[Anarchafeminists] CFP Thinking Through Time and History in Feminism

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Call for Papers:
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research Colloquium

Thinking Through Time and History in Feminism

Birkbeck, University of London, 23 March 2012

Organizers: Carly Guest (Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck) and
Sam McBean (English, Birkbeck)

There has been an emergent call within the field of gender
and feminist studies to consider themes that might be broadly situated under
the umbrella term of “temporality”. Nostalgic and apocalyptic narratives of
feminism abound in both popular culture and academic writing, with feminism’s
death or out-datedness being the dominant narrative. Countering these
narratives is crucially about unravelling the logic that makes them viable as
well as interrupting their production. Explorations of alternative narratives
have productively emerged from work in the field of collective and personal
memory, new technologies as they impact feminist organizing, and creative
activism and archival practices. There is a continued political need to explore
alternative mechanisms of telling feminist time, alternative relationships to
be forged with the recent and historical past and alternative means for
considering how feminism might forge a future for itself both in and out of the
academy.

This
colloquium aims to provide the opportunity for an interdisciplinary, creative
and exploratory approach to time and history in feminism. We welcome
contributions from academics, artist and activists working in the area. Contributions
could include but are not limited to, paper presentations, digital media,
photography, film, poetry and performance. 


Contributions could consider,
but are by no means limited to, some of the following questions:
-          - How
does the personal, social and collective memory of the feminist past create,
sustain, or challenge feminism in the present?
-          - How might we forge relationships between temporal
periods that resist generational affects of duty or shame?
-          - How might remembering and forgetting occur not
only within the spaces of activism and the institution, but also between them?
-          - How can we think critically about how, for
example, citing, course building, and curating are practices of remembering and
forgetting?
-          - How
might feminist activists, artists and theorists respond to the narratives of
‘the death of feminism’ or the ‘post-feminist’ era?
-          - How does time, and the various ways we think of
it, both enable and constrain politics?
-          - Is the time of activism the same as the time of
the institution?
-          - What
are the theoretical and methodological challenges of working within feminist
archives? 
-          - How
can we account for the multiple and diverse voices that comprise ‘feminism’ and
the relationships between these voices? How can the use of creative
methodologies enable the exploration of these issues?

Please submit a 200 word abstract by 25 November 2011 to
Carly Guest and Sam McBean at bisrcolloquium2012 at gmail.com. If you have any
questions, please contact us.
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