BANFF RESEARCH in CULTURE (BRiC) / Research Residency Program
Banff Centre for the Arts / University of Alberta
THEME: On the Commons; or, Believing-Feeling-Acting Together
Application deadline: December 1, 2010
APPLICATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1068
Guest Faculty: Lauren Berlant, Michael Hardt, Pedro Reyes
Organizers: Imre Szeman, Heather Zwicker, Kitty Scott
Program dates: May 9, 2011 - May 27, 2011
Email contact: bric@ualberta.ca
(Note: There are only 25 spots available in the residency program this year)
The commons has emerged as one of the key concepts around which
social, political, and cultural demands are being articulated and
theorized today. Harkening back to the displacement of people from
shared communal spaces and their transformation from public into
private property ? a central act in the development of European
capitalism in the 18th and 19th centuries ? the commons insists on
the fundamentally shared character of social life: that everything
from language to education, from nature to our genetic inheritance,
belongs irreducibly to all of us. As an increasingly rapacious
capitalism draws ever more elements of social life into its profit
logic and renders seemingly every activity and value into a
commodity, thinking with and through the commons has become an
important means of generating conceptual and political resistance to
the multiple new forms of enclosure that continue to take place
today, and which need to be confronted and challenged forcefully and
directly.
The commons is a concept used in analyses and interventions in popular
culture, art, new media, political philosophy, social theory, law,
literary studies, and more. The ease with which neoliberal ideology ?
which celebrates the supposed rationality of privatization and has
managed to transform taxation into an act feared above all else ? has
become embedded in the beliefs and lived structures of everyday life
demands an intensive examination of how and why we have come to
prefer enclosure to the commons in almost every area of social life.
Just as importantly, it also requires us to investigate and invent new
ways of being-in-common--ways of believing, feeling and acting
together, of creating the commons that seem everywhere to be receding
from view.
The aim of this year?s Banff Research in Culture workshop is to give
scholars, cultural producers, and artists an opportunity to explore
how we believe, feel, and act together, and the ways in which we are
prevented from doing so. How might we shape new collectivities and
communities? What are the capacities and dispositions essential to
producing new ways of being? What lessons can we learn from history as
well as contemporary struggles over the commons (from challenges to
intellectual property to indigenous struggles)? What concepts and
vocabularies might we develop to aid our critical and conceptual work
with respect to the commons (e.g. Alain Badiou?s revival of communism
or Jacque Rancière?s reconfiguration of equality and democracy)? How
does artistic and cultural production participate in the production
of new collectivities and defense of the commons? Where do we go from
here-a moment in which neoliberalism seems to have stumbled and lost
its forward momentum? We welcome projects dealing with the full range
of issues and topics related to being-believing-feeling-acting
together today.
On the Commons will run concurrently with the thematic residency La
Commune. The Asylum. Die Bühne led by artist Althea Thauberger,
providing opportunities for interaction and collaboration with
artists in residence.
(http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1094)
PROGRAM DETAILS
Developed by Imre Szeman, Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies
and Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of
Alberta, Heather Zwicker, Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) in the
Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, and Kitty Scott,
Director of Visual Arts at the Banff Centre, On the Commons is part of
Banff Research in Culture (BRiC), a new residency program designed for
scholars engaged in advanced theoretical research on themes and topics
in culture. Graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty,
and practicing artists from across Canada and beyond will convene at
The Banff Centre to pursue their work ? and, ideally, to incubate new
collaborations and creations ? for three weeks. During the residency,
participants will attend lectures, seminars, and workshops offered by
distinguished visiting faculty from around the world, each of whom
will stay at Banff for a week or more and will be available to discuss
projects and ideas. Participants will also be encouraged to present
their work to colleagues through readings, talks, and presentations
held over the course of the program.
As a residency program, BRiC is designed to allow participants to
devote an extended period of time on their own research in the company
of others with similar interests. In addition to giving researchers
and creators from different disciplinary and professional backgrounds
an opportunity to exchange opinions and ideas, it is hoped that
participants will develop new artistic, editorial, authorial, and
collective projects during their time at Banff, both individually and
in connection with others. We are especially pleased by the
opportunity that BRiC affords visual artists and researchers to work
together on issues of common interest.
