CALL FOR PAPERS
In(ter)discipline: New Languages for Criticism
An International Conference
19-21 September 2003
University of Cambridge, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social
Sciences, and Humanities Sidney Sussex College, UK
This conference aims to stimulate discussion about the kinds of
critical languages used within the scholarly as well as the public
sphere, and the linguistic challenge that represents an increasingly
interdisciplinary research culture within the modern Humanities.
The question as to what kind of language(s) a critic choses to use is
intimately connected to ideas about the purpose and readership of
critical writing. Given the conventions of professional critical
prose in academia, critics are often expected to give weight to
handed-down knowledge, to questions of origin, and to historical,
cultural, and social context. Often they are encouraged to avoid a
personal style of writing. Might a more immediate and individualized
response, possibly in the spirit of a 'close reading', lead to a
better kind of critical writing that would send the reader back to
the art work, to look at it, read it or listen to it again, with a
heightened sense of understanding and - more crucially -
responsiveness and enjoyment? Or is the outcome of such an approach
likely to be atomism? As regards interdisciplinary work, are the
languages used in the different specialisms transposable from one
field into another? Or do we need a meta-language? What are the
advantages as well as the difficulties and risks when using different
methods and modes of analysis?
Many of our invited speakers have made powerful statements in this
respect through the very nature of their work. In(ter)discipline
offers an exceptional opportunity to debate these and other
approaches and to examine the significance of language in criticism.
Confirmed Speakers are:
* Mieke Bal (literature and art criticism), Amsterdam
* Gillian Beer (English literary studies), Cambridge
* John Berger (art criticism), France
* Malcolm Bowie (European literary and psychoanalytic studies), Cambridge
* Gabriele Brandstetter (dance criticism), Basel
* Elisabeth Bronfen (American literary studies and
psychoanalytic theory), Zurich
* Scott Burnham (music theory), Princeton
* Friedrich Kittler (aesthetics and history of media), Berlin
* Laurence Kramer (musicology), New York City
* Simon McBurney (theatre), London
* Beate Perrey (music, poetry, psychoanalytic theory), Cambridge
* Adam Phillips (psychoanalysis), London
* Peter Szendy (musicology), Paris
Proposals for papers addressing issues of in(ter)disciplinary
scholarship and writing are now invited from younger as well as
senior members of any humanities or arts discipline or practice.
Please send proposals not exceeding 300 words plus a brief
biographical note to Dr Beate Perrey via e-mail bep1000@cam.ac.uk, or
fax (+44)1223 765276, or post (see below)
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: MONDAY 30 JUNE 2003
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE: MONDAY 7 JULY 2003.
Papers by conference speakers as well as a selection of proposed
papers that could not be accommodated in the conference will be
published in a book.
This conference forms part of the long-term research programme New
Languages for Criticism: Cross-currents and Resistances, co-directed
by Prof. Dame Gillian Beer, Prof. Malcolm Bowie and Dr Beate Perrey,
and sponsored by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences
and Humanities (CRASSH) of the University of Cambridge.
For more information and to register, please visit the project
website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/projects/newlangs.html
For practical details about the conference, please contact Mary-Rose
Cheadle at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities, University of Cambridge, Old Press Site, Silver Street,
Cambridge, CB3 9EW, tel: 01223-765279, email:
administrator@crassh.cam.ac.uk.
-- Dr Beate J Perrey E-mail: bep1000@cam.ac.uk Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities University of Cambridge http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/projects/newlangs.htmlUniversity College London Psychoanalysis Unit Department of Clinical Health and Psychology Room 539, 5th Floor 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 7HJ
=============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu ===============================================
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat May 31 2003 - 05:39:02 EDT