns
and roses. We want to come together to imagine both a different world and a
different way of bringing that world into being. We want to push our activist
imaginaries and scholarly practices in new directions to think more boldly
and generously about the praxis of decolonization.
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