Imagining Religion, Imagining the Americas (c19 Americanists, 5/20-23, 2010) [9/15/09]
Imagining Religion, Imagining the Americas
c19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
May 20-23, 2010
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Imagining Religion, Imagining the Americas
c19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
May 20-23, 2010
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Future Theory, Present Praxes
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Thinking and Acting "Timely"
"The affirmation of the future to come: this is not a positive thesis. It is nothing other than the affirmation itself, the "yes," insofar as it is the condition of all promises or of all hope, of all awaiting, or all performativity, of all opening toward the future, whatever it may be..."
Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever
CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium
February 18 & 19, 2010
University of South Florida Libraries
Tampa, Florida
Encountering the "Other" in the Medieval World: Textual Examinations of Resistance and Reconciliation Across the Traditions, 500-1500
Papers are welcome on, but not limited to, Judaism, Christianity or Islam in Europe and Asia during the Middle Ages (500-1500):
• Views of difference, diversity and pluralism
• Expressions of shared identities and common values
• Texts of threat, terror and violence
• Traditions affirming connection, inclusivity and reconciliation
• Patterns of religious, political and cultural imperialism
Alongside Realism in the 19th century, which foregrounded a logical and representable image of the world, there ran a trend in literature that emphasized experience at the margins of the logos, including childhood, absurdity, fantasy, trauma, eroticism, and comedy. This panel seeks theoretically informed papers that will explore this literature by looking at the role of childhood, and what it reveals about subjectivity, in 19th century British literature. Topics might include the role of childhood memory or fantasy in adult subjectivity; questions of gender, genre, eroticism, or empire in relation to childhood. Send abstracts (450-750 words) via email to: Alexander Bove, aboveagosto@gmail.com.
Glossing is Glorious.
A Ring of Commentary, A Roundtable Discussion
We seek presentations for a roundtable discussion to be held at the
45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 13-16, 2010
Medieval commentary offers a synthetic textual form that urges an inquiry into the practice, ethics, poetics, and philosophy of commentary. The intricacies of the dialogue between reader and the text, the interplay among layers of commentary, even the very visual form of the text that resists, not only hierarchy, but which also challenges the reader to approach the process of interpretation with care and a poetics of being, render commentary a multi-dimensional genre.
A Call for Papers
"Punk Rock Warlord: Critical Perspectives on the Life and Work of Joe Strummer"
Although the life and music of punk icon Joe Strummer have been the subject of a number of recent biographies, documentaries, websites, and musical celebrations, Strummer's work with the Clash, the Mescaleros, and numerous side projects and films has not received its critical due. "Punk Rock Warlord" seeks to fill this sizeable critical gap.
The editors of this collection seek papers that address any (and more) of the following topics:
This session seeks theoretically-informed, historically-particular papers that shed new light on the representation(s) of natural philosophy in the long eighteenth century.
Papers may offer new approaches to the question of how natural philosophical truths were produced, verified, and disseminated, whether to specialist or popular audiences. Submissions are also welcome to consider the ways in which natural philosophy and/or natural philosophers were represented in other cultural discourses. Of particular interest are papers that seek to situate their arguments in traditional or recent theoretical narratives of the nature of representation in our period.
East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, TN) will host the 36th Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) regional conference on February 18-20, 2010, at the Carnegie Hotel and Spa. Please visit the website and call for papers on topics pertaining to the long eighteenth century at www.seasecs.net/2010_meeting.html or contact host Judith Slagle at slagle@etsu.edu.
Emerging Landscapes: Between Production and Representation
School of Architecture and the Built Environment/School of Media, Arts and Design
University of Westminster, London, UK
25-27 June 2010
Keynote Speakers:
Gabriele Basilico
Stephen Daniels
Christophe Girot
Jonathan Hill
Call for Papers
Call for Papers and Panels
What Postcolonial Theory Doesn't Say
A conference at the University of York, UK, 3-5 July 2010, in partnership with the University of Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan University
Postcolonial Studies is firmly ensconced in the Anglophone metropolitan academy: the field has its own specialised journals, academic posts, postgraduate courses, and dedicated divisions within learned bodies. But how well have these configurations travelled to other locations, institutions and disciplines? What topics, questions and approaches remain unexplored? And what's 'theoretical' about postcolonial theory anyway?
Plenary Speakers:
Bernard Stiegler, Director of the Department of Cultural Development at the Centre Georges-Pompidou and Director of the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation (IRI)
David Wills (University at Albany-SUNY)
Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
(Please note the extended deadline, now 31 August 2009.)
ENTERPRISING CREATIVITY: INNOVATION AND THE FUTURE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH
[Student-led postgraduate conference]
University of Leeds
Hosted by the Leeds Humanities Research Institute
6-7 November 2009
This year, the EU celebrates the 'European Year of Creativity and Innovation', aiming to 'raise awareness of the importance of creativity and innovation for personal, social and economic development'. What does in mean to innovate in the arts and humanities, and what role does such innovation play in a global society increasingly concerned with the valuation of ideas?