The Aesthetics Institute of the Department of Philosophy at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in collaboration with the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at The Graduate Center/CUNY and the Modern Languages Department at The Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY, invite researchers and scholars from different disciplines (aesthetics, anthropology, cultural studies, philosophy, art history, literary studies, performance studies, visual & media studies) to submit abstracts for the 4th “Photography and Disciplinary Discourses” Symposium, to be held in New York City on April 20 and 21, 2017.

In The Birthmark (1993), Susan Howe observes: "if you are a woman, archives hold perpetual ironies. Because the gaps and silences are where you find yourself." For Howe, historical omissions have been avenues for critical and creative agency. Writing into gaps--into invisible intersections between poetry and scholarship--Howe's work has brought us new forms of thinking and feeling about how we organize knowledge and what we recognize as "information." Howe's interrogation of the politics and aesthetics of knowing feels especially urgent in our current moment of Wikileaks and the Panama Papers, drone surveillance, the NSA, the spread of news via social media, and reality television.

University of Oxford China Humanities Graduate Conference 2017 CFP

(Extra)ordinary China: practices of the everyday

Wednesday 11th January to Thursday 12th January 2017, Dickson Poon China Centre Building, University of Oxford

http://extraordinarychina.wixsite.com/extraordinarychina/call-for-papers

CEA 48th Annual Conference

March 30-April 1, 2017  Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 29928

  Theme:  Islands

This ACLA panel invites proposals on the uses of biographical forms in contemporary fiction. The point of departure of our conversation is the idea of approaching biography as a "dwelling of human experience", to borrow the expression put forth by the German author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge. Kluge characterizes writing as "the only form of preserving human experience independently of time", in a manner that does not leave it "imprisoned in individual biographies". How does contemporary fiction that employs biographical forms approach literary writing as imaginative mediation of the historicity of experience?