<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>FYI, all! Fancy contributing to what looks to be an amazing conference/convergence?</div><div><br></div><div>Jamie x</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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CALL FOR PAPERS & WORKSHOPS<div><div><br>
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Anarchist Studies Network Conference 2.0 - 'Making Connections'<br>
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Loughborough University, UK<br>
<br>
3rd-5th September, 2012<br>
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<div align="center">***Deadline for abstract submissions extended to
May 1st, 2012***<br>
<br>
Registration Packages Now Confirmed (scroll down for more)<br>
Full contact details for panel organisers available at:
<a href="http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk" target="_blank">www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk</a><br>
If you have a paper that doesn't necessarily fit in the advertised
panel streams, <br>
it will still be considered. See below for details. <br>
<br>
<div align="left">We live in interesting times. The Arab Spring,
Occupy X and anti-austerity protests are only the latest and
most visible examples in a long tradition of grassroots social
movements in which ordinary people create democratic
alternatives to hierarchy and inequality. Here and everywhere,
people are getting together and making connections between their
own everyday experiences and wider patterns of relationships and
power, official and unofficial. They (or we) are making
connections with each other, personal and political. New
patterns evolve as people experiment with different ways of
organising, of relating, of connecting, of thinking. Scholars,
artists and activists observe, theorise and participate in
various ways, helping to make connections, both in social
movements and in the movements of everyday life. Feminists, in
particular, have foregrounded intersectional approaches to
power, privilege and oppression. Race, class and gender;
sexuality, ecology and (dis)ability; age, species and faith --
each of these and more interconnect in numerous ways, both
subtle and overt.<br>
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The Anarchist Studies Network is hosting a conference to
acknowledge, celebrate and deepen these diverse efforts to
understand and transform our world, our lives. We want this
conference itself to be a space for making connections, both
intellectual and personal. It will include a blend of more or
less traditional panels, participatory discussions and
experiential workshops, extended breaks and social events. This
first call is an invitation to propose thematic streams,
workshops or panel topics by those who are willing to take a
role in organising them. Further calls will invite papers,
participation, performance. We're particularly keen to make
connections across borders of identities, movements, disciplines
and practices. We invite contributions from students, academics
and unaffiliated researchers, activists and artists, health
practitioners and care workers, trade unionists, community
organisers and those without labels. Above all, we would like to
nurture a convivial atmosphere in which to make connections with
others, explore areas of both overlap and difference, create or
simply meet, to learn and to share.<br>
<br>
Our intention is for this to be a scholarly conference with a
difference. Scholar means both student and teacher. By bringing
together a diverse group of participants, who share in common a
desire to learn and a commitment to acknowledging and creating
alternatives to rigid hierarchies and exploitative
relationships, we hope that each of us will have something to
offer others and much to learn. The process of organising the
conference is decentralised, with the conference initiators
welcoming proposals from a diverse range of session organisers
covering a wide variety of engaged and engaging topics. We also
invite session organisers to consider playful, participatory
and/or experimental panel and workshop formats. This might range
from a traditional three paper panel followed by a discussion
using alternative facilitation techniques (e.g., open space
technology, fishbowl, or sitting in a circle with a facilitator)
to more interactive workshop-style discussion or experiential
sessions. Our intention is not to be transgressive for the sake
of it, but to encourage a variety of methods in order to
facilitate making connections.<br>
<br>
<b>20 Panel Streams and Workshops</b>. <br>
Please contact the conveners with your paper/presentation
abstracts (full details on the ASN website). <br>
<br>
‘No Master But God’? Exploring the Compatibility of Anarchism
and Religion. Convener: Alex Christoyannopoulos<br>
<br>
Anarchism and Non-Domination. Convener: Alex Prichard<br>
<br>
A workshop on workable anti-work utopias (working title).
Convener: Peter Seyferth<br>
<br>
Anarchism in different national contexts. Convener: Mari
Kuukkanen<br>
<br>
Anarchism and other animals - making connections across species
boundaries. Conveners: Erika Cudworth and Richard White<br>
<br>
Connecting Anarchism and Critical Management and Organisation
Studies. Conveners: Thomas Swann and Konstantin Stoborod<br>
<br>
Anarchism & Autonomism. Convener: Stevphen Shukaitis<br>
<br>
Real Democracy and the Revolutions of our Time. Conveners:
Laurence Davis and Peter Snowdon<br>
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Anarchism and War. Convener: Pietro di Paola<br>
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On Violence. Convener: Mohamed Veneuse<br>
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Anarchism and Education. Convener: Peter Jandric<br>
<br>
Re-imagining Anarchism in America: A Critical Perspective.
Convener: Jorell Meléndez<br>
<br>
Anarchism and Disability. Conveners: Steve Graby, Anat
Greenstein, Jess Bradley<br>
<br>
Is anarchism Western?: Anarchism and its challenges in a
(post)colonial world. Convener: Gabriel Kuhn<br>
<br>
Ontological Anarchism. Convener: Peter Hardy<br>
<br>
Anarchist Publishing. Convener: Jason Lindsey<br>
<br>
MethodBox Workshop. Conveners: Eleni Froudaraki and Isidora Ilic<br>
<br>
***Other Sessions Confirmed***<br>
<br>
‘Let’s Build it Together’: A Workshop on Protest Camps and
Autonomous Politics Session Organisers: Anna Feigenbaum and
Fabian Frenzel <br>
<br>
Bodily Anarchy. Facilitator: Jamie Heckert<br>
<br>
What now for workplace organising: Contemporary wobbly
experiences. Convener, David Bailey<br>
<br>
<i>Film night and other social activities to be scheduled.... </i><br>
<br>
<b>Nothing here that takes your fancy? Contact Chris Rossdale
with your paper proposal for the open stream (C.Rossdale @
<a href="http://warwick.ac.uk" target="_blank">warwick.ac.uk</a>).</b><br>
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<b>Registration options: </b><br>
Registration fees: <br>
Full waged: £68<br>
Low-waged: £38<br>
Unwaged: £10<br>
<br>
Registration will open in early May. Please check the ASN website
for regular conference updates. <br>
<br>
The registration fee covers the costs for lunches, snacks and
refreshments on Monday 3rd, Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th of
September, and contributes towards venue costs and bursaries. Full
travel and accommodation bursaries will be made available on the
basis of need. On registration you will be asked to detail your
requirements and to ensure you keep all your receipts. <br>
<br>
Accommodation costs are not included in the registration fee. A
number of accommodation options are available:<br>
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On campus, Royce Hall (all B&B) <br>
<a href="http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/campus-living/accommodation/halls/royce/" target="_blank">http://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/campus-living/accommodation/halls/royce/</a><br>
Single en suite £44 <br>
Standard single with shared bathroom £30 <br>
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Premier Inn <br>
<a href="http://www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/LOUBOR/loughborough" target="_blank">http://www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/LOUBOR/loughborough</a><br>
Single en suite £58 single occupancy based on B&B <br>
Double en suite £66.25 double occupancy (B&B)<br>
<br>
Ramada Inn<br>
<a href="http://www.ramada.com/Ramada/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=15797&variant=uk&brandInfo=RA" target="_blank">http://www.ramada.com/Ramada/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=15797&variant=uk&brandInfo=RA</a><br>
Single B&B £50 <br>
Single, room only £45 <br>
Double/twin B&B £65 <br>
Double/twin, room only £55<br>
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For more information, contact Alex Prichard: <a href="mailto:alprich@gmail.com" target="_blank">alprich@gmail.com</a><span><font color="#888888"><br>
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