[4/15] Anarchism & Sexuality: A special issue of Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society

Deadline for paper submissions 15 April 2009.

Anarchism has long played a role in the politics of sexuality. Embodied in the historic figures of Emma Goldman, Oscar Wilde, Edward Carpenter & Daniel Guérin or in social movements including ACT-UP, Mujeres Libres & Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, the erotic and the anarchic have come together. Meanwhile, recent years have seen a revival of anarchist scholarship intertwined with the global rise of what some commentators have called "the movement of movements, "characterised by horizontal forms of organisation and the practice of anarchist ethics (Gordon, 2008). These movements against neoliberalism include within them alternatives to increasingly corporate-friendly & state-centred lesbian and gay politics.

Prospective authors are invited to consider the following themes (and to offer their own):

• the sexual politics of anarchisms;


• libertarian socialisms and autonomous feminisms;


• sexuality, gender, race, class & ecology in anarchist & anarchic movements;


• queering anarchisms;


• autonomous queer spaces;


• the sexual politics of hierarchy;


• sexuality and cultural activism

[3/2] The Future of Aesthetics

Where Trondheim
When 11-14 June 2009
Abstract Deadline March 2, 2009
Contact estetikkonferanse@hf.ntnu.no

The topic of the annual conference for Nordic Society of Aesthetics in 2009 is the future of aesthetics. The field of aesthetics is under pressure; on the one hand economic and political interests are making themselves increasingly evident, both in conventional art and in other cultural arenas. On the other hand the field of aesthetics exhibits a greater variety of views, methods, and fields of interest than ever before. This situation invites reflection on future possibilities of aesthetics, but also enforces the question of whether aesthetics has a future at all.

The last decades have witnessed an increasing interest in applying aesthetic perspectives to activities and objects outside the traditional domain of art, leading to a broadening of the concept of the aesthetic. Installation artist Rirkrit Tiravanija's curry dinners may serve as a simple, yet striking illustration, of the challenge from the artworld heading in this direction. The aesthetic also appears to play a more prominent part in our environment as ever more areas of our life-world is made subject to aesthetic demands.

This reorientation towards a wider and more sense oriented conception of the aesthetic might also be connected with new approaches to the relation between nature and art. Partly motivated by impulses from different types of philosophical monism (Deleuze, Latour, Serres), partly by inspiration from the natural sciences (ecology, biology, computer science, etc.), partly by political impulses (fair trade, environmental crisis, etc.), it seems like the artworld, as well as aesthetic theory, are about to redefine its relation to nature. Eduardo Kac's “bio-ethical” art projects like GFP Bunny, Stelarc's and Orlan's body modifications and machine-human projects, or George Gessert's “plant ethical” Iris projects, might all serve as examples of this.

We are interested in contributions dealing with the question of the future of aesthetics in a wide sense. Theoretical as well as empirical oriented presentations are welcome, not least, contributions with an interdisciplinary approach, as well as contributions dealing with other topics within the field of aesthetics. Presentations may be in English or in one of the Scandinavian languages.

Abstracts not exceeding 200 words should be submitted by e-mail to estetikkonferanse@hf.ntnu.no before March 2nd, 2009. We also welcome participation without presentation of a paper.

The conference is open to members of the Nordic Society of Aesthetics as well as non-members. The conference fee for non-members is NOK 400 (to be paid at the conference).

Keynote speakers: Gernot Böhme (Darmstadt), Siglind Bruhn (Michigan/Sorbonne), Christoph Menke (Potsdam)

[1/30] The City From Below

When March 27th-29th, 2009
Where Baltimore

The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in - it’s a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are subject to metropolitan rearticulation, where every corner is a potential site of resistance and every vacant lot a commons to be reclaimed, and, most importantly, a place where all our diverse struggles and strategies have a chance of coming together into something greater. In cities everywhere, new social movements are coming into being, hidden histories and herstories are being uncovered, and unanticipated futures are being imagined and built - but so much of this knowledge remains, so to speak, at street-level. We need a space to gather and share our stories, our ideas and analysis, a space to come together and rethink the city from below.

To that end, a group of activists and organizers, including Red Emma’s, the Indypendent Reader, campbaltimore, and the Campaign for a Better Baltimore are calling for a conference called The City From Below, to take place in Baltimore during the weekend of March 27th-29th, 2009 at 2640, a grassroots community center and events venue.

Our intention to focus on the city first and foremost stems from our own organizing experience, and a recognition that the city is very often the terrain on which we fight, and which we should be fighting for. To take a particularly salient example from Baltimore, it is increasingly the case that labor struggles, especially in the service sector, need to confront not just unfair employers, but structurally disastrous municipal development policies. While the financial crisis plays out in the national news and in the spectacle of legislative action, it is at the level of the urban community where foreclosures can be directly challenged and the right to a non-capitalist relation to housing can be fought for. Our right to an autonomous culture, to our freedom to dissent, to public spaces and to public education all hinge increasingly on our relation to the cities in which we live and to the people and forces in control of them. And our cities offer some truly inspiring and creative examples of resistance - from the community garden to the neighborhood assembly.

We are committed in organizing this conference to a horizontal framework of participation, one which allows us to concretely engage with and support ongoing social justice struggles. What we envision is a conference which isn’t just about academics and other researchers talking to each other and at a passive audience, but one where some of the most inspiring campaigns and projects on the frontlines of the fight for the right to the city (community anti-gentrification groups, transit rights activists, tenant unions, alternative development advocates, sex worker’s rights advocates, prison reform groups) will not just be represented, but will concretely benefit from the alliances they build and the knowledge they gain by attending.

At the same time, we also want to productively engage those within the academic system, as well as artists, journalists, and other researchers. It is a mistake to think that people who spend their lives working on urban geography and sociology, in urban planning, or on the history of cities have nothing to offer to our struggles. At the same time, we recognize that too often the way in which academics engage activists, if they do so at all, is to talk at them. We are envisioning something much different, closer to the notion of “accompaniment”. We want academics and activists to talk to each other, to listen to each other, and to offer what they each are best able to. Concretely, we’re hoping to facilitate this kind of dynamic by planning as much of the conference as possible as panels involving both scholars and organizers.

THEMES TO BE CONSIDERED

• Gentrification/uneven development


• Policing and incarceration


• Tenants rights/housing as a right


• Public transit


• Urban worker’s rights


• Foreclosures/financial crisis


• Public education


• Slots/casinos/regressive taxation


• Cultural gentrification


• Underground economies


• Reclaiming public space


• The right to the city


• Squatting/Contesting Property Rights


• Urban sustainability

Please share with us your proposal for workshops or presentations. We hope to host 15-25 sessions with a mixture of formats and welcome proposals from groups and individuals. The conference is geared towards discussion and participation. People are welcome to bring papers andother resources with them, but this conference is not oriented to the presentation of papers. There will be 50 and 110 minute sessions. We welcome self-organized workshops but will also work to incorporate individual proposals into panels with others. In your proposal please indicate how your proposal relates to the themes of the conference, expected participants, organizing partners and session format (training, panel, open discussion, video, etc.) and how long the session will be. We are especially interested in proposals which combine critique of the urban environment with discussions of new strategies for its reclamation.

Please get proposals to us no later than the 30th of January, but preferably before January 1st.

Please send proposals to: cityfrombelow -at- redemmas.org. Email is preferred, but you can also send a proposal to:
City from Below
c/o Red Emma’s
800 St Paul St.
Baltimore MD 21202

[ASAP] Text and Academic Authoring

- the 2009 TAA Conference

Where El Tropicano Riverwalk Hotel, San Antonio, TX
When June 25-27
Register at http://www.taaonline.net/TAAConference/register.html

Join your fellow textbook and academic authors for this three-day conference packed with interactive workshops and sessions on textbook authoring and scholarly publishing! The conference also features free one-on-one mentoring sessions with authoring attorneys, a literary agent and veteran authors, and plenty of opportunities for networking!

Who should attend? Both veteran and first-time textbook and academic authors as well as those considering authoring a textbook or who need help publishing their first scholarly article or book; textbook and academic publishers; attorneys who specialize in publishing; literary agents who represent textbook authors; editors; and anyone else who wants to learn more about textbook and/or academic authoring and publishing.

Register Early and Receive Two Free Books!

The first 30 conference registrants will receive a copy of Robert Boice's Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide to Productive Writing, donated by the publisher, New Forums Press, and Self-Publishing Textbooks and Instructional Materials by Franklin H. Silverman, donated by the publisher, Atlantic Path Publishing.