APPLICATION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION NOW AVAILABLE AT:
http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=1068
Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Cities & Synecdoche
Call for Papers: 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers
Cities & Synecdoche
'Synecdoche', as defined by Webster's New World Dictionary, is "a figure
of speech in which a part is used for a whole, an individual for a
class, a material for a thing, or any of the reverse of these." In
Geography, we find this especially in representations and discussions of
scale where, for example, 'the city' is (mis-)represented using
phenomena and patterns better understood and analyzed at local or
regional scales ... or vice versa. Place-marketing and other
entrepreneurial endeavors - branding, for example - have made ample use
of synecdoche in the interest of economic development and investment.
'Best Places' claims and categorizations are, almost by necessity,
derived from scale-specific data that are hardly universal to the
'place' at hand. This is especially true for cities, for whom 'best' (or
'worst') place-branding (either self-generated or by others) has taken
on increasing competitive significance. To this end, it seems,
synecdoche is increasingly vital to projects of accumulation and - by
extension - uneven development and thus potentially rife with inter- or
intra-scale contradictions and the potential for conflict and injustice.
For this paper session, I invite papers that explore the complexities of
synecdoche at the Urban Scale, and that attempt to reveal its
implications (be they positive or negative) for those 'other' scales
(e.g., communities, environments, households, people, and places)
abstracted within it and from which it is emergent. I encourage
participation from a breadth of ideological and theoretical
orientations, sub-disciplinary interests, and international
perspectives.
Please send a message of intent and abstract electronically by no later
than October 18th to:
Alec Brownlow
Assistant Professor of Geography
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60614
cbrownlo@depaul.edu
phone: 773-325-7876
fax: 773-325-4590
Geographers
Cities & Synecdoche
'Synecdoche', as defined by Webster's New World Dictionary, is "a figure
of speech in which a part is used for a whole, an individual for a
class, a material for a thing, or any of the reverse of these." In
Geography, we find this especially in representations and discussions of
scale where, for example, 'the city' is (mis-)represented using
phenomena and patterns better understood and analyzed at local or
regional scales ... or vice versa. Place-marketing and other
entrepreneurial endeavors - branding, for example - have made ample use
of synecdoche in the interest of economic development and investment.
'Best Places' claims and categorizations are, almost by necessity,
derived from scale-specific data that are hardly universal to the
'place' at hand. This is especially true for cities, for whom 'best' (or
'worst') place-branding (either self-generated or by others) has taken
on increasing competitive significance. To this end, it seems,
synecdoche is increasingly vital to projects of accumulation and - by
extension - uneven development and thus potentially rife with inter- or
intra-scale contradictions and the potential for conflict and injustice.
For this paper session, I invite papers that explore the complexities of
synecdoche at the Urban Scale, and that attempt to reveal its
implications (be they positive or negative) for those 'other' scales
(e.g., communities, environments, households, people, and places)
abstracted within it and from which it is emergent. I encourage
participation from a breadth of ideological and theoretical
orientations, sub-disciplinary interests, and international
perspectives.
Please send a message of intent and abstract electronically by no later
than October 18th to:
Alec Brownlow
Assistant Professor of Geography
DePaul University
Chicago, IL 60614
cbrownlo@depaul.edu
phone: 773-325-7876
fax: 773-325-4590
Monday, September 27, 2010
Race and Space: The Materiality of Difference
Call For Papers: Association of American Geographers, annual meeting:
April 12-16, 2011, Seattle, WA
Race and Space: The Materiality of Difference
Co-organizers: Rachel Brahinsky (UC Berkeley Geography) and Kate
Derickson (University of Glasgow)
This session seeks to put scholars in conversation who are drawing out
the vitally important connections between racialization and the
production of space. We’re interested in these processes from a
theoretical perspective – but even more so because of the way they
play out in people’s everyday lives. Thus for this session, we are
particularly interested in papers that tease out the materiality of
space-race relationships. How do racial constructions connect to
spatial ones and vice versa – and why does it matter? If “race” makes
spaces, or if racialization occurs in and through space, then how are
these processes sedimented and resisted in everyday life?
This call for papers is devised in the spirit of drawing connections
between class- and capital-centered literatures on the production of
space and critical race literatures that aim to destabilize “race.”
