[AIW] CFP: On the Possibility and the Impossibility of Reparations, Columbia University, New York City, 7-8 May 2020

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Call for Papers

Workshop

On the Possibility and the Impossibility of Reparations

Columbia University, New York City

7-8 May 2020

https://anthropology.columbia.edu/ 

 

In recent years, demands for historical justice have intensified in several
national contexts in the form of claims to right the historical wrongs of
European colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade by means of
reparations. These demands have primarily been met with skepticism and
distrust from national governments and a number of sections of civil
society. In a context of growing grassroots activism primarily from black
and indigenous communities around the world, an increasing number of
political representatives are nevertheless starting to come out in support
of material reparations. Reparations for the racialized descendants of
European colonialism and transatlantic slavery is now a conversation at the
highest levels of politics in the Global North in a potentially
unprecedented manner. 

 

Scholars dealing with questions of reparatory justice have tended to
sympathize with the moral sentiments surrounding symbolic practices of
reparations, but have often assumed the impossibility of widespread material
reparations in the context of colonialism and transatlantic slavery. The
scope of this emergent politics of repair is not exclusively moral, however,
it goes beyond apology and commitments to symbolic change. Taking seriously
reparatory justice in material terms thereby poses new demands to scholars
interested in social inequality, racism, colonialism, and reparations.

 

The broad goal of this workshop is to investigate the significance of a turn
to greater acceptance of material reparations for colonialism and slavery,
to investigate what widespread material reparations could look like, and to
probe the terms on which reparations would be capable of both enacting
repair and combating social inequality in capitalist, white supremacist, and
settler colonial contexts. The following questions serve as a guide, though
we welcome all papers that deal with the theme of reparatory justice in the
context of European colonialism and transatlantic slavery:

*	How can we understand the relationship between racial categorization
and reparatory justice - how do existing legal and political categories of
race, ethnicity, and indigeneity limit or enable the scope for reparatory
justice in various contexts? 
*	How do articulations of reparatory justice relate to wider questions
of social equality, political participation, and futures beyond
(neo-liberal) capitalism, white supremacy, and settler colonialism?
*	What could material reparations for histories of colonialism,
colonial genocide, and enslavement look like, how might they be adjudicated
and administered?
*	How might institutions, vernaculars, and methods of enacting justice
be organized and reorganized in order to provide an adequate means for
Western states to be made materially accountable for the history of
colonialism and its attendant structure of racialized violence? 
*	On what terms could reparations as a political and legal technology
be capable, in themselves of enacting repair, of righting the wrongs of the
past, especially in contexts of ongoing settler colonialism, climate
catastrophe, and white supremacy? 

 

The two-day workshop will take place at Columbia University in New York City
on May 7th and 8th 2020. A welcome address will be given on the first
morning by Professor David Scott, after which each participant will be
expected to present a paper of between 20 and 30 minutes. We welcome
dissertation or book chapters in progress. Participants are expected to send
final papers to the organizing committee two weeks in advance and we will
distribute the paper presentation to your fellow panelists. Scholars who are
invited to participate in the workshop may be eligible to receive a
financial contribution toward travel and accommodation. The stipend aims to
assist participants who do not have access to any funding from their
institutions, and who will not be able to attend the workshop without
assistance. Please indicate in your application a request to be considered
for a stipend.

 

Submission Guidelines

1.	To apply, please email applications and other questions to the
organizing committee at opircolumbia2020 at gmail.com by October 31st, 2019 at
11pm (EST). Final decisions for papers to be presented at the workshop will
be announced by November 15th 2019 at the latest.
2.	Applications should include:

A.	Abstract (max 500 words). The workshop is interdisciplinary so
please ensure that proposals can be understood by those outside of your
field.   
B.	CV (max 2 pages).
C.	Biography (max 250 words).

Please format all file names using "Lastname - Proposal"; "Lastname - CV";
"Lastname - Bio" (e.g., "Davis - Proposal", or "Davis - CV").

 

Further Information

The organizers of this conference are Ph.D. candidates in the Department of
Anthropology at Columbia University Anna Kirstine Schirrer
(aks2217 at columbia.edu <mailto:aks2217 at columbia.edu> ) and Howard Rechavia
Taylor (hrt2114 at columbia.edu <mailto:hrt2114 at columbia.edu> ). More details
on the program and venue will follow.

This event is sponsored by ISERP - Institute for Social and Economic
Research and Policy.

 

Contact Email: opircolumbia2020 at gmail.com
<mailto:opircolumbia2020 at gmail.com> 

 

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