Konferencja "Spaces of the Political"
Zapraszamy do udziału w międzynarodowej konferencji naukowej 10-11 czerwca na Kampusie Głównym Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego.
Guest speakers: Michał Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań); Penny Harvey (University of Manchester); Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge); Jonathan Spencer (University of Edinburgh)
The conference interrogates political anthropology through a focus on space. What are the spaces of the political today? Where is the political located and how do different spaces shape political relations? Our interests range from the intimate spaces of the home and the body to spatialising states, to the political economy of world-systems and the geopolitics of empires, to the planetary politics of climate change, resource control, and deterritorialised sovereignty. How are the different spaces made and unmade? How do they condition emerging political configurations and dynamics? How are scales and connections produced, maintained, and unmade? What are the relationships between space, scale, and the state?
10 June, 10.00-17.00, Kazimierzowski Palace (room: Sala Brudzińskiego)
11 June, 10.00-16.45, Faculty of History Building (room A)
PROGRAMME
Day 1, 10 June, Kazimierzowski Palace (room: Sala Brudzińskiego)
10:00-10.15 Opening remarks
10.15-11.45 Opening roundtable: What spaces for political anthropology? (M. Buchowski, P. Harvey, Y. Navaro, J. Spencer)
11.45-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.30 Panel I: Affective Spaces:
- Deniz Coral – Ghosts from the Future: Notes on the White Collar Precarity
- Justyna Szymańska – Spaces of Hope: Affective Dimensions of Citizenship in Eastern Ukraine
- Fuad Musallam – ‘Hamra Is Not a SafeSspace / Hamra is the Only Space That Is Ours’: Political Subjectivity, Contested Claim-Making, and Affective Space in Beirut, Lebanon
- Jean-Baptiste Pettier – The Paradoxical Agora: Examining the Bodily Presence of Politics in Chinese Marriage Markets
- Megan S. Raschig – Dwelling Otherwise in State Disavowal: Relational Spacingsof Politics of Healing in California
Discussant: Yael Navaro
13.30-15.30 Lunch
15.30-17.00 Panel II: Spatializing the ‘Post-’: Socialism, Colonialism, Difference, Relation:
- Marek Berezowski – Citymorphosis
- Eeva Kesküla – Multiple Temporalities in the Space of a Post-Soviet mine
- Hyun-Gwi Park – Green Space in Forbidden Border Zones: Colonialism, Cold War and Geopolitical Nature
- Marta Songin-Mokrzan – The Special Economic Zone: Material and Imaginative Manifestations of Economic Growth in Rural Southwestern Poland
Discussant: Michał Buchowski
Day 2, 11 June, Faculty of History Building (room A)
10.00-11.30 Panel III: Infrastructures of (Dis-)Connection:
- Amanda Krzyworzeka – Identity by Infrastructure
- Gabriella Körling – Waiting for the Railway and the Dry Port: Imagining Future Prosperity at a Disconnected Crossroads
- Amina Nolte – Connecting to Disconnect: Researching Infrastructure in Contested Jerusalem
- Ezgican Özdemir – Fluid (Dis)Connections and Moral Struggles: The Politics of Water in Northern Cyprus
- Yi Huang – A Road to the ‘Hidden Place’: An Ethnography of Medog Highway in Tibet
Discussant: Penny Harvey
11.30-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.00 Panel IV: Terrains of Excess: Politics, Spectacle, Violence:
- Olivia Casagrande – A Landscape of Struggle: Displacement, Politics and Resistance through the Indigenous Concept of Mapu
- Saygun Gokariksel – The Spectacles of Violence and Justice in a Postsocialist City
- Maria Schwertl – Technologies and the Question of Militarizing EUropean Borders
- Weronika Plińska – Rainbow in Flames
Discussant: Jonathan Spencer
13.00-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.30 Concluding discussion