This session therefore seeks both to extend the body of race-space
literature that is emergent in Geography and to open new pathways of
research and analysis, perhaps using interdisciplinary methodologies
to tease out how race and class (and other stratifications) interact
with space. Local, regional, national, and global studies are all
encouraged.
We invite scholars from across disciplines to submit abstracts that
may include (but aren’t limited to):
• Intersections of racialization with gender, class, or religion
– and space
• The ways in which financial crises are borne out through both
spatial and racialized patterns
• Ideologies and spatialities of Whiteness
• How race-space relationships play out in cities, rural spaces
or in “nature”
• Spatialities of post-racial thinking
• Race and space, post-9/11 – or in the context of the Obama presidency
• Urban (re)developments of the past and future
• Ethnographies of racialized space
• Genealogies of race-space research in the discipline
• Race and nature, in its various formulations
• Approaches for developing social justice praxis in this vein of thinking
April 12-16, 2011, Seattle, WA
Race and Space: The Materiality of Difference
Co-organizers: Rachel Brahinsky (UC Berkeley Geography) and Kate
Derickson (University of Glasgow)
This session seeks to put scholars in conversation who are drawing out
the vitally important connections between racialization and the
production of space. We’re interested in these processes from a
theoretical perspective – but even more so because of the way they
play out in people’s everyday lives. Thus for this session, we are
particularly interested in papers that tease out the materiality of
space-race relationships. How do racial constructions connect to
spatial ones and vice versa – and why does it matter? If “race” makes
spaces, or if racialization occurs in and through space, then how are
these processes sedimented and resisted in everyday life?
This call for papers is devised in the spirit of drawing connections
between class- and capital-centered literatures on the production of
space and critical race literatures that aim to destabilize “race.”
This session therefore seeks both to extend the body of race-space
literature that is emergent in Geography and to open new pathways of
research and analysis, perhaps using interdisciplinary methodologies
to tease out how race and class (and other stratifications) interact
with space. Local, regional, national, and global studies are all
encouraged.
We invite scholars from across disciplines to submit abstracts that
may include (but aren’t limited to):
• Intersections of racialization with gender, class, or religion
– and space
• The ways in which financial crises are borne out through both
spatial and racialized patterns
• Ideologies and spatialities of Whiteness
• How race-space relationships play out in cities, rural spaces
or in “nature”
• Spatialities of post-racial thinking
• Race and space, post-9/11 – or in the context of the Obama presidency
• Urban (re)developments of the past and future
• Ethnographies of racialized space
• Genealogies of race-space research in the discipline
• Race and nature, in its various formulations
• Approaches for developing social justice praxis in this vein of thinking
Monday, August 30, 2010
THE URBAN CATWALK: FASHION AND STREET CULTURE
THE URBAN CATWALK: FASHION AND STREET CULTURE
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
9:00am until
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Contact: madison moore (madison.moore@yale.edu)
Madison Moore (Yale), Conference Chair
Alex Tudela (Columbia), Conference Co-Chair
Point your browser to www.theurbancatwalk.com for up to the minute conference details.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY CAROLINE WEBER
What is street style, and what is the relationship between style, “the street,” and popular culture? How have the Internet, digital cameras and other technologies impacted how we understand the way we dress? Why do so many care about the way other people dress? In what ways does street style engage with broader issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality?
The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, a one-day symposium at Yale University, aims to investigate and discuss the relationships between street style and identity. We are interested in papers that approach street style from a contemporary lens, but also encourage papers with more of an historical perspective.
We are committed to a conference that blends the intellectual with an ear to the ground. In this way, we will hold a panel discussion with major editors and fashion designers about how they understand the intellectual work street style does. The panel discussion will focus on the editors’ real world expertise, but also on audience participation. Ideally, the conference will be attended by the Yale community as well as by people from the broader New Haven area. We close conference with a special street style fashion show at Artspace Gallery in Downtown New Haven, where real-people models will show us their street style.
These 20-minute presentations can treat any aspect of street fashion, including:
- Street style and Contemporary art
- (Black) Dandies
- Style blogs and the Internet
- Urban versus suburban style
- Hipsters and neo-bohemia
- Goth, punk, and skate culture
- Street style and hip hop culture
- Fashion magazines and the street
- Male androgyny; men in high heels
- Street style in media
- How to figure out a style persona; rules and boundaries
- Lady Gaga, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and other pop icons
- Japanese street fashion
- Street style in literature
- LGBTQ identity and street style
- Models
- Street style in the 19 th century
- Fashion designers
- Ready-to-wear
- Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and trend spotters
- Vogueing, ball culture
- Sex and the City and street style
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to madison.moore@yale.edu by Friday, November 26th.
