Workshop: The University of Manchester, December 10th–11th, 2015
The workshop will be held at the University of Manchester, December 10 and 11, 2015. The following topics will be covered
- The Mediterranean Migrants Crisis: Critical Analyses
- Political Theologies of Martyrdom
- Writing a Vacuum: Ethnographies of Migration
- Phenomenology of Martyrdom: Sacrifice, Suicide, Killing
- The World Seen from a Boat: Statelessness and Mobile Geographies
- Martyrdom & World Religions: Critical Interpretations
- Bio-Sovereignty: The Body of the Migrant, the Remains of Citizenship
- Martyrdom in Context: Case Studies from around the World
- Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, America: Translating Narratives of Migration and Diasporas
- The Politics of Martyrdom: Self-Immolation and the Quest for Sovereignty
- Martyrdom as a Politics of Sacrifice