Kim Pawlak
Associate Executive Director
Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA) (608) 687-3106
Email: kim.pawlak@taaonline.net
Visit the website at http://www.TAAonline.net/TAAConference

[ASAP] Instruments of Passion: Music, Painting, and the Contest of the Arts

Time Friday, February 6, 2009 11:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
Place The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Organized by Lydia Goehr and Klaus Krüger

The program is a collaboration among The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Columbia University, New York, and, Freie Universität, Berlin

[3/30] Sexy Spaces: Leisure and Geography Intersectionalities

- A one day workshop organised by University of Brighton and British Sociological Association (Leisure and Recreation Study Group)

Where Grand Parade, Brighton Campus
When 22nd May, 2009

Workshop aim
For some time, the respective approaches of leisure and geography scholars in considering the links between leisure, space and spatiality have been recognised and at times registered. There are multiple overlaps, some of which are implicit in work that considers space and consumption, space and physical activity, and space and spectacle. Integral to parts of this work has been theoretical engagements with sexualities. Yet, in common with the intersection of geographies and leisure studies the potential productive links in this area have yet to be fully explored, or even most of the overlaps

This one day event aims to make explicit the shared objects of study, approaches and analyses, and further forge the intersections of leisure and geographies through a focus on sexualities in/and space. It seeks to develop innovative inter-disciplinary work that challenges assertions of an 'absence' in geographies/leisure studies regarding investigations of sex, sexualities and sexual lives. In carving out avenues for investigation and theorisation the conference aspires to offer new modes of enquiry that engage with diverse, and often separate, audiences.

Papers are invited that address these core issues including, but not limited to, these themes:

• Intersections of leisure studies and geographies of sexualities


• Sex, the sexual and 'sexy'; theories and methodologies


• Spaces, practices and cultures


• Consumption, technologies and moralities


• Mobilities and globalisations


• Desire, pleasure and the sensual


• Embodiments, emotions and affects


• Sex and sexual lives

Confirmed speakers
Cara Aitchison, Jon Binnie, Phil Hubbard, Beverley Skeggs

Abstract submission guidelines
An abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted by Monday March 30th, 2009. The abstract should include title, name(s) of authors, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses. Abstracts should be submitted to: j.c.caudwell@brighton.ac.uk

Publications plan
Contributors are invited to submitted complete papers for review for a Special Issue of Leisure Studies (2011)

Contact details
For further enquiries, please contact either Dr Kath Browne: k.a.browne@brighton.ac.uk or Dr Jayne Caudwell: j.c.caudwell@brighton.ac.uk

[3/30] Sexy Spaces: Leisure and Geography Intersectionalities

- A one day workshop organised by University of Brighton and British Sociological Association (Leisure and Recreation Study Group)

Where Grand Parade, Brighton Campus
When 22nd May, 2009

Workshop aim
For some time, the respective approaches of leisure and geography scholars in considering the links between leisure, space and spatiality have been recognised and at times registered. There are multiple overlaps, some of which are implicit in work that considers space and consumption, space and physical activity, and space and spectacle. Integral to parts of this work has been theoretical engagements with sexualities. Yet, in common with the intersection of geographies and leisure studies the potential productive links in this area have yet to be fully explored, or even most of the overlaps

This one day event aims to make explicit the shared objects of study, approaches and analyses, and further forge the intersections of leisure and geographies through a focus on sexualities in/and space. It seeks to develop innovative inter-disciplinary work that challenges assertions of an 'absence' in geographies/leisure studies regarding investigations of sex, sexualities and sexual lives. In carving out avenues for investigation and theorisation the conference aspires to offer new modes of enquiry that engage with diverse, and often separate, audiences.

Papers are invited that address these core issues including, but not limited to, these themes:

• Intersections of leisure studies and geographies of sexualities


• Sex, the sexual and 'sexy'; theories and methodologies


• Spaces, practices and cultures


• Consumption, technologies and moralities


• Mobilities and globalisations


• Desire, pleasure and the sensual


• Embodiments, emotions and affects


• Sex and sexual lives

Confirmed speakers
Cara Aitchison, Jon Binnie, Phil Hubbard, Beverley Skeggs

Abstract submission guidelines
An abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted by Monday March 30th, 2009. The abstract should include title, name(s) of authors, affiliations, postal and e-mail addresses. Abstracts should be submitted to: j.c.caudwell@brighton.ac.uk

Publications plan
Contributors are invited to submitted complete papers for review for a Special Issue of Leisure Studies (2011)

Contact details
For further enquiries, please contact either Dr Kath Browne: k.a.browne@brighton.ac.uk or Dr Jayne Caudwell: j.c.caudwell@brighton.ac.uk

[1/17] Political Humor in the post-9/11 Era

Papers on all aspects of political humor and satire are welcome: stand-up, visual and cartoon humor, film and television, etc. Papers focusing on humor and 9/11, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Guantanamo, Dick Cheney, or any other political question of the era are welcome. Focus should be on humor in the 2000s from an American or cross-cultural perspective. Comparative pieces discussing connections between another era and the 2000s will also be considered.

Proposals are due by January 17, 2009.

Lanita Jacobs-Huey
Department of Anthropology
Program in American Studies and Ethnicity
jacobshu@usc.edu
Email: jacobshu@usc.edu

[ASAP] Interdisciplinarity in the Arts and Humanities: Research, Policy, Publishing

Where The Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, London
When Friday 20th March 2009
Cost There will be no conference fee for attendees, but please RSVP to Sharon Sinclair (sinclas@wmin.ac.uk)

This conference sets out to consider the emergence of interdisciplinary research within the Arts and Humanities during the last 40 years. Emerging out of the political, social and cultural ambitions of a changing western world from the 1960s onwards, as well as the academic corollaries of these endeavours, interdisciplinarity within the academy became a means of developing a new and complex understanding of what it means to situate oneself: to act, teach, and undertake research in a world that no longer broke down according to existing disciplinary boundaries.

The shifting terrain for these scholarly, institutional, and personal politics became manifest in, for instance, the emergence of cultural studies, media studies or, more recently, visual culture studies; the importation of ‘theory’ within the academy; the political investment captured in the institutionalization of postcolonial theory, queer theory, and feminism within the University; as well as the emergence of new trans-disciplinary problematics such as globalization. Some of this genealogy has been written. And yet, more work needs to be done. Our interest in this genealogy is to consider it in light of the histories of interdisciplinarity within an expanded field: to think of the social, political and academic field of interdisciplinarity, and its relation to publishing, governmental policy and funding bodies.

Within this expanded context, it is possible to propose that as a result of these necessary incursions within the social and academic field, a forum was required for the public interrogation and dissemination of our past and present cultures. Thus, the interdisciplinary journal, in particular, emerged in both the UK and US as a ready and willing space within which to debate the complexity and intertwined nature of these cultures. Having very specific political and epistemological agendas, these journals created an arena for dialogue, provided us with new, interdisciplinary knowledge, while shaping our understanding of the world. This genealogy has not been written, and is one of the main streams/points of interrogation of our conference.

Interdisciplinary journals are, in many respects, the primary means of (print and electronic) dissemination, and continue to be the contemporary 'gold star' of research achievement. Yet journal publishing is rarely discussed on its own terms. Equally, with the catchword – ‘interdisciplinarity’ – in the air, government funding bodies and policy makers have caught on to it, and today it has become an overarching term for a type of research evacuated of its earlier political, social and cultural commitments. Or did it? The third stream of this conference will consider the history and political ramifications for interdisciplinary research as a result of institutional and governmental seizure. As such, this conference is the first to bring together the relationship between journal publishing, policy-making and research itself, so as to discuss the future of interdisciplinary work in the Arts and Humanities of the twenty first century.

[1/15] ‘Ambiguities’: Destabilising Preconceptions

The University of Kent, School of European Culture and Languages and Skepsi editorial board are pleased to invite contributions for an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference and a visual exhibition to be held on Saturday 23rd of May 2009.

Every day we encounter ambiguous situations; unclear signals; indecipherable messages. Some of them pass unnoticed, other produce mere misunderstandings, whereas many deeply disturb us. The act of interpreting polysemous signs results in a proliferation and a diffusion of meaning. What is the effect of such a process on human beings? How is the process of subjectification affected by this constitutional interpretative ambiguity?

Arguably, language is the privileged space in which ambiguities playfully and successfully disturb our desire to decipher something we assume to be consistent in meaning. But the uncanniness and the anguish of the ambiguities which arise may also destabilise our preconceived conceptions. This destabilisation could result in questioning ones own perception. To which extent do we need to disambiguate reality in order to protect our sanity? Does an ambiguous message lure the receiver into a maze in which the promeneur gets lost? Is reality tout court an ambiguous message?

Ambiguous artworks and their attributes such as undecidability, textual plurisignation, word plays, disruptive dynamics between connotation and denotation, are only some of the themes we wish to explore during our conference.

We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers (in English) which interpret the conference theme as widely as possible. Given the interdisciplinary character of the conference we invite proposals from the following areas:

• Comparative Literary Studies


• Modern Languages and Linguistics


• Philosophy of Language


• Continental and analytical philosophy


• Aesthetics and visual arts


• Gender Studies

The list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive.

Abstract proposals (approximately 300 words) should be sent to the conference organising committee at ambiguities2009@kent.ac.uk as a Microsoft Word attachment. The email should include the name of the author, institution and a short bio. You should also indicate on your proposal any audiovisual requirements you may have.

Selected speakers will be invited to publish their papers in the Third Issue of Skepsi, the Interdisciplinary Online Journal of the University of Kent (http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/journals/skepsi/index.html).

