[Discussion] CFP: Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political (the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: "Serguei Alex. Oushakine" <sao15@columbia.edu>

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: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac

Conferences and Calls 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 "out of time" 
and its
implications and applications for our present moment. Our Collective 
approaches
"out of time" as a sense of urgency, a potential that emerges out of
"presentness," 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's 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 "out of 
time."
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 "out of time," regardless of academic or 
artistic
distinction.

Potential topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:

Transformations of wage time
Time and national memorialization
The cinematic event
Science fictions of empire
Temporalities of technology
Ontology and history
Wasting and spending time
Narrativizations of time
Nostalgia and utopia
Emergence and becoming
Bodies in time
Potential, hope, and the future
Rest and inertia
Trauma, memory, repetition
Space(s) without time
Time in exile
Temporality and subjectivity
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: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac