*:-) *hahaha.. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, ranju radha <[email protected]> wrote:
> when gayatri comes CAN THE SUBALTERN SPEAK? > > On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Bobby Kunhu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> is not this fairly short notice for call for papers >> or because it is Gayathru Spivak as the keynote or thrissur as the venue >> - the call can happen offhand????? >> >> 2009/3/7 Luisa Steur <[email protected]> >> >> Fyi: A call for papers for a conference, 27 and 28 June 2009 in >>> Thrissur: >>> >>> >>> Call for Papers >>> International Conference on Humanities in the 21st Century >>> Rethinking Humanities in the Age of the Visual >>> June 27 & 28, 2009 >>> C PRACSIS, Thrissur, Kerala, India 680001 >>> Keynote: Gayathri Chakrvorthy Spivak >>> The conference, Rethinking Humanities attempts to interrogate how the >>> future of humanities can be traced and interpreted from various academic and >>> philosophical quarters, and the ways in which interdisciplinary endeavours >>> in all realms of knowledge respond to this effort. It is widely accepted >>> that Humanities in the academia has encountered unusually critical >>> challenges in the last few decades. The question of how these challenges are >>> transmitted through the corpus and the methodological and canonical >>> framework of traditional Humanities will be pivotal in the making of the >>> conference. The conference attempts in a broad manner to address the >>> following issues: >>> Contemporary interpretations of the crisis in humanities >>> The genealogies of interdisciplinarity in humanities >>> The historical contexts of evolution of humanities >>> Humanities and Social Sciences >>> Posthumanities and production of knowledge >>> Humanities and artificial intelligence >>> Theories of technoculture and Cyber space and humanities >>> Humanities and globalization >>> Humanities and visual culture >>> Philosophy in 21 Cen. academia >>> The theory and practice of the arts in the 21st century >>> Art and aesthetics as disciplines >>> Theatre studies and interdisciplinary approaches >>> Performance and philosophy >>> Technology and Humanities >>> Art and Social Sciences >>> Visual Arts and the Virtual Reality >>> 20th century approaches to humanities >>> The future of humanities in Asia >>> The fact that one of the major paradigms which re-organized many >>> disciplines, including social sciences in the last century was the paradigm >>> of visual culture and this issue has been crucial in designing the theme of >>> this conference. The age of the visual, with its alteration of the >>> priorities of modernity and the privileging of the spectacle incites serious >>> reconsideration of Humanities within the contexts of the cultural practices >>> of 21st century. C PRACSIS invites papers for presentation in the proposed >>> conference on 27 and 28 June 2009 at Thrissur, Kerala, India; on topics of >>> similar wavelength. Kindly send the abstracts of the papers to < >>> [email protected]> or to <[email protected]> on or before April >>> 20, 2009. Information regarding the acceptance of the paper will be send >>> within five days of the receipt of the abstract. Updates will be available >>> soon in the >>> C PRACSIS website <cpracsis.org <http://cpracsis.org/> >. >>> >>> Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic >>> communications disclaimer: >>> http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/secretariat/legal/disclaimer.htm >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Bobby Kunhu http://community.eldis.org/myshkin/Blog/ >> >> >> >> - Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahad Satyagraha Conference, December 25th , 1927 >> >> >> >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