Selected papers may be considered for an edited volume.
best,
madison moore
__________________________
madison moore, ph.d. candidate
yale university
american studies program
new haven, ct
cell: 212.748.9905
email: madison.moore@yale.edu
web:www.mynameismadisonmoore.com
Saturday, April 23rd, 2011
9:00am until
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Contact: madison moore (madison.moore@yale.edu)
Madison Moore (Yale), Conference Chair
Alex Tudela (Columbia), Conference Co-Chair
Point your browser to www.theurbancatwalk.com for up to the minute conference details.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY CAROLINE WEBER
What is street style, and what is the relationship between style, “the street,” and popular culture? How have the Internet, digital cameras and other technologies impacted how we understand the way we dress? Why do so many care about the way other people dress? In what ways does street style engage with broader issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality?
The Urban Catwalk: Fashion and Street Culture, a one-day symposium at Yale University, aims to investigate and discuss the relationships between street style and identity. We are interested in papers that approach street style from a contemporary lens, but also encourage papers with more of an historical perspective.
We are committed to a conference that blends the intellectual with an ear to the ground. In this way, we will hold a panel discussion with major editors and fashion designers about how they understand the intellectual work street style does. The panel discussion will focus on the editors’ real world expertise, but also on audience participation. Ideally, the conference will be attended by the Yale community as well as by people from the broader New Haven area. We close conference with a special street style fashion show at Artspace Gallery in Downtown New Haven, where real-people models will show us their street style.
These 20-minute presentations can treat any aspect of street fashion, including:
- Street style and Contemporary art
- (Black) Dandies
- Style blogs and the Internet
- Urban versus suburban style
- Hipsters and neo-bohemia
- Goth, punk, and skate culture
- Street style and hip hop culture
- Fashion magazines and the street
- Male androgyny; men in high heels
- Street style in media
- How to figure out a style persona; rules and boundaries
- Lady Gaga, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and other pop icons
- Japanese street fashion
- Street style in literature
- LGBTQ identity and street style
- Models
- Street style in the 19 th century
- Fashion designers
- Ready-to-wear
- Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, and trend spotters
- Vogueing, ball culture
- Sex and the City and street style
Please send abstracts of no more than 500 words to madison.moore@yale.edu by Friday, November 26th.
Selected papers may be considered for an edited volume.
best,
madison moore
__________________________
madison moore, ph.d. candidate
yale university
american studies program
new haven, ct
cell: 212.748.9905
email: madison.moore@yale.edu
web:www.mynameismadisonmoore.com
Monday, August 16, 2010
URBAN POP CULTURES
1st Global Conference
URBAN POP CULTURES
Tuesday 8th March - Thursday 10th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues related to urban life. The project will promote the ongoing analysis of the varied creative trends and alternative cultural movements that comprise urban popultures and subcultures. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural and political contexts within which alternative urban subcultures are flourishing.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
1. Urban Space and the Landscape of the City
Urban Aesthetics and Architecture, Creative Re-imagining and Revitalization of the City. The Metropolis and Inner City Life: Urban Boredom vs. Creativity.
2. Urban Music Cultures
Histories, Representations, Discourses and Independent Scenes. Popular Music Theory. The Visual Turn. Urban Intertextualities and Intermedialities. Postmodernity and Beyond.
3. The City as Creative Subject/Object
Urban Life and Themes Considered in Music, Literature, Art and Film, Urban Fashion, Style, and Branding.
4. Urban Codes
Urban Popular Culture and Ideology, Politics of Popcultures, D.I.Y, Alternative Ethics of the City. Urban Religion and Religious Expressions. The Avantgarde and Urban Codes.
5. The City and Cyberculture
Virtual Urbanity - Online Communities and the Impact of Social Networking. Urban Identity and Membership. Globalization/Localization of Urban Experience. Recent trends in Copyright/Copyleft. The Role of Internet in the Transformation of Music Industry. The Impact of User-generated Content.
