A global, interdisciplinary convention—“Tradition and International Duty: Rethinking Habitability within the Age of the Anthropocene”—will happen on Could 12-14, 2023, on the College of Warwick. This system will embody a movie screening and digital Q & A. The deadline (for a 300-word summary, contact particulars, and bio) is February 10, 2023. Ship to globalresponsibility2023@gmail.com. For utility course of, charges, and extra info, go to International Duty.
Confirmed Invited Audio system:
- Emily Baker (UCL)
- Stef Craps (College of Ghent)
- Martin Crowley (College of Cambridge)
- Esther Figueroa [Jamaican independent researcher and filmmaker, writer, and linguist]
- Tiago de Luca (College of Warwick)
- Rashmi Varma (College of Warwick)
Organisers: Stefano Bellin (College of Warwick), Guido Bartolini (Ghent College), and Michael Niblett (College of Warwick)
Name for Papers: Though the world appears to be drifting in the direction of the conflictual opposition between massive geopolitical blocs, and the pandemic and the battle in Ukraine have reshaped the dynamics of globalisation, there isn’t a doubt that lots of the key problems with our time are world in nature and scope. Certainly, we may argue that an important social and political battles of the twenty-first century are fought within the world enviornment. Local weather change, worldwide migrations, pandemics, neoliberal capitalist exploitation, racialised patterns of exclusion and discrimination, gentrification are simply a few of the world challenges that characterise our time. As Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò argues in Reconsidering Reparations, as a result of slavery and colonialism basically formed the world we dwell in, we must be pondering extra broadly and holistically about how one can remake the world system. Furthermore, since human beings have develop into a geophysical power able to radically affecting the local weather system of the planet as an entire, the ‘planetary’ can also be rising as an analytical class and as a matter of human concern. Certainly, as Dipesh Chakrabarty factors out in The Local weather of Historical past in a Planetary Age, ‘in our personal consciousness of ourselves, the “now” of human historical past has develop into entangled with the lengthy “now” of geological and organic timescales, one thing that has by no means occurred earlier than within the historical past of humanity’ (p. 7). We due to this fact want to attach the planetary with the worldwide, the geologic arc of the Anthropocene/Capitalocene with the time of human historical past and expertise, with a selected consideration to the colonial, racial, and gendered oppressions that hyperlink the human world to the huge processes and timescale of the Earth system.
Bringing collectively literary and cultural research, artwork and movie research, vital race idea, environmental humanities, and philosophy, this worldwide convention will discover how completely different cultural texts may facilitate our vital and political engagement with types of violence and injustice which might be world in nature and scope. Drawing connections between the ideas and the practices of ‘world accountability’ and ‘habitability’, the convention will talk about how completely different pure, social, and cultural forces form the habitability of various environments on Earth, in addition to our particular person and collective accountability for making the world not simply liveable but additionally suitable with the flourishing of various beings.
The important thing questions that this convention seeks to handle are:
- How can literature, movie, and different types of artwork assist us to suppose via the notions of ‘world accountability’ and ‘habitability’?
- What makes the Earth liveable, and the way does human tradition, motion and neglect have an effect on that habitability?
- To what extent and in what sense are we accountable for making the Earth a spot the place completely different types of human and nonhuman life can dwell and thrive?
- What are the situations for life and the way are these situations represented in mass tradition?
- How and to what extent can cultural work problem political and social constructions of oppression?
- How can completely different cultural texts and inventive media develop our political creativeness and sense of accountability?
- How does the previous affect habitability and life situations within the current?
- How do ongoing patterns of violence, injustice, and accumulation have an effect on habitability and life’s capability to flourish?
- What does it take for all times to outlive and flourish?
This worldwide convention welcomes students throughout the humanities & humanities working in all geographical areas and theoretical frameworks and encourages proposals that take an interdisciplinary or cross-disciplinary strategy.
Instructed matters embody (however are usually not restricted to):
- Literature, movie, artwork, philosophy and the query world accountability
- Crucial views on what makes an surroundings liveable sociologically, culturally, and ecologically
- Intersectional analyses of ‘world accountability’ and ‘habitability’
- How the worldwide racial empire impacts ‘habitability’ and ‘world accountability’
- Cultural texts that tackle varieties or patterns of injustice which might be world in nature and scope
- Cultural work, differentiated solidarity, and the problem of ‘elite seize’ (Táíwò 2022)
- Literature, movie, artwork, philosophy and the battle of ‘remaking the world’ (Getachew 2019)