[Discussion] UPDATE: Public Displays of Affection (grad) (1/30/05; 4/9/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS
Public Displays of Affection

Updates: The DEADLINE for abstract submissions is now January 30, 2005.
Please send inquiries and abstracts to adovevie@mail.rochester.edu or
the postal address below.  The conference will be held on Saturday,
April 9, 2005 at the University of Rochester, New York.  Laura Kipnis,
Professor OF Radio, Film and Television at Northwestern University, will
be giving the keynote address.

For more information and the complete Call for Papers please see our
website at: http://www.rochester.edu/college/aah/news/gradconf.htm

PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION
An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Visual and Cultural Studies Program
University of Rochester
***Saturday, April 9, 2005***

PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION seeks to step away from the notion of the
public sphere as a location of wholly rational discourse and turn
instead towards the multiple meanings or uses of public feelings. We are
interested in the specificity or uniqueness of emotions and how they
shape historical moments and geographic sites. We invite proposals from
across disciplines, research interests and theoretical pursuits that
engage with P.D.A. through texts or specific forms of display=97museums,
galleries, mass media, film, theatres, festivals, etc.

Possible areas of inquiry within these situations of display might
include, but are not limited to: nationalism, political protest,
public/private space, public sex, marriage and the family, feminism,
racial and class dynamics, queer history and theory, as well as empathy,
sentiment, depression, rage and other kinds of affect.

***DEADLINE for submissions: January 30, 2005***

Submissions for 20-minute papers should be in abstract form (250-500
words). A self-addressed stamped envelope must accompany all submissions
requiring return. Please include e-mail addresses with all submissions
whenever possible.

Abstracts and inquiries may be sent via e-mail to:
adovevie@mail.rochester.edu

Printed submissions should be sent to:
Organizing Committee for "Public Displays of Affection"
c/o Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
424 Morey Hall
University of Rochester
Box 270456
Rochester, NY 14627-0456

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Program in Visual and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary
graduate program at the University of Rochester. Its focus is visual
culture and critical theory; the Departments and Programs of Art and Art
History, English, Film Studies, Anthropology, History, and Modern
Languages and Cultures, as well as the Susan B. Anthony Institute for
Women and Gender Studies, constitute its academic base. Web site:
http://www.rochester.edu/college/AAH/


Aviva Dove-Viebahn
"Public Displays of Affection" Conference Organizer
Web Tech, Invisible Culture
Ph.D. Student, Program for Visual and Cultural Studies
Morey 424
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627



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