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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong style="font-size: 16pt;">Space, Race, Bodies III: Walls</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>June 30th-July 1st, 2018</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>University of Otago/ Te Whare W</strong><strong>ā</strong><strong>nanga o Otago</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Dunedin, New Zealand/ </strong><strong>Ō</strong><strong>tepoti, Aotearoa</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Featuring keynote speakers: <strong>Associate Professor Leonie Pihama</strong> (University of Waikato) and
<strong>Professor Alexander G. Weheliye</strong> (Northwestern University)</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><em>Space, Race, Bodies III: Walls</em> is an academic and activist conference that addresses contemporary geographical and cultural practices premised on the construction and maintenance of walls, fences, barriers, and borders
of all kinds. The conference is scheduled to take place on June 30th-July 1st, 2018, at the University of Otago.</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The construction of walls for security practices related to migration, asylum and refuge, and domestic prisons has significant human rights and social justice implications. Such practices are inextricably tied to social forms of
exclusion and discrimination that create barriers to social, political, and economic well-being. The purpose of this conference is to facilitate engagement between academic researchers, criminal justice organisations, and migrant advocates on the local as
well as trans-national connections between practices of security and social exclusion as they effect communities of colour, migrants, and Indigenous peoples. The conference invites abstracts, panels, and workshop proposals that address, but are not limited
to, the following themes:</p>
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<li style="">the human rights implications of security practices, particularly in terms of intersections between border exclusions and disability, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity</li><li style="">the historical connections between geographies of exclusion and contemporary geopolitical forms of migration management</li><li style="">alternatives to violent forms of border management and other creative and activist ways of tearing down walls!</li><li style="">Indigenous sovereignties, climate change, and migration</li><li style="">carceral politics and practices</li><li style="">social forms of inclusion and exclusion premised on race, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, and class</li><li style="">barriers to health and education in policy and political communication</li><li style="">capitalism and socio-economic forms of inclusion and exclusion</li><li style="">the military-industrial complex</li><li style="">dataveillance and new technologies of surveillance</li><li style="">biotechnologies, race, and racisms</li><li style="">geodata and new technologies of mapping and cartography</li><li style="">resource commodification and barriers to land and sea for public and Indigenous communities</li><li style="">media biopower</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: left;"><em>SRB III </em>builds on the momentum and opportunities enabled by the first two Space, Race, Bodies conferences in publicising and disseminating scholarship and activism on the intersections between geography, racism, and racialisation. <em>SRB
I: Geocorpographies of City, Nation, Empire </em>took place in December, 2014, at the University of Otago and featured keynotes included: Professor Joseph Pugliese (Macquarie University), Professor Jacinta Ruru (University of Otago), Professor Susan Stryker
(University of Arizona), and Professor Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University). <em>SRB II: Sovereignty and Migration in a Carceral Age
</em>took place in May, 2016, and included: Fadak Alfayadh (RISE: Refugees, Survivors, and Ex-Detainees), Associate Professor Stephanie Fryberg (University of Washington), Tame Iti, Moana Jackson, Crystal McKinnon and Emma Russell (Flat Out), Suzanne Menzies-Culling
and Marie Laufiso (Tauiwi Solutions), Professor Margaret Mutu (University of Auckland), Teanau Tuiono, Emmy Rākete (No Pride in Prisons), and Annette Sykes. More information on these events can be found at: www.spaceracebodies.com </p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Interested participants should send 200w abstracts and proposals, including a 50w bio, to
<a href="mailto:space.race.bodies@otago.ac.nz">space.race.bodies@otago.ac.nz</a>. The deadline for proposals is
<strong>April 1</strong><sup><strong>st</strong></sup><strong>, 2018</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">All queries and questions can be sent to <a href="mailto:space.race.bodies@otago.ac.nz">
space.race.bodies@otago.ac.nz</a>. </p>
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Dr Holly Randell-Moon<br>
Department of Media, Film and Communication<br>
University of Otago<br>
PO Box 56<br>
Dunedin 9054<br>
New Zealand Tel 64 3 479 3724<br>
<a href="http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052356.html" target="_blank" id="NoLP">http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/otago052356.html</a><br>
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'You give way to an enemy this evil with this much power and you condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission' - Jyn Erso<br>
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<a href="http://teu.ac.nz/portfolio/love-humanities/" id="NoLP"><b>I SUPPORT HUMANITIES AT OTAGO</b></a><br>
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Race and Whiteness Studies/ Religion Area Chair, <a href="http://popcaanz.com/" id="NoLP">
Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137554079" id="NoLP"><i>Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality</i></a><br>
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<a href="http://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9781137536891" id="NoLP"><i>Religion After Secularization in Australia</i></a><br>
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