[ecrea] Call For Papers - Austerity Cultures/Cultures of Austerity: Reactions to the Erosion of Critical Spaces

> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>
> Austere Cultures, Cultures of Austerity: 
> Reactions to the Erosion of Critical Spaces
>
> 8-9 September 2011
>
> School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University
>
> Key note speakers: Professor Griselda Pollock 
> (University of Leeds); Dr Rebecca Bramall (University of Brighton)
>
> Picture this: an internationally renowned art 
> historian, barefoot and on her knees, scrabbles 
> amongst piles of books in an attempt to salvage 
> a valuable collection about to be pulped because 
> of lack of space; a distinguished sociologist 
> shreds papers from his now defunct role and 
> department whilst university management ?suits? 
> scurry past him; Conservative Party Headquarters 
> are ?stormed? in the most ardent expression of 
> student dissent for decades.  Such images speak 
> to the prevailing cultural zeitgeist of austerity.
>
> In this culture of austerity no area of higher 
> education is immune, however, it is the ?luxury? 
> of the arts, humanities and social sciences that 
> is perceived as no longer affordable.  Arguably, 
> these repositories of critical inquiry are the 
> first spaces to be eroded. Yet, paradoxically, 
> the discourses surrounding austerity are also 
> provoking debate, resistance and creativity 
> across the cultural spectrum.  Austere times, 
> then, may engender a critical abundance that 
> reshapes relationships between theoretical 
> analysis, political activism and cultural production.
>
> The aim of this conference is to provide an 
> interdisciplinary space for countering and 
> challenging the erosion of critical thought. We 
> invite interventions/papers ? from both inside 
> and outside the academy ? which interrogate 
> discourses of austerity around the following themes:
>
> Aesthetics and Ascetics
> Cultures of Impoverishment
> Environmentalism and Austerity
> Critical and Cultural Histories of Austerity
> Geographies of Austerity
> Sociologies of Austerity
> Literatures of Austerity
> Material and Visual Cultures of Austerity
> Popular Culture and Austerity
> Activism and Austerity
> Political Cultures in Austere Times
> Austerity of Knowledge
> Austerity and Regionality/Localism
>
> We encourage the submission of proposals for 
> both individual papers as well as for 
> panels.  Abstracts for individual papers should 
> be no longer than 200 words. Panel proposals no 
> more than 700 words, and should include a panel 
> rationale along with individual 
> abstracts.  Abstracts should be sent to 
> <mailto:(d.llinares /at/ leedsmet.ac.uk)>(d.llinares /at/ leedsmet.ac.uk) by 15 April 2011.
> The conference is being organised by Dr Dario 
> Llinares (Leeds Metropolitan University), Dr Zoë 
> Thompson (University of Bradford), and Dr Fiona Philip (University of Leeds).
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Dr. Dario Llinares
>
> School of Cultural Studies. BPA 120
> Broadcasting Place.
> Leeds Metropolitan University
> Leeds
> LS2 9EN
>
> Mobile: 07903028894
>
> Email: (d.llinares /at/ leedsmet.ac.uk)
> Visit my website at: <http://www.dariollinares.org/>www.dariollinares.org

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