On the occasion of the conference a Visual Exhibition on the same theme (‘Ambiguities’) will be organised at the University of Kent. Both photos and paintings are welcome. In order to participate to the selection please follow these guidelines:
- if you are a Flickr user, or if you want to become one, please join the group ‘Ambiguities 2009’ at this address: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ambiguities2009/ and upload your contributions in the group’s pool. Please read the rules carefully.
- if you are NOT a Flickr user and do not plan to become one, please send your contribution in JPG format with a short caption explaining how the image fits the conference theme, at the address ambiguities2009@kent.ac.uk.

The deadline for abstract submission is 15th January 2009.
The deadline for visual material submission is 15th March 2009.

Further details regarding the conference, the publication of papers and the visual exposition will be circulated at a later date.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/journals/skepsi/index.html

[1/15] ‘Ambiguities’: Destabilising Preconceptions

The University of Kent, School of European Culture and Languages and Skepsi editorial board are pleased to invite contributions for an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference and a visual exhibition to be held on Saturday 23rd of May 2009.

Every day we encounter ambiguous situations; unclear signals; indecipherable messages. Some of them pass unnoticed, other produce mere misunderstandings, whereas many deeply disturb us. The act of interpreting polysemous signs results in a proliferation and a diffusion of meaning. What is the effect of such a process on human beings? How is the process of subjectification affected by this constitutional interpretative ambiguity?

Arguably, language is the privileged space in which ambiguities playfully and successfully disturb our desire to decipher something we assume to be consistent in meaning. But the uncanniness and the anguish of the ambiguities which arise may also destabilise our preconceived conceptions. This destabilisation could result in questioning ones own perception. To which extent do we need to disambiguate reality in order to protect our sanity? Does an ambiguous message lure the receiver into a maze in which the promeneur gets lost? Is reality tout court an ambiguous message?

Ambiguous artworks and their attributes such as undecidability, textual plurisignation, word plays, disruptive dynamics between connotation and denotation, are only some of the themes we wish to explore during our conference.

We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers (in English) which interpret the conference theme as widely as possible. Given the interdisciplinary character of the conference we invite proposals from the following areas:

• Comparative Literary Studies


• Modern Languages and Linguistics


• Philosophy of Language


• Continental and analytical philosophy


• Aesthetics and visual arts


• Gender Studies

The list is neither prescriptive nor exhaustive.

Abstract proposals (approximately 300 words) should be sent to the conference organising committee at ambiguities2009@kent.ac.uk as a Microsoft Word attachment. The email should include the name of the author, institution and a short bio. You should also indicate on your proposal any audiovisual requirements you may have.

Selected speakers will be invited to publish their papers in the Third Issue of Skepsi, the Interdisciplinary Online Journal of the University of Kent (http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/journals/skepsi/index.html).

On the occasion of the conference a Visual Exhibition on the same theme (‘Ambiguities’) will be organised at the University of Kent. Both photos and paintings are welcome. In order to participate to the selection please follow these guidelines:
- if you are a Flickr user, or if you want to become one, please join the group ‘Ambiguities 2009’ at this address: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ambiguities2009/ and upload your contributions in the group’s pool. Please read the rules carefully.
- if you are NOT a Flickr user and do not plan to become one, please send your contribution in JPG format with a short caption explaining how the image fits the conference theme, at the address ambiguities2009@kent.ac.uk.

The deadline for abstract submission is 15th January 2009.
The deadline for visual material submission is 15th March 2009.

Further details regarding the conference, the publication of papers and the visual exposition will be circulated at a later date.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/journals/skepsi/index.html

[1/16] Living Cultures - Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture

Where The Institute for Communications Studies (ICS) and the Media Industries Research Centre (MIRC) at The University of Leeds
Date Monday March 30 (pm) 2009, Tuesday March 31 (full day) 2009
Location The University of Leeds, UK

Keynote speakers:
Professor Les Back (Professor, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London), author of The Art of Listening (2007) and New Ethnicities and Urban Culture: Racisms and Multiculture in Young Lives (1996)Professor Georgina Born (Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music, University of Cambridge), author of Uncertain Vision: Birt, Dyke and the Reinvention of the BBC (2004) and Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde (1995)

The ever-increasing importance of the cultural to the social brings with it a vital need to investigate the processes implicated in contemporary meaning making, symbolic consumption, production and mediation. Recent scholarship from across the social sciences has sought to take up this challenge by examining the multifariousness of cultural materials-in-use, continuities and ruptures in the production/consumption of culture, the expanded purview of cultural policy and the effects of an expanding 'cultural economy'.

Through its careful attention to the irreducibility of human experience, ethnography has revealed an enduring ability to usefully intervene in debates within these arenas, making explorations into culture and cultural practice a quasi-specialism of ethnographic study.

Yet how might 21st century ethnography better attune itself to the opportunities and challenges implied by attempts to understand contemporary culture and cultural experience 'from the inside'? Indeed, what limitations or boundaries are implied by efforts to study different cultural practices through ethnography and what might this mean for ethnography's contribution to social theory?

Contributions are invited from ethnographers willing to reflect on such questions and to share the methodological, substantive and theoretical insights gleaned, as well as the problems encountered, in the course of their own ethnographies of culture.

The conference should be of interest to scholars and particularly ethnographers from within sociology and social policy, media and communications studies, cultural studies, social/cultural anthropology and other allied disciplines.

Proposal deadline: abstracts (250 words max) should be sent, by Friday 16th January 2009, to the organising committee at:
email: ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk
or mail to: Dr Eleri Pound, Living Cultures Conference, Institute of Communications Studies, 16 Clarendon Place, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

Organising committee: Dr Mark Rimmer (convenor), Professor David Hesmondhalgh, Dr Chris Paterson, Dr Eleri Pound, Anna Zoellner, all of the Media Industries Research Centre, University of Leeds.

[1/25] Queering the Theater Stage

- The III Queer Studies Easter Symposium

When 9 April - 14 April, 2009
Where Mexico City
Deadline for submission of paper proposals 25. January, 2009

(Note: The submission deadline for paper proposals has been extended for this session)

The organising commitee for The Queer Studies Easter Symposium to be held for the third time in Mexico City between the 9 and 14 of April 2009 is seeking further panelists for a special session/ ?sub-conference? dedicated to ?Queering the Theater Stage? that will take place during the conference.

This session will explore how ?querness? is articulated and represented on the theater stage. Theater has always been a particularly potent means of capturing queer experiences, even when that experience is camouflaged, hidden, or submerged. The Committee will consider any papers addressing issues relating to LGBT/Queer theatre and performance, from any historical period. Of particular interest are queer readings of expriences in and around the theater in past decades and centuries. On the theater queer bodies, practices, and ideologies are created, experienced, articulated, often does ?queerness? feel? And how does this feeling of queerness travel, transform itself, and sediment in bodies, places, and movements? This panel rearticulates recent interdisciplinary research on affect through the lens of queer of color critique to explore how, locally specific LGBT practices enable or destabilize the emergence of a (trans)national queer ?structure of feeling? (Williams) that imagines subjects as bound?however momentarily?within a wide range of affective networks extending beyond the politico-discursive.

By looking simultaneously to the movement of queer affects and to affect as political movement, we ask how affective similarities and disparities are conveyed and felt across geographic, political, racial, or boundaries, all the while interrogating the limits and preconditions of entry into these translocal communities of queer feeling.

The current papers in the session call into question how a politics of queer affect produces feeling as the ontology by which we have come to exist as queer beings (we are queer because we feel queer). Drawing upon recent critiques of homonormative neoliberalism, we argue that queer structures of feeling not only fail to maintain their coherence in the diverse material sites in and through which queer bodies, practices, and ideologies are created, experienced, and given name, but in fact, globalized queer affect may be mobilized as a technology for the policing of ‘perverse’ practices, ‘abnormal identity constellations, and ‘deviant’ political and sexual desires.

We welcome submissions from all branches of the social sciences, humanities, as well as the arts. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from a wide range of perspectives. Presenters are encouraged to interpret the themes of this session broadly and innovatively.

500 word abstracts should be submitted as e-mail attachments to the organising committee in English, Castilian, German or French by 15. January, 2009. The conference languages will be English and Castilian.
E-mail: info@enkidumagazine.com

Interpretations of the conference theme ranging from the predictable to the surprising are encouraged.

More information about the conference and the different special sessions and sub-conferences during the event is available on the conference homepage: http://enkidumagazine.com/eventos/qses/intro_en.htm

[1/15] Feminism and the Politics of History

When April 3–4, 2009
Keynote Speaker Falguni Sheth, Hampshire College
Submission Deadline January 15, 2009

One of the central problematics of feminist philosophy is the narration of history. This conference will focus specifically on feminist interventions within this narration, emphasizing the role of the political therein.

Whether focusing on the historical exclusion of "women" within philosophy or the influence of gender on philosophical concepts, feminist philosophy has questioned what counts as history and how specific histories are deployed in philosophical inquiries. Both within and separately from this work, questions have also been raised about how class, race, ability, sexuality, and other axes of difference shape the histories and counter-histories deployed within philosophy.

