<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"></div><div class="gmail_quote">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Though it feels bizarre to continue circulating a CfP at the moment, we are sending this out with a discussant now attached (Laura Kunreuther, Bard College) for those who may be interested. </div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Best,</div><div class="gmail_quote">Lily and Aron<br><div><br></div><div>See description below, and please circulate widely. If interested, please send a 250-word or less abstract to Lily Ye (<a href="mailto:lilyye@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">lilyye@uchicago.edu</a>) and Aron Marie (<a href="mailto:aronmarie@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">aronmarie@uchicago.edu</a>) by Monday, March 23. </div><div><br><div><b>Politics of Mediation</b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Abstract</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">This panel concerns the reflexive uptake of mediation as a politically or socially charged act. We define mediation broadly as the action of any third party in producing a relationship between two entities, held to be distinct, and take as given that mediation is a constitutive, unavoidable phenomenon in social/material life. In particular, we examine attempts to erase mediators in the service of truth, fidelity, objectivity, authentic voice and other presumed goods, for example, in attempts to faithfully translate research findings into contexts of practice in American education.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">We seek to examine mediation in any form or modality, from documents and videos, to translators and interpreters, to political events and speeches, and so on. We consider ideologies of mediation across various political contexts, from the work of sign language interpreters in mediating the political representation of deaf people in Vietnam, to that of research intermediaries in mediating the implementation of educational interventions in the US. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div>What are the consequences of political vision becoming trained upon mediation as a problem or solution? How do ideologies of mediation come to themselves mediate particular forms of social/political organization, and vice versa? In what contexts is mediation valued and when is it derided? How does mediation become a site of ethics, and what animates ethical debates around mediation? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;white-space:pre-wrap">Discussant: Laura Kunreuther (Bard College)</span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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