CALL FOR PAPERS
R/Évolution 2: Disrupting Genders/Sexualities/Ideologies
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Ph.D. Humanities Program: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society
and Culture
March 21st, 22nd, and 23rd, 2003 at Concordia University
Keynote speaker: Brian Massumi
Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals
exploring “R/Évolution,” with particular focus on issues stemming from its
intersections with gender, sexuality, and ideology.
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 conference is to
integrate theoretical, methodological, and “practical” approaches to the
broad theme of “R/Évolution” as it pertains specifically to genders,
sexualities, and ideologies. We seek to address the last century and to
create space and possibility for continued praxis and critique of
“identity,” “representation,” “politics,” “power,” and “change.” What does
“revolution” and “evolution” mean in the contemporary context? What are (or
have been) the vectors of and for “political” change? How is Stuart Hall’s
“war of representation” being waged, and under what circumstances, by
feminists and gay/lesbian/bi/trans/queer activists both inside and outside
of the Academy? We hope to create a space in which questions can be asked
of ideology, language, media, and discourse, and where dialogue on the past,
present, and future can thrive.
Brian Massumi teaches in the Communication Department of the University of
Montréal. His publications include A User's Guide to Capitalism and
Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari and Parables for the
Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, as well as numerous translations
including Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus. His current research
is two-fold: interrelations between the senses and the experience of space,
specifically in the context of new media technology and emerging design
practices; and new modes of power associated with the globalization of
capitalism. His talk is entitled: “Empire of Emotion: Legitimation Today.”
Presentations may address (but are certainly not limited to):
continuity/discontinuity -- authority -- science, technology --
nostalgia, memory -- activism, movement/s -- globalization -- bodies -- the
task of history -- privilege -- popular culture -- cityscapes --
nationalisms -- space/s -- generation/s -- visual/aural culture --
in/visibility -- identity/identity politics -- subjectivity --
individuals/collectives -- utopia/s -- modernity/postmodernity -- work
contagion, disease -- displacement -- spectacle/s -- feminism/s,
postfeminism/s -- alternatives -- institutionalism -- borders and margins --
performance/performativity -- race -- spirituality -- morals, ethics --
voice -- “queer” -- subcultures/counterculture --
"the canon” -- pedagogy -- heterosexualities -- difference -- representation
-- visual art/s
Presentation Formats: Papers, critical essays, poster presentations, panels,
creative writing, short films, 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/Évolution 2”:
E-mail: RevolutionII@hotmail.com (email submissions encouraged)
Mailing Address:
Humanities Doctoral Program
School of Graduate Studies and Research, Concordia University
2135 Mackay Street, M-302 MONTRÉAL Quebec H3G 2J2
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 2003.
Abstracts/presentations will be accepted in both English and French.
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