6. The Urban Underground
The Rise and Fall of the Experimental Subcultures, Scenes and Styles. Alternative and Underground Dance, Hip Hop, and Punk Scenes. Queer Theory and Urban Cultures. Gendered Music and Fashion. Free Urban Exploration and Libertine Lifestyles.
7. Urban Activities in Massmedia
The Visual Aspects of Urban Entertainment. The Evolution of Music and Thematic Television. Media Structure of Music Video. Explicit TV and Censorship. Urban Styles and Extreme Sports.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st October 2010. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Jordan Copeland
La Salle University,
Philadelphia, USA
Daniel Riha
Hub Leader (Cyber), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber journal (launching 2011).
Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets
a.. Download Oxford Style Sheet - v7 (pdf)
b.. Download Oxford Reference Style Sheet 2 (pdf)
c.. Download Template document (Word)
URBAN POP CULTURES
Tuesday 8th March - Thursday 10th March 2011
Prague, Czech Republic
This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference aims to examine, explore and critically engage with issues related to urban life. The project will promote the ongoing analysis of the varied creative trends and alternative cultural movements that comprise urban popultures and subcultures. In particular the conference will encourage equally theoretical and practical debates which surround the cultural and political contexts within which alternative urban subcultures are flourishing.
Papers, reports, work-in-progress, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
1. Urban Space and the Landscape of the City
Urban Aesthetics and Architecture, Creative Re-imagining and Revitalization of the City. The Metropolis and Inner City Life: Urban Boredom vs. Creativity.
2. Urban Music Cultures
Histories, Representations, Discourses and Independent Scenes. Popular Music Theory. The Visual Turn. Urban Intertextualities and Intermedialities. Postmodernity and Beyond.
3. The City as Creative Subject/Object
Urban Life and Themes Considered in Music, Literature, Art and Film, Urban Fashion, Style, and Branding.
4. Urban Codes
Urban Popular Culture and Ideology, Politics of Popcultures, D.I.Y, Alternative Ethics of the City. Urban Religion and Religious Expressions. The Avantgarde and Urban Codes.
5. The City and Cyberculture
Virtual Urbanity - Online Communities and the Impact of Social Networking. Urban Identity and Membership. Globalization/Localization of Urban Experience. Recent trends in Copyright/Copyleft. The Role of Internet in the Transformation of Music Industry. The Impact of User-generated Content.
6. The Urban Underground
The Rise and Fall of the Experimental Subcultures, Scenes and Styles. Alternative and Underground Dance, Hip Hop, and Punk Scenes. Queer Theory and Urban Cultures. Gendered Music and Fashion. Free Urban Exploration and Libertine Lifestyles.
7. Urban Activities in Massmedia
The Visual Aspects of Urban Entertainment. The Evolution of Music and Thematic Television. Media Structure of Music Video. Explicit TV and Censorship. Urban Styles and Extreme Sports.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 1st October 2010. All submissions are minimally double blind peer reviewed where appropriate. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 4th February 2011. Abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats with the following information and in this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs
Jordan Copeland
La Salle University,
Philadelphia, USA
Daniel Riha
Hub Leader (Cyber), Inter-Disciplinary.Net
Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic
Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, UK
The conference is part of the 'Critical Issues' programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting.
All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers maybe invited for development for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s) or for inclusion in a new Cyber journal (launching 2011).
Style Sheets
In preparing your papers, please pay strict attention to the following style sheets
a.. Download Oxford Style Sheet - v7 (pdf)
b.. Download Oxford Reference Style Sheet 2 (pdf)
c.. Download Template document (Word)
Monday, May 24, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Cosmopoetics
An International Conference - 8-10 September, 2010
Department of English Studies – Durham University, UK
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Derek Attridge (University of York)
Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)
Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego)
Frank Lentricchia (Duke University)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cosmopoetics aims to expose an important aperture in contemporary poetry and poetics. Departing from the significant ground gained in late twentieth century poetic avant-gardism, Cosmopoetics takes up the difficult task of defining a twenty-first century poetics. Neither utopian nor dystopian, Cosmopoetics directs itself towards thinking a poetic atopia, a poetic interval within which the multiple currents of communication, mediation and influence mix; poetics as a particular border-crossing, trans-linguistic, socio-economic phenomenon. It is simultaneously sensitive to cultural and natural concepts of world or cosmos, and individual and aesthetic concepts of poesis, or the production of poetry, and seeks to re-centre contemporary poetry in its mediating capacity, as bridge between the singular and the universal, the local and the global, the creative and the critical.
