[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: [Ctrl][Alt]: alternatives, encounters, movements (9/18/06; 5/3/07-5/6/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

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Call for Contributions
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[ctrl] [alt]
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alternatives,
     encounters,
         movements

May 3-6, 2007
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
[ http://www.ctrlconference.org ]

+ submission due date: September, 18 2006.
+ please see below for SUBMISSIONS information.


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[ctrl] [alt]: 2007
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  In the Fall of 2004, 90 activists, artists and academics from diverse
disciplines gathered at McGill University in Montréal, Canada to explore
the threat of a global society moving into networks of mechanisms of
control.  From RFID chips to the cult of beauty, from the Patriot Act to
Canadian multicultural policy, from the War on Drugs to the War on
Terror, conference participants explored the pressing realities of
social, political, economic and institutional modes of control and the
urgent significance of constructing an actional politics to (en)counter
them.

The challenge of theorizing and developing new forms of resistance will
be taken up in [ctrl] [alt]: alternatives, encounters, movements.  As
the event's subtitle indicates, [ctrl] [alt] will address potential
strategies and tactics for confronting these mechanisms of control.
Working from the notion that control is often best (en)countered via
practices that engage  experimental methods, transdisciplinarity and
creativity, we hope to foster an environment in which we can construct
collective visions for social change.

Academia often regards itself as an end in itself, apart from concrete
social struggles. Even when progressive academics engage the social
world theoretically, they often do not acknowledge an indebtedness to,
and impact upon, political struggles. At the same time,
anti-intellectualism often circulates within activist groups. And art
often becomes a fashionable and institutionalized product, failing to
actualize its radical potential.

Given this mess, we seek imaginative works that cross borders between
genres and disciplines including the highly political boundaries between
art practice, academia and activism. We are particularly interested in
papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, interventions, performances and
artworks that incorporate critical, anti-oppressive perspectives.  We
invite contributions by artists, activists, scholars and writers as well
as any others working in non-traditional spaces of knowledge production.

Possible themes to address include, but are not limited to:

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Alternatives to [CTRL]
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non-capitalist economic practices
critical pedagogies/pedagogies of the
oppressed
sub, post-sub and counter cultures
sex/gender radicalism
queering culture and cultural space
reclaiming/creating public and community
space
radical citizenship
Anti-copyright, Copyleft and Creative
Commons practices
alternative, radical, autonomous, tactical, and
citizens¹ medias
anticorporate cultural production
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Encountering [CTRL]
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art as activism/activism as art
writing resistance/resistant writing
mapping resistance/resistant mapping
cosmopolitics
decolonialization and postcoloniality
negotiating governmentality and bureaucracy
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Movements against [CTRL]
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immigrant, refugee and migrant worker
movements
affinity politics and coalition building
post/modern protests
transnational feminisms
radical queer movements
unions and organized labour
chaos, ontological anarchy and Temporary
Autonomous Zones
  theatre in the street
  the media democracy movement
net.criticism, hacktivism, hacker media
diasporic communities
global social justice movements
indigenous movements
anticapitalism and anti-imperialism
co-op movements
squatter movements
artisinal movements, D.I.Y. and crafting
culture
artist-run movements
dis/ability movements
anti-poverty movements
antiracist movements
anti-oppression training

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Please send submissions by September, 18 2006.
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_SUBMISSIONS_

For individual papers, workshops or roundtables send abstracts of 250
words max. in .rtf format to: submissions at ctrlconference.org  .

*Papers are single presentations of (15-20 min).

*Workshops are interactive and instructive sessions led by individual or
group (1-2 hours).

*Roundtables are facilitated group discussion around a specific theme or
question (1-2 hours).

*Panels are collections of individual papers around the same theme or
issue (1-2 hours). For panels, send abstracts of 600 words max. which
includes both panel rationale and individual paper abstracts in .rtf
format to: submissions at ctrlconference.org

**For art projects & performances, send an artists statement (250 words
max) and a description of the proposed project (250 words max) including
materials needed in [.rtf] format to: horea at ctrlconference.org.

If images or documentation of the project are available, please contact
Horea to make arrangements.

*Interventions: Show up!

Please address general inquiries to:
     ctrlalt at ctrlconference.org



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[CTRL] [alt] 2007
http://ctrlconference.org
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