The 2023 ICCTP Conference | Theorizing Global Authoritarianism: To Reclaim Critical Theory Against the Grain

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What characteristics are shared by the rising authoritarianism around the world, even though each nation’s political context is unique? What factors contribute to the growth of authoritarianism on a global scale? Does the ascendance of reactionary beliefs and movements constitute a danger to democratic institutions and local communities on a continental or global scale? The reach of these phenomena is not confined to a particular nation or state but can now be observed in every region of the world. In the meantime, most assessments continue to be rooted in geopolitical approaches to the Global North, which fail to see beyond the confines of nationalism and the nation-state. In response to this constraint on political theorizing, the purpose of this conference is to conceptualize the idea of global authoritarianism by focusing on how it is coupled with post-colonial modernization and the growth of global capitalism.

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Unlivable Time: Understanding and Resisting Neoliberal Temporalities

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Interdisciplinary Conference at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, UK March 8, 9, and 10, 2023 Keynote Speakers:   Hartmut Rosa and Eva von Redecker Call for Papers Our contemporary world is paradoxical insofar as, citing Hartmut Rosa, “the more time we save, the less we have.” No matter how fast we rush from one activity to the next, regardless of the refined logistics and the myriad technological innovations that now make our work more productive, we still find ourselves in temporal scarcity. The problem of time-scarcity is one of overload, of combined pressures, and …

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CFP: Phenomenology and Critique

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Loyola University-Marquette University Phenomenology Conference Submission deadline: May 15, 2022 Conference date(s): November 4, 2022 – November 6, 2022 Conference Venue Loyola University Chicago Chicago, United States Topic areas Continental Philosophy Details Phenomenology offers specific methods that disclose transcendental structures of experience which, in our everyday experience, are overlooked and presupposed. As such, it is understood to be a critical enterprise. Yet in recent years, there has been a ‘critical turn’ in phenomenology: phenomenology is also increasingly understood as a form of social critique capable of engaging, analyzing, and illuminating contemporary socio-political phenomena. Proponents of this critical turn emphasize that, …

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Chiasma: A Site for Thought Eighth Issue Call for Papers: Non/Non-being/Negativity

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Chiasma: A Site for Thought is pleased to invite submissions for its eighth issue, on theoretical and philosophical investigations on the ‘non.’ Considerations of the ‘non’ arise as a parados in Western philosophical inquiry as early as Plato’s Sophist, with the Eleatic Stranger’s account of non-being as the capacity for change in Being. Here, ‘non-being’ instigates a position as both negative and positive: both lack of being or nothing and the productive motor of being via becoming. More recent theoretical investigation has charged the ‘non’ as a fundamental and paradoxical attribute of being: seen in Gilles Deleuze’s non-being or ?being and Theodor Adorno’s …

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Interfere: Journal for Critical Thought and Radical Politics Second Issue Call for Papers: Born In Flames

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Second Issue: Born In Flames This issue of Interfere Journal invites contributions in political theory that analyze transformation through crisis. Topics for consideration include but are not limited to: Apocalyptic and utopian imaginaries and speculations towards an otherwise Riots and revolutions  Inspirations and excavations from the past  The ‘stickiness’ of heteropatriarchal and white supremacist relations Alternative environmental knowledges and relations to land and resources. From Brazil’s wetlands to the Australian bush to the US west coast to the Arctic Circle, skies glow orange as the climate crisis burns. At the same time, the movement for Black lives sets light to …

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Call for Abstracts—Aesthetic Relations

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Call for abstracts for the conference A E S T H E T I C  R E L A T I O N S Copenhagen, January 20-22, 2021 The global pandemic has made us develop new ways of regulating the choreography of our everyday life: how we relate to our neighbors, to the material objects we interact with, and to the air we breathe. Some citizens have experienced a suspension of the right to assemble, to protest and cross borders–rights of which others have been deprived for long. Simultaneously, anti-racist movements have overthrown statues of colonial and imperial history and …

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Call for Papers—Queer Epistemicides

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Institute of Modern Languages Research Regional Conference April 29-30, 2021 University of St Andrews Plenary speaker: Professor Dagmawi Woubshet (University of Pennsylvania) In 2020, queer theory celebrates its thirtieth birthday. This contentious and contested body of thought has come a long way since Italian feminist theorist Teresa de Lauretis proposed the phrase ‘queer theory’ at a conference in Santa Cruz, California, and then used it more expansively in a special issue of differences which came out a year later. She would go on to disavow the phrase, but by then it had gained its own momentum and significant disciplinary and …

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Call for Papers—On Strikes and Critical Theory

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Abstracts (400 words) are due on October 15, 2020, and those invited to submit full papers for peer review will have a May 1, 2021 deadline for paper submission. Articles should be approximately 10,000 words, including notes; shorter contributions should be 2,000-5,000 words, including notes. Inquiries and submissions should be sent to Susana Draper or Samera Esmeir at CFPcriticaltimes@berkeley.edu. — Modern labor strikes became a strategy of the working class with the onset of the industrial revolution, and they have been deployed since to both revolutionary and reformist ends. But much has changed in the practice of strikes since the period of their modern intertwinement …

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