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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The 10th Annual Critical Race and Anti-Colonial Studies Conference

Race-making and the state: Between Postracial Neoliberalism and Racialized Terrorism

8-10 October 2010
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS: The primary purpose of this conference is to explore race-making, anti-racism, decolonization and the state. We encourage papers and panels that take an interlocking analysis with class, gender, sexuality and disabilities. Topics may include but are not limited to: the role of the state in producing racial classifications, hierarchies and imaginaries; racial projects including colonialism, indigenous dispossession, slavery and internments; 9/11, violence and the war on terrorism; state inventions of ‘black sites’ of rendition and torture as well as routinized practices such as photographing, fingerprinting, and surveillance of racial others; race in immigration and refugee policies, detention centres and similar securitized initiatives; the political economy of race in a neoliberal era; science, genetics and race; skin, body and identity; race, fantasy and desire; comedy, satire and race; the evasion and even erasure of race from many disciplinary efforts to understand the constitution of advanced liberal states and markets; colonial encounters and racism that informed dominant relations between indigenous peoples and white settler societies; and that think through anti-racisms, anti-colonialism, decolonization and social justice in theory, policy and practice.

HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL: The R.A.C.E. 2010 conference organizer is Dr. Malinda S. Smith, Political Science Department, University of Alberta. Please send a 300 words abstract in Word or RTF with title, keywords, institutional affiliation and contact to race.edmonton@gmail.com or malinda.smith@ualberta.ca and include a 150 words Bio locating your work in critical race /anti-colonial scholarship by 30 March 2010 to:

Dr. Malinda S Smith
2010 R.A.C.E. Conference Organizer
University of Alberta
Telephone: 780.492.5380 / Fax: 780.492.2580
Email: RACE.Edmonton@gmail.com

Web site: www.criticalraceconference.arts.ualberta.ca
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