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Thursday, February 29, 2024
Call For Applications: Funded Ambedkar Summer School 2024-Indian Institute of Dalit Studies- May 19-24, 2024
Monday, January 22, 2024
CFP: The 19th Bi-Annual International #Virtual Conference on "#Discrimination, #Bias, and #Repudiation"-May 20-28, 2024- Ovidius University of Constanta
Welcome to a pivotal gathering of minds and voices, a conference that aims to challenge, inspire, and transform our understanding of "Discrimination, Bias, and Repudiation". Hosted in a dynamic online space, this event brings together a spectrum of scholars, activists, and thought leaders from around the globe.
Our mission? To delve into the complex layers of societal discrimination and bias, unraveling them through a multitude of perspectives and disciplines. From keynote speeches by leading experts to engaging panel discussions and interactive workshops, we are set to explore the intricacies of these pressing issues.
This is more than a conference. It's a movement. A call to action for those who seek to reshape the narrative, to bring forth a future where inclusivity isn't an ideal but a reality. We're bridging gaps, challenging norms, and building a foundation for meaningful change.
Your voice is crucial in this discourse. Your research, your experiences, your insights - they are the pieces we need to complete this complex puzzle. Share your latest work, engage in enriching discussions, and collaborate with fellow visionaries.
Key Themes and Questions:
Extended Engagement: Engage in nine days of stimulating online discussions, culminating in a special Virtual Video Meeting on May 24th, from 6-10 PM UTC. This format provides ample opportunity for in-depth dialogue and networking.
Rigorous Review Process: Benefit from our double peer-review system, ensuring the highest quality of scholarly discourse and feedback.
Recognition and Impact: Contributions to Dialogo are recognized internationally, with many papers indexed in prominent academic databases. This offers an excellent opportunity for your work to gain visibility and influence.
Join us during May 20-28, 2024 online at https://www.dialogo-conf.com/call-for-papers/#1stevent. Together, let's break barriers and build bridges. We can't wait to hear from you and see all your current work!
Monday, December 18, 2023
CFP: International #Conference on The Future of #Masculinities: #Theory and #Praxis-#IIT #Dhanbad- June 2024
CFP: THE FUTURE OF MASCULINITIES: THEORY & PRAXIS
Deadline for proposals: February 10, 2024
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Call for Papers | 11th Annual Conference on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination- 2024-National Law University Bangalore
The National Law School of India University and Oxford Human Rights Hub are jointly hosting the 11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024 of the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination at the NLS campus in Bengaluru from 26th to 28th July 2024. The conference in Bengaluru builds upon the past success of BCCE’s annual conference which in the past has been held in:
- Paris (Sciences-Po 2012)
- California (Berkeley Law 2013)
- Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles 2014)
- Shanghai (Jiao Tong University 2016)
- Dublin (Trinity College 2017)
- Melbourne (Melbourne Law School 2018)
- Stockholm (University of Stockholm 2019)
- Cape Town (University of Cape Town 2021)
- Hong Kong (University of Hong Kong 2022)
- Netherlands (Utrecht University 2023).
Is There Hope for Equality Law?
After 10 successful iterations, as the conference travels to South Asia this year, we ask: is there hope for equality law? Inaugurating the global decolonial moment, the nations of the subcontinent constituted themselves into new republics with a lot of optimism and creative energy expended in reimagining and setting up just and fair societies. Giving shape and form to the principle of equality in political, economic and social lives was foremost in their agenda. But today, in the twenty-first century, there are growing concerns in this region, as there are all over the world, about the rise of inequality.
In the recent past, we have witnessed the growing awareness of different conceptions of equality, including substantive and transformative equality, systemic and structural inequality, indirect and effects-based discrimination which have made it possible to respond not only to intentional harms but to institutional harms as well. There has also been an expansion in the canon of identity characteristics protected under equality law. Yet, despite these gains and the centrality of equality to the political and legal order of so many countries, stakeholders around the world are questioning whether the legal right to equality is capable of addressing current inequalities. There are concerns that equality law is not up to the challenges of the climate crisis; ever-increasing wealth and income inequality; with the ever-widening disparities in access to rights and justice on the basis of religion, race, caste, sex and disability; tax injustice; growing informal work, the demonization of migration, the decay of democratic institutions, the power of multi-nationals, or the rise of artificial intelligence. This conference asks the bold question: In light of the doubts on the relevance of equality, is there hope for equality law?
