CO-SPONSORSHIP: Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit and Theology and Religious Reflection Unit

"Haunting Future/s," for a potential panel co-sponsored by the Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit and Theology and Religious Reflection Unit:

• In response to this year’s presidential theme, we invite papers that investigate questions of futurity in theological and colonial discourses on haunting, spectrality, and ghostliness. Topics can include but are not limited to:
  • Political messianism
  • The “post” of postcolonialism
  • “Vanishing races”
  • (Post-)Colonial Melancholia
  • Fascism and utopia in the settler colony (re: Jameson?)
  • Theology and horror
  • Theologies of spectral media
  • Necropolitics and biopolitics
  • Spectrality and the archive
  • Imperial boomerangs
  • "Survivance"
  • Ancestral presences and interventions