Mimesis Now Conference April 5-7 2012
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephen Halliwell, University of St. Andrews
Vivian Sobchack, UCLA
Samuel Weber, Northwestern University
www.rochester.edu/college/mimesis
Why mimesis? Why now? How have evolving forms and technologies altered the way we think about this millennia-old concept? How have practices of reproduction, imitation, copying, replication and appropriation enriched, nuanced, and complicated each other and made us continuously rethink the concept of mimesis? From the invention of writing to the advent of ‘new’ media, technologies of reproduction have transformed representational practices and shaped our perception of reality.
This three-day conference at the University of Rochester will gather together scholars in literature, art, cinema, and media studies to explore historical, interdisciplinary, and inter-media issues of mimesis.
POSSIBLE AVENUES OF INVESTIGATION:
- Theatricality
- Remediation
- Narrative mimesis
- Animal mimicry
- Rhetorics of the real
- Mimesis and violence
- Sacrifice
- Mimesis and the visual
- CGI
- Digital media
- 3D
- Eric Auerbach
- Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger
- Gaming
- Mimesis and colonialism
- Music and mimesis
- Reality TV
- Anthropology and mimesis
- Music as mimesis
- Translation
We welcome paper proposals on topics addressing the theme of mimesis, now. To propose an individual paper or an entire panel, please visit our website (www.rochester.edu/college/mimesis). Deadline for submissions is October 15, 2012.
Digital Legacies of the Avant-Garde Conference (Paris, 14 April 2012)
In what ways has the formation, development and critique of today’s digital environments been shaped by the concepts and practices of the avant-garde? This international conference held at The American University of Paris considers the question by exploring the potential avant-garde and modernist genealogies of contemporary digital culture.
Topics may include:
— historical relationships between the avant-garde, mass media and networked digital media
— Internet art and hacker culture
— analog and digital networking
— authenticity, appropriation and intertextuality
— medium specificity and intermedia
— systems structures
— collectives, subcultures and transnational movements
— conformity and subversion
— framings of modernism and postmodernism through digital media theory
— political action and agency
— artist and machine
— audience, participant and reception theories
— narratives of technology and progress
— spatial and temporal relationships
— kinesis and stasis
— ephemerality and permanence
Proposals that reference the Paris avant-garde are particularly desirable. In addition to researchers and scholars, artists, designers, and hackers are encouraged to participate.
Proposals for presentations should include a 300-word abstract and short biographical note. All submissions must be sent to smonteiro@aup.edu by 30 November 2011. All applicants will be notified by 15 December.
“Communication in the 21st Century: Intercultural Connections and Considerations”—deadline is January 20, 2012
“Communication in the 21st Century: Intercultural Connections and Considerations”
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Thursday, April 5 – Friday, April 6, 2012
The Third Annual WRTC Graduate Symposium on Communication
The School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication at James Madison University welcomes proposals from graduate students in any discipline for a two-day symposium exploring all facets of communication. The theme of this year’s symposium is intercultural communication. We are defining intercultural very broadly to include across disciplines and communities, as well as across national boundaries.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
• intercultural communication in a globalized world
• communication norms and discourse communities
• the challenge of cross-cultural communication
• communication and cultural values
• globalization and global media
• media framing of global politics and culture
• cross-cultural training
• public relations and diplomacy
• diversity and communication in a global society
• intercultural communication and foreign policy
• communication and media convergence
• intercultural awareness in communication
Formats for presentations include 15-minute panel papers, research posters, and multimedia displays. More information about the symposium can be found at www.communicationsymposium.org, which also serves as a repository for abstracts and presentations from previous symposia.
This year, the keynote speaker for the symposium is Dr. Kirk St. Amant, associate professor of Technical and Professional Communication at East Carolina State University, and a faculty member with ECU’s Master’s of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) program. His research focuses on international and intercultural communication as it relates to online media and includes international virtual workplaces, international outsourcing/offshoring, and the effects of globalization on online education.
Proposals for presentations should be submitted electronically as an attachment in ‘.doc’ format by Friday, January 20, 2012, to communicationsymposium@gmail.com. In the email, please indicate which type of format presentation your proposal addresses.
Practicing Humanities Scholarship in the 21st century
To what extent have the premise and practices of humanities scholarship changed or remained the same in the new millennium? Papers are sought that both report on humanities research and reflect thoughtfully upon its practices. Topics on a wide range of subjects (ancient to contemporary), and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives are sought.Presentations should be 15-20 minutes in length. Papers pertinent to the following proposed panel topics are particularly solicited, but other subjects will be considered as well:
• Wars of the Past and Present: Words and Images
• Internationalizing the Humanities: Research in a Global World
• Technology and the Humanities: Research in a Digitized World
• Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities: Research that Crosses the Boundaries
• Kudzu on the Ivory Tower: Humanities Research and Environmental Crisis
Presentation description and conference format
Natures is an annual conference held on the beautiful arboretum status campus of La Sierra University during the month of February, when the weather in Southern California is the envy of the nation. The one-day event is comprised of four concurrent, and two plenary sessions, which annually attracts graduate students from local, national, and international institutions. A distinguished faculty-level scholar is invited each year to deliver both a plenary address on a research topic and a seminar on academic life. For the history of the conference and other information please visit the conference website at: http://lasierra.orgsync.com/org/naturesconference .
