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CFP: Hybrid Entities [17 January 2005]
Intersections 2005: HYBRID ENTITIES
Call For Proposals
A Graduate Student Creative Conference Hosted by the students of the Joint
Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture York University and Ryerson
University, Toronto, Canada March 18-20, 2005
We invite all interested graduate students to join us for our 4th annual
Intersections event, expanded this year into a weekend Creative Conference.
As scholars doing interdisciplinary work in a joint programme, we are
especially interested in encountering and generating significant
intersections of art, activism and academia. How can we remix resistance?
What can mongrel media make possible? How does contemporary culture rework
us? Which beings, theories, technologies, cultures, languages,
representations and values compound into interesting hybrid entities and
identities?
HYBRID ENTITIES is a call for works that take up what is revealed when
entities collide and the creative or transformative possibilities in
interesting combinations and connections. After last year's successful
conference around themes of lag, error, breaks and gaps, our focus now turns
to links, networks, compositions and new creations. We are interested in
submissions that explore these intersections where names have not yet been
given, where identities are still being formed and where new problems and
possibilities for bridging the gaps among scholarly disciplines, and between
scholars, artists and activists can be found.
Open to all graduate students, this interdisciplinary conference welcomes
submissions that take up these themes either through a paper presentation,
an artistic expression, or an activist agenda. Details on subtopics and
submission procedures follow below.
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SUBTOPICS AND THEMES
Invited submissions include papers, artwork and activist presentations that
relate to the following broad themes:
Media and Culture Topics could include (but are not limited to) subjectivity, popular and visual culture, media studies, cultural consumption and production, media democracy, representations of sexualities/race/ethnicity, gender studies, portrayals of social class, depictions of ability/disability, semiotics and linguistics, cultures of cities, space and place.
Technology in Practice Submissions in this category might address (but are not limited to) questions regarding technology's emergent role in theoretical and practical debates surrounding art, authenticity, and aesthetics, negotiations of accessibility and identity, race and gender, explorations in the concepts of the cyborg, the post-human, and technoculture.
Politics and Policy Potential areas of focus could include (but are not
limited to) strategies of resistance, questions of structure, power and
agency, deliberations about the communication and culture and the public
sphere, sovereignty, accessibility, cultural policy, citizenship,
globalization, copyright and intellectual property, privacy and
surveillance, media ownership in Canada, communication policy.
SUBMISSION FORMAT/DEADLINES
As an expanded event, this year HYBRID ENTITIES will include the following
formats for disseminating and discussing ideas.
Paper presentations - 15 min. presentation of an academic paper with time
for discussion to follow
Creative work with artist's talk - Artwork/media for exhibition, accompanied
by artist talk during conference
Poster session (with possible roundtable discussion) - Presentation of
materials in a poster and/or table display with discussant. If enough
interest, these displays may be followed by a roundtable discussion.
Although these formats are tailored to accommodate academic papers, artwork
and activist contributions respectively, all participants are encouraged to
apply for whatever format is most interesting or appropriate for your
submission.
All interested participants are asked to submit a textual abstract or
artist's statement explaining the proposed presentation in light of the
conference themes, and indicate which of the above three formats the
presentation would take.
Abstract or statement should be no more than 250 words (approx. 1
typewritten page, double spaced) and submitted via email as an attachment in
.TXT, .RTF, or Microsoft Word format.
Name and contact information should not appear on this page. Please include
a separate page with the following information:
- Title of presentation as it appears on the abstract or statement
- Name
- Affiliation (program and university)
- Level and year of study (ex. Master's, 2nd year)
- Phone number
- E-mail address
- Mailing address
- A/V requirements (computer/projector, film projector, VCR, stereo, turntables, etc.)
- Other requirements (table, easel, hooks, display materials). If you have exceptional requirements for your work, please contact us to discuss feasibility.
Artists are also asked to submit a small sample of their work for adjudication, by either email or post.
If sending creative works by email, please submit up to 10 jpegs sized to display onscreen or a multimedia clip with cumulative attachment size of 5mb or less. You may also direct us to an URL. Please number the pieces and put viewing instructions, comments and titles in your email if applicable.
If submitting creative works by post, please mail the proposal well before the deadline with a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return to: Intersections, c/o Graduate Communication and Culture, 3068 TEL Building, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3. You may send a CD, DVD, cued video or other multimedia, the duration of which does not exceed 10 minutes. Alternatively, you may send up to 10 slides or printouts of work, illustrations or diagrams. Please include a slide or media list with title, size, media, and date, and viewing instructions for your work if applicable. Please do not send original work.
Deadline: MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2005.
Please e-mail submissions to: intersec@ryerson.ca
For inquires and info e-mail: tanner1@yorku.ca
CFP available online: http://www.yorku.ca/cocugsa/conference.html
posted 12/10/2004
CFP: Public Displays of Affection [15 December 2004]
Public Displays of Affection
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Visual and Cultural Studies Program
University of Rochester
Friday, April 8 & Saturday, April 9, 2005
Keynote speaker will be Professor Laura Kipnis of Northwestern University.
Civility can be viewed as a series of performances that generate a range of emotions, including the patriotism of war, the joys of shopping, and the fear of urban crime. The public display of affection constitutes a contest of meaning in which various appeals are made to organize the emotional life of the individual and the rules of decorum. To be convinced of this idea one only has to turn on the television. From the not-so carefully scripted emotions of the recent Presidential debates, to the ongoing pageantry of heteronormative romance, to the proscribed images of mourning for war casualties, it appears that the politics of putting your heart into the public sphere are by no means certain, but certainly meaningful.
PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION aims to explore the value of affect and its exhibition in public. Disturbed by formations of the public sphere as a wholly rational space for the exchange of collective ideas and actions, we turn instead towards the multiple meanings or uses of public feelings. We are interested in the specificity or uniqueness of emotions and how they shape historical moments and geographic sites.
We invite proposals from across disciplines, research interests and
theoretical persuasions that engage with P.D.A. through specific forms
of display: museums, galleries, mass media, film, theatres, festivals,
etc. Possible areas of inquiry might include, but are not limited to:
Nationalism and/or spectacular nations
Political protest
Public/private space
Public sex
Marriage
Family
Feminism
Queer history and theory
Empathy, sentiment, depression, rage and other kinds of affect
***DEADLINE for submissions: December 15, 2004***
Submissions for 20-minute papers should be in abstract form (250-500 words). A self-addressed stamped envelope must accompany all submissions requiring return. Please include e-mail addresses with all submissions whenever possible. Abstracts and inquiries may be sent via e-mail to: vcsconf@mail.rochester.edu.
Printed submissions should be sent to:
Organizing Committee for "Public Displays of Affection"
c/o Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
424 Morey Hall
University of Rochester
Box 270456
Rochester, NY 14627-0456
posted 12/01/2004
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