[ecrea] CFP: Rewriting Lyotard

>Call for Papers
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>Rewriting Lyotard Conference
>
>University of Alberta
>February 11-13, 2011
>
>The last few years have seen a resurgence in 
>scholarship on Jean-François Lyotard, including 
>a series of recent and on-going translations of 
>his work into English (Enthusiasm, Discourse, 
>Figure), the bi-lingual five-volume Writings on 
>Contemporary Art and Artists, and a number of 
>recent publications of essays on his work in 
>both French and English (Minima Memoria, Gender 
>After Lyotard, Les Transformateurs Lyotard, and 
>the collection in French entitled simply Lyotard).
>
>With this conference, we aim to further this 
>interest and foster its development by bringing 
>together the disparate community of scholars 
>working on various facets of Lyotard's thought. 
>Writers and artists interested in Lyotards 
>philosophy are also welcome. In Rewriting 
>Modernity, Lyotard takes up the notion of 
>rewriting as a way of avoiding the 
>periodization inherent in the term postmodern. 
>He links the act of re-writing to the process of 
>working through the event - including the 
>event of reading itself. By framing this 
>conference around the concept of re-writing, we 
>invite scholars from various disciplines to 
>share their workings-through and re-writings of 
>Lyotard's texts, ideas, and concepts. We thus 
>not only seek to pay tribute to his work, but 
>challenge and engage in dialogue with his 
>philosophies and, as he repeatedly invited his 
>readers to do, explore how we might think 
>differently, think otherwise, and think on radically new terms.
>
>Taking as our focus the forthcoming collection 
>of essays on Lyotard's later writings, 
>Jean-François Lyotard: New Encounters, we are 
>particularly interested in papers addressing the 
>later themes and works, but other topics on 
>Lyotard are also welcome. Areas of interest 
>might include, but are not limited to, 
>aesthetics/philosophy of art, ethics, politics, 
>gender, confession, and biography, as well as 
>Lyotards relation to philosophy, the social 
>sciences, cultural studies, art history, and psychoanalysis.
>
>Proposals for papers, panels, workshops, 
>roundtables or seminars should be submitted no 
>later than October 15 2010. In your proposal, 
>please include full contact details (i.e. name, 
>email, institutional affiliation and university 
>address). Submissions and inquiries should be sent to
>
>(Rewritinglyotard /at/ gmail.com)
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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