[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: R/Evolutions: Mapping Culture, Community, and Change (grad) (UK) (7/15/07; 10/19/07-10/21/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

R/Evolutions: Mapping Culture, Community, and Change

The Sixth Annual Conference of the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities

University of Glasgow, 19 to 21 October 2007


Can revolution and evolution coexist? Revolution recalls radical change
while evolution signifies gradual transformation.  The potent political
and scientific terms are so well-known that the mutual origins of these
words are often forgotten. This conference seeks to address the common
roots and fundamental disjunctions of revolution and evolution within
the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education through a new look
at interdisciplinary methods.


This graduate conference will explore the links between world-changing
ideologies in the Arts and Humanities, aiming to generate new
perspectives and create fresh communication between seemingly unrelated
fields.


Possible questions to consider include:

What is the nature of cultural R/Evolution?
Can art change the world?
Can the Arts and Humanities produce radical new knowledge?
How can the effects of material and ideological change be traced?
How do traditional research fields or areas approach changes in research
theory and methodology?
Can interdisciplinary methods in research better record innovation and
change?
How do R/Evolutions impact society and those who write about it?


Suggested themes include but are not limited to:

Manifestos and culture
Science and technology in the arts and humanities
Power and Pedagogy
Artistic and political avant-gardes
Hybridizations and Proliferations
Activism and aesthetics
Writing and resistance
R/Evolutionary time; r/evolutionary space
New human identities
Gender r/evolutions
Radical faith and dissent
Rupture
The limits of reason
The ethics of violence and war
Defining revolution, debating evolution
Manifestos and the margins
The discourse of change
Historiography and change
Resisting reform


Abstracts should be a maximum of 200 words. They should be submitted in
English, and labeled with the speaker's name, institutional affiliation,
paper title as well as a list of any audio-visual requirements. The
University of Glasgow invites you to join the sixth conference, which
promises to both continue a tradition in stimulating intellectual and
social interaction and open novel avenues of research within this
vibrant community.


Please e-mail abstracts to revolutions at arts.gla.ac.uk

The deadline for abstracts is 15 July 2007.

For more information on this event, please refer to the conference
website: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/revolutionsandruptures/

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