[Discussion] CFP: Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political (7/31/05; 10/20/05-10/22/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political

Featuring Keynote Speakers Michael Hardt and Mary Ann Doane

October 20-22, 2005 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Organized by The Collective for Critical Practices, a group of graduate
students in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

This conference is concerned with what it might mean to be =93out of time=
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and its implications and applications for our present moment. Our
Collective approaches =93out of time=94 as a sense of urgency, a potentia=
l
that emerges out of =93presentness,=94 and a transformation of earlier
assumptions of temporality. Today, urgency and the potential of the
present have been elevated by the presumed waning of modernist notions
of history and complex shifts in the relations of production. We are out
of time.

This problematic is being taken up in a myriad of provocative ways
within both academic and non-academic spheres of production from
philosophy to literature to film to political activism. In The Emergence
of Cinematic Time, Mary Ann Doane explores the intersections between
temporality, modernity, the archive and cinema. Michael Hardt=92s work
conceptualizes the reorganization of production and temporality in the
era of globalization.

The Collective for Critical Practices in conjunction with the Cultural
Studies and Comparative Literature Film Society at the University of
Minnesota invite submissions for our Fall 2005 conference dedicated to
the theme =93out of time.=94 Our first priority is to consider a
multiplicity of viewpoints that explore, challenge, contest and engage
in current theoretical debates on this issue. Further, we encourage
collaborative works and cultural productions (e.g. photo-essays, web
art, live art, and film/video pieces) in addition to traditional essay
presentations. Our commitment is to open our collective to intellectual
and creative producers that are critically and rigorously involved in
the urgent task of thinking =93out of time,=94 regardless of academic or
artistic distinction.

Potential topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:
=95 Transformations of wage time
=95 Time and national memorialization
=95 The cinematic event
=95 Science fictions of empire
=95 Temporalities of technology
=95 Ontology and history
=95 Wasting and spending time
=95 Narrativizations of time
=95 Nostalgia and utopia
=95 Emergence and becoming
=95 Bodies in time
=95 Potential, hope, and the future
=95 Rest and inertia
=95 Trauma, memory, repetition
=95 Space(s) without time
=95 Time in exile
=95 Temporality and subjectivity
=95 Public/private time

Abstracts of 500 words and a brief c.v., as well as panel proposals
(which should include individual abstracts), and any questions or
comments should be submitted to: critprac@tc.umn.edu
Abstracts due: July 31, 2005

For more information visit:
www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac


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