Hi! Got this from another list, and thought you all might be interested. Please note however, that the deadline is next week-- January 15! Please forward.
-----Forwarded Message----- REMINDER (deadline approaching!): CALL FOR PAPERS R/�volution 3: POP An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Hosted by the Ph.D. Humanities Program: Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture March 19th, 20th, and 21st, 2004 at Concordia University Keynote speaker: Will Straw Graduate students from all disciplines are invited to submit proposals exploring "R/�volution," with particular focus on issues stemming from its intersections with the deliberately broad theme of "POP." The goal of the third annual R/�volution conference is, as in previous years, to integrate theoretical, methodological, and "practical" approaches to the broad theme of "revolution/evolution" via the presentation and discussion of innovative papers, performances, and artwork by graduate students from around the world. This year, we are seeking proposals that link this multifarious, oft-controversial, and timely theme to "POP." Although popular culture most obviously falls under the umbrella of this term, we ask that presenters feel free to explore "POP" as a nexus of emerging and intersecting meanings, and that they address the ways in which this poses difficulties, both new and old, for the articulation of culture with politics, representation with identity, nostalgia with memory, consumption with pleasure, authenticity with spectacle. R/�volution 3 seeks to create space and possibility for continued praxis and critique of change. What do "revolution" and "evolution" mean in a contemporary context dominated by the consumption of commercial culture? Where are axes of difference (gender, race, class, sexuality, ability) located in a space defined by new medias and shifting technologies? What are the points of continuity and rupture between global material cultures and the popular imaginary? What are (or have been) the vectors of and for "political" change under these circumstances? When do such questions mask complicity or trouble assumptions about the location of resistance? How is "POP" being used and/or mobilized, and under what conditions, by audiences, fans, and activists both inside and outside of the Academy? As always, we hope to create a space in which these questions, and others, can be asked of ideology, language, media, and discourse, and where dialogue on the past, present, and future can thrive. Will Straw is Chair of the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Screen, Cultural Studies, Space and Culture, Social Semiotics, Culture, Theory and Critique and several other academic journals. With Simon Frith and John Street, he is the co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. His articles have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Cultural Studies, Popular Music, Cine-Action, The Cinematic City, Sexing the Groove, The Oxford Companion to Film Studies and The Cultural Studies Reader. Presentations may address (but are certainly not limited to): anti/globalization bodies populism privilege nationalisms space/s generation/s visual/aural culture in/visibility subjectivity utopia/s post/modernity work contagion & disease displacement art & the sensorium feminism/s postfeminism/s "alternatives" institutionalism paradox performance performativity spirituality morals, ethics voice "queer" pedagogy text materiality post/colonialism taste All presentation formats are welcome, in English or French. Selected papers from the conference will be collected and published as a special issue of GR: Journal for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology http://consortium.concordia.ca. Applicants should submit a title and an abstract of not more than 250 words to "R/�volution 3": E-mail submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 15, 2004.