This conference seeks to build upon and extend this work by posing various questions. What are the politics produced by alternative historical archives? Where do these politics play out in philosophical thought and how might they factor into analyses of past and present political situations? What are the histories still unexplored by philosophy and how might turning to these histories offer different points of departure or complication? Who has been recognized by or allowed into these interventions, who continues to be excluded, and why? What is the role of the category "woman" in this interplay between politics and history? How is this category deployed to cause disruptions? What conversations might be staged between feminist philosophy and other critical perspectives on the politics of history? How have feminist critiques of the history of philosophy both revealed and participated in the exclusionary and hegemonic gestures they ostensibly sought to resist?

The aim of this conference is to facilitate a dynamic, interdisciplinary conversation examining feminist approaches to these and related questions. To accomplish this, we invite contributions from a number of theoretical frameworks, including but not limited to aesthetics, critical race theory, critical theory, cultural studies, disability studies, epistemologies of ignorance, post-colonial studies, psychoanalysis, and queer theory.

[1/15] quickanddirty V: The DC Queer Studies Graduate Symposium

- part of the DC Queer Studies Symposium at the University of Maryland, College Park

When April 17 & 18, 2009
Deadline for submission of materials January 15, 2009

DC Queer Studies invites submission of proposals for 15-minute presentations in quickanddirty V: The DC Queer Studies Graduate Symposium. Students enrolled in any DC-area graduate program are encouraged to submit proposals for inclusion in the program. We welcome proposals on any aspect of LGBT Studies, queer theory, critical approaches to sexualities, and intersectionality. Maryland’s program in LGBT Studies has held a graduate symposium for the past four years. Again this year, that event is being opened up to students from other institutions and held in conjunction with the scholarly program being arranged by DC Queer Studies, a group of faculty from schools in the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area.

Selected participants will be notified by February 2, 2009.

Proposals must include name, affiliation, e-mail address, title of paper, a 250-word abstract, and 1-2 page CV. Please send materials by e-mail attachment (Word or PDF only) by January 15, 2009 to lgbts-dcqueers@umd.edu. Put “quickanddirty” in the subject line of your message.

The DC Queer Studies Symposium is a two-day event bringing together scholars from the Washington, DC area to exchange, support, and cultivate new ways of engaging with LGBT/Q/Sexuality Studies across the disciplines. April 17 will include the graduate symposium and the keynote address by Judith Halberstam, professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California and author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (New York University, 2004). April 18 will include paper sessions and roundtable discussions featuring faculty working in LGBT/Q/Sexuality Studies.

The DC Queer Studies Symposium is hosted and sponsored by the University of Maryland and co-sponsored by American University, George Mason University, the George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Howard University. See http://www.lgbts.umd.edu for details.

[2/1] International Symposium on Trans Cinema Studies

19th May 2009 at the University of Amsterdam
Co-sponsored by T-Image Foundation and The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Convened by Eliza Steinbock, PhD Candidate at ASCA and board member of T-Image Foundation

Taking place in conjunction with the Netherlands Transgender Film Festival (NTGF)
20-24 May 2009 at de Balie Cultural Center

In celebration of our 5th bi-annual festival, we will convene a full day of debate amongst scholars, filmmakers, the transgender community, and festival attendees. We imagine this symposium to be both reflective and forward-looking.

Susan Stryker (visiting Professor, Harvard University and Associate Professor Gender Studies, Indiana University) will present her groundbreaking work on Christine Jorgenson, a transsexual celebrity and filmmaker, as well as lead the closing plenary.

We invite 20 min. presentations from scholars and/or professionals in the field. In the interest of staking out some of the concerns of “trans cinema studies,” we suggest the following issues:

History: in what ways have gay and lesbian television, cinema and festivals enabled trans visibility; what are the histories of other avenues of emergence; in what ways have film festivals shaped the films that have been made?;

Accessibility/Distribution: what might we do about the identity ‘problem’ facing trans film festivals, which as a platform for trans cinema are sidelined as being too specialist or become redundant as more queer film festivals curate a trans program; what are the implications of greater or lesser distribution for certain films at festivals and elsewhere?

Reception: what work do (trans) viewers perform on films to make them trans, read them as trans, to make the films work in particular ways; what is at stake in trans perceptibility and how might we understand it?

Film Craft: to what extent have techniques and strategies from queer and feminist film been incorporated into trans cinema and vice versa; is ‘transness’ in the director, content, conventions/expectations, the market, or?;

Genre: which genres has trans representation tapped into and why; which genres have not yet been explored; might trans cinema be an expansive term to include experimental cinema (new languages and strategies)?;

Representation: what are the dominant and subjugated models of trans representation, especially in terms of the politics of nation, race, age, sexuality, and class; what kinds of shifts have occurred in terms of films with MTF or transfeminine characters and films with FTM or transmasculine characters?;

Film Theory: how might feminist film theory overlap with trans film theory; do we mean ‘trans’ as a concept or a practice; what methods of film analysis and film history does trans cinema render obsolete; what tools of analysis does trans cinema call for and suggest?

Interdisciplinarity: in what ways might transgender/transsexual practice and cinema relate?; how might shared concepts, such as, duration, narrative, technology expand and enrich both fields of study?;

Please submit a 250 word abstract of your intended paper
and a biographical note. Send to Eliza Steinbock by 1 February 2009.

We look forward to your response and hope to see you in May!
www.transgenderfilmfestival.com

[2/1] International Symposium on Trans Cinema Studies

19th May 2009 at the University of Amsterdam
Co-sponsored by T-Image Foundation and The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Convened by Eliza Steinbock, PhD Candidate at ASCA and board member of T-Image Foundation

Taking place in conjunction with the Netherlands Transgender Film Festival (NTGF)
20-24 May 2009 at de Balie Cultural Center

In celebration of our 5th bi-annual festival, we will convene a full day of debate amongst scholars, filmmakers, the transgender community, and festival attendees. We imagine this symposium to be both reflective and forward-looking.

Susan Stryker (visiting Professor, Harvard University and Associate Professor Gender Studies, Indiana University) will present her groundbreaking work on Christine Jorgenson, a transsexual celebrity and filmmaker, as well as lead the closing plenary.

We invite 20 min. presentations from scholars and/or professionals in the field. In the interest of staking out some of the concerns of “trans cinema studies,” we suggest the following issues:

History: in what ways have gay and lesbian television, cinema and festivals enabled trans visibility; what are the histories of other avenues of emergence; in what ways have film festivals shaped the films that have been made?;

Accessibility/Distribution: what might we do about the identity ‘problem’ facing trans film festivals, which as a platform for trans cinema are sidelined as being too specialist or become redundant as more queer film festivals curate a trans program; what are the implications of greater or lesser distribution for certain films at festivals and elsewhere?

Reception: what work do (trans) viewers perform on films to make them trans, read them as trans, to make the films work in particular ways; what is at stake in trans perceptibility and how might we understand it?

Film Craft: to what extent have techniques and strategies from queer and feminist film been incorporated into trans cinema and vice versa; is ‘transness’ in the director, content, conventions/expectations, the market, or?;

Genre: which genres has trans representation tapped into and why; which genres have not yet been explored; might trans cinema be an expansive term to include experimental cinema (new languages and strategies)?;

Representation: what are the dominant and subjugated models of trans representation, especially in terms of the politics of nation, race, age, sexuality, and class; what kinds of shifts have occurred in terms of films with MTF or transfeminine characters and films with FTM or transmasculine characters?;

Film Theory: how might feminist film theory overlap with trans film theory; do we mean ‘trans’ as a concept or a practice; what methods of film analysis and film history does trans cinema render obsolete; what tools of analysis does trans cinema call for and suggest?

Interdisciplinarity: in what ways might transgender/transsexual practice and cinema relate?; how might shared concepts, such as, duration, narrative, technology expand and enrich both fields of study?;

Please submit a 250 word abstract of your intended paper
and a biographical note. Send to Eliza Steinbock by 1 February 2009.

We look forward to your response and hope to see you in May!
www.transgenderfilmfestival.com

[2/20] The Idea of Politics: History and Theory

When 16 -17 March 2009

‘Politics’ is undoubtedly one of the master concepts of the modern age, yet its meaning, contours, and boundaries are rarely interrogated. Is the idea of politics amorphous and constantly shifting and changing over time? Or is politics determined by certain fundamentals of human nature and the inescapable realities of human association? One way to begin to understand the idea of politics is through the canonical texts of Western political thought. These texts have shaped the conceptual possibilities for politics in the West, and allow us to trace the ongoing struggles to understand politics and to offer us visions of a better political future. In this sense, history and theory must go hand-in-hand: we must have an idea of what politics is in order to study what it has been in the past, and we must understand its history to see what it has become and what possibilities are open for tomorrow.

Following the success of last year’s session, ‘The State, etc.: Imagining the Political Order, 1500-1900’, we are inviting abstracts for a second graduate conference in political thought and intellectual history. The conference will also celebrate the establishment of the Centre for Political Thought in Cambridge by bringing together some of the best recent graduate research in the field from around the world. It is expected that the conference will be of particular interest to graduate students working in ancient, medieval and modern history, particularly in the history of political thought, intellectual and cultural history, as well as to those engaged in research in related disciplines such as political theory, gender studies, classics and philosophy.

Questions for discussion may include

• How have understandings of politics evolved through history?


• How has politics been shaped by historical contingency?


