[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Graduate Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Conference (2/3/06; 5/4/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: interface <interface@connect.carleton.ca>

Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference

Interface 2006: "Ruptures"

Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture (ICSLAC)
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
May 4th, 2006

Call for Papers

The Cultural Mediations program at Carleton University announces a call for
papers for its annual graduate conference to be held on campus in Ottawa 
on May
4th, 2006. Details are available on the conference web site at
http://www.carleton.ca/interface/.

The Interface colloquium has been held the last two years as an
interdisciplinary forum for graduate researchers and scholars. Its 
broadest aim
is to explore the ideological, epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic
consequences of questioning and transgressing traditional borders between
disciplinary fields. This year's theme, "Ruptures," can be approached in 
light
of Michel Foucault's claim in _The Archaeology of Knowledge_ that sites of
rupture and discontinuity should not be explained away in the interests of
progress and objectivity, but instead treated as the "conditions of 
possibility"
that give rise to knowledge in the first place. Presentations dealing 
with any
aspect of this yearâ&#65533;&#65533;s theme are welcomed in the streams of
Literary Studies, Visual Culture, Musical Culture, New Technologies, 
Historical
Representation or any other related discipline or discourse. Some possible
presentation topics include but are by no means limited to:

- Transnationalism, post-colonialism, cultural translation, global/local
interaction.
- Queer theory, gender studies, cultural and ethnic identity.
- Abjection, otherness, hybridity, liminality, performativity.
- Textuality/intertextuality, text/image, hypertext, semiotics, narratology.
- Technology and the body, post-humanism, informatics, virtuality, 
hyperreality.
- Strategies of resistance, radical politics, agency and activism.
- Modernity/postmodernity/post-postmodernity.
- High/low culture, popular culture, subcultures.

Proposals

The format for each presentation is a twenty minute paper followed by
discussion. Alternatively, twenty minute media performance pieces are also
invited for submission. These performances will be followed by a 
dialogue with
the artist.

Proposals should include:

1) An abstract of no more than 300 words for the twenty minute paper, 
including
the title, but no other identifying features (to ensure anonymous 
selection).
2) A cover page including paper title, name, contact information (phone, 
address
and e-mail), and any audio/visual equipment needed.

Send all submissions as attachments to: interface@connect.carleton.ca.
The deadline for submissions is February 3rd, 2006.




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