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DEADLINE EXTENDED: Brown French Studies Graduate Conference

Dear Colleagues,
Please find attached, and below, the CFP for Equinoxes, the annual graduate student conference of the Brown University Department of French Studies. The conference will be held April 4-5, 2014. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to January 31.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

TRANSPORTS

April 4-5, 2014   |  Brown University   |   Providence, Rhode Island

Keynote speaker: Roger Célestin, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Connecticut

From daily transportation to emotional exaltation, the notion of transport implicates both the most routine and the most extraordinary aspects of life. At any point on this spectrum, transport always involves a process: a process of shifting between places, modes, states, or representations. It can be a movement towards a time, a place, an idea, a climax. Transatlantic voyages permit immigration; literature circulates, leading to new interpretations, editions, and translations; images are projected through space and onto a screen… These movements raise questions of origin, destination and motivation; they also push us to examine questions of will and intent, as the idea of transport often implies passivity or loss of self: one may be transported by unexpected joy, swept away by nostalgia, or deported against one’s desire. Far from its immediate quotidian connotations, transport thus also has rhetorical, esthetic and political implications. In the aim of investigating the questions raised by the various facets of transport, we invite submissions from a variety of fields including, but not limited to,s literary, cultural, and media studies, engaging with all periods and genres of cultural production anywhere in the French-speaking world.

 Potential avenues of exploration may include but are not limited to:

Travel, journeys, voyages, travel narratives, récits de voyage; Systems of transportation; Trade, economic questions of goods and materials; Rites of (safe) passage; Crossing boundaries; Conviction, deportation, banishment; Displacement; Circulation; Intersections, meetings; Overlaps, transfers; Literary circulation; Intertextuality; Translation; Projection; Metaphor, pathos, rhetorical devices, modes of representation; Emotional states, emotional climax, (en)rapture; Movement, motion; Transit, transition, the transitional, the transitory; Transcendence

Graduate students who wish to participate in the conference should submit an abstract, in French or English, of no more than 250 words. Abstracts must be sent, as attachments, to brown.equinoxes@gmail.com before January 31, 2014. Emails should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Presentations, whether in English or French, should not exceed 20 minutes.

 

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

TRANSPORTS

Les 4 et 5 avril 2014 |  Brown University   |   Providence, Rhode Island

Conférencier : Roger Célestin, Professeur d’Etudes françaises et francophones, University of Connecticut

Du transport émotionnel au transport en commun quotidien, la notion de transport recouvre à la fois les aspects les plus extraordinaires et les plus routiniers de nos vies. A travers tout le spectre, la notion de transport décrit toujours un processus : celui de glisser entre deux endroits, modes, états ou représentations. On peut être en mouvement vers un temps, un lieu, une idée, un point culminant. Les voyages transatlantiques permettent la migration ; la littérature circule, conduisant à de nouvelles interprétations, de nouvelles éditions, et de nouvelles traductions ; des images sont projetées à travers l’espace sur un écran… Ces mouvements posent les questions de l’origine, de la destination et de la motivation du transport, et nous poussent aussi à nous interroger sur la volonté et l’intention du transporté, car l’idée de transport insinue souvent l’idée de passivité ou de perte de soi : on peut être transporté  de joie, terrassé par la nostalgie ou déporté contre son désir. Loin de sa signification banale, transport recouvre donc aussi des enjeux politiques, rhétoriques et esthétiques. Pour explorer les différentes facettes du transport, nous invitons donc les étudiants gradués à soumettre des propositions de communication dans divers champs incluant, mais non limités aux, études littéraires, culturelles et des médias, couvrant toutes les périodes et genres de productions culturelles, pourvu qu’elles touchent au monde francophone.

 Quelques pistes potentielles d’exploration, mais qui ne doivent pas limiter les postulants :

Les voyages, les récits de voyage, les aventures ; Les systèmes de transports ; Le commerce : questions d’échanges de biens et de matériels ; Les rites de passage ; La traversée des frontières, des limites ; La déportation, le bannissement, le déplacement ; La circulation ; L’intersection, la rencontre, la réunion ; Le transfert ; La circulation littéraire, l’intertextualité ; La traduction ; La projection ; La métaphore, le pathos, les outils rhétoriques, et les modes de représentation ; Le mouvement ; Le transit, la transition, le transitionnel, le transitoire ; La transcendance

Les étudiants gradués intéressés devront nous remettre une proposition de communication, en français ou en anglais, de 250 mots au plus. Les propositions devront être envoyées en pièce jointe à brown.equinoxes@gmail.com avant le 31 janvier 2014. Les emails devront contenir le nom de l’auteur, son affiliation universitaire, et les informations pour le contacter. Les présentations à Equinoxes, qu’elles soient en anglais ou en français, ne doivent pas dépasser les 20 minutes.

