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CfP: Hospitality, hostility and everything in between in an era of forced displacements
Drawing on discussions in the social sciences and humanities as well as activist and artistic practices, this conference aims to bring together leading international scholars, early career researchers, postgraduate students, artists and activists to explore and share perspectives on the diverse meanings of hospitality and how it is being imagined and practiced.
Focusing on intersecting discourses that shape the understanding and practices of hospitality and its dynamic and fragile relation to hostility, we encourage contributions that explore how hospitality and hosting relationships are inflected by intersecting categories such as gender, race, faith, and sexuality. By exploring hospitality through different disciplines, methodologies and at varying scales, we aim to offer an interdisciplinary space, that can illuminate and interrogate how the interaniminations between migration, citizenship and geographies of welcome (and hostility) operate and are experienced in different national and local settings. We welcome submissions that depart from traditional academic papers as well as interdisciplinary interactions and/or use performance. The possible themes include the following but are not limited to:

- (Un)conditionality of hospitality
- Hospitality and hostility
- The gendering labour of hospitality
- Faith-based and secular hospitalities
- Literary and artistic hospitality
- Whiteness and hospitality
- Postcolonial hospitality
- Refugee hospitality
- Governmental hospitality and hostility
- Hostile and hospitable media
- Hospitable methods
- Rescue narratives
- Cripping hospitality- bodies and care
- Queer migration and hospitality

This two-day conference will be held as a part of the project Cartographies of Hospitality (funded by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation) located at the Department of Ethnology, History of Religions and Gender Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Department of Ethnology at Stockholm University support the conference.

Abstracts (250 words) specifying your contribution as it relates to the themes of hospitality and migration should be sent by 14 January 2018. Decisions will be communicated in the week beginning the 28 January 2019. Papers, presentations and performances submitted for the event will also be considered for inclusion in a proposal for a special issue to a peer reviewed academic journal and an edited anthology.

Confirmed keynote speakers are:
Professor Meyda Yeğenoğlu, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Sociology and Cultural studies. She is currently visiting Professor at Duke University’s Programme on Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. She is the author of Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe (2012) and Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (1998) and
Dr Yasmin Gunaratnam is a Reader at the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Some of her important publications include, Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies (2017), Death and the Migrant (2013) and Researching Race and Ethnicity (2003).
Dr. Ioana Szeman is a reader, performance studies scholar and an ethnographer at the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Roehampton, London. Her book Staging Citizenship: Roma, Performance and Belonging in EU Romania (2018) is based on ethnographic fieldwork with urban Roma.
Organizer: Stockholm University
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