Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region, in partnership with the Columbia University Oral History Research Office and the New York Public Library for the Performing arts, invites proposals for papers and performances for the March 14 and 15, 2008 Oral History and Performance Conference, to be held at Columbia University in New York City.
As one of the great performing arts meccas of the world and a vital center for community-based and grassroots oral history research, New York City is an ideal place to explore the intersection of oral history and performance. The conference program committee hopes to bring together performing artists, oral historians, and other practitioners in a multi-disciplinary conference that will highlight the diversity of work centered around oral history and performance.
Where oral history and performance meet lies an important emerging field of endeavor, with rich cross-disciplinary resonances across anthropology, sociology, history, performance studies, art history, public history, arts-based education, community development and many other areas. Performances, in a variety of genres, are a powerful means for increasing access to oral history sources and engaging broad audiences with diverse historical materials. Proposals dealing with the methodological and theoretical issues around transforming interviews into performances are welcome. This conference should also provide an opportunity to examine how stories are performed, in interviews and in other contexts.
The program committee welcomes proposals using multiple approaches, media, and theoretical frameworks, falling at various points along the wide continuum of paper and performance.
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2007. See the Call for Papers and Performances for full details, available online at
http://www.ohmar.org/pastconferences/conf2008spring.htm.
Conference Program Committee:
Renee Braden, National Geographic Society
Jeff Friedman, Rutgers University
Susan Kraft, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Harriet Lynn, Heritage Theatre Artists' Consortium
Amy Starecheski, Columbia University Oral History Research Office
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
CFP: New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Call for Papers for Volume 1, Issue 2.
The Editorial Collective invites submissions from politically engaged
scholars that discus the linkage between their political engagements and
their academic work.
Papers should be no more than 3,000 - 5,000 words. References and citations
are to be kept to the minimum required to advance your argument. Articles
can be based in original research, synthetic reviews, or theoretical
engagements. We look forward to -in fact expect- a diversity of
perspectives and approaches that, while they may disagree on the
particulars, they will share with the Editorial Collective a commitment to
an engaged scholarship that prioritizes social justice.
New Proposals is a transnational peer-reviewed journal hosted at The
University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library
EJournal Project.
________________________________________________________________________
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals
The Editorial Collective invites submissions from politically engaged
scholars that discus the linkage between their political engagements and
their academic work.
Papers should be no more than 3,000 - 5,000 words. References and citations
are to be kept to the minimum required to advance your argument. Articles
can be based in original research, synthetic reviews, or theoretical
engagements. We look forward to -in fact expect- a diversity of
perspectives and approaches that, while they may disagree on the
particulars, they will share with the Editorial Collective a commitment to
an engaged scholarship that prioritizes social justice.
New Proposals is a transnational peer-reviewed journal hosted at The
University of British Columbia in collaboration with the UBC Library
EJournal Project.
________________________________________________________________________
New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry
http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Beyond Signification
Beyond Signification - The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism
Appel à contribution
Date limite : 30 août 2007
Information publiée le mercredi 8 août 2007 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Jan Wopking)
Beyond Signification (Nach den Zeichen)
On the 7th and 8th of December 2007 the Department of Philosophy at Free University Berlin will host its second International Graduate Conference for Philosophy. This year´s conference addresses the recent comeback of concepts such as substance, presence and reality in and outside the Humanities and the crisis of poststructuralism that accompanies it.
Deadline: 30th of August 2007!
conference homepage: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Call for Papers
Beyond Signification. The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism.
Today a growing number of people in the Humanities suggest that the times of poststructuralism have come to an end. According to them we concentrated on symbols, signs and discourse for far too long. Did we not thereby forget the reality of things? How do we account for the materiality of media, experiments, and writing? What happened to reality, substantiality and presence? This conference aims at discussing contemporary critiques of poststructuralism, its historical conditions, its impact on the present, and its implications for the future. Does poststructuralism really fail to acknowledge reality? How do we evaluate the emerging new theories that challenge poststructuralism? We would like to suggest three main areas for discussion:
1. How important are concepts like “reality” and “materiality” for contemporary debates in the Humanities? On the one hand there is increasing demand for the rehabilitation of a non-discursive reality; on the other hand there is a growing scepticism towards ideas such as the worldmaking power of discourse or the “free play of the signifyer”. In recent years this led to the development of new versions of cultural materialism. How do these conceive of culture and reality, of man and the world? What are their advantages and disadvantges and how big is their impact on the humanities? Do we witness a lasting turn form poststructuralism to cultural materialism, from symbol to substance?
