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CALL FOR PAPERS<\/strong> Abstract<\/em> Submission <\/span>Deadline: <\/span> April 1, 2021<\/span>
\nCamps, (In)justice, and Solidarity in the Americas<\/strong>
\nCommemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Guant\u00e1namo Bay Detention Camps
\nJanuary 28-31, 2022, University of Graz, Austria<\/strong>
\nThe 1st Graz\/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human Rights
\nfrom an Inter-American Perspective
\nOrganized by the Center for Inter-American Studies<\/strong><\/a>, University of Graz, together with the
\nDepartment of English<\/strong><\/a>, College of Humanities, University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nJanuary 2022 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the Guant\u00e1namo Bay
\ndetention camps, after which they were used as a U.S. military prison just months after the
\nterrorist attacks of 9\/11 in 2001. Such anniversaries offer opportunities to pause, look back, and
\nimagine the future anew, but what insights will this one foster? Shortly after detention operations involving suspected terrorists began at Guant\u00e1namo Bay, the late American Studies scholar Amy Kaplan referred to the U.S. naval base as \u201ca location where many narratives about the Americas intersect\u201d and speculated that it was an anomaly that could become a norm. In the almost two decades that have passed since then, the narratives that Kaplan refers to still call for analysis and discussion. We therefore invite you to contextualize detention in terms of a broad typology of camps and camp-like institutions in the Americas: detention and internment camps, prisoner-ofwar camps, labor camps, black sites, offshore detention centers, concentration and re-education camps, and prison units, among others. Graz stands out as an appropriate environment for exploring these topics given its status as the first European \u201cHuman Rights City.\u201d The aim of the conference is to facilitate interdisciplinary and intersectional exchange and discourse by featuring work that explores narratives of (in)justices, human rights, and solidarities in the Americas.
\nAbstracts of 200-350 words for a 20-minute presentation or a poster should be submitted to <\/strong>camps2022@uni-graz.at by April 1, 2021<\/strong>. Please, include a biography of 100 words or less.
\nProposals for presenting poetry, art, film, and other creative work will also be considered. The
\nlanguages of the conference are English and Spanish, and abstracts will be accepted in both
\nlanguages. Topics to be addressed at the conference include but are not limited to:
\n\u2022<\/span> The past and current status of Guant\u00e1namo Bay\u2019s detention facilities
\n\u2022<\/span> Indian reductions (reducciones de indios) and Native American reservations
\n\u2022<\/span> Prisoners of war and refugee camps, such as in WW I and II, in the Americas
\n\u2022<\/span> Activism and human rights advocacy in the Americas
\n\u2022<\/span> Memoirs, essays, and poetry by former detainees in the Americas
\n\u2022<\/span> Dimensions of personal identity (intersections of race, class, gender, religion, age, sexual
\norientation) in the context of detention camps and facilities in the Americas
\n\u2022<\/span> Truth and reconciliation commissions in the Americas and on the global scale
\n\u2022<\/span> Abolitionism, military prisons and detention
\n\u2022<\/span> Censorship and other reactions to art by former detainees and prisoners
\n\u2022<\/span> Representations of detention facilities in the Americas in media, art and popular culture
\n\u2022<\/span> Guant\u00e1namo, the War on Terror and other detention facilities in the university classroom
\n\u2022<\/span> Political discourse analysis and (anti-)terrorism
\n\u2022<\/span> (In)Just treatment and violations of the human rights of detainees in the Americas
\n\u2022<\/span> Intersectional solidarity and the future
\nThe conference will feature presentations by keynote speakers, specialists on Guant\u00e1namo, and
\nscholars from a wide range of fields. It will include sessions on special topics, a poster session,
\nand an excursion to a former concentration camp at nearby Wagna\/Leibnitz. A selection of
\npresentations will be published in an edited volume following the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aassee.ffzg.unizg.hr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}