[ecrea] CFP: CSA Critical Ethnic and Racial Studies Research Working Group

*CFP: “Emancipation Undone”*

2018 Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference – “Interventions” 
Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | May 31st - June 2nd, 2018

    “The intervention made here is an attempt to recast the past, guided
    by the conundrums and compulsions of our contemporary crisis: the
    hope for social transformation in the face of seemingly
    insurmountable obstacles, the quixotic search for a subject capable
    of world-historical action, and the despair induced by the lack of
    one.” (Saidiya Hartman, /Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and
    Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America/, 1997, p. 14)

Scholars across an array of disciplines have increasingly situated 
critical interventions into the contradictions and crises of the 
historical present—from ecology and the human, to capital and 
democracy—by foregrounding racial slavery as a structuring problematic 
of modern political life. Much of this work finds a generative foothold 
in the interventions Saidiya Hartman initiated and reanimated over 
twenty years ago, where she contended that any analysis of racialization 
must be conducted with regard to the history and theory of slavery, and 
that the political logic of racial slavery must become a fundamental 
locus of inquiry for political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, 
psychoanalysis, and Marxism (to name a few fields). This has yielded a 
powerful frame of historical analysis, and a new baseline for critical 
intervention: “the afterlife of slavery.”

In line with the general theme, “Interventions,” the Working Group on 
Racial and Ethnic Studies invites submissions of panels or individual 
papers for the CSA Annual Conference that advance interventions into the 
present by making the “afterlife of slavery” its reference. These papers 
may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

  * The analysis of racial slavery as an intervention in the critique of
    political economy
  * Libidinal enjoyment as a factor of racial subjection
  * Black Lives Matter and the incompleteness of emancipation
  * Historicizing the anthropocene and critiques of post-humanism
  * Critical race studies and the “limits of critique”
  * Black feminist and queer epistemological interventions
  * Antiblackness and the subject of the unconscious
  * Race, value, and abstraction
  * Global anti-capitalist struggle in the afterlife of slavery

Please submit a brief abstract (300 words or less) through the CSA 
submission system by its official deadline, currently: _February 16, 
2018_ (http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/registration2017 
<http://www.culturalstudiesassociation.org/registration2017>). 
Applicants must be a member of the CSA to submit. Submissions can either 
be an individual paper or pre-constituted panel. Please indicate that 
you are applying to the Racial and Ethnic Studies Panel.

Questions? Contact the Co-Chairs of the Working Group on Racial and 
Ethnic Studies, Jaafar Aksikas ((jaksikas /at/ colum.edu) 
<mailto:(jaksikas /at/ colum.edu)>), Christopher Chamberlin ((cechambe /at/ uci.edu) 
<mailto:(cechambe /at/ uci.edu)>), and Patrice Douglass ((pdd2 /at/ stmarys-ca.edu) 
<mailto:(pdd2 /at/ stmarys-ca.edu)>).

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