• What relationship does politics stand in to other disciplines, such as moral philosophy, economics or the social sciences? How has this changed over time?


• How is the body politic constituted?


• Is politics limited to the polis? What are the boundaries of the polity?


• Is politics ‘real’?


• What power relations are involved in defining politics?


• How should we approach the study of politics in the present day?

The conference aims to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion. We seek papers of 20 minutes and work in progress is particularly welcome. Each panel will be followed by a general discussion. Our goal is to provide a forum for graduate students to present ongoing research and receive feedback in a collegial and supportive atmosphere.

Accommodation will be available for speakers from outside Cambridge, and some funding may be available for travel within the UK.

Please send abstracts of 300 words along with your name and departmental affiliation to: politicsconference@googlemail.com. The deadline for abstracts is 20 December, 2008.

If you wish to attend the conference, email us with your name and affiliation (if any) by 20 February, 2009.

[2/20] The Idea of Politics: History and Theory

When 16 -17 March 2009

‘Politics’ is undoubtedly one of the master concepts of the modern age, yet its meaning, contours, and boundaries are rarely interrogated. Is the idea of politics amorphous and constantly shifting and changing over time? Or is politics determined by certain fundamentals of human nature and the inescapable realities of human association? One way to begin to understand the idea of politics is through the canonical texts of Western political thought. These texts have shaped the conceptual possibilities for politics in the West, and allow us to trace the ongoing struggles to understand politics and to offer us visions of a better political future. In this sense, history and theory must go hand-in-hand: we must have an idea of what politics is in order to study what it has been in the past, and we must understand its history to see what it has become and what possibilities are open for tomorrow.

Following the success of last year’s session, ‘The State, etc.: Imagining the Political Order, 1500-1900’, we are inviting abstracts for a second graduate conference in political thought and intellectual history. The conference will also celebrate the establishment of the Centre for Political Thought in Cambridge by bringing together some of the best recent graduate research in the field from around the world. It is expected that the conference will be of particular interest to graduate students working in ancient, medieval and modern history, particularly in the history of political thought, intellectual and cultural history, as well as to those engaged in research in related disciplines such as political theory, gender studies, classics and philosophy.

Questions for discussion may include

• How have understandings of politics evolved through history?


• How has politics been shaped by historical contingency?


• What relationship does politics stand in to other disciplines, such as moral philosophy, economics or the social sciences? How has this changed over time?


• How is the body politic constituted?


• Is politics limited to the polis? What are the boundaries of the polity?


• Is politics ‘real’?


• What power relations are involved in defining politics?


• How should we approach the study of politics in the present day?

The conference aims to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion. We seek papers of 20 minutes and work in progress is particularly welcome. Each panel will be followed by a general discussion. Our goal is to provide a forum for graduate students to present ongoing research and receive feedback in a collegial and supportive atmosphere.

Accommodation will be available for speakers from outside Cambridge, and some funding may be available for travel within the UK.

Please send abstracts of 300 words along with your name and departmental affiliation to: politicsconference@googlemail.com. The deadline for abstracts is 20 December, 2008.

If you wish to attend the conference, email us with your name and affiliation (if any) by 20 February, 2009.

[8/1] Rethinking Marxism: New Marxian Times

Where University of Massachusetts in Amherst
When 5-8 November 2009.

RETHINKING MARXISM: a journal of economics, culture & society is pleased to announce its 7th international conference RM09: New Marxian Times. It will be dedicated to exploring the possibilities and challenges of Marxism for understanding and engaging with the contemporary world. Neoliberal capitalism, long criticized by Marxists and others on the Left, is now going through its own long-term economic and social crises. What new possibilities do these crises create for Marxist and other progressive ideas and visions? How does Marxism, and left-wing thought more generally, need to be rethought to respond to these challenges?

Perhaps coalescing in the financial crisis acknowledged in the autumn of 2008, these dynamics represent both a significant crisis for currently constituted capitalism and modes of governance as well as a set of challenges and possibilities for all of us concerned with working towards a non-exploitative and more equitable world.

In that light, we are seeking intellectual, political, and cultural works that address the possible contributions that Marxist ideas and forms of analysis can make in responding to the challenges of these new times. Human rights, democracy, environmental concerns, new organizing movements in South America and elsewhere throughout the globe, the growth of social activisms represented as anarchist, anti-imperialist, or in response to globalization, workers subjectivities and movements, contradictions within emerging and transitional economies, emergent nationalisms, and debt and the credit crises all represent possible areas for contributions to new thinking about the role of Marxist theories, cultures, and politics in today’s world. We strongly encourage papers that address these topics in relation to the global south.

Of course, we also understand the vital importance of analyzing history in order to help us to understand and respond to contemporary conditions. To understand the new, we must reflect upon and learn from the old. In that light, we are also interested in panels and papers that emphasize historical analysis such as the history of Marxism(s), labor history, historical analysis of academia, histories of social movements and political practices, the historical development of Marxist/Socialist feminism, imperialisms, and the historical relationships between class and race- based movements.

Since Marxism covers a wide variety of fields, from literature to public health and forms of political practice, from environmental organizing to opposing global inequality and envisioning new economic and social practice, anyone engaging with Marxism in any discipline or form of activism is encouraged to submit paper and panel proposals.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Proposals for papers, films, or other formats should include:

• Paper title


• Presenter’s name and contact information (mail, email, phone, affiliations)


• Brief abstract (no more than 200 words)


• Technology needs for presentation

Proposals for panels should include:

• Panel title


• Name, contact information, and paper title for each presenter


• Brief abstract (no more than 200 words) explaining the panel’s focus


• Brief abstract for each paper (no more than 200 words)


• Names and contact information for any discussant(s) or respondent(s)


• Technology needs of presenters


• Title, contact, and address for any sponsoring organization or journal

The appropriate preregistration fee must accompany all proposal submissions. Unfortunately, any proposal not accompanied by the appropriate preregistration fee cannot be considered. Proposals that are not accepted will have their preregistration fees returned in full. If you are submitting a proposal for an entire panel, please make sure the preregistration fee for all members of the panel is paid.

The deadline for proposal submission is 1 August 2009.

To submit a proposal and to pay the preregistration fee, follow the instructions on the conference website: http://rethinkingmarxism.org/conf

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
All information pertaining to the conference, including paper and panel submission instructions, preregistration and on-site rates, lodging suggestions, travel directions, possible childcare arrangements, cultural events, the conference program, and much else will be posted on the conference website when details become available. The web address is: http://www.rethinkingmarxism.org/conf

Inquiries concerning the conference can be addressed to:
Vincent Lyon-Callo
Department of Anthropology, Moore Hall Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008
Vincent.lyon-callo@wmich.edu

[4/1] A World without Politics?

When September 17-19, 2009
Where K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Deadline April 1st 2009.

In response to globalization, international political structures are rapidly changing. The emerging world order is characterized by a growing and complex network of regional and transnational institutions which shape an increasingly interconnected global order in a way that undermines the sovereign independence of nation-states. Because of the growing importance of international law and the technocratic nature of these new institutions, the emergence of the global governance structure has often been analyzed as a process of depoliticization. Whereas politics is supposed to be about a visible, organized and ongoing struggle for power, the very concept of governance, as a form of “government without opposition”, seems to refer to a bureaucratic and consensual way of organizing society.

Although some have hailed the increasing reliance on law, expert knowledge and consensus as a reinforcement of democracy, others have argued that the process of depoliticization helps to conceal the true power relations underlying the global structure and contributes to the disempowerment of citizens world wide in their attempts to shape the global order in a democratically legitimized manner. It is the purpose of this conference to analyze the alleged depoliticization of the global order and to reflect on the ways in which this process affects the prospects of some form of global democracy.

The following speakers have been confirmed: Jean Cohen, Joshua Cohen & Charles Sabel, Chantal Mouffe, Etienne Balibar, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Maragaret Moore, & Andreas Kalyvas.

In addition to these, we are looking for several junior scholars (recent appointments, post-doctoral researchers and PhD candidates) interested in delivering a paper (15-20 minutes, 20 minutes for discussion). If you would like to be considered please send your name, academic affiliation, and a two-page abstract to anya.topolski@hiw.kuleuven.be by April 1st 2009.

Here are some possible topics for the junior sessions.

• Is cosmopolitan global governance a-political?


• Is cosmopolitan global governance cloaking ideological or imperial power structures?


• Do human rights discourses lead to a depoliticization of world politics?


• Is there still a role for sovereign nation-states in the new world order?


• Does global democracy rule out national self-determination?


• Is the concept of sovereignty outdated? Can or should it acquire a different meaning?


• Should we move from global governance to global government?


• What forms of political opposition are possible on the world level?


• Would an evolution towards a multi-polar world order consisting of regional power blocs be desirable?


• Are representative forms of government on the global level desirable? Are they possible?

[3/15] Queer Mobility, Queer Citizenship

- 3rd Annual UC Davis Queer Studies Graduate Symposium

Where University of California, Davis
When May 29, 2009
Deadline March 15, 2009

Recent queer scholarship reflects an investment in studies of
transnationalism and a concern with questions of mobility and citizenship.

