[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: [Soyuz-List] CFP: Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political (the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

[hugh gusterson]

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

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