We are pleased to announce the full program for the Seventh Global Conference of WISC, which will be held in Warsaw on 24-26 July 2024. For your convenience, a directory of confirmed participants is also available for consultation. You can browse the list here. Additionally, you can download a PDF copy here.
ID: 903 Exploratory Research Workshop WISC Member Associations: Not Applicable Keywords: global history, eurocentrism, critical theory, political violence, multiplicity
Absence – Silence – Temporalities
Chair(s): Dr. Renske Vos (VU Amsterdam)
Presenter(s): Dr. Katja Freistein (Academy of International Affairs Bonn), Prof. Vivienne Jabri (King's College London), Dr. Zeynep Gulsah Capan (University of Erfurt), Prof. Pinar Bilgin (Bilkent University), Dr. Renske Vos (VU Amsterdam)
The principle aim of the workshop is to explore the concepts of absence, silence, and temporality. More specifically, the workshop aims to interrogate the interrelations of these three concepts and to uncover new insights and perspectives that can contribute to the ongoing development of international studies. Through juxtaposing the notions of absence, silence and temporality, the proposed workshop seeks to explore what purchase is to be gained by bringing these disparate literatures into conversation with one another. For, until now, absence and silence have been studied in relation to binaries, i.e. absence/presence and silence/voice. Whereas, bringing temporality into the analytic frame could open up the study of absences that are not the opposite of present, and silences that are not the opposite of voiced. Such explorations have the potential to make sense of the changing nature of global power dynamics and vocalisations of desire for different ways of ordering the world.
Questions that the workshop raises include:
• How do we conceptually work with multiple temporalities?
• How does time feature in absence?
• What is the temporal relationship with global history in eurocentrism?
• Is the category of space more stable than time?
• What are the ontological and epistemological challenges posed by absence, silence and temporality?
• Does something have to be seen/heard in order to be able to be known?
• How do you work with conditioned ways of seeing/hearing/imagining that invisibilise, silence, and absent?
• Can there be productive workings of silence and absence without intentionality?