Scholarship within the growing field of transnational queer studies, as exemplified in works such as Social Text’s 2005 special issue “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now” and GLQ’s 2008 special issue “Queer/Migrations,” investigates the imbrications of gender and sexuality with racial, national, and diasporic formations; circuits of travel, migration, and displacement; and immigration, asylum, and citizenship policies. To interrogate discourses of sexuality, desire, and political change within the current phase of globalization, transnational queer studies requires attention to the ways in which constructions of sexuality are linked to the movements of bodies, ideas, and capital as well as to local, regional, and global systems of inclusion and exclusion. This conference emerges at a moment in which technologies of war and information simultaneously transcend and reinscribe modern boundaries of time and space. Therefore, we invite conversations around how queer modes of mobility and citizenship may be at once complicit with and disruptive of the temporal, spatial, and affective logics of nation-states, economic formations, and liberal personhood.

What does the study of mobility and citizenship offer queer scholarship? Who is denied or granted access to various forms of mobility? How is that access/denial contingent upon and constitutive of one’s citizenship status? When and how are non-normative genders and non-reproductive desires in synchrony with the state and when do they expose the fissures, inconsistencies, and ambivalences of the state? Is queerness compatible with the pursuit of liberal citizenship and is queer citizenship possible? How does a focus on mobility and citizenship further demonstrate the necessity of interrogating the racial, class, and gendered formations inherent in discourses of sexuality? How can considerations of different scales of mobility and forms of embodiment bring together studies of sexuality, dis/ability, and citizenship? How are metaphors of mobility (coming out, “fluid” identities, access) central to queerness? What are the links between citizenship and in/voluntary modes of travel, im/migration, and displacement? How is the production of modern citizen-subjects embedded in histories of colonialism, war, and empire-making, and what is particular about the role of mobility in the construction of queer subjectivities? How does queer fail or succeed as a transnational and translatable concept, identity or politic?

We invite scholarship from a broad range of disciplines, especially interdisciplinary work in queer theory and transgender theory. We especially encourage work that critically engages mutually constitutive articulations of race, class, sexuality, ability, gender, citizenship, religion, and nationality. Papers engaging activism and community organizing are also encouraged. For information on past symposium please visit www.queersymposium.org.

Please send 250-500 word abstracts to queersymposium2009(AT)gmail.com by March 15, 2009.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Histories of queerness mobility and citizenship


• Gay/lesbian tourism and travel


• Immigration and asylum law


• Technology / digital and virtual spaces


• ”Global Gay” / the gay international


• Embodiment/Disability Studies


• Queerness and mobile capital


• Border crossing and borderlands


• Violence, war, and the State


• Immobility/Stasis


• Local and regional belonging


• Temporal mobility, temporal belonging


• Affective and cultural citizenship


• Homonormativity, neoliberalism and mobile citizenship

[2/15] The Politics of Space and Place

Where Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton
When September 16-18, 2009

In a world where inequality and poverty are growing remorselessly, where you are, and where you happen to have been born, continue to determine, how, and in indeed whether, you live. From the urbanization of the human species and the burgeoning of slums to the rise of the modern gated community; from ‘Fortress Europe’ and the Israeli ’security wall’ to land reform in South Africa; questions of space and place are central to some of today¹s most bitterly contested political issues.

• What might an analysis of politics which focuses on the operation of power through space and place, and on the spatial structuring of inequality, tell us about the world we make for ourselves and others?


• How is power structured and brought to bear on people through spaceand place?


• How does power operate locally, nationally and globally and in both its soft and hard forms


• How does it operate through urban planning, architecture, housing policy, immigration policy and national borders?


• How does it work to discipline and exclude some, while insulating others from the excesses of inequality and degradation?


• How are space and place utilised as a means of dividing people into ‘us’ and ‘them’?·


• How and in whose interests do these divisions function as they pit against each other not only people who live in different parts of the world but also those who live just a few metres apart?

What might an analysis of politics through questions of space and place indicate about how power, injustice and inequality could be better understood and more effectively contested?

We anticipate that these and related issues will be of interest to people working in, among others, philosophy, ethics, political theory, politics, sociology, social policy, globalisation, international relations, cultural studies, history, architecture, photography, geography, planning, refugee studies, migration studies, urban studies and area studies.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to Nicola Clewer: nicolaclewer.hughes@ukonline.co.uk.

[2/15] The Politics of Space and Place

Where Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton
When September 16-18, 2009

In a world where inequality and poverty are growing remorselessly, where you are, and where you happen to have been born, continue to determine, how, and in indeed whether, you live. From the urbanization of the human species and the burgeoning of slums to the rise of the modern gated community; from ‘Fortress Europe’ and the Israeli ’security wall’ to land reform in South Africa; questions of space and place are central to some of today¹s most bitterly contested political issues.

• What might an analysis of politics which focuses on the operation of power through space and place, and on the spatial structuring of inequality, tell us about the world we make for ourselves and others?


• How is power structured and brought to bear on people through spaceand place?


• How does power operate locally, nationally and globally and in both its soft and hard forms


• How does it operate through urban planning, architecture, housing policy, immigration policy and national borders?


• How does it work to discipline and exclude some, while insulating others from the excesses of inequality and degradation?


• How are space and place utilised as a means of dividing people into ‘us’ and ‘them’?·


• How and in whose interests do these divisions function as they pit against each other not only people who live in different parts of the world but also those who live just a few metres apart?

What might an analysis of politics through questions of space and place indicate about how power, injustice and inequality could be better understood and more effectively contested?

We anticipate that these and related issues will be of interest to people working in, among others, philosophy, ethics, political theory, politics, sociology, social policy, globalisation, international relations, cultural studies, history, architecture, photography, geography, planning, refugee studies, migration studies, urban studies and area studies.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to Nicola Clewer: nicolaclewer.hughes@ukonline.co.uk.

[4/30] Connect Deleuze: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

- 2nd International Deleuze Studies Conference

Where Department for American Studies, University of Cologne
When August 10-12, 2009.
Deadline Apr 30, 2009 (please include your affiliation and short bio)

The Conference aims at building transdisciplinary assemblages that involve Deleuze in a wider range of thought, i.e. at constructing, from different‘modules of thought,’ innovative conceptual arrangements that integrate Deleuzian philosophy into the larger field of contemporary knowledge production and practices of living.

Speakers include:
Brian Massumi [Université de Montréal]
Hanjo Berressem [Universität zu Köln]
Ian Buchanan [Cardiff University]
Paul Harris [Loyola Marymount University]
Eugene Holland [Ohio State University]
Gregg Lambert [Syracuse University]
Patricia Pisters [Universiteit van Amsterdam]
Mirjam Schaub [Freie Universität Berlin]
Janell Watson [Virginia Tech]
James Williams [University of Dundee]

Submit panel proposals andor individual abstracts [250 words] to CONNECTdeleuze@web.de.

Further information may be found here: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/abteilungen/berressem/deleuze2009/.

[4/30] Connect Deleuze: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

- 2nd International Deleuze Studies Conference

Where Department for American Studies, University of Cologne
When August 10-12, 2009.
Deadline Apr 30, 2009 (please include your affiliation and short bio)

The Conference aims at building transdisciplinary assemblages that involve Deleuze in a wider range of thought, i.e. at constructing, from different‘modules of thought,’ innovative conceptual arrangements that integrate Deleuzian philosophy into the larger field of contemporary knowledge production and practices of living.

Speakers include:
Brian Massumi [Université de Montréal]
Hanjo Berressem [Universität zu Köln]
Ian Buchanan [Cardiff University]
Paul Harris [Loyola Marymount University]
Eugene Holland [Ohio State University]
Gregg Lambert [Syracuse University]
Patricia Pisters [Universiteit van Amsterdam]
Mirjam Schaub [Freie Universität Berlin]
Janell Watson [Virginia Tech]
James Williams [University of Dundee]

Submit panel proposals andor individual abstracts [250 words] to CONNECTdeleuze@web.de.

Further information may be found here: http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/englisch/abteilungen/berressem/deleuze2009/.

[1/15] Trans/Gender Migrations: Bodies, Borders, and the (Geo)Politics of Gender

Editor Trystan T. Cotten
Deadline for abstracts January 15, 2009
Deadline for complete essays April 1, 2009
Email Trystan38@hotmail.com

Concepts of “migration” and “travel” abound in the field of Transgender Studies. Many transgender cultural productions explore questions of identity and transition trajectories using metaphors of home, displacement, relocation, etc. To our knowledge there are no full length text(s) or monographs that treat the many possibilities of critical, scholarly investigation of this subject in TG history, identity, and art/cultural production. We are proposing a volume of criticism to fill the void and invite contributions for an interdisciplinary collection on the topic. Broadly conceived Trans/Gender Migrations will explore, trace, and map the myriad meanings and functions of “migration” and “travel” in transgender cultural production, politics, and identity/subjectivity, including related concepts of movement and location like space (and spatiality), place, border(s), bridge(s), home, expatriation, displacement, relocation, etc.

