CFP: Cultural Transformations, Re-Assemblage (New Zealand) (10/2/06; 11/30/06-12/2/06)

Re-Assemblage

Fifth Annual Symposium of the Cultural Transformations Research Network
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

30 November – 2 December, 2006
Keynote Speakers

Dr Sudesh Mishra, Deakin University, Melbourne
Dr Melanie Swalwell, Victoria University of Wellington

Call for Papers

The Cultural Transformations Research Network
invites proposals for papers that engage with the
theme of Re-Assemblage. Papers may explore ways
in which cultures, histories and cultural
elements/artworks have been, or are being,
re-assembled into different media, new locations,
and new forms, whether in theoretical, critical, aesthetic, or social terms.

The term Re-Assemblage suggests a focus on
contexts of heterogeneity, emergent states,
spaces, or times, non-essentialism and
differences, processes, relationships, tactics
and contingency. It might call up aesthetic
practices such as collage, pastiche,
intertextuality, collection, or re-mediation,
across a range of art practices. Critical
practices that emphasise comparative or
interdisciplinary approaches also relate to the
theme. A further range of areas or concerns
often associated with the concept of
Re-Assemblage relates to new technologies,
cybernetics and informatics (Haraway), the
post-human (Hayles), and the ‘desiring machine’
(Deleuze and Guattari). In social and cultural
theory, contexts of hybridity, globalisation and
‘glocalisation’ are exemplary instances of
Re-Assemblage. Despite their utopian charge,
concepts or practices of Re-Assemblage can also
call for analysis of the ways that they encounter or produce resistance.

This symposium further proposes the theme of
Re-Assemblage as a means to examine and push the
boundaries of existing discourses of race,
ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as mobilised
across a range of disciplinary boundaries.
Postgraduate scholars and early career
researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute.

Papers from across the disciplines are invited to
address any aspect of assemblage, including:

* aesthetic practices
* critical strategies
* (post)colonialism, politics, globalisation
* tactics in everyday living
* media, new media, re-mediation
* technologies and human-machine/human-animal configurations
* gender and sexuality

We invite abstracts of 250-300 words to be sent
to Barry Empson by October 2 2006: barry.empson_at_stonebow.otago.ac.nz

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