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DESCRIPTION:*postponed*\n\nhttp://containmentandintimacy.ca\n\nDepartments 
 of East Asian Studies &\n	Art History & Communication Studies\n\nKeynote sp
 eakers: Ara Wilson and Jie Li\n\nColonialism operates through cultural and
  ideological techniques of categorization\, sorting\, and containment. Thi
 s positions some as liberal sovereign subjects and others as objects of kn
 owledge whose modes of existence can be grasped in their entirety from the
  outside. Colonial forms of knowledge and governance rely on processes of 
 assigning values and labels that enable the organization of the world into
  discrete and knowable entities. Although these knowledge relations act as
  forms of containment\, they are also experienced in intimate and embodied
  ways. Power attempts to contain intimacy to the bounded liberal subject\,
  the self-entrepreneur\, the nuclear family\, the domestic sphere\, and na
 tional belonging. However\, this containment is never perfect\, as intimac
 ies leak out\, extend beyond\, and are always already forged within the co
 nditions of global\, imperial\, capitalist orders.\n\nWhile intimacy’s mos
 t common referents are relations of proximity—familiar\, bodily\, personal
 \, or perhaps private—feminist\, queer and anti-colonial scholars have dis
 rupted such understandings\, pointing to intimacy as a key domain of the m
 icrophysics of power in modern life (Lowe 2014\, Oswin 2010\, Wilson 2016)
 . These critical modes of engagement are particularly relevant in the cont
 emporary moment\, in which fascist movements\, crises of sovereignty\, and
  the climate catastrophe are on the rise. These not only suggest the need 
 for deep transformations of our ways of being in the world\, but also dema
 nd attention to the disintegration of colonial modes of containment. These
  transitional times require us to think with and form new modes of contain
 ment and relations of intimacy. For those communities who have been (and c
 ontinue to be) subjected to the destructive\, dehumanizing and dispossessi
 ve effects of colonialism and capitalism\, this moment is not “new” but ra
 ther the latest in a series of ongoing crises. This begs the questions: wh
 o defines this moment of crisis? Crisis for whom? What narratives\, histor
 ies\, images\, and objects are imbricated in constructing this moment\, an
 d which are rendered invisible? How can we begin fracturing\, deconstructi
 ng\, and remaking the relations and categories through which we make sense
  of the world?\n\nMore information coming soon\n
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SUMMARY:*postponed* Speaker Series | Containment + Intimacy Interdiscipinar
 y Graduate Symposium
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 ainment-intimacy-interdiscipinary-graduate-symposium-303689
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