We welcome essays from all academic disciplines and scholarly fields and provide some suggestions. Essays might examine these concepts and metaphors in transgender identities (and subjectivities), politics, and cultural productions like literature, film, dance and other performance arts, photography, music, body-art, etc. Or, how TG Studies is itself an interdisciplinary field of methodologies, theories, concepts, and knowledges that are imported from other disciplinary and artistic sites. When and where do western definitions of transgender (and transsexuality) fail to translate across cultural and geographical borders? Other possible topics include exploring the multiple crossings of gender/sex transitions: how the crossing of borders of sex/gender entails other shifts in identity and subjectivity like social class, race and ethnicity, national and religious identity, etc. What additional borders are crossed in sex/gender transitions? Essays might also examine the surgical re-mapping and re-routing of bodily tissues, nerves, organs, and chemicals on TG/TS bodies. Other topics for exploration might include how sex/gender transitions effect migrations to new sexual and political communities; how the politics of race, class, gender, (trans)sexuality intersect with or manifest in immigration policies of the state; and what politics of sex, gender, (trans)sexuality are operative in the forced displacement and relocation of peoples.

Please send a 500 word abstract, working title, and brief biographical statement (MS Word or PDF) to Trystan Cotten by January 15, 2009 at: Trystan38@hotmail.com. Please send a brief biographical statement along with your abstract. Completed essays (formatted in Chicago guidelines) are due by April 1, 2009.

[1/15] The Body as a Site of Discrimination - A Multidisciplinary, Multimedia Online Journal

The Body as a Site of Discrimination will be an interactive, educational, multi-disciplinary, high quality, critical, and cuttingedge online journal. This creative project will fulfill the degreerequirements for two Master's of Social Work students at SFSU. This is a call for submissions to explore the following themes, but other interpretations are also encouraged.

- Disability and Ableism
- Fatphobia or Size Discrimination
- Ageism
- Racism
- Gender Discrimination
- Transphobia, non-conforming gender identities, sexual assault, sexism, and reproductive rights

Cultural and academic communities are invited to contribute for a well-rounded exploration of the theme. The significance of this project is to examine the intersectionality between varying forms of body-based oppressions. Crossing disciplines is necessary to understand this matrix of discrimination and will lead to inventive strategies of change and resistance. The outcome of this journal will contribute to the body of knowledge and serve as a resource for subsequent generations of social workers and other helping professionals.

Entries can explore activism and resistance around these issues, focus on social justice, and implications for social work practice and policy. Representative voices from the identified communities are encouraged to submit. Submissions can include personal narratives, research articles, performance and visual art, fiction, poetry, music, etc. Electronic copies of submissions will be considered for publication.

All submissions must be received by January 15, 2009 to bodydiscrimination@gmail.com

[2/15] Bodily Differences - Social and Scientific Technologies of Self-Making

Paper Suggestion Deadline February 15th, 2009
Conference Dates May 8 & 9, 2009
Where Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada

"I mean for us to embrace our myriad of bodily differences, to understand our lives as ordinary and familiar from the inside, even as we’re treated as curious, exotic, unbelievable, deceptive, threatening from the outside..... I mean for us to embrace our bodily differences while never forgetting the ways in which the world privileges some bodies and marginalizes others. Bodily difference as neither good nor bad, but as a simple fact of life: gender wrapping around sexuality hanging onto race compounding class pulling at disability, all of it finally piling into our tender, resilient human bodies where the answers are ultimately not about doctors, even for those of us who transition, but about self love, community, and liberation" (Eli Clare 2007).

“Bodily difference” is never natural: how bodies are made different from one another has always to do with the social worlds into which they enter and by which they are shaped. Theorists from Aristotle to Marx and from Darwin to Haraway have explored the relationships among worlds, skills, machines, social practices, and bodies. This conference seeks to unpack the social and scientific technologies through which “difference” becomes socially significant. In diverse ways, there has been important work on how machines are made to fit bodies and how bodies in turn are shaped in relation to machines, as well as on questions of how technology is social, and how the social world is technological. Technologies are themselves embedded in circuits of capitalism and colonialism, sometimes best expressed in current connections between science funding and science practice. Understanding embodiment requires us to contemplate complex systems from the lab to the clinic to the media outlet to the library to the university classroom and beyond. We invite papers that explore questions such as:

• How can scientists and people in science studies have meaningful dialogue?


• How is scientific knowledge-making racialized?


• Is it possible to “do” science within capitalist models of science-as-enterprise without succumbing to capital’s imperatives? In a world where funding agencies and private partnerships determine which work gets done, how might we resist capitalism in the practice of science?


• How are classificatory practices important to the production of social worlds?


• How are social practices, like pronoun use and gender recognition, technologies for shaping gender?


• What do current research practices in medicine teach us about the gendered body?


• Since temporary able-bodiedness is a product of our social worlds, how can we better work with bodily difference as, in Eli Clare’s words, a simple fact of life?


• How are cross-species bodily differences shaped, torqued, and understood? How might such differences shift our understandings of what it is to count as human?


• How are sex and gender integrated into biological and medical research? How are such differences not incorporated into these realms?

We hope for this conference to be a site for engaged cross-pollination and active discussion, and invite panel proposals and papers that foreground this kind of work. Presentations do not have to take standard academic form. Please send 250 word abstracts by February 15th, 2009 to Alexis Shotwell (ashotwell@laurentian.ca)

[2/15] Bodily Differences - Social and Scientific Technologies of Self-Making

Paper Suggestion Deadline February 15th, 2009
Conference Dates May 8 & 9, 2009
Where Laurentian University, Ontario, Canada

"I mean for us to embrace our myriad of bodily differences, to understand our lives as ordinary and familiar from the inside, even as we’re treated as curious, exotic, unbelievable, deceptive, threatening from the outside..... I mean for us to embrace our bodily differences while never forgetting the ways in which the world privileges some bodies and marginalizes others. Bodily difference as neither good nor bad, but as a simple fact of life: gender wrapping around sexuality hanging onto race compounding class pulling at disability, all of it finally piling into our tender, resilient human bodies where the answers are ultimately not about doctors, even for those of us who transition, but about self love, community, and liberation" (Eli Clare 2007).

“Bodily difference” is never natural: how bodies are made different from one another has always to do with the social worlds into which they enter and by which they are shaped. Theorists from Aristotle to Marx and from Darwin to Haraway have explored the relationships among worlds, skills, machines, social practices, and bodies. This conference seeks to unpack the social and scientific technologies through which “difference” becomes socially significant. In diverse ways, there has been important work on how machines are made to fit bodies and how bodies in turn are shaped in relation to machines, as well as on questions of how technology is social, and how the social world is technological. Technologies are themselves embedded in circuits of capitalism and colonialism, sometimes best expressed in current connections between science funding and science practice. Understanding embodiment requires us to contemplate complex systems from the lab to the clinic to the media outlet to the library to the university classroom and beyond. We invite papers that explore questions such as:

• How can scientists and people in science studies have meaningful dialogue?


• How is scientific knowledge-making racialized?


• Is it possible to “do” science within capitalist models of science-as-enterprise without succumbing to capital’s imperatives? In a world where funding agencies and private partnerships determine which work gets done, how might we resist capitalism in the practice of science?


• How are classificatory practices important to the production of social worlds?


• How are social practices, like pronoun use and gender recognition, technologies for shaping gender?


• What do current research practices in medicine teach us about the gendered body?


• Since temporary able-bodiedness is a product of our social worlds, how can we better work with bodily difference as, in Eli Clare’s words, a simple fact of life?


• How are cross-species bodily differences shaped, torqued, and understood? How might such differences shift our understandings of what it is to count as human?


• How are sex and gender integrated into biological and medical research? How are such differences not incorporated into these realms?

We hope for this conference to be a site for engaged cross-pollination and active discussion, and invite panel proposals and papers that foreground this kind of work. Presentations do not have to take standard academic form. Please send 250 word abstracts by February 15th, 2009 to Alexis Shotwell (ashotwell@laurentian.ca)

[2/1] Bodies in Motion

- The University of Rhode Island’s Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

When Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Keynote Speaker Dr. Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation Ecology, Duke University
Extended Submission Deadline Sunday, February 1, 2009

Across academic disciplines, "bodies" — animal, epistemological, textual, or otherwise — defy singular definition and elude our efforts to pin them down. As they parallel, intersect, and inform one another, these "bodies" demand rigorous research, creative thinking, and ever-evolving methodologies. How do we account for these "bodies in motion" and the complex ecologies of knowledge that they form? From what critical perspectives — scientific, mathematic, literary, historical, political, rhetorical, ethical, philosophical — can we examine these "bodies" in order to learn from them and from others? The graduate community at the University of Rhode Island invites submissions for posters, papers, presentations, performances and panels from a variety of disciplines exploring "bodies in motion."

Dr. Stuart L. Pimm is Duke University’s Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology and the 2006 winner of the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences. Dr. Pimm’s work focuses on maintaining global biological diversity. His commitment to environmental and species preservation has brought him to Washington D.C., where he testified before both the House’s and Senate’s Committee on the Reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. He is a founder of SavingSpecies.org, an NGO working toward species preservation and carbon neutrality, and a member of National Geographic's grant-awarding Committee for Research and Exploration. Bridging the divides between science, sociology, and anthropology, Dr. Pimm’s methods involve working directly with indigenous populations to help flora and fauna survive while maintaining local traditions. His books include World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth, The Balance of Nature?: Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities, and Food Webs.