CFP: The Crypt(ic) – Institute for Comparative Literature and Society – Columbia University – Annual Graduate Student Conference – 3/29/14

Call for papers: The Crypt(ic)

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society – Annual Graduate Student Conference

Columbia University, New York

March 29, 2014

Keynote speaker: To be confirmed

“The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.”

-Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism

The architectural crypt is the site of sacred relics situated outside of the space of religious practice. It is the foundation that is permanently hidden from view, its animating sanctity alien to the rituals of worship that it legitimates. Exegesis begins with a death that is the crypt of writing. For Freud, this distortion of text is both a transformation and a displacement: the transformation of lived memory into a documentary apparatus and its displacement to a site of repetition and reproduction. What escapes the bottleneck of the signifier is rendered spectral – a ghostly presence haunting the regimes of meaning.

The Crypt(ic) proposes to explore the spaces rendered obscure by regimes of signification, yet constitutive of both the content and the delimitation of meaning. The social and political articulate this relationship. For Marx, there is no value without surplus and no labor without estrangement; the obscure precedes and delineates its normative condition. The categories of (non-surplus) value and (unalienated) labor are the particular, perhaps illusory, conditions of a cryptic generality. Likewise, the political as the contestation of power is obscured from politics as the instantiation of power. A mind trained in the globalized humanities towards reading the (social) text of the past and of our own time can try to break the code that conceals the crypt(ic) from plain view, perhaps putting it in a position where it itself encrypts again: the question remains how to wrestle with this double bind in an ever-unfinished attempt to change its course, to put it to work.

We welcome papers that explore obscurity, estrangement, concealment, and displacement across the humanities and the social sciences. To consider conditions in which the hidden precedes the particular necessarily disrupts disciplinary boundaries. Papers might consider the constitution of “the other” within the construction of normativity; practices of the archive or of digitalization within the humanities; alienation and estrangement in political, economic, and social theory; the uncanny, the occult, and the monstrous in art and literature; subalternity as conditioned by the history of (post)coloniality and globality; the (in)visibility of the race, class, and (heteronormative) gender lines; repression, abreaction, and parapraxis in psychoanalytic theory; or the role of chaos or the abyss in metaphysics and epistemology. We likewise welcome discussion of the hidden or obscure in contemporary theory such as, but not limited to, Ranciere’s Dissensus, Castoriadis and Lefort’s notions of the political, Derrida’s Parergon, Deleuze’s Body without Organs, or recent reassessments of Fanon and Beauvoir.

 

Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words to iclsgradconf@gmail.com by January 15, 2014.

The Crypt(ic)_Columbia ICLS 2014_CFP.pdf

CFP Brown Graduate Student Conference: Transports

CALL FOR PAPERS

TRANSPORTS

April 4-5, 2014   |  Brown University   |   Providence, Rhode Island

Keynote speaker: Roger Célestin, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, University of Connecticut

From daily transportation to emotional exaltation, the notion of transport implicates both the most routine and the most extraordinary aspects of life. At any point on this spectrum, transport always involves a process: a process of shifting between places, modes, states, or representations. It can be a movement towards a time, a place, an idea, a climax. Transatlantic voyages permit immigration; literature circulates, leading to new interpretations, editions, and translations; images are projected through space and onto a screen… These movements raise questions of origin, destination and motivation; they also push us to examine questions of will and intent, as the idea of transport often implies passivity or loss of self: one may be transported by unexpected joy, swept away by nostalgia, or deported against one’s desire. Far from its immediate quotidian connotations, transport thus also has rhetorical, esthetic and political implications. In the aim of investigating the questions raised by the various facets of transport, we invite submissions from a variety of fields including, but not limited to,s literary, cultural, and media studies, engaging with all periods and genres of cultural production anywhere in the French-speaking world.

 Potential avenues of exploration may include but are not limited to:

Travel, journeys, voyages, travel narratives, récits de voyage; Systems of transportation; Trade, economic questions of goods and materials; Rites of (safe) passage; Crossing boundaries; Conviction, deportation, banishment; Displacement; Circulation; Intersections, meetings; Overlaps, transfers; Literary circulation; Intertextuality; Translation; Projection; Metaphor, pathos, rhetorical devices, modes of representation; Emotional states, emotional climax, (en)rapture; Movement, motion; Transit, transition, the transitional, the transitory; Transcendence

 Graduate students who wish to participate in the conference should submit an abstract, in French or English, of no more than 250 words. Abstracts must be sent, as attachments, to brown.equinoxes@gmail.com before January 22, 2014. Emails should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, and contact information. Presentations, whether in English or French, should not exceed 20 minutes.

