Deadline: Monday 30 March 2015

Doing Justice to Figures and Figuration is a one-day postgraduate research symposium at LSE on Friday 9 June.

Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers which might address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Figuration in feminist, critical race, postcolonial, and queer scholarship
• Contemporary mobilizations of figures in social life and social research
• Troubling representation
• Practices of figuration across spheres and in (inter)disciplinary locations
• Difficulties of transgression and justice in critical social science scholarship
• Figures as individuating or collectivizing strategies
• Figuration’s relationship with state projects, globalization, and neoliberalism
• Figures as heroic, utopian, “modern,” negative, dangerous, or abjected
• The significance of figures to methodological and theoretical approaches
• The role and utility of affect in social regulation and scholarship

Submit abstracts of 300-500 words along with a short biography of 150 words to E.J.Spruce@lse.ac.uk and for further details, see the Doing Justice to Figures and Figuration website.

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