[Discussion] CFP: Modern and Postmodern Artistic Avant-Gardes (Cyprus) (2/11/05; Inscriptions, 5/12/05-5/13/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Modern and Postmodern Artistic Avant-Gardes
A Panel Discussion at the
Eighth International Literature and Humanities Conference
INSCRIPTIONS '05: an arts and culture conference and festival at
Eastern Mediterranean University in
Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
May 12th  - 13th, 2005.

The Eighth annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held at
Eastern Mediterranean University as part of Inscriptions '05, an Arts
and Culture festival taking place at the university and environs between
May 12th - 13th, 2005. In conjunction with a wide selection of music,
performance and film events, discussion- friendly papers are being
solicited for our symposium. Although we will be publishing selected
presentations from Inscriptions '05, we encourage participants to move
away from the standard prewritten, "finished paper" format, towards a
more open-ended presentation, which will provoke and contribute to a
genuine exchange of research and ideas during the panel sessions.
Our aim is to create a forum and publishing venue for inspiring work in
progress, where the exchange of ideas with fellow academics
participating in the conference will contribute to the final form of
participants' work.

With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine,
elucidate and/or challenge the notion of modern and postmodern artistic
avant-gardes.

Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
-           the avant-garde in exhibition
-           the avant-garde: a Modernist Myth?
-            "Avant/Apr=E8s:" temporality in the postmodern moment.
-           the 'future' of the term "avant-garde" in an era of
narrative amelioration
-           gender strategies in postmodern narrative
-           Foucault, AIDS and 'the death of the author'
-           Modernist memory and textual recall
-           negotiating postmodern praxis
-           real to reel: race, sex and class in avant-garde cinema
-           multi-cultural identities as represented by the contemporary
avant-garde
-           Adorno, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Jameson: who writes the
             contemporary avant-garde, critical canon?
-           Jameson vs. Lyotard: the role of history in formulating a
             modern/postmodern axis
-           Baudelaire and the birth of the modern avant-garde
-           Joyce, Beckett, Kafka: the last modernists or first
postmodernists?
-           Hitchcock and Bowie: the genesis of avant-garde cinema and mu=
sic
-           Pynchon, Auster, Palahniuk: postmodern American narratives
-           Buckminster Fuller: the missing link?
-           movements: Surrealism, Bauhaus, Dada, Bloomsbury,
Situationists, Cubism.
-           the tension between the notion of  avant-garde as creative
practice and the critical concept of "the avant-garde" as a movement.
-           Anglo-American/French-European avant-garde cultures
-           gender and the avant-garde
-           avant-garde commentary, including Peter B=FCrger, Raymond
Williams, Renato Poggioli
-           ascending-descending, Heaven-Hell: whither Paul Klee's
"Angelus Novus?"
-           gaming? or the current state of 'Derridean Play?'
-           Adorno, Brecht, Lukacs, Benjamin and after After the Great
Divide

Papers are also welcomed on individual modernist/postmodernist artists.
Suggestions:
Rimbaud
Mallarm=E9
Lautr=E9amont
Joyce
C=E9line
Robbe-Grillet
Celan
Bill Viola
Tracey Emin
Damien Hirst
Marina Abramovic
Robert Mapplethorpe
Philip Glass
Pierre Boulez
Lauri Anderson

Please send 250 word abstracts by 11th February, 2005 to
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr and please visit
http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/inscriptions for more information.



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