A Conferência Internacional «Circulations: the (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders», a ser realizada em Joanesburgo, nos dias 3 e 4 de novembro de 2016, visa oferecer um espaço crítico para os historiadores, cientistas sociais, críticos, artistas e público em geral; repensarem e reconsiderarem as trajetórias históricas compartilhadas e experiências sociais na região, do colonialismo para a libertação nacional, além e através das fronteiras.
 
A organização convida para a apresentação de propostas provenientes de diversas áreas disciplinares: história, sociologia, antropologia, estudos culturais, história da arte, etc.
 
As propostas devem ser enviadas para ambos os organizadores, junto com um resumo curto (não mais de 200 palavras) e uma breve biografia (um parágrafo, não mais de 15 linhas), até 31 de maio de 2016. A notificação de aceitação será enviada até 15 de junho de 2016. Os trabalhos completos deverão ser enviados até ao dia 1 de outubro de 2016, para a pré-circulação entre os participantes.
 
A organização pretende publicar os trabalhos selecionados em um volume editado ou em um número temático de uma revista.
 
Organizadores:
 
Caio Simões de Araújo (caio.simoes@graduateinstitute.ch)
Ana Balona de Oliveira (ana.balona.oliveira@gmail.com)
 
Circulations
The (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders
Joanesburgo, 3-4 de novembro de 2016
 
Mais informações: https://circulationsconference.wordpress.com
 

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The International Conference “Circulations: the (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders”, to be held in Johannesburg, 3-4 November 2016, will address some of these critical issues, in their historical depth and contemporary resonance. We intend to offer a critical space for historians, social scientists, critics, artists, and the public at large to re-think and re-consider the shared historical trajectories and social experiences in the region, from settler colonialism to national liberation, beyond and across borders.
 
Having all this in mind, this conference invites scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (history, sociology, anthropology, area studies, cultural studies, art history, etc.) to rethink the region’s past and present in its multiple transnational intricacies and complex maps of connectivity, beyond and across borders. We encourage interested scholars to send paper proposals for 20 minutes presentations in any of the following indicative, but not exhaustive, areas:
 
– Borderlines: the making and unmaking of borders in Southern Africa.
 
– Of Settlements and Diaspora: rethinking migration and settler colonialism.
 
– Dangerous liaisons: security and circulation under colonialism and apartheid.
 
– Migrating power: networks and movement during liberation struggles.
 
– Pathways of circulation: social histories of infrastructure (roads, railways, etc).
 
– Bodies on the move: histories of legal and illegal migration, for labor and leisure.
 
– Intersections: the politics of race, gender and class in transnational movements.
 
– Knowledge unbound: scientific cooperation and circulation of scholars and ideas.
 
– Celebrating togetherness: the politics of cultural diplomacy and official visits.
 
– Moving objects: consumption, material cultures and the social worlds they make.
 
– Moving words: circulation of newspapers, correspondence, books, etc.
 
– Moving images: photography, film, art, and visual culture across borders.
 
– Entangled representations: circulation of writers, artists, filmmakers, etc.
 
Potential contributors should submit a short abstract (no more than 200 words) and a career description (one paragraph, no more than 15 lines) no later than May 31, 2016. Notification of acceptance will be sent out on June 15, 2016. Draft papers are expected on October 1, 2016, and will be pre-circulated amongst participants. We intend to publish a collection of essays in an edited volume or journal issue.
 
Abstracts should be sent to both the organizers:
 
Caio Simões de Araújo (caio.simoes@graduateinstitute.ch)
 
Ana Balona de Oliveira (ana.balona.oliveira@gmail.com)
 
Circulations:
The (un)making of Southern Africa beyond and across borders
Johannesburg, 3-4 November 2016
 
https://circulationsconference.wordpress.com