Representing Humanitarianism / Représenter
> l’Humanitarisme

> Since
> January 2014 the Emborders project, based at the
> Mediterranean Laboratory of Sociology - LAMES (MMSH/Aix
> -Marseille University) has looked critically at humanitarian
> interventions and policies addressing victims of sex
> trafficking and sexual minority asylum seekers in in the UK
> and France. The project examines the workings of ‘sexual
> humanitarianism’, a concept created by Nicola Mai to
> understand and represent the humanitarian governance of
> undesirable migrants that are framed as vulnerable according
> to their gender, sexual orientation and/or
> behaviour.
>
> -
> What is at stake when sexuality/gender are rendered an
> apparatus
> of rights-claims in the context of migration control?
> - How do sexuality and gender-related moral panics function
> when migrant populations are specifically targeted?
> • How do the neoliberal imperatives of guaranteeing
> freedom and making the State secure co-exist in processes of
> filtering populations at the borders?
> - Which artistic, political, policymaking, documentary and
> fictional representations naturalise and operationalise
> sexual humanitarianism?
>
> Throughout the workshop we will engage with artists,
> filmmakers, journalists and scholars from a variety of
> disciplines (Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, Political
> Science) whose scholarship is focused on sexuality, gender
> and migration issues. However, we also want to
> encourage scholars working on other themes to apply. We will
> address questions in relation to the recent formation of
> sexual humanitarianism as a logic that protects and controls
> the presence of migrants in the neoliberal state. We will
> ask workshop participants to think through the ways in which
> sexual humanitarianism applies to their objects of
> analysis.
>
> Please submit a proposal (max. 300 words) with a short
> biographical note (max. 150 words) to Dr Calogero Giamettagiametta@mmsh.univ-aix.fr and
> Prof Nicola Mai mai@mmsh.univ-aix.fr.
> In order to maximize discussion time in the context of the
> workshops we will ask selected participants to send us a
> short paper (max. 2,500 words) relating to their
> presentation, which we can circulate in advance of the
> workshop.
>
> The papers presented at the workshop will be published in a
> special issue of a peer reviewed journal in English.
>
> The languages of the workshop will be English and
> French.
> (Deadline
> 30 May 2015)
> Location: MUCEM -
> Marseille (France)
> Date: Wednesday,
> September 23at
> 10:00 am
>
> Best
> wishes,Calo
> --
> Dr Calogero
> Giametta
> Post-doctoral Research
> FellowLAMES (Aix-Marseille Université)
>
> Maison Méditerranéenne des
> Sciences de l’Homme5, rue du Château de
> l’Horloge. Aix-en-ProvenceTel.
> France (+33) 0635 463 423UK (+44)
> 07512 091 348http://www.lames.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article329&lang=fr