Update: Due to extraordinary circumstances, the lecture has had to be cancelled. The workshop is still going ahead, however.
The Migrancy Research Group at Lancaster University is very excited to announce that Sandro Mezzadra will be giving a public lecture at Lancaster University on 19 February. To accompany this event, we are organising a workshop for PhD students and Early Career Researchers with professor Mezzadra. Please find the call for papers below. Please share this CFP with anyone who may be interested.
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Globalization, borders, and new geographies of inequality
A workshop with Sandro Mezzadra for PhD students and early career researchers
Lancaster University, 19 February 2020
The Migrancy Research Group at Lancaster University is very pleased to announce that Professor Sandro Mezzadra, political theorist based at University of Bologna and author (with Brett Neilson) of Border as Method (2013) and The Politics of Operations (2019) will be giving a Public Lecture at The Storey Institute in Lancaster, on 19 February 2020 at 6.30pm.
As part of this event, we are holding a workshop with Professor Mezzadra on theme of Globalization, borders, and new geographies of inequality, open to PhD students and early career researchers, to take place earlier in the day on 19 February 2020. The workshop will be a rare opportunity to engage in direct conversation with a distinguished scholar of contemporary capitalism and global borders and to exchange ideas with other members of the Migrancy Research community at Lancaster University.
The call is now open for contributions on the theme of the workshop, from PhD students, and early career researchers. We are seeking short interventions (of around 5 – 7 minutes to present) drawing on ongoing research, especially related to one or more of the following topics:
- The movements of people and things across national borders and jurisdictions;
- The policing of national borders and other forms of territorial control;
- Global crises (financial, environmental, humanitarian);
- Social movements, particularly mobilizing around the rights of workers, migrants and refugees;
- Late capitalism, empire and racialized governance;
- Nationalist politics in a global world.
To apply, please tell us, in 200 words: a) how your work speaks to the theme of the workshop b) what you propose to discuss in your contribution.
There are no fees. Lunch and refreshments will be provided free of charge to all participants, who are responsible however for any travel and accommodation expenses.
The deadline for expressions of interest is 13 December 2019. Decisions will be announced by 20 December. Please email your submission to mrg@lancaster.ac.uk.