CFP: Aesthetics and Politics in Postcolonial Studies (grad) (UK) (1/28/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

AESTHETICS AND POLITICS IN POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES
AHRB Postgraduate Conference
University College Northampton 8-9 April 2005

Organised by postgraduate students of the universities of Cambridge,
Oxford, Warwick, and University College Northampton.

Keynote speakers: Neil Lazarus (Warwick) and Robert Young (Oxford)

Postcolonial studies is becoming an increasingly established field of study
within UK institutions of higher education. Debate is still open as to how
this field is constituted and what its political or ethical orientations
are. For many, postcolonial cultural production is always already
political. For others, a political emphasis neglects the aesthetic
dimensions of work conceived, produced or consumed in non- or
de-politicised contexts. While these viewpoints are not mutually exclusive,
there are nonetheless tensions which inform the varied work that
postcolonial studies produces. Of additional concern are the politics of
what is studied, where it is studied and how that knowledge is circulated.

This conference has no particular ideological investment; rather, we wish
to focus upon how aesthetic and political concerns are negotiated in
scholarship and in individual texts and case studies. Our aim is to bring
together postgraduate students with a variety of interests within
postcolonial studies to discuss the relationship between aesthetics and
politics in the field.

Postgraduate researchers interested in participating should submit
abstracts for twenty-minute papers addressing any of the topics below or a
topic of your choosing; however, all paper proposals must address the main
problematic.

Please send abstracts to: alison.struselis_at_northampton.ac.uk by 28 January
2005. Papers to be submitted by 18 March 2005.

Possible paper and panel topics:

POSTCOLONIALISING AESTHETICS
Aesthetic Categories: picturesque, sublime, beautiful, ugly…
Aesthetic Modes: gothic, allegory, magic realism…
Apolitical Aesthetics

WRITING THE PAST
Ethics of Remembrance
Aestheticisation of History
Aesthetics of Nationalism and Citizenship
Aesthetics of Violence
Writing the Present

SPACE, PLACE, MOVEMENT
City and country
Un/Homely States
“Cosmopolitics”
Bodies in Motion
Nature and Eco-consciousness
Borders and Boundaries

FORMING KNOWLEDGE Canonisation in Postcolonial Studies Interdisciplinarity
Marketing the Postcolonial Inter-peripheral Comparisons Representations of
the Marginal: subaltern, minority, proletarian, peasantry, multitude, naked
life…

GENDER, SEXUALITY AND BODY POLITICS
Human Beauties
Aesthetics of Race
Disciplining Bodies
Gendered Violence

A limited number of travel bursaries may be available. For more information
contact Alison Struselis at alison.struselis_at_northampton.ac.uk.

Visit the conference website:
http://oldweb.northampton.ac.uk/ncr/news/ext/ahrbconference.html

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