2. Is the return of the real limited to academia or is it part of a more general shift that affects social and politial life as a whole? Outside of university, various discourses emphasise the constraints of reality. Consider the threat of global climate change and the diagnosis of a new age of vulnerability after 9/11. Can we identify a turn to materiality in such fields as politics, society, arts, and science? Are we faced with a paradigm shift?
3. Is it true that French Theory neglects materiality, and if so, why? Critics accuse poststructuralism of having forgotten or repressed the importance of reality and of having discredited thinking and writing about it. Others claim that these theories propose extraordinarily subtle ways of conceptualizing reality which are more adequate for an understanding of the complexities of the present. We would like to discuss various poststructuralist accounts of reality and we would like to speculate on the future of Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze. Will they play a role in the debates to come? And what role could that be?
We invite graduate students and young researchers from all faculties to submit proposals for a 30-minute presentation. Presentations can be given in English or German; at least a passive knowledge of German is recommended. Free accomodation will be provided. Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, accompanied by some biographical information, to:
Johannes-Georg Schülein (jgs@zedat.fu-berlin.de) oder
Jan Wöpking (jan.woepking@googlemail.com)
Deadline for abstracts: 30th August 2007
For more information see http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Responsable : Philosophy Department FU Berlin
Url de référence : http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs
Adresse : Jan Wöpking Institut für Philosophie Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 10957 Berlin Allemagne.
Appel à contribution
Date limite : 30 août 2007
Information publiée le mercredi 8 août 2007 par Bérenger Boulay (source : Jan Wopking)
Beyond Signification (Nach den Zeichen)
On the 7th and 8th of December 2007 the Department of Philosophy at Free University Berlin will host its second International Graduate Conference for Philosophy. This year´s conference addresses the recent comeback of concepts such as substance, presence and reality in and outside the Humanities and the crisis of poststructuralism that accompanies it.
Deadline: 30th of August 2007!
conference homepage: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Call for Papers
Beyond Signification. The Return of Reality and the Crisis of Poststructuralism.
Today a growing number of people in the Humanities suggest that the times of poststructuralism have come to an end. According to them we concentrated on symbols, signs and discourse for far too long. Did we not thereby forget the reality of things? How do we account for the materiality of media, experiments, and writing? What happened to reality, substantiality and presence? This conference aims at discussing contemporary critiques of poststructuralism, its historical conditions, its impact on the present, and its implications for the future. Does poststructuralism really fail to acknowledge reality? How do we evaluate the emerging new theories that challenge poststructuralism? We would like to suggest three main areas for discussion:
1. How important are concepts like “reality” and “materiality” for contemporary debates in the Humanities? On the one hand there is increasing demand for the rehabilitation of a non-discursive reality; on the other hand there is a growing scepticism towards ideas such as the worldmaking power of discourse or the “free play of the signifyer”. In recent years this led to the development of new versions of cultural materialism. How do these conceive of culture and reality, of man and the world? What are their advantages and disadvantges and how big is their impact on the humanities? Do we witness a lasting turn form poststructuralism to cultural materialism, from symbol to substance?
2. Is the return of the real limited to academia or is it part of a more general shift that affects social and politial life as a whole? Outside of university, various discourses emphasise the constraints of reality. Consider the threat of global climate change and the diagnosis of a new age of vulnerability after 9/11. Can we identify a turn to materiality in such fields as politics, society, arts, and science? Are we faced with a paradigm shift?
3. Is it true that French Theory neglects materiality, and if so, why? Critics accuse poststructuralism of having forgotten or repressed the importance of reality and of having discredited thinking and writing about it. Others claim that these theories propose extraordinarily subtle ways of conceptualizing reality which are more adequate for an understanding of the complexities of the present. We would like to discuss various poststructuralist accounts of reality and we would like to speculate on the future of Derrida, Lyotard and Deleuze. Will they play a role in the debates to come? And what role could that be?
