[Discussion] CFP: Experimental Histories in the Arts (Australia) (2/20/06; 7/28/06-7/29/06)

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From: Tara Forrest <Tara.Forrest@uts.edu.au>


RETHINKING THE PAST: EXPERIMENTAL HISTORIES IN THE ARTS

University of Technology Sydney: July 28-29, 2006.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Laura U. Marks
Dena Wosk University Professor in Art and Culture Studies, Simon Fraser
University, Canada

Andrew Benjamin
Professor of Critical Theory in Architecture and Design, University of
Technology Sydney

Ross Gibson
Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, University of Technology Sydney


Conference Theme:

Drawing together scholars from a broad range of fields, the aim of the
conference is to rethink the task of historiography via an exploration of
experimental representations of and/or engagements with the past in fields as
diverse as film, literature, art, architecture, theatre, photography, music,
fictocritical writing, dance, video and new media. Questions addressed by the
conference will include: How have writers, filmmakers, artists etc. sought to
explore and redeem aspects of the past which have fallen outside of what has
been monumentalised as historically significant?; What role have the arts played
in destabilising historicist accounts of history as a form of evolutionary
progress?; What possibilities have been attributed to writers, artists, new
media practitioners etc. in theoretical accounts of the task of an experimental
historiography?; How have people working in the arts sought to cleave open a
space within official accounts of the relationship between the past and the
present within which the possibilities of the past (and the future) can be
re-imagined and re-explored?

Call for Papers:

Proposals are invited for 30 minute papers on, or related to, the conference
theme. Please send a 200-300 word abstract and your contact details, via email,
to the conference convenor Tara Forrest before February 20, 2006. Should you
have any questions about the conference prior to this date, please feel free to
email the convenor.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out in March. Should you, however,
require confirmation at an earlier date, please inform the convenor of this in
your proposal.

Tara Forrest
Writing and Cultural Studies
Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology Sydney
PO Box 123  Broadway
NSW 2007 Australia

Email: Tara.Forrest@uts.edu.au
Phone: + 61 2 9514 2182
Conference web page: http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/rethinking/



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