Submission instructions
All abstracts should be submitted via a form provided at http://lasierra.orgsync.com/org/naturesconference by December 1, 2011. Responses to submissions will be made by December 16, 2011.
Registration
All participating presenters will pay a registration fee, which includes breakfast, lunch, two snacks, and program related materials. Registration will be processed through a form at http://lasierra.orgsync.com/org/naturesconference.
• Regular registration (on or before January 6, 2012) = $40
• Late registration (payable until February 10, 2012) = $60.
The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies – May 4-5, 2012
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Nonhuman Turn in 21st Century Studies
Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
May 4-5, 2012
This conference takes up the “nonhuman turn” that has been emerging in the arts, humanities, and social sciences over the past few decades. Intensifying in the 21st century, this nonhuman turn can be traced to a variety of different intellectual and theoretical developments from the last decades of the 20th century:
actor-network theory, particularly Bruno Latour’s career-long project to articulate technical mediation, nonhuman agency, and the politics of things;
affect theory, both in its philosophical and psychological manifestations and as it has been mobilized by queer theory;
animal studies, as developed in the work of Donna Haraway, projects for animal rights, and a more general critique of speciesism;
the assemblage theory of Gilles Deleuze, Manuel DeLanda, Latour, and others;
new brain sciences like neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence;
new media theory, especially as it has paid close attention to technical networks, material interfaces, and computational analysis;
the new materialism in feminism, philosophy, and Marxism;
varieties of speculative realism like object-oriented philosophy, vitalism, and panpsychism; and
systems theory in its social, technical, and ecological manifestations.
Such varied analytical and theoretical formations obviously diverge and disagree in many of their aims, objects, and methodologies. But they are all of a piece in taking up aspects of the nonhuman as critical to the future of 21st century studies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The conference is meant to address the future of 21st century studies by exploring how the nonhuman turn might provide a way forward for the arts, humanities, and social sciences in light of the difficult challenges of the 21st century.
Speakers include: Jane Bennett (Political Science, Johns Hopkins); Ian Bogost (Literature, Communication, Culture, Georgia Tech); Bill Brown (English, Chicago); Wendy Chun (Media and Modern Culture, Brown); Mark Hansen (Literature, Duke); Erin Manning (Philosophy/Dance, Concordia University, Montreal); Brian Massumi (Philosophy, University of Montreal); Tim Morton (English, UC-Davis).
Please send abstracts of up to 400 words by Monday, December 19, 2011, to Richard Grusin, Director, Center for 21st Century Studies c21@uwm.edu. Acceptances will be sent by Monday, January 23, 2012.
http://www4.uwm.edu/c21/pdfs/conferences/2012_nonhumanturn/NonhumanTurn_…
DHSI Colloquium June 4-8 2012
The DHSI Colloquium showcases new and emerging, innovative and engaging work of those at DHSI.
CALL FOR PAPERS (1 December 2011): Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Colloquium for the digital humanities, to be held in June 2012 at the University of Victoria.
Open to all DHSI attendees, the colloquium starts on the second day of the institute and takes place during sessions that begin and end each day. Presentations will be informal and may take the form of full-length conference papers (15-20 minutes), short conference papers, those traditional in their delivery, and those more demonstration-oriented. Brief high-impact formats such as paper-slams, lightning presentations, dork shorts, pecha kuchas, etc., will also be given consideration. The colloquium welcomes presentations by individuals or teams of two or more presenters.
We invite proposals of 200-300 words for these presentations. Successful proposals will focus on specific applications, aspects and/or cases of digital humanities research, as opposed to general issues pertaining to the digital humanities; topics may include, but are not limited to, the scholar’s role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, perspectives on digital humanities implications for the individual’s own research and pedagogy, etc. Potential presenters should be new or emerging scholars (including, but not limited to, graduate students; early career scholars and humanities scholars who are new to the digital humanities; librarians, and those in cultural heritage; alt-academics; academic professionals; and those in technical programs).
Please submit abstracts via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhsicolloquium2012. Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2011. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and all who have submitted an abstract will be notified by late February 2012. For more information, contact dhsicolloquium2012@easychair.org.
ABOUT THE DHSI: The Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies, and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The Institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library, and Archives communities. During the DHSI, we share ideas and methods, and develop expertise in applying advanced technologies to our teaching, research, dissemination, and preservation. For more information see www.dhsi.org.
REGISTRATION: In recent years, courses have filled up quickly. We encourage applicants interested in attending the DHSI to register early. A number of sponsored tuition scholarships are also available. Registrations and applications for tuition scholarship applications will be accepted beginning in October.
Digital Textual Studies Conference, 9-10 June 2012
This year, DHSI will be immediately followed by a conference on digital textual studies, led by the Textual Studies group of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, and sharing our Friday DHSI Institute lecture. Details will be available early in the Fall term.
