Join us in welcoming Dr. Shahram Khosravi to the CMS International Research Conference.
Title: Bordered Imagination.
Abstract: When borders are constructed, they take on lives of their own. Borders change the social terrains and have deep impact on the social imaginaries and social relations even after they fall. The symbolic meaning of borders is greater than their physical presence. Borders produce new subjectivities, that deprive us the capacity to imagine a different form of organizing humanity and the earth, a world without borders. This talk is about the urgency of speculating the impossible.
Bio: Shahram Khosravi is professor of Anthropology at Stockholms University. His research interests include anthropology of Iran, forced displacement, border studies, and temporality. Khosravi is the author of several books such as : Young and Defiant in Tehran (2008); The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders, (2010); Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, (2017); After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives, Palgrave (2017, edited volume); Waiting. A project in Conversation (2021, edited volume), and Seeing Like a Smuggler (2022, edited volume). He has been an active writer in the international press. He is a co-founder of Critical Border Studies, a network for scholars, artists and activists to interact.
Dr. Khosravi’s keynote address will open the inaugural CMS International Research Conference, organized in collaboration with Queen’s University, Belfast.
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