[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Cultural Transformations, Re-Assemblage (New Zealand) (10/2/06; 11/30/06-12/2/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Re-Assemblage

Fifth Annual Symposium of the Cultural Transformations Research Network
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

30 November – 2 December, 2006
Keynote Speakers

Dr Sudesh Mishra, Deakin University, Melbourne
Dr Melanie Swalwell, Victoria University of Wellington

Call for Papers

The Cultural Transformations Research Network invites proposals for
papers that engage with the theme of Re-Assemblage. Papers may explore
ways in which cultures, histories and cultural elements/artworks have
been, or are being, re-assembled into different media, new locations,
and new forms, whether in theoretical, critical, aesthetic, or social terms.

The term Re-Assemblage suggests a focus on contexts of heterogeneity,
emergent states, spaces, or times, non-essentialism and differences,
processes, relationships, tactics and contingency. It might call up
aesthetic practices such as collage, pastiche, intertextuality,
collection, or re-mediation, across a range of art practices. Critical
practices that emphasise comparative or interdisciplinary approaches
also relate to the theme. A further range of areas or concerns
often associated with the concept of Re-Assemblage relates to new
technologies, cybernetics and informatics (Haraway), the post-human
(Hayles), and the ‘desiring machine’ (Deleuze and Guattari). In social
and cultural theory, contexts of hybridity, globalisation and
‘glocalisation’ are exemplary instances of Re-Assemblage. Despite their
utopian charge, concepts or practices of Re-Assemblage can also
call for analysis of the ways that they encounter or produce resistance.

This symposium further proposes the theme of Re-Assemblage as a means to
examine and push the boundaries of existing discourses of race,
ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as mobilised across a range of
disciplinary boundaries.

Postgraduate scholars and early career researchers are particularly
encouraged to contribute.

Papers from across the disciplines are invited to address any aspect of
assemblage, including:

* aesthetic practices
* critical strategies
* (post)colonialism, politics, globalisation
* tactics in everyday living
* media, new media, re-mediation
* technologies and human-machine/human-animal configurations
* gender and sexuality

We invite abstracts of 250-300 words to be sent to Barry Empson by
October 2 2006: barry.empson at stonebow.otago.ac.nz




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