The aim of the conference is to explore whether and how equality law can take the next step forward and offer insights and remedies to contemporary global challenges. Scholars and activists have used equality law to diagnose how laws, policies and programmes have created or enhanced poverty, disadvantage, stereotypes, stigmas, prejudice, oppression, and social exclusion. These laws, policies and programmes have been challenged in domestic, regional, and international courts and decision-making bodies. Although equality law has at best had a mixed record of success and failure, does it still have any untapped promise and potential to ensure that the world is fairer and more just for all peoples? While recognising the severity of current challenges, this conference seeks to explore whether and how equality law can develop to tackle the problems of today and of the future. It aims to bring together leading scholars to consider not only how foundational concepts may be re-thought and reimagined but also how theory and doctrine may evolve in a dynamic and transformative manner to realize the hope of equality law.
We are seeking paper proposals that address the broad questions posed by the conference. We encourage proposals to explore the following concepts and questions:
- the tension between equality and other foundational values such as liberty or other ideologies such as neoliberalism or neocolonialism
- the debates on the aims of equality law, such as debates on redistribution and recognition
- the role of affirmative action in redressing equality harms
- the role of proactive powers and duties
- the role of intersectionality in addressing systemic exploitation and oppression
- the challenges of achieving equality in specific fields of life such as:race, religion, caste, class and age discrimination (as illustration)informal employment and lack of social protectionland, water and material resourcesIndigenous rightslanguage, cultural and ways of lifedecolonization;o disability and ableismo wealth and tax inequalityo family, public life and gendero AI and technologyo citizenship, migration and statelessnesso climate crisiso violence
- the impact of social justice movements on equality law
- the relationship of equality law with rising authoritarianism and democratic decay
- equality and international law
Instructions for submission
We invite submissions for individual presentations as well as panel proposals on the theme of the conference. We also encourage authors of recent monographs and edited collections to submit proposals to have panel discussions of their recent scholarship on the hope of equality law. We encourage submissions from scholars at all stages of their career. We also welcome a wide range of approaches and perspectives including normative, doctrinal, critical and interdisciplinary. Submissions are invited from scholars working in law and allied disciplines of social sciences and humanities.
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and clearly indicate how your paper fits the theme of the conference, the objectives of the paper and its methodology. Please include a brief biography of maximum 100 words which is suitable for publication on the conference website, including affiliation, your email-address and a link to online bio, if available. Panel submissions should include a title and an abstract for the entire panel as well as titles, abstracts, and author information for all papers. Each panel should contain between three and four papers. The panel can be submitted by any of the authors.
Timeline
- Abstracts are due 1 December 2023.
- The abstracts will be reviewed, and invitations will be sent in February 2024.
- Full papers or presentations will be due on 1 July 2024 from authors whose abstracts are selected. Full papers will be made available to the participants of the conference. Subject to prior approval from authors, their papers and presentations may be posted on the conference website.
Finances
The conference organizers strive to keep the conference fee as low as possible. The fee will likely consist of 400 USD for participants outside India and INR 6000 for persons from India. The conference organizers can regrettably not cover travel and accommodation. Fee waiver may be considered subject to availability of funds. Those wishing to apply for it are required to submit a statement indicating why they require a full or partial waiver.
Contact Us
Please send the abstract and any queries relating to the conference to oxfordhumanrightshub@law.ox.ac.uk
Friday, October 27, 2023
Call for Book Chapters : Marginalities in South Asian Literature: Text, Context and Theory -Routledge Book Series
CONCEPT NOTE
In the context of literature, the term marginality would encompass not only the issues related to the social, cultural, economic or geopolitical spaces that give rise to it but also the literature emerging from these contexts and the communities suffering and contesting it. Such literatures that address the experience of marginality create discourses and counter discourses. Our proposed book is therefore interested in the trio: text, context and theory. Defining the margin/marginality is complex. The “margin” is a space which is generally understood in relation to the centre which is powerful socially, politically, economically, culturally, geographically and linguistically. But the margin does not belong only to the realm of the fringe, it is a dynamic space. It is a space full of possibilities. While the margin may refer to people who live on the peripheries, whose voices are ignored, who may have no representation in mainstream societies, it can at the same time become a space of impending conflict, confrontation and tension because it can question the logic of the divide of the centre and periphery. The problem with the discourse of marginality, however, is that one may get trapped in it in a bid to simply overturn it. But the margin is much more than that. It may offer a sustained scenario of contestation for its rights and share of power, thereby paving ways for new possibilities. The representation of the marginal subject, therefore, is extremely interesting and complex, especially in literature, because literature has the possibility in it to move beyond this kind of binary dialectics and demonstrate the problematics involved in its interstitial, in-between, hybrid, spaces. Such complex readings will help us understand the structures of dominance, discrimination, hierarchy and marginality in a multifaceted way keeping in mind the politics of difference in a multipolar, multicultural world.
