[Discussion] CFP: Culture and Material Worlds (grad) (UK) (9/15/05; 10/28/05-10/30/05)

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From: Eugene Henry De Klerk <0411172D@student.gla.ac.uk>

The University of Glasgow's Graduate School of Arts and Humanities presents:

Material Worlds	28-30th October 2005

This conference seeks to explore concepts of materiality and their influence or
application in the Arts and Humanities. It invites considerations and
interpretations of the relationship between the cultural and the material.

Some questions which have proved useful in thinking around the conference are:
Is there any such thing as non-cultural or non-ideologically charged material?
How have ideas surrounding material and materiality informed debates between the
arts and sciences? How might cultural material be preserved or culture be used
to conserve material? The conference is designed to generate creative and broad
engagements with its title.

Keynote speakers: 	Prof. Catherine Belsey
			Prof. Peter Hallward

Topics might include but are not restricted to:

Archaeology (including cultural/textual)
Archive studies
History of the book/manuscript
Cultural politics
Semiotics
The body
Discourse analysis
Materialism
Idealism
New historicism
Historiography
Alternative worlds/universes
The materiality of language
Eco-criticism
Post-colonialism
Globalisation
Dialecticism
Territory
Identity
Commodification

Abstracts of no more than 200 words are invited via e-mail to
materialworlds@arts.gla.ac.uk to reach us by no later than the 15th of
September.

All papers will be 20 minutes.




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