CFP: “Upsetting the Scene”
Cornell University, March 5-6, 2004
Keynote Speaker: Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University
Deadline for Abstracts: Dec 8, 2003
Cornell English Department’s Annual Spring Graduate Student Conference is
currently accepting abstracts for its 2003 conference on the “scenes” of
literary and visual studies. The conference organisers seek submissions
for papers of no more than 15-20 mins duration which will engage with this
theme and some of the broader connotations of our title: “Upsetting the
Scene.” We envision the idea of “upsetting” to incorporate notions of the
challenges to, limits of and departures from “scenes” of literary, visual
and cultural studies. Therefore, panels may include, but are by no means
limited to:
- the limits of representation
- the “scene” of reading
- challenges to the scene of literary and/or visual studies by the impact
of new technologies
- new readings of the “primal scene” or “mirror stage” of psychoanalysis
- departures from, and the convergence of, traditional disciplinary
boundaries
- theoretical debates surrounding the interface of visual and performing
arts—including issues of spectatorship, audience, agency, experience,
embodiment, affect, desire, pain
- “causing a scene” through acting out and transgression
- performativity, context, convention
- the historical image and the scene/seen of history
- political coups
- post/colonial encounters
- the translation of literature into film
-the intersection of scenes of literary and visual representation with
issues of modernity, race, nation, gender and sexuality
- visual encounters both productive and regulatory.
We are committed to encompassing a rich plurality of methods and
methodologies and are seeking not only scholarly papers, but also original
fiction and poetry, multi-media installations, art work and performance
pieces. Abstracts or extracts should be no more than 300 words and must
be received no later than December 8, 2003. Please email submissions to:
ascgrad@cornell.edu or send by regular mail to: Audrey Wassser, Department
of English, 250 Goldwin Smith, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 14850.
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