[Discussion] CFP: Globalisation and Representation (UK) (11/1/04; 3/12/05-3/13/05)

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Faculty of Arts and Architecture, University of Brighton, UK

GLOBALISATION AND REPRESENTATION
Politics, Visuality, Performance, Construction, Reception

March 12-13, 2005 at the University of Brighton

CALL FOR PAPERS

The study of globalisation is of unprecedented interest across the=20
humanities, and the social and political sciences.  Hosted by the=20
Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton, this=20
conference will provide a unique, critical forum to debate the=20
relationship between globalisation and the problem of representation at=20
the start of the C.21st.  Can globalisation be represented, or is=20
globalisation a further challenge to the possibility of representation=20
itself?   This two-day conference will bring together academics,=20
practitioners, journalists and activists to transgress both the=20
traditional disciplinary boundaries and the theory/practice divide.

	THE GLOBAL CITY
	IMAGING THE GLOBE: ART AND ETHICS
	VIRTUALITY AND REPRESENTATION
	THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION
	GLOBALISING IDENTITY
	THE CULTURE INDUSTRY REVISITED
	BUILDING GLOBAL SPACES: ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
	GLOBALISATION: SOPHISTRY OR THEORY?

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Achille Mbembe, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social and=20
Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South=20
Africa
Mike Davis, Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA
Susan Buck-Morss, Professor of Government and Director of the Visual=20
Studies Concentration, Faculty of Art and Archaeology, Cornell=20
University, USA
Alex Callinicos, Professor of Politics, University of York, UK

Plenary Speakers tbc
Geoff Eley, Professor of History, University of Michigan, USA
John Pilger, journalist, UK
Chantal Mouffe, Department of Politics and International Studies,=20
University of Westminster, UK
Alain Badiou, Professor of Philosophy, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
William Kentridge, artsist, SA

Papers could be addressed to, but limited by, the following questions:

What is the future of urban existence in an era of global liberalism, a=20
new Imperialism, global warming, and international terrorism?
How can public spaces, and identities of struggle, be re-appropriated=20
from the myths that possess them?
How are competing representations of globalisation reflected in=20
painting, architecture, geography, music, cinema, history, literature,=20
dance, politics, photography, sculpture, philosophy, and contemporary=20
design practice?
How is utopianism inscribed in these practices today, and should it be?
What are the possibilities for political representation in an era=20
beyond state autonomy and stable group identities?
Can a dissolution of the distinctions between art and life, and between=20
play and work, challenge the dominant, liberal ethos of contemporary=20
existence?
How do the representations of globalisation by the media, by=20
multinational corporations, and by governments challenge or re-enforce=20
its representation in theory?
How are galleries, academies and other citadels of presentation=20
inflecting the idea of culture, and legislating for transnational=20
criteria of judgement?
How can spectatorship and passive reflection and reception best be=20
subverted today?
How do competing representations of globalisation circulate in local,=20
regional and national communities?
What is, should or could the relationship be between movements of=20
critical resistance and practices of resistant representation?
How do resistant modes of representation challenge received=20
understandings of the implications of globalisation?
How are contemporary manifestations of alienation being represented in=20
form and content, and is this representation chic or politically=20
provocative?
How can humanity reposition itself as individual and collective=20
subjects in the teeth of an homogenising spacial and cultural=20
conformism, and an abstract commodification of environments?
What are the contemporary impacts of the poetry of graffiti, the=20
architecture of barricades, and the popular reclamations of spaces?
How do artistic representations and object designs inflect, challenge=20
or support dominant discourses of the globalisation processes of=20
yesterday and today?
How do geographical representations also map the terrain of passions=20
and politics in cities and countries and globally, and how can maps be=20
re-read to illuminate the history of space?
How do particular histories, of individual practitioners or movements,=20
inform or mythologise contemporary experience?