We invite graduate students and young researchers from all faculties to submit proposals for a 30-minute presentation. Presentations can be given in English or German; at least a passive knowledge of German is recommended. Free accomodation will be provided. Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words, accompanied by some biographical information, to:
Johannes-Georg Schülein (jgs@zedat.fu-berlin.de) oder
Jan Wöpking (jan.woepking@googlemail.com)
Deadline for abstracts: 30th August 2007
For more information see http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs/
Responsable : Philosophy Department FU Berlin
Url de référence : http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~jgs
Adresse : Jan Wöpking Institut für Philosophie Freie Universität Berlin Habelschwerdter Allee 45 10957 Berlin Allemagne.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
CFP: Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines. Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
First Call for Papers: Behind the Scenes, Between the Lines.
Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
June 25-27 2008, Wortley Hall, Sheffield, UK
Conference Organizers: Garance Maréchal (University of Liverpool); Hugo Letiche (UvH Utrecht); Stephen Linstead (University of York); Torkild Thanem (University of Vaxjo).
Keynotes by: Professor Gibson Burrell, University of Leicester Management School; Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney and AIM
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 November 2007 (300-500 words)
Decisions on acceptance of abstracts: 18 January 2008.
Deadline for submission of full papers : 30 April 2008
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In this two-day conference, we wish to explore, track, display and dis-member the ‘dark side’ of organization. We are interested in the perhaps instinctual, impulsive, non organized and hidden dynamics that influence organizing, and especially its ‘upsetting’ part. Our aim is to confront the potential of the dark side of organization as an alternative focus for understanding organizational life.
We invite papers that consider such questions as:
- Should we talk about a “dark side”? How can it be defined and why is it conceived of as being dark? Can and should the “dark side” be suppressed? Can it be creative as well as destructive? Is an ethics of the dark side possible? Is there also a horror of “whiteness”?
- Are organizations no more than trembling aggregates of human flesh, violence, pain and/or desires? How can organization studies engage with the nature of the formless? Is aesthetics one way to recognise its negativity? Are there others?
- Does dis-membering mean more than taking apart? Does it require the development of new methods of study and how can they be generated?
Possible themes that papers might address could include: - Desire, sexuality, carnality, passion, sacrifice and the sacred in organization - Depravity, perversion and transgression in organization;
- Corruption, bribery, organizational crime, fraud, post-Enron issues
- Abuse of power, harassment, bullying, intimidation, extortion,bystanding, suicide, murder.
- Secrecy, espionage, disinformation, surveillance.
- The creativity of the dark side and the dark side of learning.
- Decrepitude, decay, terror and horror.
- Organized aspects of human tragedies and disasters – war, genocide, exploitation and displacement of indigenous people by “development” projects.
- Technologies of horror and the horrors of technology.
- The monstrous in organization and organization theory – including consideration of excess, waste, hybrids, chimera.
- The significance of illusion, including dreams; symbolism, artefacts and language of the dark side; simulacra, escapism, gambling, risk.
- Non-knowledge, non-being and the Inhuman.
- Phantoms, spectres, spirits and ghosts…..!
We also welcome papers that:
- Explore the potential contributions to the understanding of the dark side of organization of specific authors and movements outside the boundary of organization studies, such as: Artaud, Bataille, surrealism or recent approaches to the application of psychoanalysis (such as Zizek’s appropriation of Lacan, and the work of Laplanche).
- Develop approaches to formlessness: the rhizomatics of the dark side; architecture, thresholds, transitions, ectoplasm, clouds, mess, pneumatology; challenges of the formless to organizational philosophy.
- Attempt further to explore arguments advanced in Burrell’s Pandemonium
Papers and Proposals
We invite proposals for innovative forms of presentations as well as conventional papers; innovative forms can include performances, demonstrations of methods or techniques, and novel or unconventional utilizations of representational forms. Forms that unleash the dark side of individual or collective creativity (like the surrealists’ exquisite cadaver) and make it available for scrutiny are particularly welcome. Should your presentation require a timing or other resources outside the conventional format, please set out your requirements clearly. We hope to facilitate a wide range of approaches to the topic.
Registration
@ £275 per person (single) £220 (sharing)- includes all accommodation and meals from 2pm 25th to 2pm 27th and will cost . Accommodation and registration forms will be available in autumn 2007.
