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Sunday, February 25, 2018

CFP:Archiving Feminist Futures – Temporality and Gender in Cultural Analysis, Nov-1-3 2018, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
























Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
A warm invitation to Berlin for the conference Archiving Feminist Futures.
We would like to approach this topic through
talks, roundtables, project presentations, and installations.

November 1–3, 2018

The Kommission Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv)
In cooperation with the Department of European Ethnology, HU Berlin and the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies (ZtG), HU Berlin
Organizing committee: Beate Binder, Silvy Chakkalakal, Urmila Goel, Sabine Hess, Alik Mazukatow, Francis Seeck


Throughout the recent German electoral campaign, affective invocations such as “Now is the Time!”, “Return to the Deutsche Mark”, and “Rehabilitate Democracy” were repeated continuously. As is so often the case with political events like these, one could observe how time was employed both as an idea and a resource. Images of a “fair future” stood alongside a “golden past”, and a present that—characterized by many as having gone haywire—was positioned as the main political target. Drawing upon concepts of time lies at the core of political campaigns that employ a strong request for action and change, be this progressive or reactionary. In future thinking as well as in a fixation with the past aimed at defending the status quo, time and temporality create powerful cultural orders and initiate processes of inclusion and exclusion as well as of collectivization and subjectification.









The conference “Archiving Feminist Futures” builds on current debates around “feminist futures” and “queer temporalities”, which encourage us to consider temporality from an intersectional perspective. Time, in this sense, is regarded as a gendered phenomenon. The conference theme thereby also refers to the persistent discussion within cultural anthropology about the nexus of “time and the other” (Fabian 2002). How are time and temporality being practiced, narrated, placed, and made tangible? Specifically, we aim to investigate the very parameters of power and inequality that arise from these constellations. The academic practices of ethnography and archiving include an important anticipatory element, as they always assume and imagine a future for which we describe, archive, and pass on. In this sense, we would like to approach the everyday, political, and methodological dimensions of time and temporality.










The following questions are of particular interest: What role do temporal practices play in the cultural analysis of gender studies? What are the effects of time understood as a classificatory category within fieldwork as well as during the process of scholarly exploration and evaluation? What is the speculative and anticipatory potential of a cultural anthropology informed by queer and feminist theory? How do we anticipate the future of the analysis of gender relations and structural inequalities from a perspective of European Ethnology? What do we understand by “queer futures” or “feminist futures”? What kind of spaces of power and possibility are we conceptualizing with such terms? Are we archiving for the future or can the future itself be archived? And, finally, the fundamental question: How are time and temporality intertwined with gender?






Academic debates about postfeminism, postcolonialism, and migration as well as broader discussions around Gender Shift and Womenomics address the idea of the future of gender within several social fields. “Archiving Feminist Futures” invites the interrogation of feminist futures, temporal practices, and processes of temporalization from a range of disciplines, to bring together scholars of politics, the economy, care, law, art and popular culture, as well as technology, sustainability, medicine, and biology.








We would like to approach historical, theoretical, and methodological imaginations of the past, present, and future, all of which articulate broader conceptions of society, making visible feminist and queer theory as social and political movements. In their approach to time and temporality, such discussions of the future constantly take into account the state and status of feminist and queer theoretical and methodological efforts (Halberstam 2005). Conflicts between various feminist pasts and their own specific historiographies come to the fore (Binder/Hess 2013; Hark 2005); the possibilities and desirability of feminist futures become apparent (Milojevic 1998). The intensified debate about the future raises the question of political agency in the “here and now” and leads to a critique of the so-called over-presence of the future within the present (Avanessian/Malik 2016). This discussion can also be productively informed by feminist and postcolonial perspectives, for example when connected with provocative concepts such as “feeling backward” (Love 2007) or “being anachronistic” (Zinnenburg Carroll 2016). Against this backdrop, thinking, designing, and envisioning futures goes hand in hand with the cultural analysis of past and present times.

