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<span style="font-size:13.999999999999998pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">The Witch Institute: CALL FOR PROPOSALS</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">August 16-22, 2021; Virtual Event </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">Queen’s University*</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">*Queen’s University is situated on
</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#201f1e;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:700">What is the Witch Institute?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">In the last few years, the witch has re-emerged as a powerful political symbol. Across cinemas and television, in books and podcasts, and via hashtag activism, the proliferation
of the witch in media signals a critique of the existing world order and its reliance on the subjugation of marginalized peoples. In order to better understand the meaning and impact of current media representations of the witch, we will hold an expanded conversation
between activists, artists, filmmakers, curators, historians, scholars, witches, feminists, healers, and more.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">The Witch Institute is a collaborative meeting space for those who are interested in responding to contemporary imaginings of the witch in popular and visual culture.
It is a place to share diverse understandings of witches and witchcraft, and to complicate, reframe, and remediate media representations that often continue to perpetuate colonial, misogynistic, and Eurocentric stereotypes of the archetypal figure. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">The Witch Institute will present a keynote lecture by Dr. Silvia Federici, along with a series of talks, panel discussions, film screenings, art exhibitions, performances,
and workshops occurring over August 16 to 22, 2021. All events will be free, open to the public, and accessible online. Registration opens January 25, 2021.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">Call for Proposals:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">We are seeking round table participants and workshop leaders. We invite proposals from artists, researchers, and practitioners. We encourage a diversity of voices as
part of this exchange, and highly encourage submissions from members of marginalized communities, including BIPOC and 2SLBGTQ participants.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">Round Tables</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">. We are looking for participants who wish to discuss
their research with a group. Each session will include 3-4 artists, researchers, or practitioners. Attendees will read short texts (maximum 5-pages in length) or review documentation of panelists’ work in advance. The sessions will be devoted to 75-minute
moderated discussions. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">Workshops.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400"> We are seeking proposals for 60-minute interactive virtual
sessions. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">We invite proposals that contribute to topics including, but not limited to, the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-style:italic">Witchcraft and Colonization</span><span>: colonial denigration and erasure of Black or Indigenous spiritual knowledges and practices; reclamation of Black or Indigenous spiritual knowledges, practices, and more-than-human relationalities
as anti-colonial resistance or as decolonial projects; cultural evolutions, exchanges, and appropriations among historical and contemporary witch practices. </span></p>
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<span style="font-style:italic">Witch Hunts and the State</span><span>: on-going witch hunts and their interconnected histories of colonization and globalization; witch-hunting as state-sanctioned violence; enforcement of anti-witchcraft legislation in colonial,
postcolonial, and settler-colonial nation-states. </span></p>
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<span style="font-style:italic">Technology and Magic</span><span>:</span><span style="font-weight:700"> </span><span>traditions of magic, alternative healing practices, and/or spirituality as technology; visual effects, illusions, and magic on screen and stage;
technological mediation and the supernatural; technology and the senses; the body and other mediums for spiritual messages.</span></p>
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<span style="font-style:italic">Witchcraft as Ritual, Practice, and Pedagogy</span><span>: ritual as a form of learning-by-doing; oral traditions and decolonial practices of knowledge transmission; pedagogical uses of the witch, witchcraft, and/or ritual practices;
the perspectives of contemporary practitioners; religious lineages of Wicca and Paganism; intergenerational exchange, kinship, more-than-human relations, and covens; the relationship between witchcraft and feminism.</span></p>
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<span style="font-style:italic">The Witch as Text:</span><span> representations of the witch, witchcraft, and spiritual practices in literature, film, music, fashion, art, and popular culture; the commodification of the witch; texts as restoring, or healing
the denigration of colonization; shifting perceptions, receptions, and circulations of witchcraft in the context of colonization and globalization.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">Submissions:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">Those interested in participating in the round table or organizing a workshop, please submit:</span></p>
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<span>a 250 word abstract of your research or description of your workshop </span></p>
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<span>which of the above topic(s) you see your work fitting into (if applicable)</span></p>
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<span>for roundtable submissions: 2 or 3 questions you would like to discuss with a group who will read your paper/look at your artwork in advance;</span></p>
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<span>a 150 word bio. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">Submissions should be sent to
</span><a href="mailto:witch.institute@queensu.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline">witch.institute@queensu.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400"> by
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:700">January 25, 2021</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">The Witch Institute is committed to accessibility in all phases of the project. If you have any questions or needs concerning this call, please feel free to send Emily
Pelstring (she/her) an email at </span><a href="mailto:emily.pelstring@queensu.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline">emily.pelstring@queensu.ca</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;font-weight:400">This project has received SSHRC funding. <br></span></p>
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