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November 02, 2009
Articulation(s), Amsterdam
Deadline: September 30, 2009
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) Location: Ontario, Netherlands
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for paper submissions and panel sessions for its yearly International Workshop.
How do we analyze, understand, and participate in the world? What are the ways in which we can think through concepts such as aesthetics, identity, politics, and space to articulate the object(s) of our inquiry? These are a few of the questions the 2010 ASCA International Workshop, "Articulation(s)," seeks to explore. The workshop offers a space in which we can reflect upon such questions and the methodological nuances, theoretical consequences, and political implications that arise when we interrogate (trans)national theories, disciplines, and contested object(s).
With its double meaning, to express and to connect, articulation(s) highlights the contingency of the unities of meaning and of discourse(s) that we ascribe to our object(s) in question. Articulation(s) is a generative concept that has been prominent in shaping theory for decades. Working (inter)disciplinarily in the humanities, articulation(s), as a travelling concept, refers to the engaging of objects, concepts, and theories and the (im)possibilities of interrogation.
In this workshop articulation(s) is presented in relation to four distinct themes that we will (re)articulate and/or interrogate to see whether they help us express the relationships between theories, discipline, and object(s) from our various fields.
These issues will be discussed in four panels:
National Identity
Migratory Aesthetics
Space
Politics of Mourning
For further information on the panels, visit the website at http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca/news.cfm/2F204DAB-1321-B0BE-A40047342B0FC94F
In keeping with the spirit of tradition, this workshop has been inspired by the 2008-2009 ASCA Theory Seminar entitled "Articulations": Theoretically Speaking.
Participants are welcome to submit proposals from any discipline and will be subjected to peer review. Please submit a short autobiographical sketch (150 words) and your proposal (300 words) to Dr. Eloe Kingma, Managing Director of ASCA (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis) via email or post. Please indicate which of the four themes you would like to participate in, and if your presentation will include video, projection, or performance.
Those selected to participate will be asked to provide a 3000 word paper (excluding bibliography) by January 4, 2010, so that the papers can be distributed in advance of the workshop. In order to allow for a sufficient amount of discussion time, papers will not be read. Instead, participants will be asked to provide a short summary of their argument or to respond to another panelist(s)'s paper for a maximum of 10 minutes.
Proposals should be sent to:
Dr. Eloe Kingma (Managing Director)
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Email: asca-fgw@uva.nl
Visit the website at http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca
Lara Mazurski
University of Amsterdam
Email: l.e.mazurski@uva.nl
Posted by uunguyen at November 2, 2009 10:19 AM