We would like the idea of archiving futures therefore to be a productive approach for our conference. This empirical and ethnographic frame also includes the reflexive and anticipatory potential of European ethnology and its various methods and materials of cultural analysis.







We invite proposals for 20-minute talks or alternative forms of presentations (debates, short presentations, commentaries, exhibits, installations, performance). Prospective contributions may address, but are not limited to, one of the following areas:
  • How do we make use of time?
Empirically informed research on temporal practices and temporal orders of the past and present, for
example analyzing gender (e.g. its constituting or stabilizing effects) from an interdependent perspective.
  • Politics of/for the future:
Empirically informed research exploring fields in which time and/or the future are used as a political
argument with close study of its subjectivizing and gendering effects.
  • Cross-boundary interventions:
Feminist science fiction, artistic and activist sketches of gender, time, and temporality.
  • Research practices within Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology, and Gender Studies: Temporal approaches to one’s own academic work: methodological and theoretical reflections on paradigms of development, genealogies, chronologies, linearities, legacies, or cultural heritage.








Please include the title of your talk or presentation, a short bio, and brief abstract of no more than 300 words (in German or English). Please send your proposal to future.archives.ifee@hu-berlin.de by March 30, 2018. We would like to emphasize the possibility to propose other media formats (film, exhibition, sound, photography, experimental writing, etc). There will be the possibility to present such works.

With kind regards from Berlin,
Beate Binder, Silvy Chakkalakal, Urmila Goel, Sabine Hess, Alik Mazukatow, Francis Seeck








 Contact Info: 

Prof. Dr. Silvy Chakkalakal 

Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Møhrenstraße 41, 10117 Berlin

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Call for Papers for an International Conference on Migration-"The Migrant and the State: From Colonialism to Neoliberalism", TISS, Patna, India














Call for Papers :
The latest Economic Survey (2016-17) of the Government of India has a full chapter devoted to interstate migration in the country. Titled ‘India on the Move and Churning: New Evidence,’ the chapter begins with a quote by B. R. Ambedkar: ‘An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts.’[1] Clearly in its present outlook on migration the Indian government strives to make a positive connection between mobility of labour and large scale social transformation facilitated through the channels of this mobility riding on a new set of evidence from novel methods of enumeration like Cohort-based Migration Metric and Railway Passenger Data based Metric that show a considerable increase in the volume of interstate migration in comparison with the provisional D-5 tables in the 2011 Census. Notwithstanding the correctness of the estimates, we may infer that the Indian state is considering the phenomenon of migration not only as a means of economic development but also as an instrument of effecting social transformation by governing the flow and direction of the movement of the working population. The desire to identify and manage the potential workers on the move is also palpable in the two observations made in the study: (1) the female workforce is a highly potential agent of development and (2) the expansion and integration of the labour markets require portability of food security benefits, healthcare and basic social security provisions through better interstate coordination entailing re-imagination of the federal structure of the country.










It does not need saying that the relatively recent interest in migration has a long history that can be traced back to the days of colonialism, slavery and indentured labour. The relationship between the state and the migrant has gone through many a mutation since then; the mutuality of their existence has also been sifted by a range of seemingly external forces, institutions and processes. However, according to Timothy Mitchell, the debate about the elusive boundary between the state and the non-state entities has a tendency to assume inaccurately that the division is external to their respective forms and mechanisms.[2] The same division is again reinforced in the often contradictory understandings about the state either as an abstract concept or as an amalgam of well defined functions and material practices. The problem with this definitive position is that it often obscures the politics that contributes to the internalisation of the externalities between the state and non-state entities. It is therefore imperative to follow the trails of this elusive boundary as we live in a time when both the notions of a strong and a weak state can exist simultaneously and operate in the same plane of material interventions. Migration seems to be a potent site of studying these processes in the sense that it stages the enactment of flexing boundaries repeatedly and often in ways that reproduce the logic of externalisation of the non-state entities like the society or the economy. In the same token, it also reintroduces the state in our imagination as an effect of a boundary-making exercise where the limits of economic development, social churning and reordering of the state interact with each other and produce novel forms of governmental apparatuses.    










