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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">Space, Race, Bodies—Geocorpographies of the City, Nation and Empire<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">8-10th December, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">University of Otago, New Zealand</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU">Keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">- <b>Professor Joseph Pugliese</b>, Research Director, Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">· <b>Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva</b>, Inaugural Chair in Ethics, Director, Centre for Ethics and Politics, University of London
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">· <b>Associate Professor Jasbir K. Puar</b>, Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">· <b>Associate Professor Jacinta Ruru</b>, Faculty of Law, University of Otago<br>
· <b>Associate Professor Susan Stryker</b>, Director of the Institute for LGBT Studies, University of Arizona
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-AU">Space, Race, Bodies—Geocorpographies of the City, Nation and Empire</span></i><span lang="EN-AU"> is a forthcoming conference hosted by the Department of Media, Film and Communication (MFCO), the Postcolonial Studies
Research Network (PSRN), the Somatechnics Research Network (University of Arizona) and the Sexuality Research Group at the University of Otago.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">
Space, Race, Bodies is an interdisciplinary conference that invites papers to address the following questions:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-AU">how are racial and ethnic identities contested and/or reaffirmed through local, national and global spaces?</span></p>
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auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:
Symbol">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-AU">how do media, law and politics frame space and geography in racialised ways?</span></p>
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auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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Symbol">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-AU">how are geographies of sexuality and desire linked to processes of racialisation? how do tropes of the ‘exotic’ function in media, capital and technological flows?</span></p>
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auto;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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Symbol">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-AU">what are the tensions between Indigenous and colonial notions of national space?</span></p>
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Symbol">·<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-AU">how is mobility geopolitical? how do notions of spatial mobility presuppose normative conceptions of the human?
</span></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span lang="EN-AU">how do spaces of violence, war and ‘terrorism’ reconfigure citizenship in local, national and global contexts?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">
The conference will also accept papers under the general theme of Somatechnics research on the intersections between bodies, media and technologies.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">The conference committee will accept 200w abstracts on a rolling basis until
<b>September 30th</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Please send abstracts, 50w bios and inquiries to the conference committee at:
<span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none"><a href="mailto:%20Space.Race.Bodies@otago.ac.nz">Space.Race.Bodies@otago.ac.nz</a></span>
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