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The following sections will be accepting paper proposals:
Section: 1 - Third World and Postcolonial Approaches to International Relations
Panel 1: Political Practice and Third World/Feminist Approaches to International Institutions
(Panel Convenors: Katja Freistein/Philip Liste)
Panel 2: Saving Brown Women? Deliberating the “Post” in Post-Colonialism and Post-Conflict
(Panel Convenor: Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel)
Panel 3: Transnational Social Movements and the Postcolonial Condition
(Panel Convenor: Elisabeth Fink)
Section: 2 - Postcolonialism meets Economics
Panel 4: Building Bridges: Critical Political Economy and Postcolonial Theory
(Panel Convenors: Simone Claar/ Nikolai Huke)
Panel 5: Culture vs. Capitalism: Postcolonial Emancipations and the Ambivalences of the Market
(Panel Convenor: Katja Rieck)
Section: 3 - Postcolonial Academia? Knowledge, Methodology and Representation
Panel 6: Postcolonising Methodologies
(Panel Convenors: Joshua Kwesi Aikins/ Nadine Golly / Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar)
Panel 7: Teaching Emancipatory Postcolonial Knowledge
(Panel Convenors: Nadine Golly / Joanna James)
Panel 8: Between Subjection and Subjectivation: Postcolonial-Queer-Feminist Perspectives
(Panel Convenors: Jasmin Dean / Astride Velho)
Section: 4 – Postcolonial Politics of Human Rights, International Aid and Global Governance
Panel 9: Postcolonial Perspectives on Human Rights
(Panel Convenors: Olivia Rutazibwa/ Eva Georg / Aylin Zafer)
Panel 10: Postcolonial Power and Capitalism – Critical Approaches to Contemporary International Aid
French: Pouvoir postcolonial et capitalisme - Approches critiques de l’aide internationale contemporaine
(Panel Convenors: Olivia Rutazibwa / Kai Koddenbrock)
Section: 5 - Negotiating Western Normativity and Intellectual History –
Secularism, In/Justice and Revolution
Panel 11: Secularism, Religion and Politics: Critical Interventions
(Panel Convenor: Zubair Ahmad)
Panel 12: Transnational In/Justice in a Postcolonial World
French: In/justice/s transnationales dans une monde postcolonial
(Panel Convenor: Franziska Dübgen)
Panel 13: Revolution Reconsidered – Slavery, Enlightenment and the Haitian Revolution
(Panel Convenor: Jeanette Ehrmann)
Section: 6 - Entangled Historical Legacies and Politics of Memory
Panel 14: Postcolonial Perspectives after Auschwitz
(Panel Convenor: Ulrike Hamann/Cigdem Inan)
Panel 15: Postcolonial Thought and the Problem of Periodization
(Panel Convenor: Felix Schürmann)
Panel 16: Taking Postcolonialism elsewhere? Post-Soviet Postcolonialities
(Panel Convenor: Alexander Vorbrugg)
Section: 7 - Postcolonial Statehood and Governmentality
Panel 17: Representations: The (Post)colonial ‘Body Politic’ in Historical Perspective
(Panel Convenor: Verena Steller)
Panel 18: Postcolonial Perspectives on Corruption and Statehood
(Panel Convenor: Philipp Zehmisch)
Panel 19: Weak States, Failed States, Developmental States – Problems and Challenges in Conceptualising Political Formations in Postcolonial Africa
French: ‘Etats fragiles, Etats défaillants, Etats développeurs’ – Problèmes et défis concernant la conceptualisation des formations politiques de l’Afrique postcoloniale
(Panel Convenor: Anna Krämer)
Section: 8 - Cultural Politics and Postcolonial Urban Spaces
Panel 20: African Cultural Production in the Global Economy
French: Les productions culturelles africaines dans l’économie mondialisée
(Panel Convenor: Lotte Arndt)
Panel 21: Postcolonial Representations of Urban Spaces
Spanish: Representaciones poscoloniales de espacios urbanos
(Panel Convenor: Andrea Gremels)
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How to Submit Proposals:
For your paper proposal to be considered, we request that you email the respective panel convenors directly. An abstract (max. 500 words) and a short bio-note (max. 100 words) should accompany your proposal. The closing date for applications is 30th November 2010.
Detailed information on the respective panels can be found here:
http://www.frcps.uni-frankfurt.de/
Conference languages are English, French and Spanish. Abstracts may be submitted in a language as stipulated in the relevant panel’s call for papers. For the French and Spanish language panels translations will be made available. The conference rooms are accessible for
people of all abilities. Please indicate if any further aides and/or support are needed when registering for the conference.
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Registration & Participation:
There are no conference fees, but we kindly request registrations until 31st May 2010: frcps.mail@googlemail.com. Please state ‘registration’ in the subject heading. A limited number of travel bursaries will be provided, especially for paper presenters from
the global South. Please motivate your application in a short accompanying letter (max. 300 words).