The International Conference on the dynamic and ever-changing relationship between the state and the migrant aims to meet the timely demand of chronicling these interactive, interspersed narratives of mutuality where the figure of the migrant is produced in the various domains of statist paraphernalia over the last two hundred years. At the same time, it will focus on histories of the reinforcement of the state – both as ideas and material realities – in our collective political imagination by eliciting various other flexible boundaries between the market and the state, the legal and the illegal, the formal and the informal and the mobile and the sedentary. The broad thrust of the conference will be on (a) how significantly different is the ‘postcolonial condition’ from colonialism with respect to the relationship between the state and the migrant; (b) what is the specificity of the neoliberal refashioning of the state in dealing with the mobile workforce; and (c) how new technologies of enumeration and intervention affect the state’s perceptions of and expectations from the migrant.
Individual papers and panels are welcome on any of the following themes and related areas:   
1.      Migrant labour in the colonial period
2.      Migrant and Postcolonial industrialisation
3.      Migration and gender
4.      Identity, violence, and displacement
5.      Changing agrarian relations
6.      New technologies of governance
7.      Trans-border migration
8.      Labour, informality and logistics
9.      Migration and urbanisation
10.  Social movements and forms of resistance











Important Dates
Submission of abstract: 31st May, 2018
Intimation of selection of abstract: 30th June, 2018
Registration of paper presenters: 1st to 15th July, 2018
[Registration Fee: Rs. 1000/- for Indian participants and $100 for international participants]
Submission of full paper: 21st October, 2018
Date of Conference: 29th and 30th November and 1st December 2018
To submit your abstract or for any query, write to patna.conference@tiss.edu

Contact Info: 
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna Centre

Delhi Public School Senior Wing 
Village: Chandmari, 
Danapur Cantonment, Patna - 801 502 (Bihar) INDIA


Contact Email: patna.conference@tiss.edu

Sunday, February 11, 2018

International Conference on Women Empowerment, Education and Social Sciences 15- 17 March 2018 Goa, India










Call for Papers
The International Conference on Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences 2018 (ICWES 2018 ) to be organized by IMRF in collaboration with Carmel College for Women and other International Bodies shall be one of the significant conferences in Women Studies, Education & Social Sciences Community held in conjunction with the UGC India Approved Journals .

The Conference is designed with Special Invited Research Lectures, Paper Presentations and Poster Presentations. International Conference on Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences 2018 is honored by bringing UGC Approved - Arts & Education International Research Journal Vol-5 Issue 1 with 2349– 1353, Peer reviewed Social Sciences International Research Journal Vol-4 Spl Issue with ISSN 2395 – 0544, with all papers accepted for publication. The main intention is to reflect the pioneering state of research in Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences 

Some non-technical talks connected with promotion of research in Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences will also be convened. 



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Original research papers in the following disciplines but not confined, related to Women Empowerment, Education & Social Sciences from Post Graduate Students, Research Scholars, Faculty, Scientists are invited for presentation.​ 


Women Studies 


Feminist method |Gender studies |Gender mainstreaming |Gynocentrism |Kyriarchy |Matriarchy |Women's studies | Patriarchy |Écriture féminine | Leadership etc., and allied subjects 


Education

Primary education |Secondary education |Higher education |Vocational education |Adult education
Alternative education |Madrasa education |Woman education |Dance education |Distance education | International studies | Journalism education |Special education |Vocational education 




Social Sciences 


Anthropology |Archaeology |Criminology |Demography |Economics |Geography (human) |History International relations |Jurisprudence |Linguistics |Pedagogy |Political science |Psychology |Science education |Sociology | Public Administration |Journalism etc., and allied subjects. 

