[Discussion] CFP: HOME: A Visual Studies Conference (1/15/05; 3/4/05-3/5/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

HOME: A Visual Studies Conference

Hosted by the
Graduate Program in Visual Studies,
University of California,Irvine,
March 4-5, 2005.

One page abstracts due: January 15, 2005

After decades of cultural war and political struggle, and in a
contemporary situation riven by the aggressive return of the topos
=B3homeland,=B2 questions of =B3home=B2 call urgently for analysis, both =
in
terms of their contemporary centrality and historical provenance.

=B3HOME: A Visual Studies Conference,=B2 will provide a forum for a criti=
cal
interrogation of =B3home=B2 as concept, ideology, physical structure, and
object of representation.  Our hope is to bring together scholars from a
variety of disciplines to query how =B3home=B2 structures public and priv=
ate
processes of meaning formation, self-fashioning, and political contestati=
on.

Panels may move between such diverse topics as Jacques Derrida=B9s
interrogation of hospitality and the foreigner, Lynn Spigel=B9s inquiry
into domestic ideology and technology, Griselda Pollock=B9s analyses of
the gendered spaces of modernism, Lucy Lippard's work on the =B3lure of
the local,=B2 and Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman=B9s critique of the politic=
s
of Israeli settlement, to name but a few.

We encourage creative and theoretical submissions that investigate
=B3home=B2 in historical and international contexts as well as domestic,
contemporary ones.  Through such juxtapositions, we hope to highlight
the historical contingency of =B3home,=B2 even as we underscore its ubiqu=
ity
and variegated universality.

Possible areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to, the following:

Domesticity, Ideology, and/or Technology: Home as ideology or technology
in diverse international and historical contexts; the Victorian home and
the modern machine home of consumer leisure; domesticity,
representation, and the Defense of Marriage Act; House & Home/Home &
Garden; Martha Stewart Living; IKEA; Home Depot; home movies; HBO; the
public and private of broadcast media and the internet; virtual
communities, both international and local; domesticity, home pages, and
internet spaces; home surveillance; McMansions and trailer parks;

Historical and (Inter)National Representations of Home: Representations
of domesticity and gender, sexuality, family, and/or communal/political
practice in contemporary visual media as well as historical genres; the
gendered spaces of modernism; ideology and community in historical and
international home architectures and communal spaces; modern domestic
design; postmodern representations and conceptions of domesticity;

Home, Hospitality, and the Other: Theorizations of home such as Emmanuel
Levinas=B9s work on the dwelling or Jacques Derrida=B9s work on hospitali=
ty
and the foreigner; the uncanny; liminality and inside/outside;
disciplinarity, =B3home departments,=B2 and academia; nationalism; homela=
nd
security; citizenship and civic engagement;

Home, Space, Borders, and Populations: Spatial politics; nomadic and
transitory cultures and populations; nationalism and globality; national
identity and post-coloniality; cosmopolitanism; terrorism and homeland
in/securities; gentrification; town planning; re/settlement;
homelessness; migration, deracination, and hybridity; disequilibrium in
the ghetto and the planned or gated community.

The deadline for submission of 250-500 word abstracts is January 15,
2005. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, e-mail
address, and phone number.

Send abstracts to Jonas Leddington (jledding@uci.edu).

For general questions about the conference, contact either Jaime Brunton
(jbrunton@uci.edu) or Jonas Leddington (jledding@uci.edu).



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