International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) (Web)

Time: 07.–09.09 2023
Venue: Linz, Upper Austria
Proposals by: 31.12.2023

Industrialization and deindustrialization have been global and combined phenomena ever since the Industrial Revolution. The wave of industrialization associated with England in the late 18th and early 19th centuries formed but one element of a dramatic global restructuring of production which came with the loss and transformation of livelihoods in other parts of the world. India is emblematic for that, as the surge in machine-driven industrialization in England went hand in hand with the decline if not dismantling of the more craft-based textile industries in India. Since then, we have witnessed many waves of deindustrialization, reindustrialization and economic transition around the world. These interconnected processes have been accompanied by often dramatic changes in employment opportunities and the world of work more generally. This conference seeks to explore processes that are often described as ‘deindustrialization’ from a global and historical perspective. It starts from the assumption that the term itself is problematic, as the economic processes leading to deindustrialization at the same time might include processes of reindustrialization. The term itself is also not used widely in different languages: in German ‘Strukturwandel’ is preferred, in Italian there ‘ristruccturazione’ and in French we often hear about ‘modernisation’. The ambivalence of terminology points at the diversity of processes of industrial restructuring: they may be due to shifts of profit expectations between industrial sectors, changing modalities of international capital movements or to the transformation of labour processes and management strategies within a specific industrial sector. Each of these interconnected processes of crisis resolution can result in various forms of spatial relocation, and re-composition of the labour force. Read more … (PDF)

Conference Languages: English and German

RACAR: Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada (Web)

Proposals: 01.02.2023

“Cripping Visual Cultures” honors the legacy of the late Tobin Siebers’ field-altering Disability Aesthetics (2010) by mining disability’s unremarked centrality to art history and visual culture studies’ methods and systems of valuation. With its crucial turn to conceiving disability as not merely a matter of representation, biography, or biology but also and especially as a style, an aesthetic, and a political tactic, Siebers exposed the previously unacknowledged and yet pivotal role of disability: “disability is properly speaking an aesthetic value, which is to say, it participates in a system of knowledge that provides materials for and increases critical consciousness about the way that some bodies make other bodies feel.”[i]
This special issue is dedicated to confronting the promise but also the pitfalls of what it means to crip visual cultures. The editors start with the proposition that failing to attend to the politics of disability leaves unrecognized the foundational ways that the art world and its histories are medicalized. Given the propensity toward “inspiration porn” in rhetoric about disabled people, they also consider the potential of an antisocial turn, initiated by queer and feminist disabled activists and scholars in cripped art history and cripped visual cultures, that embraces the negative, minor, and un-celebratory. Further, the editors understand “crip” as an analytic mode that broadens the critical relevance of disability studies’ inquiry beyond the limiting frame of what is or is not traditionally defined as the proper subject of disability. They hope this special issue will provide an opportunity to take up the difficulty of reconciling an anti-identitarian politics of “crip” at a time when disabled lives are still undervalued not only in everyday life but also in the academy. Additionally, the editors explore the possibility of collectively reimagining how art objects, art practices, and art institutions can and do produce, challenge, perform, and promote the vertiginous possibilities of “cripping visual cultures” through … read more (Web)

Editors: Lucienne D. Auz (Univ. of Memphis), Patricia Bérubé (Carleton Univ.), Jessica A. Cooley (Univ. of Minnesota), Sarah Heussaff (Univ. du Québec), and Stefanie Snider (Independent Scholar)

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Arbeitskreis Ideengeschichte der dt. Sektion der Internationalen Vereinigung für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie (IVR) (PDF)

Zeit: 28.-29.09.2023
Ort: Universität Salzburg
Einrichfrist: 31.01.2023

Die nächste Tagung des IVR beschäftigt sich mit Denkerinnen, die in der Geschichte Beiträge zur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie geleistet haben. Der Schwerpunkt soll auf deutschsprachigen Denkerinnen liegen, die bis zum Jahr 2020 verstorben sind. Seit seiner Gründung 1998 beschäftigt sich der IVR bei seinen Tagungen mit weniger bekannten oder vergessenen Richtungen der Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie. Diese Vernachlässigung trifft insbesondere auf Denkerinnen der Ideengeschichte zu. Viele der Frauen konnten noch keine Professorinnen oder angestellte Wissenschafterinnen im Bereich Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie werden, sondern waren mit ihren philosophischen Beiträgen als Dichterinnen, Schriftstellerinnen, Privatlehrerinnen, Aktivistinnen usw. nicht – oder weniger – sichtbar. Zwar hat sich inzwischen vieles geändert, bis heute sind jedoch Frauen in der Wissenschaft weniger sichtbar. Die Denkerinnen der Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie wurden zunächst oft nur als Theoretikerinnen ihrer eigenen Rollen in Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und ihrer Rechte wahrgenommen. Die Tagung will darüber hinaus ihre Beiträge für die Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie im Allgemeinen sichtbar und in einer anschließenden Publikation Studierenden, die immer wieder nach Rechts- und Sozialphilosophinnen fragen, verfügbar machen.
Bei dieser Tagung wollen die Organisator:innen sich schwerpunktmäßig mit deutschsprachigen Denkerinnen und ihren Beiträgen zur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie auseinandersetzen. Diese Auswahl kann jedoch auch auf nicht deutschsprachige Denkerinnen erweitert werden. Der Kreis der Autorinnen ist nicht auf eine bestimmte Epoche eingeschränkt. Als Beispiele seien Christine de Pizan (gest. 1364) und Ágnes Heller (1929-2019) genannt: … weiterlesen (PDF)

Keynotes: Elisabeth Holzleithner und Friederike Wapler

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