philoSOPHIA: A Society for Transcontinental Feminism invites abstract submissions and workshop proposals for its 2027 online conference: Refugees of a World on Fire.

The theme takes inspiration from M. Jacqui Alexander’s provocation to the 1983 Foreword to This Bridge Called My Back, “What might it mean to see ourselves as ‘refugees of a world on fire’?” (in Pedagogies of Crossing, 2005, 264). From ever-expanding data centers, growing rates of mass incarceration and deportation, the global rise of authoritarianism, cultivation of fascistic passions, devasting climate catastrophes, dispossession and expropriation, the intensification of surveillance, the largest concentration of wealth in the hands of a few, and genocide, what had seemed like a state of exception has become normal, as if we have embraced the end of the world. What does it mean to inhabit a world on fire? Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Apocalyptic futures and fears of destructions

• Immigration, migration, borders

• Affectivities now: pessimism, apathy, resignation

• Borders and Carcerality

• Colonialism, Settler-colonialism, Anticolonial/Decolonial resistance

• Decolonial feminisms

• Capital, technology, power

• Violence, dispossession, displacement

• Fugitivity, marronage, lines of flight

• Anti-life grammars

• Transnational coalitions and strategies of resistance

• Queer and trans survival and resistance

• Black feminist thought

• Indigenous feminisms, land, sovereignty

• Crip time, futurity, world-ending

• Afrofuturism and speculative imagination

• Worldmaking and Radical Imaginaries

Submission Guidelines: 1. Cover page that includes i) title of abstract, ii) name, iii) affiliation, and iv) email address 2. 250-300 words abstract (excluding references), anonymized for peer review: tiny.cc/philosophia

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