[Discussion] UPDATE: Politics and/in Aesthetics (Greece, Bulgaria) (1/31/05; 6/4/05-6/9/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Deadline extended:

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:
=B7 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
=B7 Aesthetics, Politics and Language
  Language, aesthetics and society; language, aesthetics and culture
=B7 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
=B7 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
=B7 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
=B7 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
=B7 Aesthetics and/in Space and Time
  Aesthetic/political parameters of travel writing; sites of
aesthetic/political homage; aesthetics, politics and everyday life
=B7 The (anti-)aesthetic and its (dis)contents
  The (an)aesthetised message; the =91failure of the new=92 and the polit=
ics
of nostalgia; pastiche vs. parody; the logic of kitsch and schlock
=B7 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 =91travelling=92 conference with sessions held a=
t
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 200-250 words with a provisional title and a short bio
should be sent by 31 January 2005 to:
a) Prof. Litsa Trayianoudi (e-mail: 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 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)
Ioanna Dalavera   (dalavera@enl.auth.gr)
Roulis Heliotis

For Bulgaria:
Ludmilla Kostova  (lkostova@mbox.digsys.bg)
Dafina Genova   (genova_da@yahoo.com)
Yarmila Daskalova  (yarmich@yahoo.com)
Zdravka Nenova, Technical Assistant (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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