The evolution of capitalism after its beginnings in the Enlightenment period to a post-Enlightenment transformation in neoliberalism and globalization has now created marginalities on an expansive scale in more varied ways. While these enterprises, backed by political systems, have privileged certain regions and groups, they have also incapacitated others. Western standards and concepts of progress and development imposed on other societies and indigenous cultures have suppressed the local and the regional cultures in different neo-colonial ways. Again, there is another side to marginality in a society: one’s acceptance into various cultural communities is also determined by one’s birth and other determinations such as gender, race, caste, disability, religion, region and so on. Many of these categories decide whether one is an insider or an outsider in a particular nationspace. One has to negotiate between the dominance of the mainstream culture and the marginality of one’s own subculture. Marginality also brings about psychological uncertainties, having to move between discord and harmony, exclusion and inclusion. While this rivets our attention to the question of the marginal personality, more recent studies have addressed the problematic in terms of further specificities as to how marginality affects one’s access to resources, opportunities, knowledge, respect, rights, recognition and identity. Consequently, while talking of marginality, one cannot but talk of mobilizations and movements which challenge these oppressive systems and hegemonic structures, and thereby give rise to the question of agency and emancipatory discourses. We have kept in view this diverse socio-political terrain of marginality, and for our projected volume, we are interested in these multifarious aspects of the varied kinds of marginality as represented in the different genres of South Asian Literature. We are also interested in the studies on the Contexts and Theories relevant to the proposed area and problematics concerned.
South Asian writing is populated by varied experiences of marginality specific to its history and localised realities. For instance, the figure of the muhajir, dalit, hijra or adivasi, some of whom find space in more universal social identity groups representing marginal experiences like race, religion, gender, caste, disability, region or tribe. Particular events in the history of the region like the Partition, Bhopal gas disaster, British rule and recent neoliberalisation-led economic developments have been moments where the tensions between dominant and other sub-groups have crafted the marginalised figure. Consequently, these historical contexts also alert us to the shifting terrain of the experience of marginality where the once dominant group can also become marginalised later, as is seen in the experience of colonisation for upper-caste identity. The ecological consequences of a shared history of multiple settlements and pursuit of economic development are evident in the change of the natural topography owing to deforestation and urbanisation. The negotiations between city dwellers, agrarian and forest-dwelling communities, are also therefore marked by framing of socio-political identity in the South Asian nation-state that creates and recreates the marginalised figure.
The proposed anthology is therefore interested in contributions that would primarily analyse literary representations and cultural discourses in the following areas but not limited to these:
- The experiences of social, political and economic marginalisation on the basis of caste, gender, disability, region, religion, tribe, ethnicity or race
- LGBTQ+, sexuality and fluid identities
- Marginal psychology, culture, hybridity, identity
- Framing of the nation, transnation, border and narratives of exclusion and displacement and the framing of the citizen in the nation state
- Marginalisation as a communal experience and the dynamics between individual, community and society
- Economic development in the postcolonial neoliberal nation state and the accompanying ecological fallout
- Ecology and environmental justice and the gendered perspective of ecology
- Poverty as a marker of the vulnerability and precarity of marginalised identity
- The dialectics of voice and representation in narratives of marginalisation
- The subversion of canonical and aesthetic standards of literary stylistics in texts that represent the experience of marginalised identities.