Some Suggested (or Existing) Panels or Strands

Representations of Globalisation in Political and Economic Discourses
Violent Buildings and Destructive Spaces
Pursuits of the Beautiful
Representing Empire: America, Europe and Global Neo-liberalism
Endless Imagery and Images that Matter
Literary Transgressions: Poetics of Resistance
Signs and Symbols: Globalisation and the Representation of Religion
For and Against Love and Beauty
Globalisation, Resistance and Representation
Memory, Sign and Memorial
Philosophies of Responsibility and the Responsibilities of Philosophy
Stylisation and the Radical Imagination
The (Non)Representation of Labour
Exoticism, Eroticism and Tropicality in Structures and Styles
Political Economy of Global Media
Creativity, Violence and Destruction
Global Gaze: Critical Trends, Recognition and Aesthetic Sensibilities
Technologies of Repression and Liberation
What is Active Artistic Engagement Today
Web Art and Web Cultures
Art, Ethics and Politics Today
Trivial Pursuits and Offences to the Moral Imagination
Building Global Spaces: Architecture and Design in a Global Age
Radicalism as Act or Attitude
Representing Cultural Imperialism
Difference and New Universalism for the C.21st
War and Reportage
Representing Buildings, Aestheticising Power
Politicisation of Consumption and the Banality of Repression
Humanitarianism and Human Rights Against Humanity
The Word in Plastic, Glass and Steel
Late Modernism, Human Need and the Function of Art and its Criticism
Representing Anti-globalisation and Global Anti-Liberalism
Fast Art, Big Art, Good Art
Truth, Reason and Other Necessities
Good and Bad Utopias: the Requisites of Hope
Sport and Art; Art and War
World Music and Cultures of Resistance
The Future of Elegance
Vicarious Narcissisms: Sport, Body and Identity
Representing =91War on Terror=92
Time and Photography
Scopic Regimes in Geography and Drama
Taste, Style and Other Failures of Imagination
Democracy: Participation, Representation, and Community
Deterritorialisation: Theory and Critique
Constructivisms and Other Moments of Modernity
Migration and the =91Problem=92 of Refuge
Globalising Identity
Keeping the Eye Alive
Homework: the Industrial Aesthetic and Domestic Space Yesterday and=20
Today
Cinematic Trangressions: Film Cultures and their Uses
Land and City: Scapes of C.21st Power
Art and Global Technologies
Displacement, Estrangement and New Identities
Terror, Torture and Interrogation: Instrument Design and Dissemination
Desensitisation and Cultural Corrosion from Algiers to Baghdad
Narratives and Narration: Storytelling, Performance and Pleasure
The Global Art Market Today
Mapping Cities and Other Spaces
Loyalty, Identity and Identification: Sport, War, Culture
The Future and Associated Threats in Literature and Other Rhetorics
Vision and Voice in World Politics
Abstraction, Time, Music
Authenticity, Profundity and Creativity: some New Problems
Authenticities in Art and Philosophy
Opacity, Density, Reflection, Gravity
Evocation and Expression

These entries are only indicative of possibilities.  Proposals for=20
twenty -minute papers, or for complete panels (of three or four papers=20
delivered within 60 minutes) in related areas, should be submitted in=20
the form of a 250 word abstract by November 1st, 2004 to Anita=20
Rupprecht (A.Rupprecht@brighton.ac.uk).  Early submissions are welcome.=20

   There will be publication of selected essays.

Further details including a registration form will be available on the=20
Conference website at www.brighton.ac.uk/globalisation/ in due course. =20

For more information please contact either Anita Rupprecht=20
(A.Rupprecht@bton.ac.uk ) or Mark Devenney (M.Devenney@bton.ac.uk) at=20
the School of Historical and Critical Studies, Faculty of Arts and=20
Architecture, University of Brighton, 10-11 Pavilion Parade, Brighton,=20
East Sussex, BN2 1RA  (tel.: 0044 (0) 1273 643089, Fax: 0044 (0)=20
681935).


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