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The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago and the academic journal "Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power," solicit paper proposals for a day long conference to be held on the campus on May 29, 2009. “New Frontiers of Race: Criminalities, Cultures, and Policing in the Global Era,” seeks to intervene in the discursive, material, and ideological debates involving criminalities, cultures, policing, and race in a global era. Associations among race, criminality, deviancy, and delinquency continue to suffuse popular representations in the media and in the social sciences. This conference will explore new genealogies and approaches to deviancy, pathology and criminality that grapple with these longstanding issues. Do migrations, diasporas, borders, and other transnationalisms disrupt ideologies and discourses of pathology? Do the stakes in the debates surrounding pathology and related problematic representations of people of color shift as they ascend to the highest echelons of power?
Conference paper proposals are welcome on the following themes but are not limited to these: identity politics and the politics of multiculturalisms; post-racial discourses and ideologies; “cultures” of poverty and/or “poverties” of culture; pathologies and gendered or sexual normativities; new studies and/or genealogies of criminalities, delinquencies, deviances, and pathologies; the politics of transgressions or non-normative politics; “cultures” of policings, deportations, and carcerality.
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication by "Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power." All expenses – transport and housing – will be provided for persons chosen to present.
Paper proposals should not be more that two single-spaced pages and must be accompanied by a short two-page resume. A copy of these materials should be sent electronically by April 30 to each of the following:
Ramón A. Gutiérrez
Director, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
University of Chicago
rgutierrez@uchicago.edu
Gilberto Rosas
Postdoctoral Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
and Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
grosas@uchicago.edu
Jonathan Hill
Editor, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
Professor, Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University
jhill@siu.edu
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