[Discussion] Politics [AND/IN] Aesthetics

[Gonul Pultar]

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Politics [AND/IN] Aesthetics
4-9 June 2005 - Thessaloniki, Greece & Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI, GREECE
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF VELIKO TURNOVO,
BULGARIA
Call for Papers
The conference aims at exploring the relationship between politics and
aesthetics in a wide variety of areas ranging from literature and cultural
studies to film and media studies, linguistics and the social sciences. It
is expected that participants will focus attention on past and present
debates over the meaning of aesthetics, its resistance to and/or
complicity with politics, and its relationship to ethics and morality.

Possible subtopics:
· Politics through Aesthetics - Politics vs. Aesthetics
Aesthetic categories and their political parameters;
apolitical/politicised/depoliticised aesthetics; committed art vs. art for
art's sake; revolt / conservatism and the literary text; aesthetics and the
literature of ideas
· Aesthetics, Politics and Language
Language, aesthetics and society; language, aesthetics and culture
· Aesthetics, Politics and Ethics
Dangerous art; politics, aesthetics and the importance of being, or not
being, earnest; the politics of sensation - the politics of cruelty; the
(ir)responsibility of art/artists
· Aesthetics and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality
Gendered/gendering aesthetics; the gendered/gendering gaze and fashion;
post-gender developments: the cyborg; camp and queer aesthetics; the
(anti-)aesthetics of transvestism and transexualism
· Aesthetics and the Politics of Ethnicity/Race
Race/ethnicity, philosophy and aesthetics; race/ethnicity, history,
literature, and the battlefield of ideas;
pre-colonial/colonial/post-colonial views of ethinicity/national culture 
(or
identity) in literature; aesthetic/political parameters of the
representation of racial/ethnic others
· Aesthetics, Politics and the Market
Political/economic infrastructures and the work of art; the market and
canonization; aesthetic pleasure and popular culture; the market and
exoticism; museums, libraries and aesthetic pleasure
· Aesthetics and/in Space and Time
Aesthetic/political parameters of travel writing; sites of
aesthetic/political homage; aesthetics, politics and everyday life
· The (anti-)aesthetic and its (dis)contents
The (an)aesthetised message; the 'failure of the new' and the politics of
nostalgia; pastiche vs. parody; the logic of kitsch and schlock
· Politics and Genre
Political satire; the literature of sentiment in the service of politics;
politics and the philosophical/moral tale; politics in popular/folk
literature; the politics of science fiction; politics and cinema.


As this is going to be a 'travelling' conference with sessions held at two
universities in two very different parts of South Eastern Europe, it is
hoped that participants will further benefit from their interaction with
cultural difference.


Abstracts of 250-300 words with a provisional title and a short bio should
be sent by 31 December 2004 to:
a) Prof. Litsa Trayianoudi (e-mail: lidi@enl.auth.gr 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=lidi@enl.auth.gr> 
OR fax: +30 2310 997432
OR postal address: Dept of English Literature, School of English, Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece)
AND
b) Prof. Ludmilla Kostova (e-mail: lkostova@mbox.digsys.bg 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=lkostova@mbox.digsys.bg> 
OR fax: +359
(0)62621468 OR postal address: Dept of English and American Studies,
University of Veliko Turnovo, 2 Teodosi Turnovski Str., Veliko Turnovo 
5003,
Bulgaria).

ORGANISING COMMITTEE
For Greece:
Litsa Trayianoudi (lidi@enl.auth.gr 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=lidi@enl.auth.gr>)
Ioanna Dalavera (dalavera@enl.auth.gr 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=dalavera@enl.auth.gr>)
Roulis Heliotis

For Bulgaria:
Ludmilla Kostova (lkostova@mbox.digsys.bg 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=lkostova@mbox.digsys.bg>)
Dafina Genova (genova_da@yahoo.com 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=genova_da@yahoo.com>)
Yarmila Daskalova (yarmich@yahoo.com 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=yarmich@yahoo.com>)
Zdravka Nenova, Technical Assistant (zdravka_vt2001@yahoo.com 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=zdravka_vt2001@yahoo.com>)
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Zoe Detsi-Diamanti

Conference site: www.enl.auth.gr/pol-aesthet


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