The University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture invites paper proposals for a day long conference to be held on the campus on May 28, 2010.
This conference on “Spaces of Exception: Social Marginality, Racialized Inequalities and Invisibility in the 21st Century,” seeks to explore the physical, social and ideological processes that go into creating spaces of exception, that is spaces that are characterized by the suspension of laws, norms and rights understood to apply to all.
This conference is interested in socio-spatial forms of segregation and/or stigmatization and the kinds of mechanisms that enable their existence or help perpetuate them. While the notion of “the exception” appears in the work of Giorgio Agamben (1998) in relation to the space of the camp (such as the concentration camp or refugee camp), this conference is interested in “spaces of exception” broadly speaking, and welcomes papers that explore, in one way or another, processes of spatialization that depend on ideologies of difference, exclusivity or extra- legality.
Professor Veena Das of Johns Hopkins University and Professor Teresa Caldeira of the University of California, Berkeley will serve as the conference keynote speakers. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication as a special issue of an academic journal. All expenses – transport, housing, meals – will be provided for persons chosen to present.
Instructions and the download for the call for paper proposals can be found at http://csrpc.uchicago.edu.
Application deadline is April 23, 2010
For additional information about the conference, please contact Prof. Ramón A. Gutiérrez, Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, University of Chicago at 773-702-8063 or rgutierrez@uchicago.edu.
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