Please find below the Call for Papers for the Transmission
conference (Apologies for any cross postings)
Revised deadline for Abstracts: Monday 29th March 2010
About the conference
Transmission: Hospitality takes place 1-3 July 2010, Sheffield Hallam Unive=
rsity, Sheffield, UK www.transmission.uk.com
Guests: Clegg and Guttmann<http://www.culture24.org.uk/places+to+go/north+w=
est/manchester/art39574> (Artists, Germany), Juliet Flower MacCannell<http:=
//www.faculty.uci.edu/scripts/UCIFacultyProfiles/DetailDept.CFM?ID=3D3300> =
(Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English, UC Irvine) Ahuvia=
Kahane<http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Classics/AK/index.html> (Professor of Greek, =
Royal Holloway, University of London), Esther Leslie<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/e=
h/staff/LeslieEsther> (Professor in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, Univers=
ity of London) Dany Nobus<http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/leadership/nobus.bs=
px> (Professor, School of Social Sciences, Brunel, University West London),=
Blake Stimson<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=3D105=
9> (Professor of Art History, University of California)
Transmission: Hospitality aims to address the relation between the various =
modes of analysis and communication that comprehend art. This conference wi=
ll be set in a transdisciplinary and transcultural context where dialogues =
between artists, writers, critics, curators, and academics will be welcomed=
as a method for generating, mediating, and reflecting experience and knowl=
edge about the way art is received.
Keywords
Host: art and responsibility, art and ethics, art and psychoanalysis, cultu=
res of curating, hospitality and film
Stranger: art and the foreigner (or the odd, eccentric and uncanny), art an=
d philosophy, multidisciplinary practice
Friend: art and dialogue, art and community, art and politics, collaborativ=
e practice
Proposals
You are invited to submit either an abstract for an individual paper or a p=
roposal for a panel of papers on a theme relevant the conference as describ=
ed above. Please provide full contact details with your abstract or panel =
proposal. The deadline for abstracts is Monday 29 March.
Abstracts for individual papers should be no longer than 250 words and prop=
osals for panels of three papers should be no longer than 500 words. Pleas=
e submit by email to (Transmission /at/ shu.ac.uk)<mailto:(Transmission /at/ shu.ac.uk)>.
For an informal chat about sending a proposal, contact: Dr Jaspar Joseph-Le=
ster (jaspar.j /at/ virgin.net)<mailto:(jaspar.j /at/ virgin.net)> and Dr Sharon Kivland =
(sharonkivland /at/ wanadoo.fr)<mailto:(sharonkivland /at/ wanadoo.fr)>
For full details, go to www.transmission.uk.com<http://www.transmission.uk.=
com/>
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Kirsty Christer - Research Publications and Events Officer
Art and Design Research Centre
Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute
Sheffield Hallam University
www3.shu.ac.uk/c3ri
0114 225 6809 I (k.a.christer /at/ shu.ac.uk)
My working hours - Mon - Thurs 9.15 - 2.30
News and Events: www3.shu.ac.uk/c3ri/News<http://www3.shu.ac.uk/c3ri/News>
Transmission: www.transmission.uk.com
