[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Performing (In)Visibility: Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (grad) (10/15/06; 2/23/07-2/24/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

The second annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks submissions for a two-day
graduate student conference to be held February 23 and 24, 2007,
focusing on the theme “Performing (In)Visibility.”

“Performing (In)Visibility” calls upon scholars to interrogate
performance’s reliance on the visual and/or visible. Though performance
is often imagined as some public spectacle, emphasizing its visibility
may also call forth invisible or non-visible functions of discursive
performatives. Thus, proposals might consider how one visibly performs,
what it means to perform something already apparent, what goes
unrecognized or gets left out of performances, and how we might
understand absence as an alternative performance. We are interested in
how tensions between visibility and invisibility, public and private,
presence and absence, and excess and restraint inform the ways we think
about performance/performativity as interdisciplinary theoretical
constructs.

The conference seeks to engage such topics as:
	* Performance and the public/private sphere
	* Identity and its markers (race, class, gender, sexuality, etc) 	in/as
performance
	* Conceptual, performance and body art
	* Patriotism and/or performing nationalism, nationhood, or 		
	citizenship
	* Performance and New Media
	* Performance and history, authenticity, truth and/or fiction
	* Slam and other poetry performances
	* Performing war, globalism, violence, or terrorism
	* Excessive performances: spectacle, pageantry, carnival
	* Performance in sports/business environments: enhancement,
	anxiety, norms, testing
	* The performance(s) of academia: discursive and pedagogical
	performances
	* Star personas, the media, and performance and/or notably
	unpopular performances
	* Performing illness and healing
	* Capitalism/Materialism/Liberalism/Neoconservativism as
	performances
	* Archives and performance

Because performance and/or performativity are terms relevant to
contemporary critical inquiry across disciplines, we look forward to
submissions from such diverse fields as: Anthropology, Architecture,
Art, Communications, Comparative Literature, Critical Race Studies,
Cultural Studies, Dance, Education, English, Film, Gender Studies,
Geography, History, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Medicine, Musicology,
Performance Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Theater,
Urban Studies, as well as other relevant fields of study.

This year’s keynote will be a performance of Michelle Matlock’s The
Mammy Project. This work explores relationships between performance and
identity as Matlock “traces the life and times of Nancy Green, the first
woman hired to play the part of Aunt Jemima,” following the American
Mammy icon through history and popular culture.

Please submit a 250-word abstract, with title, for a 15-20 minute
presentation as an MS Word file attachment to: grad-conference at uwm.edu

Deadline for Submissions: October 15, 2006

For more information, visit the conference website at:
grad-conference.blogspot.com

For more information on The Mammy Project, visit the website at:
www.themammyproject.com



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