*CFP* "RESISTING IDENTITIES: POSIBILITIES OF (RE)EMERGENCE", 11TH ANNUAL SHIFTING TIDES, ANXIOUS BORDERS GRADUATE CONFERENCE

11th Annual Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders Graduate Conference

Resisting Identities: Possibilities of (Re)emergence

Depart of English at Binghamton University

25 April, 2020

The political turmoil taking place on a global scale, such as Chile, Hongkong, Iraq, Myanmar, and the United States, calls for a close examination of the state apparatus and brings out the urgency of coalescing resisting identities against the tremendous neoliberal authoritarianism. Witnessing the increasing criminalization of migrants and immigrants, queer bodies, religious as well as other minority identities, we search for alternatives that are non-conforming to global capitalistic regimes. Contemplating resistant strategies against the stultifying identity politics as resembled by the U.S. official antiracist liberal-capitalist orders, this year’s STAB conference invites critical insights on the history and future of community forming. We encourage prospective participants to rethink American Studies as an unruly field from different approaches. How do we form a common ground that connects differences? How do we think beyond individualism not only at a contemporary moment but also through the history of abolition, suffrage, and reform? How do communities who are considered as “landless” through music, literature, religion, art, etc., construct their sense of reality?  How do we reconsider the notion of identity through different modes of belonging in relationalities? 

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Decolonial Theory 
• Indigenous Studies  
• Relationalities and Connectivities 
• Anthropocene and Capitalocene 
• Biomedicalization and Technoscience 
• Community Forming under Duress 
• Creative Artworks 
• Critical Adoption Studies 
• Disabilities Studies 
• Environmental Activism 
• Familialism and Kinship 
• Necropolitics 
• Queer Studies 
• Racial Capitalism 
• Social/Political Activism 
• Slavery and Emancipation 
• Spatiality 
• State(less)ness 
• War on Drugs 
• War on Terror 
• Whiteness Studies 
• Women of Color Feminism

Please submit your proposal of 350-words to shiftingborders@gmail.com no later than February 23, 2020. With the proposal, include a separate page with presenters’ bios, department affiliations, and technical requirements, if any. Questions or concerns should be directed to conference organizer Chenrui Zhao at czhao24@binghamton.edu.

What’s New about STAB2020

This year the STAB organizing committee will contribute 30 dollars to reward your participation. The committee shall decide on one proposal with the best potential and award the presenter on the day of the conference. Committee members are welcome to participate in the conference but are excluded from selection for the award. 

We invite the presence of local activists group this year in order to make what we discuss as resistance more tangible and political. 

We have a more extensive media presence now! Please follow us on Twitter and Facebook to know more!  

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Email for submissions: shiftingborders@gmail.com

Questions and Concerns: czhao24@binghamton.edu