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<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><font face="Arial"><i><font size="4"><span lang="en-US">T</span></font><font size="4"><span lang="en-US">he Postcolonial Studies Research Network and the Department of Media, Film and Communication
at the University of Otago </span></font><font size="4"><span lang="en-US">presents:</span></font></i></font></div>
<div align="justify" style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; line-height: 1.1;"><b>Marking the body as placeless: Memorialising colonial power</b></span></div>
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<font size="2"><font face="Arial">A Public Lecture by <span style="text-align: justify;">Professor Sherene Razack (University of Toronto) as part of </span></font><span style="font-family: Arial;">the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><i>Colonial
Attritions: State Violence and Social Forgetting</i> symposium held at the </span><span style="font-family: Arial;">University of Otago, August 5th. The CFP, below, for this symposium is still open. </span></font><span style="text-align: justify; font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> </span></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="4"><u>Abstract:</u></font></p>
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<font face="Arial" size="4">Each chapter in my book <i>Dying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody</i> represents an iteration of the colonial story about disappearing Indians, a story that law sustains. In the settler’s
version of events, all the Indians have vanished or are unable to thrive in modern life, leaving settlers as the original citizens. In chapter one I show that the police dumping of Frank Paul in an alley in the city of Vancouver where he was left to die, is
the outcome of a long history of what Samira Kawash has described as the marking of the body as placeless, that is, as not belonging to the spaces of respectable citizens and thus as having no place. In his lifetime, Frank Paul could not be allowed to rest,
to heal or to thrive in the settlers’ spaces. Instead, his body had to bear the imprint of colonial power, first forcibly confined to reserves and to residential schools, and then denied bodily integrity as he moved through the city of Vancouver. Branded as
bestial, as a man who could only crawl, and whose life was lived on the edge of existence, Frank Paul was a presence that law establishes was only an absence, that is, barely human, barely alive, and thus reduced to the status in law of bare life. Settler
sovereignty requires no less than its full share of disappearing Indians. The inquiry into his death tried its best not to confront the meaning of Indigeneity, retreating instead into long meditations on wasted lives and wounded flesh.</font></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><font size="4"><b><i>Colonial Attritions: State Violence and Social Forgetting</i> </b></font></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><font size="4"><b>University of Otago, August 5th</b></font></span></p>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><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></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Presentations and panels can address, but are not limited to, the following topics:</span></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"> - </span></font><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">epistemologies of ignorance and forgetting in national and local narratives of place</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">- state violence and surveillance of Indigenous and minority communities</span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: -18pt;">- racial and religious notions of belonging in the nation-state</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><font style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="en-US"><font face="Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3">-</font></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></font><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">the
moralisation of state and non-state violence</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">- citizenship, violence and the ‘war on terror’</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><font style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="en-US"><font face="Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3">- </font></span><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span></font><span lang="en-US" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">the
role of social justice movements and activism in challenging state authority</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">- pedagogy and colonial narratives</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">- gender and sexuality in political and state discourses of equality</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">- tourism and the cultivation of nation-hood</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">- race, development and international aid work</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">- media economies, geopolitics and settler colonialism</span></div>
<div style="margin-top: 14pt; margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; text-indent: -18pt;">- media bipower and necropower</span></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><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-US">Holly.Randell-Moon@otago.ac.nz</span></a></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><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></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><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-US">http://www.otago.ac.nz/humanities/research/research-centres/otago062214.html</span></a></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Symposium organisers:</span></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Dr. Holly Randell-Moon</span></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Mahdis Azarmandi</span></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">On behalf of the Postcolonial Studies Research Network:</span></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Dr. Chris Prentice (Director)</span></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">Associate Professor Vijay Devadas</span></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US"><b>References:</b></span></font></div>
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<font face="Segoe UI,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><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></font></div>
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