Call for Papers: Critical Perspectives on Racialised Pasts and Post-Colonial Futures

The UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation (SPRC) invites proposals for its Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference 2024. The SPRC fosters and connects work that attends to the historical and contemporary scientific, metaphysical and cultural impact of racism. Towards this end, the 2024 Early Career Researcher conference will explore problems of racialised social hierarchies and identities, as well as colonialism and imperial legacies, through a variety of disciplinary lenses, methodologies and spatiotemporal contexts. By creating a communal space for these research themes to be placed in conversation, the conference seeks to build community amongst postgraduate research students and early career researchers committed to the production of historically-informed critical knowledge addressed to the urgent socio-political questions of our time. The 2024 keynote speaker will be Professor Jovan Scott Lewis (UC Berkeley).

Potential themes that papers might address include, though are not limited to: the relationships between racialization, imperialism and contemporary socio-political processes; histories of colonial geographies, borders, migration and other spatial/territorial organizations; the anthropocene and extractive capitalism; big data and artificial intelligence; decolonial historical and political imaginations/practices; as well as the interaction and co-production of other hierarchies such as gender, sexuality, class and more. Put more generally, submissions reflecting historically-informed, critical work that is committed to interrogating extant racism and epistemological hierarchies wherever they are found, or work that is engaged with the consequences of (neo)colonial and racial politics around the world, are encouraged.

Please send 100-word abstracts for 15-20 minute papers together with a 50 word biography for consideration. All submissions should be sent to: Elizabeth.cooper@ucl.ac.uk. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, May 1^st.  

We look forward to hearing from you!

Photo by Olmec Maya - Now and Coming Time by Aubrey William (1985).