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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><font size="4">Space, Race, Bodies—Geocorpographies of the City, Nation and Empire</font></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font size="4">8-10th December, 2014</font></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font size="4">University of Otago, New Zealand</font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><u><font size="4">Keynote speakers:</font></u></p>
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<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU"><b>Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva</b>, Inaugural Chair in Ethics, Director, The Center for Ethics and Politics, University
of London</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU"><b>Professor Joseph Pugliese</b>, Research Director, Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU"><b>Associate Professor Jacinta Ruru</b>, Faculty of Law, University of Otago</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU"><b>Associate Professor Susan Stryker</b>, Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona</span></font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font size="4"><i>Space, Race, Bodies—Geocorpographies of the City, Nation and Empire</i> is a forthcoming conference hosted by the Department of Media, Film and Communication (MFCO), the Postcolonial Studies Research Network (PSRN) and
the Somatechnics Research Network (University of Arizona). The title of the conference is taken from Joseph Pugliese’s ground-breaking work on technologies of surveillance, law and terrorism. The conceptual merging of the corporeal body with geography—geocorpographies—draws
attention to the institutional, cultural and legal forces that influence the global movement of people, capital and technology across cities and national borders.</font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font size="4"><i>Space, Race, Bodies</i> is an interdisciplinary conference that invites papers to address the following questions:</font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">how are racial and ethnic identities contested and/or reaffirmed through local, national and global spaces?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">what kinds of spatial practices produce migrant and diasporic identities?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">how do geopolitical spaces create the conditions of hospitality, violence and containment for asylum seekers and refugees?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">what forms of ethical responsibilities do local, national and global citizens have towards ‘visiting bodies’?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">how do media, law and politics frame space and geography in racialised ways?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">what are the tensions between Indigenous and colonial notions of national space?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">what are the social and cultural consequences of racialised and ethnic bodies moving across particular places? </span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">how do racialised bodies intersect with public discourse around ‘right to space’ in a national context?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">how is mobility geopolitical? how do notions of spatial mobility presuppose normative conceptions of the human?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">how do children, animals or the elderly figure in geopolitical conceptions of space and race?</span></font></p>
<p class="x_MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18pt"><font size="4"><span lang="EN-AU">· </span><span lang="EN-AU">how do spaces of violence, war and ‘terrorism’ reconfigure citizenship in local, national and global contexts?</span></font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font size="4"><i>Space, Race, Bodies</i> will be the first Somatechnics conference held in New Zealand. The Somatechnics Research Network (SRN) facilitates connections between a vast array of scholars and institutions producing research
on bodies and technology. SRN has fostered a truly interdisciplinary field of inquiry that includes the biological sciences, sport, gender and sexuality studies, media, film and music studies and postcolonial studies.</font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font size="4">The Postcolonial Studies Research Network (PSRN) brings together an interdisciplinary group of established and emerging scholars whose research engages with a range of aspects of postcoloniality. These include the historical
cultures of empire, and the contemporary cultural politics of indigeneity, of (post)colonial settlement, and of the diasporic condition.</font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font size="4">The conference will also accept papers under the general theme of Somatechnics research on the intersections between bodies and technologies.</font></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><font size="4">The conference committee will accept abstracts on a rolling basis until
<b>September 1</b><sup><b>s</b>t</sup>. Please send abstracts and inquiries to the conference committee at: <a href="mailto:Space.Race.Bodies@otago.ac.nz">Space.Race.Bodies@otago.ac.nz</a></font></p>
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Dr. Holly Randell-Moon <br>
Department of Media, Film and Communication<br>
6th Floor Richardson Building<br>
Central Campus<br>
University of Otago<br>
Dunedin 9016<br>
New Zealand<br>
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Editor<br>
<a href="http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournal/">Critical Race and Whiteness Studies</a></div>
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Area Chair, Religion<br>
Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, <a href="http://popcaanz.com">PopCAANZ</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/television-aesthetics-and-style-9781623562496/">Television Aesthetics and Style</a></div>
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