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English Studies Linguistics |Sociolinguistics |Discourse analysis |Language learning and teaching | Literature American literature – including African American literature |Jewish American literature Southern literature | Australian literature |British literature |Canadian literature | Irish literature New Zealand literature |Scottish literature |Welsh literature |South African literature | Translations 

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Submission of Papers 



Participants intending to present papers in conference are requested to submit soft copy of the abstract incorporating the motivation, method of solution and important findings of their investigation to icwes2018@gmail.com



Important Dates 


Participation is for limited number. 

To reserve your participation with the notified fee and with out any late charges register the earliest 

Last date to submit Abstract : 20/02/2018 

Last date to Register : 25/02/2018 

Optional 
Last date to submit Full Paper if interested in Publication : 20/02/2018 




Contact Us 


If you need more information, have questions, or would like to offer a suggestion, please be in touch. 
You can contact us via phone, email.

We’ll get back to you as soon as possible. 
Tel: +91 9533421234, +91 9618777011
HQ : Vijayawada, Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh, India




Friday, February 9, 2018

ICSSR Funded Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences-21st - 30th March 2018,Central University of Jharkhand










Call For Applications:


The Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi,invites applications from M.Phil., Ph.D., and PDF scholars who are doing research on any topics and issues related to folklore for participation in a Ten-Day National Workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences to be held on 21st - 30th March 2018 at CUJ Campus (Ranchi).




This ten-day workshop on Research Methodology in Social Sciences is fully sponsored by IndianCouncil for Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.





The Course Director of the workshop is Dr. M. Ramakrishnan, Asst. Prof., Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, CUJ. (Ph: 09199140340 / 09444868577)






The Co-Course Director of the workshop is Dr. Rabindaranath Sarma, Head & Assoc. Prof.,Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, CUJ. (Ph: 07549198583)






The preference will be given to the applicants belonging to the SC, ST, Minorities, Women, OBC, Other categories as per the instructions of the ICSSR.


There is no registration fee for the participants and the outstations participants will be provided free accommodation along with their travel allowance.










The venue of the programme is

 Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language and Literature, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi – 835205 (Jharkhand)





The duly filled in application along with the scanned copy of the documents must be sent to the Course Director on or before 23rd February 2018 by email only at ilakkiyameen@gmail.com.



The date of notification of the selected candidates is 26th February 2018.


Application Forms can be downloaded from the University Website: http://www.cuj.ac.in/







For more details


COURSE DIRECTOR/ CO-COURSE DIRECTOR

Centre for Tribal Folklore, Language

and Literature

Central University of Jharkhand
Brambe, Ranchi - 835205


CFA:Summer Courses-Language Intensives in Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Nepalese-New Graduate-Level Advanced Tibetan Reading Seminar- June 13- August 10, 2018 Kathmandu University














Call For Applications:
Kathmandu University - Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Tibetan, Sanskrit and Nepalese summer intensive language courses. The courses include beginning and intermediate classical Tibetan, three levels of colloquial Tibetan (beginning, intermediate, and advanced), beginning and intermediate Sanskrit, and beginning and intermediate Nepalese. An introductory Buddhist studies intensive, combining study and a meditation practicum at a retreat center in the Kathmandu Valley will also be offered.


In addition, this year CBS is offering a new graduate-level, for-credit Advanced Tibetan Reading Seminar to be taught by Professor Klaus-Dieter Mathes from the Univ. of Vienna and Professor Yaroslav Komarovski from the Univ. of Nebraska.

The spoken language courses, which are structured to offer full immersion in the local languages and cultures, offer the opportunity to live with Tibetan and Nepalese families. All classes are held at Ka-Nying Shedrub Ling Monastery, just a few minutes’ walk from the Great Stupa of Boudhanath in the Kathmandu Valley. This summer's courses begin June 13 and end August 10.



For more information, visit:  www.ryi.org/programs/summer-intensives.














Contact Info: 
Joanne Larson
Director of Programs
Kathmandu University
Centre for Buddhist Studies
at Rangjung Yeshe Institute
Contact Email: