[csaa-forum] Conference: "Affective Shifts: Inside and Outside Nation and Body"

[Veronica Tello]

The Forced Migration Research Network, UNSW (Australia) will be hosting the
Academic Symposium,  *"Affective Shifts: Inside and Outside Nation and
Body”*  on 21 February 2017. It is developed in partnership with the
Refugee Council of Australia as a lead up to the Refugee Alternatives
Conference, (
http://www.refugeealternatives.org.au/event-info/unsw-academic-forum)

This Academic Symposium
<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unsw-forced-migration-research-network-academic-symposium-tickets-30343666724>is
an attempt to rethink how to analyse the spaces and socialites of our lives
with a focus on research with refugees and asylum seekers. This area is
fraught with numerous challenges of access, representation and power
hierarchies that intersect with our respective life histories.

If becoming part of the whole is a socially constituted process of
relations and negotiations with multiple others and with multi-layered
social structures, the emergence of social subjects is always a collective
activity, ‘external’ to the self. This calls for creative theoretical
alternatives that rethink the impact of material and discursive conditions
upon our embodied and embedded subjectivity. It certainly requires greater
ethical courage as well as deeper theoretical efforts to imagine the
affective shifts of perspective that may help us challenge the complexities
of contemporary times, especially the peculiar configuration of the
relationship between the state and the bodies of refugees played out in
punitive policies and damaging political rhetoric.

With these dilemmas in mind this Academic Symposium poses the following
questions: How can the academic community contribute to these shifts? How
can academics re-imagine the research relationship towards greater equity
and post-representation modes of scholarship?

A radical re-imagining of subjectivity is required in order to reframe
current debates and their toxic undercurrents. This Symposium will aim to
highlight how relationships that break down perceived boundaries of
researcher and researched engender a different politics of affirmation with
which the current tenor of public debate on refugees can be challenged.

*Speakers include: *
Zanny *Begg *(Art & Design, UNSW); Ruth* Balint *(History, UNSW); Rose *Butler
*(Sociology, UNSW); Jennifer *Hyndman* (Human Geography, York University.
Canada); Stephanie *Hemelryk-Donald* (Film, Media, Asian Studies, UNSW);
Belinda *Liddell *(Psychiatry, UNSW); Jane *McAdam* (Law, UNSW); Violeta
*Moreno-Lax* (Law, Queen Mary University, London); James *Nguyen *and
Verónica *Tello *(both Art & Design, UNSW); Sharon *Pickering*
(Criminology, Monash University); Suvendrini* Perera *(Cultural Studies,
Curtin University) and Joseph *Pugliese* (Cultural Studies, Macquarie
University); Eileen *Pittaway *(Social Sciences, UNSW); Claudia* Tazreiter*
(Sociology, UNSW); Dan* Tyler *(Norwegian Refugee Council); and David
*Sanderson* (Built Environment, UNSW)



For more information please the attached program or visit the Academic
Symposium website
<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unsw-forced-migration-research-network-academic-symposium-tickets-30343666724>or
contact:
Associate Professor Claudia Tazreiter Deputy Head (Research)
School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales
c.tazreiter at unsw.edu.au | +61 2 9385 369

Website:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unsw-forced-migration-research-network-academic-symposium-tickets-30343666724
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