[ecrea] CfP The Politics of Representation - Graduate Conference

*CfP - The Politics of Representation - Graduate Conference*

The Department of Politics and International Relations at the University 
of Westminster is pleased to host the first event of the recently 
founded New Perspectives Series, an initiative by the DPIR graduate 
community that aims at promoting critical and cutting-edge research 
among doctoral- and early-career-researchers. The first installment of 
the series wishes to engage with (and challenge) the idea of 
‘representation’, a prolific and widely utilized concept in political 
and international analysis with often take-for-granted implications.

We welcome submissions by doctoral researchers that explore approaches 
to representation through a multi-disciplinary lens, and invite 
paper-submissions that touch upon one or several of the following 
thematic complexes:

- Theories of political affects
- Embodiment and corporeal experience
- Network- and assemblage-theories
- Performativity and experimentation
- Non-representational agency in global affairs
- Ethics of (non)-representations
- Direct action, activism, the politics of the everyday
- Feasibility of immanent politics
- Spatializing practices and the politics of space
- Power and (non)-representation
- Discursive representation of (in)-security
- The unknown as a discursive space
- Representations of danger
- Representation, insecurity, and culture/identity
- Representing danger through counter-narratives

Abstract-submissions should be limited to 300 words and need to be 
accompanied by a 100-words biography. Manuscripts must have an 
approximate length of 2.000 – 8.000 words. Please submit both via 
(newperspectives /at/ westminster.ac.uk) <mailto:(newperspectives /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>

Deadline for abstract submission: Sunday, 24 April 2016
Conference paper submission: Monday, 30 May 2016

Please submit abstracts via (newperspectives /at/ westminster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(newperspectives /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>
Please visit 
https://newperspectivesseries.wordpress.com/portfolio/call-for-papers-2/

The organizers are please to announce a best-paper-competition that will 
reward a piece of rigorous and innovative research with a £ 100 book 
voucher. The author will also receive the opportunity to present his or 
her work ahead of the Keynote Event.

Participation and registration is free of charge.

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The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by 
guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 
Regent Street, London W1B 2UW.

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