[Commlist] CfA: ECREA Preconference on Mediated Suffering

*ECREA Preconference on the Ethics of Mediated Suffering*

On behalf of the ECREA temporary working group for the Ethics of 
Mediated Suffering, we'd like to ask for abstract contributions for the 
group preconference, to be held virtually on 14 October, 2022.

Setting a theme for the preconference has been difficult. In part this 
is because of a litany of events that have overtaken a great deal of our 
personal and professional lives since the ECREA community last met. At 
the same time as the covid pandemic has begun to be pushed in the 
rhetorical - though by no means epidemiological - shadows, fighting in 
Ukraine has resurfaced old frames for a new(?) war. European sympathy 
for its east also draws attention once more to racial and geographic 
hierarchies of grievable life familiar to scholars of conflict in Yemen, 
Syria, Ethiopia, the Sudans, Mali and every other instance of suffering 
that lies in some discursive shadowland.

Deciding a theme was also hard, in part, because communities of scholars 
like ours have been fragmented over two years without the points of 
connection afforded by the sociality of meeting in one form or another. 
People lose touch with one other and shared projects and interests 
become harder to develop without the serendipity of connection.

In light of this, the theme that animates our 2022 preconference is 
Community repair and connection. If you are a scholar working on 
questions around mediated suffering or its normative dimensions - 
however broadly construed - we would like you to send us an abstract 
[~200 words to (r.j.stupart /at/ rug.nl) <mailto:(r.j.stupart /at/ rug.nl)> *23 
September 2022*] on what currently occupies your thoughts. The 
preconference itself will be a virtual session in the run-up to the main 
conference in Aarhus, structured to give you an opportunity to reconnect 
with other scholars that have overlapping concerns and areas of focus. 
It is our hope that this preconference will afford attendees a chance to 
make connections once more, to discover shared interests and interesting 
projects between one another that can be further developed in Aarhus and 
beyond.

*In sum, we'd like you to tell us what you're up to, so that we can 
begin the work of reconnecting, repairing and thinking together this 
increasingly strange world we're 'returning' to.*

A copy of the CfA can be downloaded from https://bit.ly/3N7s4xB 
<https://bit.ly/3N7s4xB>


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