Key information for prospective authors:
- Abstract with a title and keywords: 250-300 words
- Word limit of full papers including citations: 6000- 8000 words
- Style of citation: MLA 9th edition
- Email your submission to: marginalities2@gmail.com
*The proposed anthology will be published by a reputed publisher
Deadline for abstract submissions: October 30, 2023
Abstract selection notification: November 30, 2023
Deadline for full paper submission: January 30, 2024
Dr. Arunima Ray
Associate Professor
Department of English
Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi
New Delhi
Dr. Karuna Rajeev
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi
New Delhi
Dr. Goutam Karmakar
NRF Postdoctoral Fellow
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Routledge Book Series Editor on South Asian Literature
&
Visiting Scholar
Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society
LMU München, Germany
Monday, October 9, 2023
Two Day #International #Student #Seminar #Girl, (Un)Interrupted Identity, #Experience, #Agency, and #Representation -Jesus and Mary College University of Delhi New Delhi 1st-2nd November 2023
Organized by: English Literary Association Department of English Jesus and Mary College
Concept Note
Girlhood Studies emerged as a distinct field of study in the 1990s, in the Anglophone North, influenced by a growing discourse on gender equality, especially in fields like science, math, and technology. However, its roots can be traced back to the 1970s when second wave feminist scholars began critiquing the disproportionate focus on boyhood in youth research. In the West, Black Girlhood Studies has emerged to address the under-representation of Black girls in the field. Similarly, there has been powerful scholarship examining the cross-section of disabilities with Girlhood Studies. Recently, South Asian scholars have made critical interventions in the field by exploring the historical erasure of the experiences of girlhood in the region. They have highlighted how the figure of the girl has been overdetermined by the anxieties about, and for, the woman she would become. Seen always as only “becoming a woman,” and never allowed to be a girl, the South Asian woman, nonetheless, has been treated like a little girl who needs “protection.” Given these paradoxical operations of erasure, hypersexualisation and infantilisation, it is no surprise that girls and “girlhood” are missing from Indian novels. Obviously, “Swami & Friends” did not, indeed, could not have any sisters whose childhood predicaments and perplexities, pranks and play, merited any attention! Pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial girlhoods are now being investigated from many different perspectives. By using an intersectional approach, for example, Dalit and Adivasi girlhoods have emerged as distinct fields of research.
About the Seminar
This student seminar invites in-depth and extensive exploration of the conceptualization of girlhood in all types of literary (fictional and non fictional), performative and multimedial narratives. The seminar hopes to arrive at a richer understanding of the multiple experiences and constructions of “girlhood” through time, especially in its complex interplay with traditional or modern hegemonic discursivities, socio-cultural formations and politico economic imperatives. Also, this student seminar aims to establish Critical Girlhood Studies as a robust academic domain of research amongst young scholars. We invite undergraduate and postgraduate students to submit their contributions for an interdisciplinary student seminar that delves into the many dimensions of Girlhood Studies.
Coming of age and other narratives Subcultures and fandoms Social media and girlhood Disability and girlhood studies Capitalism, consumerism, and girlhood Performing girlhood Intersectionality of race, religion, ethnicity, caste, class, etc. Menstruation Queering and trancing girlhoods Media and representation Violence, risks, and betrayals Education, health, and rights Mobility and access Beauty standards and body dysmorphia Girl brides Play and sports
We welcome papers and presentations that explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Coming of age and other narratives
- Subcultures and fandoms
- Social media and girlhood Disability and girlhood studies
- Capitalism,
- consumerism, and girlhood
- Performing girlhood
- Intersectionality of race, religion, ethnicity, caste, class, etc.
- Menstruation Queering and transing girlhoods
- Media and representation
- Violence, risks, and betrayals
- Education, health, and rights Mobility and access
- Beauty standards and body dysmorphia Girl brides Play and sports
We welcome papers and presentations that explore, but are not limited to, the following themes:
PLEASE NOTE:
This seminar will be held in the hybrid mode. The first day (1st November) will be held online on Zoom.
The second day (2nd November) will be an in-person event at Jesus and Mary College, DU. Artwork: Young Girls by Amrita Sher-Gill
Abstract Submission Deadline 19th October 2023
Notification of Acceptance 29th October 2023
Full Paper Submission Deadline You can submit your abstract using this GoogleForm: bit.ly/GirlSeminar
Alternatively you can email it to: girluninterrupted2023@gmail.com
Name and Contact information
Paper Title - Full paper title for the presentation Paper Abstract - 250-word abstract 4-5 keywords Word Document; 12 Times New Roman; Double spaced Your submission should contain: Girl, (Un)Interrupted
Important Dates
This National Student Seminar is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students of all streams from different academic institutions across the country. The presenters will need to show their current ID as proof of academic affiliation. Presenters from outside Delhi may opt for presenting in the online mode on the second day. WHO CAN APPLY? CERTIFICATES HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT: All the registered participants will be issued e-certificates of participation/presentation.
FOR FURTHER QUERIES, PLEASE CONTACT: GIRLUNINTERRUPTED2023@GMAIL.COM San Martin Marg, Bapu Dham, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, Delhi 110021 Register here: bit.ly/GirlUninterrupted