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From: "Serguei Alex. Oushakine"
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Subject: [Soyuz-List] CFP: Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the
Political (the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)<br>
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 23:44:25 -0400<br>
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Abstracts of 500 words and a brief c.v., as well as panel proposals
(which <br>
should include individual abstracts), and any questions or comments
should <br>
be submitted to:<br>
critprac@tc.umn.edu<br><br>
<br>
Abstracts due: July 31, 2005<br>
For more information visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac" eudora="autourl">http://www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac</a><br><br>
Conferences and Calls for Papers<br><br>
Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political<br>
Featuring Keynote Speakers Michael Hardt and Mary Ann Doane<br><br>
October 20-22, 2005 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<br><br>
Organized by The Collective for Critical Practices, a group of graduate
<br>
students in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative
Literature<br><br>
This conference is concerned with what it might mean to be "out of
time" and <br>
its implications and applications for our present moment. Our Collective
<br>
approaches "out of time" as a sense of urgency, a potential
that emerges out <br>
of "presentness," and a transformation of earlier assumptions
of <br>
temporality. Today, urgency and the potential of the present have been
<br>
elevated by the presumed waning of modernist notions of history and
complex <br>
shifts in the relations of production. We are out of time.<br><br>
This problematic is being taken up in a myriad of provocative ways within
<br>
both academic and non-academic spheres of production from philosophy to
<br>
literature to film to political activism. In The Emergence of Cinematic
<br>
Time, Mary Ann Doane explores the intersections between temporality,
<br>
modernity, the archive and cinema. Michael Hardt's work conceptualizes
the <br>
reorganization of production and temporality in the era of
globalization.<br><br>
The Collective for Critical Practices in conjunction with the Cultural
<br>
Studies and Comparative Literature Film Society at the University of
<br>
Minnesota invite submissions for our Fall 2005 conference dedicated to
the <br>
theme "out of time." Our first priority is to consider a
multiplicity of <br>
viewpoints that explore, challenge, contest and engage in current <br>
theoretical debates on this issue. Further, we encourage collaborative
works <br>
and cultural productions (e.g. photo-essays, web art, live art, and
<br>
film/video pieces) in addition to traditional essay presentations. Our
<br>
commitment is to open our collective to intellectual and creative
producers <br>
that are critically and rigorously involved in the urgent task of
thinking <br>
"out of time," regardless of academic or artistic
distinction.<br><br>
Potential topics might include (but are not limited to) the
following:<br>
Transformations of wage time<br>
Time and national memorialization<br>
The cinematic event<br>
Science fictions of empire<br>
Temporalities of technology<br>
Ontology and history<br>
Wasting and spending time<br>
Narrativizations of time<br>
Nostalgia and utopia<br>
Emergence and becoming<br>
Bodies in time<br>
Potential, hope, and the future<br>
Rest and inertia<br>
Trauma, memory, repetition<br>
Space(s) without time<br>
Time in exile<br>
Temporality and subjectivity<br>
Public/private time<br><br>
Abstracts of 500 words and a brief c.v., as well as panel proposals
(which <br>
should include individual abstracts), and any questions or comments
should <br>
be submitted to:<br>
critprac@tc.umn.edu<br><br>
Abstracts due: July 31, 2005<br>
For more information visit:<br>
<a href="http://www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac" eudora="autourl">http://www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac</a>
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