Michael Davidson speaks of the North American Free Trade Agreement as having created “a form of unheimlich reality through which subjects are produced and economic displacement is lived”. He sees the literary upshot of this is a community which operates cosmopoetically, “across national borders and cultural agendas”. Cosmopoetics amplifies the prospect of a cosmopolitics: “Cosmos protects against the premature closure of politics and politics against the premature closure of cosmos”, in the words of Bruno Latour. At the intersection of poetic form and formation, Cosmopoetics investigates the immediate forces of mediation – poetry as medium and mediator - between otherwise heterogenous ideas and concepts.
We hope that the conference will reveal some of the many ways in which contemporary poetry and poetics still has a significant role to play in forging both new worlds and new ways of relating to existing paradigms of "cosmos". As Franco Moretti wrote, “The literature around us is now unmissably a planetary system”. In this light, we propose to explore the manner in which poetry, whether by design or accident, is also capable of revealing the contemporary as an atopian paradigm, a space sans frontières, or of non-spaces which simultaneously reflects upon and makes possible the reconsideration of poetic or generative force.
Proposals are welcomed in (but not restricted to) the following areas:
Innovations and trends in c.21st poetry and poetics
Cosmopoetics and Cosmopolitics
Poetry as mediation
Communicative poetic force
Poetic atopia or cosmos
The space of poetry
Poetry and ‘World Literature’
Digital / Print culture
Poetic form today
New media poetics
Poetry between the local and the global
Relocation / dislocation of resistance
Writing across / without borders
Please send 300 word proposals for papers of 20 minutes to Marc Botha and Heather Yeung at cosmopoetics@googlemail.com by 15th May 2010.
This conference is taking place with the support of the Department of English Studies, Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Advanced Study, and Graduate School of the University of Durham.
Marc Botha and Heather Yeung
Email: cosmopoetics@googlemail.com
Department of English Studies – Durham University, UK
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Derek Attridge (University of York)
Stephen Bann (University of Bristol)
Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego)
Frank Lentricchia (Duke University)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cosmopoetics aims to expose an important aperture in contemporary poetry and poetics. Departing from the significant ground gained in late twentieth century poetic avant-gardism, Cosmopoetics takes up the difficult task of defining a twenty-first century poetics. Neither utopian nor dystopian, Cosmopoetics directs itself towards thinking a poetic atopia, a poetic interval within which the multiple currents of communication, mediation and influence mix; poetics as a particular border-crossing, trans-linguistic, socio-economic phenomenon. It is simultaneously sensitive to cultural and natural concepts of world or cosmos, and individual and aesthetic concepts of poesis, or the production of poetry, and seeks to re-centre contemporary poetry in its mediating capacity, as bridge between the singular and the universal, the local and the global, the creative and the critical.
Michael Davidson speaks of the North American Free Trade Agreement as having created “a form of unheimlich reality through which subjects are produced and economic displacement is lived”. He sees the literary upshot of this is a community which operates cosmopoetically, “across national borders and cultural agendas”. Cosmopoetics amplifies the prospect of a cosmopolitics: “Cosmos protects against the premature closure of politics and politics against the premature closure of cosmos”, in the words of Bruno Latour. At the intersection of poetic form and formation, Cosmopoetics investigates the immediate forces of mediation – poetry as medium and mediator - between otherwise heterogenous ideas and concepts.
We hope that the conference will reveal some of the many ways in which contemporary poetry and poetics still has a significant role to play in forging both new worlds and new ways of relating to existing paradigms of "cosmos". As Franco Moretti wrote, “The literature around us is now unmissably a planetary system”. In this light, we propose to explore the manner in which poetry, whether by design or accident, is also capable of revealing the contemporary as an atopian paradigm, a space sans frontières, or of non-spaces which simultaneously reflects upon and makes possible the reconsideration of poetic or generative force.
