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Call for Papers Theme: Contested Imaginaries Type: Interdisciplinary Conference Institution: Humanities PHD Program, Concordia University Location: Montreal, QC (Canada) Date: 24.–25.4.2020 Deadline: 21.2.2020 __________________________________________________ As we enter the new decade, both hopes and anxieties run high. In this age of shifting paradigms, political uncertainty, and rapid development, thinkers across diverse fields are contesting ideas once taken for granted, calling for new modes of knowledge production, new frameworks of understanding, and new ways of being in the world. How do utopic ambitions intersect with worldly concerns? How are spaces of encounter and departure entangled with legacies of power? How might different domains of knowledge intersect, aid, resist, and/or challenge one another? How does the imaginary shape the possible? This interdisciplinary conference seeks to create dialogue between scholars, artists, community members, and experts in all fields, bringing them together to share their expertise and unique perspectives. Potential topics for papers, workshops, and performances may include but are not limited to: - Alternative or speculative futures, queer futurities, Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurism - Critical race, postcolonial, and First Peoples studies - Critical disability studies - Ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and the Anthropocene - Monuments, memorials, memories, and nostalgia - Trauma studies and theories of mourning - Hauntology - Popular culture and ephemera - Studies of political crises, sites of resistance, and contestation - Archives and/or archeologies of past, present, and future(s) - Sciences and technologies of the past, present, and future(s) - Human/non-human/post-human/more-than-human/cyborg/animal studies - Sensory studies - Materiality, immateriality, embodiment, and disembodiment Please submit your anonymized 250 word abstract to contestedimaginar...@gmail.com by February 21, 2020. Submissions should be in .doc or .docx format. In a separate document, please include a 50-80-word bio. Performances, creative pieces, interactive workshops, and experimental forms are welcome and encouraged. Please specify any materials you will need (e.g. projector, DVD player) and whether you will be presenting a 20 minute paper or an alternative form such as a workshop, screening, performance, or something else. If one of the the latter, please specify how much time you will require. Contact: Humanities PHD Program Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W. Montreal, QC H3G 1M8 Canada Email: contestedimaginar...@gmail.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
