Call for papers – Crossroads: Critical Theories in an Uncertain World
Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Waterloo, Ontario
Session organizers: Dr. Sima Aprahamian (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University and Dr. Karin Doerr (Simone de Beauvoir Institute and Montreal Institute of Genocide Studies, Concordia University)
Session Abstract: Scholarship of Difficult Knowledge: Feminist Perspectives on Genocide, Narratives of Displacement and Social Death in the Twenty-first Century.
The proposed session calls for papers that address the scholarship of both twentieth century and contemporary genocidal killings and atrocities from a feminist perspective. Feminist theories in this session are taken as critical theory. The session calls specifically for papers rooted in research dealing with the threat of social death of victimized groups for racial or political reasons. Topics can also include narratives of displacement; as well as issues of commemoration and politics of memory/history in Genocide Studies. The session also invites submissions that examine how perpetrator nations are dealing or not dealing with their culpability of genocide in the twenty-first century and how survivors and researchers cope with Difficult Knowledge.
Kindly send a 100 word abstract by February 10, 2012 to aprhsma@alcor.concordia.ca & kdoerr@alcor.concordia.ca – do not send attachments. Thank you!