Possible topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theorizing the body or bodies


• Bodies and environmental crisis


• The legal body


• Economic bodies


• Political bodies


• Bodies and health care


• Biotechnology and ethics of the body


• Bodies in literature


• Bodies in the digital age


• Migration, displacement, and/or diasporas


• Mass media and the global image of bodies


• Bodies as machines/Machines as bodies


• The aesthetics of movement


• Bodies and the flow of technology


• Artistic interpretations of the body

Submission Guidelines

Please propose individual papers or panels and indicate whether you are willing to moderate a panel. Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome.

To propose a paper, submit a cover page with your name; institutional affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email); a 250-word abstract of the paper; a roughly 100-word bio; and a detailed request for audiovisual equipment (if needed). Presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes (about seven double-spaced pages).

To propose a panel, submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150-250 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s), the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be one hour and fifteen minutes long.

The conference committee requests the submission of materials in the body of an email or as an attachment in a Word, text, or PDF document. All submissions should be emailed to gradcon@etal.uri.edu. Please refer any questions you may have to this address as well. Notification of acceptance will be by Friday, February 7, 2009.

[2/1] Bodies in Motion

- The University of Rhode Island’s Third Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

When Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Keynote Speaker Dr. Stuart Pimm, Professor of Conservation Ecology, Duke University
Extended Submission Deadline Sunday, February 1, 2009

Across academic disciplines, "bodies" — animal, epistemological, textual, or otherwise — defy singular definition and elude our efforts to pin them down. As they parallel, intersect, and inform one another, these "bodies" demand rigorous research, creative thinking, and ever-evolving methodologies. How do we account for these "bodies in motion" and the complex ecologies of knowledge that they form? From what critical perspectives — scientific, mathematic, literary, historical, political, rhetorical, ethical, philosophical — can we examine these "bodies" in order to learn from them and from others? The graduate community at the University of Rhode Island invites submissions for posters, papers, presentations, performances and panels from a variety of disciplines exploring "bodies in motion."

Dr. Stuart L. Pimm is Duke University’s Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology and the 2006 winner of the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences. Dr. Pimm’s work focuses on maintaining global biological diversity. His commitment to environmental and species preservation has brought him to Washington D.C., where he testified before both the House’s and Senate’s Committee on the Reauthorization of the Endangered Species Act. He is a founder of SavingSpecies.org, an NGO working toward species preservation and carbon neutrality, and a member of National Geographic's grant-awarding Committee for Research and Exploration. Bridging the divides between science, sociology, and anthropology, Dr. Pimm’s methods involve working directly with indigenous populations to help flora and fauna survive while maintaining local traditions. His books include World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth, The Balance of Nature?: Ecological Issues in the Conservation of Species and Communities, and Food Webs.

Possible topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theorizing the body or bodies


• Bodies and environmental crisis


• The legal body


• Economic bodies


• Political bodies


• Bodies and health care


• Biotechnology and ethics of the body


• Bodies in literature


• Bodies in the digital age


• Migration, displacement, and/or diasporas


• Mass media and the global image of bodies


• Bodies as machines/Machines as bodies


• The aesthetics of movement


• Bodies and the flow of technology


• Artistic interpretations of the body

Submission Guidelines

Please propose individual papers or panels and indicate whether you are willing to moderate a panel. Panels of 3-4 presentations are especially welcome.

To propose a paper, submit a cover page with your name; institutional affiliation; contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email); a 250-word abstract of the paper; a roughly 100-word bio; and a detailed request for audiovisual equipment (if needed). Presentations will be limited to fifteen minutes (about seven double-spaced pages).

To propose a panel, submit a cover page including the title of the panel and the names of presenters; a panel abstract of 150-250 words; a separate page with the names of presenters, their contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) and institutional affiliation(s), the titles of their presentations; and a 250-word abstract for each paper. Panels will be one hour and fifteen minutes long.

The conference committee requests the submission of materials in the body of an email or as an attachment in a Word, text, or PDF document. All submissions should be emailed to gradcon@etal.uri.edu. Please refer any questions you may have to this address as well. Notification of acceptance will be by Friday, February 7, 2009.

[2/16] Grotowski: After - Alongside - Around - Ahead

When 15th June 2009
Deadline 16th February 2009

Grotowski: After - Alongside - Around - Ahead serve as an epilogue to the conference Jerzy Grotowski: Theatre and Beyond at the University of Kent (Canterbury, UK). This is the only event planned for the ‘Year of Grotowski’ that specifically focuses on an emerging generation of scholars, researchers and practitioners. The aims of this unique event will be:

• To provide a platform for a new generation of postgraduate students, emerging scholars and practitioners to present their research and encounter each others’ work.


• To develop and expand upon issues raised during the conference.


• To explore new approaches and original ways of articulating, conceptualising, analysing and criticising the practice of Jerzy Grotowski and his collaborators.


• To investigate the intersections with practical and discursive fields of research that have been shaped, influenced and/or engendered by the work of Jerzy Grotowski and his collaborators.

The structure of this symposium will reflect the relationships and productive tensions between the following areas: organicity/precision; memory/impulse; text/song; movement/action; theatre/ritual; intercultural/transcultural; tradition/research; sacred/profane. We invite proposals for academic papers, reflections on practice, work demonstrations, provocations, and creative responses lasting between 15 and 45 minutes.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• How — as performers, directors, writers, students, practitioners, researchers — do we ‘meet’ Grotowski’s creative practice and articulation of practice? What approaches, vocabularies, or modes of critique allow for such a meeting?


• What practical and/or theoretical tools arising from this field are of interest to those currently engaged with performance practice, performance research, and performance studies?


• How do we ‘read’ the texts and practical testimonies of Grotowski and his collaborators today?


• How have the interventions of Grotowski, his collaborators, and those who draw on their work impacted on the various fields of their research? How are Grotowski's insights and challenges being adapted to work in diverse locations and contexts?


• What possibilities exist for the productive exploration of Grotowski’s research through interaction with other disciplines such as anthropology, philosophy, or psychology?

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Participants are invited to present at either or both of the above events. Please send a description (no longer than 300 words) of each proposal for the panel and/or the symposium and a brief CV by 16th February 2009 to Pablo Pakula pa67@kent.ac.uk

(Please be aware that there are some logistical limitations on performances and the presentation of practical work. Initial, informal enquiries regarding practice, and the length and possible formats of proposals are very welcome)

Organising committee: Pablo Pakula (UK), Duncan Jamieson (UK), Adela Karsznia (Poland) and Ben Spatz (New York). With the assistance of Professor Paul Allain (UK) and Dr Giuliano Campo (Italy).

[3/2] The Future of Aesthetics

Where Trondheim
When 11-14 June 2009
Abstract Deadline March 2, 2009

The topic of the annual conference for Nordic Society of Aesthetics in 2009 is the future of aesthetics. The field of aesthetics is under pressure; on the one hand economic and political interests are making themselves increasingly evident, both in conventional art and in other cultural arenas. On the other hand the field of aesthetics exhibits a greater variety of views, methods, and fields of interest than ever before. This situation invites reflection on future possibilities of aesthetics, but also enforces the question of whether aesthetics has a future at all.

The last decades have witnessed an increasing interest in applying aesthetic perspectives to activities and objects outside the traditional domain of art, leading to a broadening of the concept of the aesthetic. Installation artist Rirkrit Tiravanija's curry dinners may serve as a simple, yet striking illustration, of the challenge from the artworld heading in this direction. The aesthetic also appears to play a more prominent part in our environment as ever more areas of our life-world is made subject to aesthetic demands.

This reorientation towards a wider and more sense oriented conception of the aesthetic might also be connected with new approaches to the relation between nature and art. Partly motivated by impulses from different types of philosophical monism (Deleuze, Latour, Serres), partly by inspiration from the natural sciences (ecology, biology, computer science, etc.), partly by political impulses (fair trade, environmental crisis, etc.), it seems like the artworld, as well as aesthetic theory, are about to redefine its relation to nature. Eduardo Kac's “bio-ethical” art projects like GFP Bunny, Stelarc's and Orlan's body modifications and machine-human projects, or George Gessert's “plant ethical” Iris projects, might all serve as examples of this.

We are interested in contributions dealing with the question of the future of aesthetics in a wide sense. Theoretical as well as empirical oriented presentations are welcome, not least, contributions with an interdisciplinary approach, as well as contributions dealing with other topics within the field of aesthetics. Presentations may be in English or in one of the Scandinavian languages.

Abstracts not exceeding 200 words should be submitted by e-mail to estetikkonferanse@hf.ntnu.no before March 2nd, 2009. We also welcome participation without presentation of a paper.

The conference is open to members of the Nordic Society of Aesthetics as well as non-members. The conference fee for non-members is NOK 400 (to be paid at the conference).

Keynote speakers: Gernot Böhme (Darmstadt), Siglind Bruhn (Michigan/Sorbonne), Christoph Menke (Potsdam)

estetikkonferanse@hf.ntnu.no