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<i>sorry for cross-posting</i></div>
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<font size="4"><span lang="en-US"><b><i>T</i></b></span></font><font size="4"><span lang="en-US"><b><i>he Postcolonial Studies Research Network and the Department of Media, Film and Communication </i></b></span></font><font size="4"><span lang="en-US"><b><i>presents:</i></b></span></font></div>
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<font size="4"><span lang="en-US"><b> </b></span></font></div>
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<font size="4"><span lang="en-US"><b>Colonial Attritions: State Violence and Social Forgetting</b></span></font></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>August 5</b></span><font size="-1"><span lang="en-US"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><span lang="en-US"><b>, 2015</b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>University of Otago</b></span></div>
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<font size="4"><span lang="en-US"><b>Featuring Professor Sherene Razack (University of Toronto)</b></span></font></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Whilst formal colonisation has ended in many settler states, colonial ways of knowing and exercising authority continue in the violent policing and incarceration of Indigenous and minority communities in these states. In her landmark book, </span><span lang="en-US"><i>Dark
Threats and White Knights</i></span><span lang="en-US">, Sherene Razack writes poignantly: “Concealed in an apparently universal framework in which there is good and evil is a small piece of history</span><span lang="en-CA">—</span><span lang="en-US">the history
of imperialism, fascism, and racism” (2004, p. 157). Contemporary geopolitics and state sovereignty are founded on political and historical assumptions that Western liberal democracies represent progressive freedom and a benign and stabilising force in international
affairs. Razack’s evocation of the ‘small piece of history’ works to interrupt state narratives of goodness that obscure the violence of settler colonial and imperial histories. This one-day symposium likewise seeks presentations that call for an account of
state violence and a remembrance of imperial and colonial histories and their embodied, everyday effects.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Presentations and panels can address, but are not limited to, the following topics:</span></div>
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</span> </span></font><span lang="en-US">epistemologies of ignorance and forgetting in national and local narratives of place</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">state violence and surveillance of Indigenous and minority communities</span></div>
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</span> </span></font><span lang="en-US">racial and religious notions of belonging in the nation-state</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">the moralisation of state and non-state violence</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">citizenship, violence and the ‘war on terror’</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">the role of social justice movements and activism in challenging state authority</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">pedagogy and colonial narratives</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">gender and sexuality in political and state discourses of equality</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">tourism and the cultivation of nation-hood</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">race, development and international aid work</span></div>
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</span></span></font><span lang="en-US">media economies, geopolitics and settler colonialism</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Please send abstracts of 200w with an accompanying bio of 50w to the symposium organiser, Dr. Holly Randell-Moon at: </span><a href="mailto:Holly.Randell-Moon@otago.ac.nz" target="_blank"><span lang="en-AU"><span lang="en-US">Holly.Randell-Moon@otago.ac.nz</span></span></a></div>
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<span lang="en-US">We will accept abstracts on a rolling basis until </span><span lang="en-US"><b>July 17</b></span><font size="-1"><span lang="en-US"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><span lang="en-US">.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Registration for students/ unwaged participants is $5 and for academic participants $10.</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">For more information about the Postcolonial Studies Research Network, please visit our website here: </span><a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/research-centres/otago062214.html" target="_blank"><span lang="en-AU"><span lang="en-US">http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/research-centres/otago062214.html</span></span></a></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Symposium organisers:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Dr. Holly Randell-Moon</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Mahdis Azarmandi</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">On behalf of the Postcolonial Studies Research Network:</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Dr. Chris Prentice (Director)</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Associate Professor Vijay Devadas</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US">Dr. Simone Drichel</span></div>
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<span lang="en-US"><b>References:</b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU">Razack, S. (2004). </span><span lang="en-AU"><i>Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping, and the New Imperialism</i></span><span lang="en-AU">. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.</span></div>
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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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