 

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

TRANSPORTS

Les 4 et 5 avril 2014 |  Brown University   |   Providence, Rhode Island

Conférencier : Roger Célestin, Professeur d’Etudes françaises et francophones, University of Connecticut

Du transport émotionnel au transport en commun quotidien, la notion de transport recouvre à la fois les aspects les plus extraordinaires et les plus routiniers de nos vies. A travers tout le spectre, la notion de transport décrit toujours un processus : celui de glisser entre deux endroits, modes, états ou représentations. On peut être en mouvement vers un temps, un lieu, une idée, un point culminant. Les voyages transatlantiques permettent la migration ; la littérature circule, conduisant à de nouvelles interprétations, de nouvelles éditions, et de nouvelles traductions ; des images sont projetées à travers l’espace sur un écran… Ces mouvements posent les questions de l’origine, de la destination et de la motivation du transport, et nous poussent aussi à nous interroger sur la volonté et l’intention du transporté, car l’idée de transport insinue souvent l’idée de passivité ou de perte de soi : on peut être transporté  de joie, terrassé par la nostalgie ou déporté contre son désir. Loin de sa signification banale, transport recouvre donc aussi des enjeux politiques, rhétoriques et esthétiques. Pour explorer les différentes facettes du transport, nous invitons donc les étudiants gradués à soumettre des propositions de communication dans divers champs incluant, mais non limités aux, études littéraires, culturelles et des médias, couvrant toutes les périodes et genres de productions culturelles, pourvu qu’elles touchent au monde francophone.

 Quelques pistes potentielles d’exploration, mais qui ne doivent pas limiter les postulants :

 Les voyages, les récits de voyage, les aventures ; Les systèmes de transports ; Le commerce : questions d’échanges de biens et de matériels ; Les rites de passage ; La traversée des frontières, des limites ; La déportation, le bannissement, le déplacement ; La circulation ; L’intersection, la rencontre, la réunion ; Le transfert ; La circulation littéraire, l’intertextualité ; La traduction ; La projection ; La métaphore, le pathos, les outils rhétoriques, et les modes de représentation ; Le mouvement ; Le transit, la transition, le transitionnel, le transitoire ; La transcendance

Les étudiants gradués intéressés devront nous remettre une proposition de communication, en français ou en anglais, de 250 mots au plus. Les propositions devront être envoyées en pièce jointe à brown.equinoxes@gmail.com avant le 22 Janvier 2014. Les emails devront contenir le nom de l’auteur, son affiliation universitaire, et les informations pour le contacter. Les présentations à Equinoxes, qu’elles soient en anglais ou en français, ne doivent pas dépasser les 20 minutes. 

CFP: “Exhibit A: Authorship on Display” @ CUNY Graduate Center

Call for Papers: ‘Exhibit A: Authorship on Display’
The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY
Organized by: Chelsea Haines, Grant Johnson and Natalie Musteata
April 7, 2014, 12pm – 7:30pm
 
In the last two decades, the study of exhibition history has grown exponentially: a recent surge of publications, conferences, courses, and reconstructions of historical exhibitions has fostered a new body of knowledge. However, discussions on exhibition history are conspicuously bifurcated, shuttling between a small coterie of curators on the one hand, and a select number of scholars on the other. In curatorial circles, discourse often focuses on individual practices, with little sustained reflection on broader historical and museological implications. Meanwhile, in academic circles, the history of exhibitions is often situated in terms of spectatorship, without directing attention to the various forms of authorship involved in exhibition making.
 
This conference seeks to sketch a typology of authorial roles in contemporary exhibition practice by assembling a range of perspectives-artists, curators, art historians, and emerging scholars-for a day-long conversation.
 
All relevant papers will be considered. Possible subjects may include:
 
– the exhibition as genre, medium or apparatus
 
– the retrospective or solo show
 
– exhibition design and rhetoric of display
 
– artist curated exhibitions
 
– ‘the curatorial turn’ in art making
 
– relationships between exhibition authors (artists, curators, collectors, et. al.)
 
Conference funding provided by the John Rewald Endowment of the Ph.D. Program in Art History, and The Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
 
Interested participants are invited to submit a paper no longer than 3,000 words along with a CV to nmusteata@gmail.com by Friday, January 10, 2014.

CFP: UNC Charlotte English Graduate Student Conference, 1/24/14

A Draper alum has sent us a call for papers: 
 
 
Processing and Performing Paradigms: How (Non)Literary (Con)Texts Construct Realities 
UNC Charlotte’s English Graduate Student Association 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference
 
Friday, January 24, 2014 
 
Center City Building, Charlotte
Abstracts are due Dec 2 
 
See the attached flyer for more details. 

 EGSA-2014-Conference-CFP.pdf