CALL FOR PAPERS
R/Évolution
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Ph.D. Humanities Program: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society
and Culture
March 23rd, 2002 at Concordia University
Keynote speaker: Mark Saunders
Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals
exploring "r/évolution."
Proposals should translate into 15 minutes of presentation time (7-8 pages).
We invite proposals for the presentation and discussion of papers, short
films, panel presentations, and more around a multifarious,
oft-controversial, and timely theme. The goal of this symposium is to
integrate theoretical, methodological, and "practical" approaches to the
broad theme of "r/evolution." This symposium seeks to address the last
century and to create space and possibility for continued praxis and
critique of "revolution," "evolution," "progress," and "change." What does
"revolution" mean in our historical context? What are (or have been) the
vectors of and for political change? We hope to create a space in which
questions can be asked of ideology, language, and discourse, and where
dialogue on the past, present, and future can thrive.
Mark Saunders is an acclaimed and award-winning documentary filmmaker whose
community-based work is grounded in urbanism and utopianism. His films
include the Prix Du Public winning Battle of Trafalgar, 1993’s The Truth
Lies in Rostock, Exodus Movement of Jah People and Exodus from Babylon, and
the Innovations in Communications Award winning A Line in Time in 1999. He
has helped to create non-broadcast productions for the World Development
Movement, Transport and General Workers Union, New Economic Foundation, and
Amnesty International. Resisting, severing, and transcending traditional
disciplinary borders, his keynote address "Do Utopians Watch TV?" presents a
rapid tour past the landmarks of independent media. Illustrated and
contextualized with extracts from his own work, Saunders will discuss the
intricacies of these questions from the beginnings of video up to Peter
Watkin’s La Commune and the new romantic hero, the "Media-Activist".
Presentations may address (but are certainly not limited to):
transition/s, "progress," change: social/political/cultural/epistomological,
revolt v. revolution, continuity/discontinuity, nostalgia, memory, activism,
movement/s globalization, revolutionary art, privatization and the academy,
the task of history, popular culture, urban spaces, nationalisms,
space/time, quiet opposition v. violence, generation/s, sexualities,
identity/identity politics, silent revolution/s, collectivity, utopia/s,
modernization, labour, HIV/AIDS, displacement, spectacle/s, feminism/s
postfeminism/s, alternatives, institutionality, the "right," borders and
margins, race, spirituality, morals & ethics, media, voice, myth, legend,
folklore...
Presentation Formats: Papers, critical essays, poster presentations, panels,
creative writing, and performance art. Non-traditional presentation formats
are welcome!
Applicants should submit a title and an abstract of not more than 250 words
to "R/Evolution":
Mailing Address:
Humanities Doctoral Program
School of Graduate Studies and Research, Concordia University
2135 Mackay Street, M-302 MONTRÉAL Quebec H3G 2J2
E-mail: candis.steenbergen@sympatico.ca
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2002.
E-mail submissions encouraged.
Abstracts/presentations in both English and French.
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