Garance Marechal
University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
L69 7ZH Liverpool UK
Phone: (44) 151 795 3808
Email: g.marechal@liv.ac.uk
Email: darksideoforg@btinternet.com
Visit the website at http://slinstead.userworld.com/darkside/dsindex.html
Dis-Membering the Dark Side of Organization
June 25-27 2008, Wortley Hall, Sheffield, UK
Conference Organizers: Garance Maréchal (University of Liverpool); Hugo Letiche (UvH Utrecht); Stephen Linstead (University of York); Torkild Thanem (University of Vaxjo).
Keynotes by: Professor Gibson Burrell, University of Leicester Management School; Professor Stewart Clegg, University of Technology, Sydney and AIM
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 28 November 2007 (300-500 words)
Decisions on acceptance of abstracts: 18 January 2008.
Deadline for submission of full papers : 30 April 2008
------
In this two-day conference, we wish to explore, track, display and dis-member the ‘dark side’ of organization. We are interested in the perhaps instinctual, impulsive, non organized and hidden dynamics that influence organizing, and especially its ‘upsetting’ part. Our aim is to confront the potential of the dark side of organization as an alternative focus for understanding organizational life.
We invite papers that consider such questions as:
- Should we talk about a “dark side”? How can it be defined and why is it conceived of as being dark? Can and should the “dark side” be suppressed? Can it be creative as well as destructive? Is an ethics of the dark side possible? Is there also a horror of “whiteness”?
- Are organizations no more than trembling aggregates of human flesh, violence, pain and/or desires? How can organization studies engage with the nature of the formless? Is aesthetics one way to recognise its negativity? Are there others?
- Does dis-membering mean more than taking apart? Does it require the development of new methods of study and how can they be generated?
Possible themes that papers might address could include: - Desire, sexuality, carnality, passion, sacrifice and the sacred in organization - Depravity, perversion and transgression in organization;
- Corruption, bribery, organizational crime, fraud, post-Enron issues
- Abuse of power, harassment, bullying, intimidation, extortion,bystanding, suicide, murder.
- Secrecy, espionage, disinformation, surveillance.
- The creativity of the dark side and the dark side of learning.
- Decrepitude, decay, terror and horror.
- Organized aspects of human tragedies and disasters – war, genocide, exploitation and displacement of indigenous people by “development” projects.
- Technologies of horror and the horrors of technology.
- The monstrous in organization and organization theory – including consideration of excess, waste, hybrids, chimera.
- The significance of illusion, including dreams; symbolism, artefacts and language of the dark side; simulacra, escapism, gambling, risk.
- Non-knowledge, non-being and the Inhuman.
- Phantoms, spectres, spirits and ghosts…..!
We also welcome papers that:
- Explore the potential contributions to the understanding of the dark side of organization of specific authors and movements outside the boundary of organization studies, such as: Artaud, Bataille, surrealism or recent approaches to the application of psychoanalysis (such as Zizek’s appropriation of Lacan, and the work of Laplanche).
- Develop approaches to formlessness: the rhizomatics of the dark side; architecture, thresholds, transitions, ectoplasm, clouds, mess, pneumatology; challenges of the formless to organizational philosophy.
- Attempt further to explore arguments advanced in Burrell’s Pandemonium
Papers and Proposals
We invite proposals for innovative forms of presentations as well as conventional papers; innovative forms can include performances, demonstrations of methods or techniques, and novel or unconventional utilizations of representational forms. Forms that unleash the dark side of individual or collective creativity (like the surrealists’ exquisite cadaver) and make it available for scrutiny are particularly welcome. Should your presentation require a timing or other resources outside the conventional format, please set out your requirements clearly. We hope to facilitate a wide range of approaches to the topic.
Registration
@ £275 per person (single) £220 (sharing)- includes all accommodation and meals from 2pm 25th to 2pm 27th and will cost . Accommodation and registration forms will be available in autumn 2007.
Garance Marechal
University of Liverpool Management School
Chatham Street
L69 7ZH Liverpool UK
Phone: (44) 151 795 3808
Email: g.marechal@liv.ac.uk
Email: darksideoforg@btinternet.com
Visit the website at http://slinstead.userworld.com/darkside/dsindex.html
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