Proposals are welcomed in (but not restricted to) the following areas:
Innovations and trends in c.21st poetry and poetics
Cosmopoetics and Cosmopolitics
Poetry as mediation
Communicative poetic force
Poetic atopia or cosmos
The space of poetry
Poetry and ‘World Literature’
Digital / Print culture
Poetic form today
New media poetics
Poetry between the local and the global
Relocation / dislocation of resistance
Writing across / without borders
Please send 300 word proposals for papers of 20 minutes to Marc Botha and Heather Yeung at cosmopoetics@googlemail.com by 15th May 2010.
This conference is taking place with the support of the Department of English Studies, Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Advanced Study, and Graduate School of the University of Durham.
Marc Botha and Heather Yeung
Email: cosmopoetics@googlemail.com
Friday, April 16, 2010
Blocked arteries: circulation and congestion in history
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2010-05-14 (in 27 days)
This conference, to be held on 25-26 November 2010 at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, aims to examine the ways in which congestion has been, and continues to be, a problem as well as an inherent characteristic of the historical development of cities and regions worldwide, particularly in their relationship with commercial, financial, industrial, tourist and other networks. Our purpose is also to promote an exchange across disciplines and engage with current policy debates.
Proposals relating to any historical period and geographical area examining congestion in its broadest sense and/or focusing on one of its multiple dimensions are welcomed. Themes that might be explored include: the importance of structure and agency in the conception, planning and execution of transport infrastructures such as roads, waterways, canals, railways and airways; the use of mechanical, medical and anthropomorphic metaphors describing the circulation of information, capital, goods, waste and people and its relationship with cities and regions; the cultural, political and social reception of new transport technologies and policies; the responses to and interpretations of environmental issues; the ways in which traffic and congestion have been depicted in films and literary and other works. Papers adopting a comparative perspective are especially encouraged. Abstracts of 300 words and a brief statement outlining the institutional affiliation of the participants should be sent via email by 14 May 2010 to the conference organisers: Carlos Galviz (psv7@ymail.com) or Dhan Zunino Singh (dhan.zuninosingh@sas.ac.uk)
Carlos López Galviz
VCH, Institute of Historical Research
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
UK
Email: psv7@ymail.com
Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/1160
Call for Papers Date: 2010-05-14 (in 27 days)
This conference, to be held on 25-26 November 2010 at the Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, aims to examine the ways in which congestion has been, and continues to be, a problem as well as an inherent characteristic of the historical development of cities and regions worldwide, particularly in their relationship with commercial, financial, industrial, tourist and other networks. Our purpose is also to promote an exchange across disciplines and engage with current policy debates.
Proposals relating to any historical period and geographical area examining congestion in its broadest sense and/or focusing on one of its multiple dimensions are welcomed. Themes that might be explored include: the importance of structure and agency in the conception, planning and execution of transport infrastructures such as roads, waterways, canals, railways and airways; the use of mechanical, medical and anthropomorphic metaphors describing the circulation of information, capital, goods, waste and people and its relationship with cities and regions; the cultural, political and social reception of new transport technologies and policies; the responses to and interpretations of environmental issues; the ways in which traffic and congestion have been depicted in films and literary and other works. Papers adopting a comparative perspective are especially encouraged. Abstracts of 300 words and a brief statement outlining the institutional affiliation of the participants should be sent via email by 14 May 2010 to the conference organisers: Carlos Galviz (psv7@ymail.com) or Dhan Zunino Singh (dhan.zuninosingh@sas.ac.uk)
Carlos López Galviz
VCH, Institute of Historical Research
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
UK
Email: psv7@ymail.com
Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk/events/conferences/1160
Thursday, January 21, 2010
CFP: Everyday Life in the Segmented City
Everyday Life in the Segmented City
Florence Conference, July 22-25, 2010
For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population
lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan
regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront
unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of
everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and
interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the
largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in
Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority
populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing
urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural
to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human
history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities
in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are
interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and
create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban
environment.
We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented
city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will
be grouped into the following subject areas:
Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city;
emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and
visual consumption of the city.
Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies
to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the
segmented city.
Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl;
revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and
urbanism in the suburban fringe
Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and
personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming
public space
The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century
metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban
spaces.
We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send
abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address
listed below.
