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<b>Subject:</b> August 1 Deadline: Northwestern Graduate Student Political Theory Conference, "The Politics of Worldmaking"</font>
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<div dir="auto">Dear all,<br>
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We hope this email finds you well.<br>
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As you know, on November 10–11, Northwestern University will host its biennial graduate student political theory conference. Thank you for helping to spread the word to your students and colleagues! </div>
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<div dir="auto">As the submission deadline is drawing nearer, we'd like to send out a reminder about the event. Submissions are due
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<div dir="auto">The detailed call for papers can be found <a href="https://sites.northwestern.edu/politicaltheory/conference/the-politics-of-worldmaking/" data-auth="NotApplicable">here</a>, below, and attached as a pdf.<br>
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Please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your submissions!<br>
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Usdin Martínez, Sam McChesney, and Charlotte Mencke<br>
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<strong>Northwestern Graduate Student Political Theory Conference, "The Politics of Worldmaking” (November 10–11)</strong><br>
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<div dir="auto"><u><b>Call for papers:</b></u><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif">To think politically about and within “the world” is to call upon something shared in common across human and non-human life, and upon the meaning and content of political existence.
An orientation toward the world considers the conditions necessary for freedom and for the staging of public appearance, while contending with the multiple ways in which the apparatuses that sustain public life emerge, flourish, decline, or must be reimagined.
Worldmaking transgresses borders and boundaries of nation-state, East–West, metropole–periphery, etc., thinking in terms of flows, across territories, beyond regions, and through ecosystems animated by non-human agencies. Yet worldmaking, when linked to the
brutal construction and reproduction of global structures of domination, also requires critique, diagnosis, and attention to figures of the newly thinkable, to alternative projects and wild fabulations.</span></div>
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</font><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif">This conference invites graduate students to submit papers engaging the possibilities and limitations of theorizing worldmaking, worldbuilding, or worlding. What political visions and practices
are illuminated—or perhaps obscured—when we center the “world” in political theory? And what struggles, perplexities, crises, or catastrophes precipitate a turn to the “world” in political theory—or, alternatively, to a reinvention or withdrawal from it?</span><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif">“The Politics of Worldmaking” encourages papers that approach the world from a variety of perspectives (historical, critical, normative, comparative) in Political Theory and related
disciplines in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Potential topics and questions may include, but are not limited to, the following:</span></div>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">How the “world” and its associated verbs—worldmaking, worldbuilding, world-sustaining, world-destroying, worlding, etc.—appear in contemporary
political analysis;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">The apparatuses and infrastructures of public life, commons, public things;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">Imperial, anticolonial, transnational, and/or hemispheric thinking as worldmaking practices;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">Worldmaking before, during, or after crisis or catastrophe;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">Worldmaking and ancient political thought;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">The hermeneutics of worldmaking: how practices of listening, interpretation, truth-telling etc. relate to the making or unmaking of the world;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">Global and environmental political theory and</span> ecofeminisms<span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">The relation of worldmaking and sovereignty, including questions of non-sovereignty and its worldly conditions, collective sovereignty, and
the activities of homo faber;</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); background-color:initial; font-family:arial,sans-serif">Utopian political thought.</span></li></ul>
<div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif">The conference will offer attendees the chance to share their research on thematically-linked panels of around three participants. Panels will be chaired by members of the Northwestern
faculty, and each panel will be assigned a discussant from among Northwestern’s political theory graduate students.</span><br>
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<div dir="auto"><strong style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif">The deadline for submitting proposals is August 1.</strong><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif"> Paper proposals should be around 350 words and should
be formatted as a PDF document for blind review. Please submit a second PDF including your name, institutional affiliation, and your paper title. Decisions will be made and applicants notified by mid-August. Full papers will be required by mid-October to be
distributed to discussants and other panelists and attendees.</span><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif">Participants will receive a stipend of $150 each. We will not be able to provide travel assistance, but we can offer accommodation with our graduate students on a first-come, first-served
basis depending on availability, so please indicate in your application whether you would require lodging.</span><br>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif">For submissions and/or further information, please contact Usdin Martínez, Sam McChesney, and Charlotte Mencke at </span><a href="https://mailto:politicaltheory.nu@gmail.com/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">politicaltheory.nu@gmail.com</a><span style="color:rgb(52,47,46); font-family:arial,sans-serif">.</span></div>
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