[ecrea] Postgraduate Conference Vienna 2012

*Pursuing the Trivial - Investigations into Popular Culture.**
*/A Postgraduate Conference with Invited Guest Speakers, University of 
Vienna, June 1-2 2012/

/"The everyday is what we cannot but aspire to, since it appears to us 
as lost to us."
/Stanley Cavell, /In Quest of the Ordinary/

Proposals are invited for *papers* to be presented at /Pursuing the 
Trivial. Investigations into Popular Culture. A Postgraduate Conference 
with Invited Guest Speakers/, scheduled for June 1 – 2, 2012 at the 
University of Vienna. The international and interdisciplinary conference 
will be organised by Prof. Dr. Monika Seidl (Department of English, 
University of Vienna), Prof. Dr. Roman Horak (Department of Art and 
Cultural Sociology, University of Applied Arts Vienna) and Mag. Barbara 
Maly (Department of English, University of Vienna).

/Pursuing the Trivial/ invites postgraduate students to submit proposals 
on papers that deal with aspects of the trivial, the popular, the 
common, the ordinary, the banal and the everyday. In our conference we 
would like to explore meanings, roots and routes of mundane practices, 
texts and artefacts through the ages and how they, for example, relate 
to gender, class or race identities; language and communication; genre, 
media and technology; politics and power; local and global impacts, 
material and economic contexts.

We see our topic as very broad, which means that different approaches 
and perspectives are most welcome and appreciated.

We would like to invite postgraduate students from various disciplines 
to hand in abstracts of a maximum length of 300 words by September 1, 
2011.  Please include a brief CV (1 page max.). You will receive 
confirmation of acceptance of the proposed presentation by December 1, 
2011.

Contact e-mail: (eugenie.theuer /at/ univie.ac.at) 
<mailto:(eugenie.theuer /at/ univie.ac.at)>, (valentin.freyler /at/ univie.ac.at) 
<mailto:(valentin.freyler /at/ univie.ac.at)>

Web: www.univie.ac.at/pursuingthetrivial 
<http://www.univie.ac.at/pursuingthetrivial> and 
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