Papers on cinematic urbanism: Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi, Berlin
(lorenzo.tripodi@googlemail.com)
Papers on governance and planning: Dr. Camilla Perrone, Università degli
Studi di Firenze (camilla.perrone@unifi.it)
Papers on Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Dr. Gabriele Manella,
Università degli Studi di Bologna (Gabriele.manella@unibo.it)
Papers on appropriations of urban space: Dr. Circe Monteiro, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil (monteiro.circe@gmail.com)
Papers on the right to the city: Dr. Milan Prodanovic, University of Novi
Sad (ecourban@eunet.rs) or Dr. Ray Hutchison University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu).
Participants will be contacted with information concerning participation in
the conference by March 15th, 2010. Completed papers will be required by
May 30, 2010.
For other general inquiries concerning Everyday Life in the Segmented City,
contact Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu)
Selected papers from the conference will appear in special edited volume
titled Everyday Life in the Segmented City (a volume in the series Research
in Urban Sociology, published by Emerald Press).
Discounted hotel accommodations in Florence will be available to
participants in the conference. This conference is supported with funding
from the Del Bianco Foundation in Florence.
More information concerning conference location and lodging may be found on
the web at Everyday Life in the Segmented City. This will be updated with
additional information concerning housing and other conference details as it
becomes available.
Florence Conference, July 22-25, 2010
For the first time in human history, a majority of the world's population
lives in urban areas, and by 2050 more than 2/3 will live in metropolitan
regions across the globe. At the same moment metropolitan regions confront
unprecedented economic, social, and political challenges, the meanings of
everyday life are put into question because of the changing structure and
interdependence of urban economies. North American cities register the
largest number of foreign-born persons in their history, while cities in
Europe confront issues of social integration with emergent minority
populations in the suburbs and inner city neighborhoods. The rapidly growing
urban regions in China and India confront the continuing pressures of rural
to urban migration that will produce the largest urban populations in human
history. While the focus on the global city often emphasizes similarities
in the development of metropolitan regions and neo-liberal regimes, we are
interested in better understanding how individuals and groups respond to and
create dynamic change in everyday life within the ever changing urban
environment.
We invite contributions for a conference on everyday life in the segmented
city to be held in Florence this July 22-25, 2010. The presentations will
be grouped into the following subject areas:
Cinematic urbanism: Images and representation of the segmented city;
emergent symbolic economics of consumption and production; tourism and
visual consumption of the city.
Governance and planning: Multicultural cities and ethnic spaces; strategies
to govern the multicultural city; citizenship and participation in the
segmented city.
Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Suburban growth and urban sprawl;
revolt of the banlieues; social exclusion in the inner suburbs; urbanity and
urbanism in the suburban fringe
Appropriations of urban space: Emerging patterns of social exclusion and
personal security; privatization and surveillance of urban space; reclaiming
public space
The right to the city: Migration and immigration in the 21st century
metropolis; social participation in the segmented city; contested urban
spaces.
We invite submissions for papers on these and related topics. Please send
abstract of your paper or presentation by March 15, 2010 to the address
listed below.
Papers on cinematic urbanism: Dr. Lorenzo Tripodi, Berlin
(lorenzo.tripodi@googlemail.com)
Papers on governance and planning: Dr. Camilla Perrone, Università degli
Studi di Firenze (camilla.perrone@unifi.it)
Papers on Suburbanization and the post-urban city: Dr. Gabriele Manella,
Università degli Studi di Bologna (Gabriele.manella@unibo.it)
Papers on appropriations of urban space: Dr. Circe Monteiro, Universidade
Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil (monteiro.circe@gmail.com)
Papers on the right to the city: Dr. Milan Prodanovic, University of Novi
Sad (ecourban@eunet.rs) or Dr. Ray Hutchison University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu).
Participants will be contacted with information concerning participation in
the conference by March 15th, 2010. Completed papers will be required by
May 30, 2010.
For other general inquiries concerning Everyday Life in the Segmented City,
contact Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (hutchr@uwgb.edu)
Selected papers from the conference will appear in special edited volume
titled Everyday Life in the Segmented City (a volume in the series Research
in Urban Sociology, published by Emerald Press).
Discounted hotel accommodations in Florence will be available to
participants in the conference. This conference is supported with funding
from the Del Bianco Foundation in Florence.
More information concerning conference location and lodging may be found on
the web at Everyday Life in the Segmented City. This will be updated with
additional information concerning housing and other conference details as it
becomes available.
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