[Discussion] UPDATE: antiTHESIS: The Event, Culture and Contingency (8/11/05; journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: benjamin smith <bentantau@yahoo.com.au>

antiTHESIS vol 16 (2006),
Call for Papers

Following the success of our recent annual postgraduate symposium, The 
Event,
Culture and Contingency, the antiTHESIS editorial collective would like to
re-issue the current CFP to remind all those intending to contribute to 
the next
edition that submissions close on Friday, 11 August.

antiTHESIS volume 16 (2006), "in the event"

"Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its 
verity
is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying 
itself, its
veri-fication." William James

Integral to understanding changes in both ourselves and our world, "the 
event"
is a concept attracting increased critical attention. Described as "a 
difference
that makes a difference," an event "may happen, or be manufactured, 
affect us
and be effected by us," and thus emerges from the impossible cusp between
contingency and necessity. We invite papers that consider both what 
constitutes
"an event," and how different events have been, are, and might possibly be,
constituted and reconstituted.

Responses may examine this theme in the context of any discipline, and 
may be
critical or creative in nature - this includes essays, fiction, poetry, and
fictocriticism, as well as photographs and other visual pieces. The 
following
topics represent possible interpretations of the theme, and are meant to
motivate, not limit, your thinking:

We invite theoretical or creative contributions on the following themes:

       - The constitution of events as history
       - The creation of events in disparate revolutionary movements
       - Hype, spectacle and the production of pseudo-events
       - The shocking, the scandalous, the terrible and the sublime
       - Disappointment and non-events
       - Banality, boredom, the eventless and the routine
       - Events that escape unnoticed and unremarked upon
       - Counterfactual interpretations and missed possibilities
       - Peripheral or marginalised events
       - Messianism, Millenarianism and the Apocalypse
       - Complexity, contingency, causality, creativity
       - Risk and intervention
       - Anticipation, expectation, hindsight and memory
       - Cinematic or literary rendition of events
       - Experience and the production of communities: local, national
              or transnational
       - Events at distance: physical, temporal or
              psychical/psychological
       - Response, responsibility and mediation

Papers must be of no more than 6&#65533;000 words in length with endnote
citations conforming to the 14th edition of the Chicago Style Guide. All
submissions must consist of a Microsoft Word document attached to an e-mail.

Visual pieces, including original cover art designed for a 150mm x 210mm 
space,
are also welcome.  Preliminary submissions may be made via e-mail and must
include a 72- or 75dpi jpeg image, the title of the work, and the
artist&#65533;s contact information. Upon selection, we will require a
print-quality image on CD or PC formatted disk and a signed letter or 
release
form giving permission for its use by antiTHESIS.

Papers and visual pieces submitted to the journal must be received by 
Friday, 11
August 2005.

Please note that although they share a single theme, the symposium and the
journal are separate entities with different deadlines and submission
requirements. You must make separate submissions to be eligible for 
both. While
we strongly encourage contributors to participate in our annual 
symposium, your
attendance in no way influences the selection process for publication in the
journal.

Please address queries and submissions to:
    antiTHESIS
    Department of English with Cultural Studies
    University of Melbourne
    PARKVILLE VIC 3010
    antiTHESIS@adhocalypse.arts.unimelb.edu.au


Benjamin Smith
antiTHESIS editorial committee
antiTHESIS@adhocalypse.arts.unimelb.edu.au



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