Institute for Black Atlantic Research, Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK & De Gruyter; Partners: openDemocracy 50.50, the Cornelia Goethe Center (Goethe Univ.); International Development and Inclusive Innovation, Strategic Research Area (The Open Univ.) (Web)

Venue: Preston
Time: 21.-23.06.2018
Proposals due: 01.04.2018

• Keynote speakers (confirmed): Nira Yuval-Davis (Univ. of East London); Helma Lutz (Frankfurt); Umut Erel (The Open Univ.); Lubaina Himid and Ewa Mazierska (Univ. of Central Lancashire); Toby Miller (Univ. of California, Loughborough Univ. London); Pragna Patel (Southall Black Sisters);

In a recent interview for BBC Radio 3, Paul Gilroy, rather provocatively contended that nationalism is embedded a “fascistic” wish for “a magical identity that will somehow dissolve every little bit of otherness.” In the era that witnessed the success of the Brexit campaign, the election of Donald Trump, the rise in anti-immigrant resentment and religious fundamentalism, nationalism is more and more often associated with militant extremism that threatens the very existence of the secular and culturally diverse public sphere.

As Tamar Mayer has observed, nationalism is an exercise in internal hegemony that aims at dissolution of ethnic, religious and sexual differences, in which „the empowerment of one gender or one nation or one sexuality virtually always comes at the expense and disempowerment of another“ (Mayer 1). Women represent … read more and source (Web).