I'm not sure if this got through to the list the first time around... Hello Frameworkers,
The 2014 Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, hosted by UW-Milwaukee, has an call for papers and creative submissions. The call is only open to current graduate students. Please submit your work and/or your writing! The topic of this year's conference is ANIMACY. The deadline for submissions is November 20th. Call for papers: http://themigc.com/cfp Call for creative submissions: http://themigc.com/creative-cfp Derived from linguistics, “animacy” is the condition of being alive or animate, and serves in grammar as a way to classify or rank words on this basis (*OED*). Yet the rich and overlapping senses of “animacy”, *e.g*. animate, animation, animus, and animal, reveal the term to more broadly encompass notions of agency, expressivity, sentience, cognizance, and mobility. These notions are often categorized hierarchically, and are saturated with social, cultural, and political implications. Animacy is being increasingly invoked in contemporary discourses of posthumanist and nonhumanist theory, critical ethnic studies, affect theory, object-oriented ontology, queer theory, disability studies, animal studies, eco-criticism, etc. Animacy is a way of troubling the binary of animate vs. inanimate, and instead suggests a more complex system of inter-relatedness between things. As theorist and keynote Mel Y. Chen’s book asks, how does matter that is considered immobile, insensate, or deathly, animate our cultural lives? Best wishes, Ben -- Ben Balcom benbal...@gmail.com 847.691.6636 -- Ben Balcom benbal...@gmail.com 847.691.6636
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