Call for Proposals is now open for the Thanatic Ethics Project’s International Conference on the topic of ‘Bodies on the Edge: Life and Death in Migration’.
The conference takes place from 28-30 April 2022, and contributions are specifically welcomed from the Humanities, Social Sciences and related disciplines on a number of themes detailed below.
Constantly surveilled yet paradoxically unseen, the bodies of dead migrants follow the tracks of the living on migratory routes. On their perilous journey to foreign lands, migrants come close to death or encounter it. Once settled, some of them yearn to be buried with their ancestors in their homeland, a few prefer the soil where their children grew up.
The Thanatic Ethics project explores the social implications and aesthetic representations of the circulation of bodies in migratory spaces. After a series of webinars and two workshops (October 2020 to September 2021), the Oxford Thanatic Ethics conference seeks to address the liminalities of life and death in migratory spaces.
Contributions are welcomed from the Humanities, Social Sciences and related disciplines (multi and transdisciplinary perspectives will be favoured) on the following themes (though not exclusively):
Methodologies addressing the relation between life and death: life writing, digital humanities, migration death databases, etc.
Contributors are invited to send their proposals (a 250-word abstract, title, author’s name, a 150-word bio, and contact information) to the conference email address: thanaticethics@gmail.com by 15 December 2021.
Each presentation should be 20 minutes (followed by discussion time). A selection of papers will be considered for publication.
For more information, please visit the Thanatic Ethics website.
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