[ecrea] CFP: Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian

*Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian *

*An International Two-Day Conference*

The ordinary and the everyday are intuitively self-evident, yet 
notoriously elusive. Efforts to define “ordinary language” or “everyday 
practice” have preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines: 
philosophers, historians, sociologists, political theorists, geographers 
and critics of literature and the visual arts. And these subjects demand 
more attention from scholars working on race, class, gender and 
sexuality, as well as food studies and the digital and medical 
humanities. Yet existing efforts have rarely engaged in dialogue with 
their counterparts in other disciplines. We call for papers from 
scholars in all these fields to join in a spirited dialogue at an 
international, two-day conference to be held at the University of York, 
26 and 27 September 2013.

Scholars in *all *disciplines are invited to to ponder, celebrate, and 
critique the quotidian, ranging from the furtive pleasures of pop to the 
dubious delights of junk: “Does it glow at the core with personal heat, 
with signs of one’s deepest nature, clues to secret yearnings, 
humiliating flaws? What habits, fetishes, addictions, inclinations? What 
solitary acts, behavioral ruts?”

Confirmed events include keynote addresses by:

· Prof. John Roberts (History of Art, Wolverhampton)

· Dr. Jennifer Baird (Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck)

· Dr Bryony Randall (English, Glasgow)

It will culminate in a colloquium chaired by Prof Ben Highmore (Cultural 
Studies, Sussex) and featuring:

· Prof. Michael Sheringham (French, All Souls Oxford)

· Dr. Holger Nehring (History, Sheffield)

· Dr. Rupert Read (Philosophy, UEA)

· Dr. Michael White (History of Art, York)

· Dr. Neal Alexander (English, Nottingham)

What do the terms everyday, ordinary and quotidian mean at the beginning 
of the twenty-first century? This conference will confront head-on the 
challenges and opportunities presented by the interdisciplinary nature 
of such an enquiry.

Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to (oeqyork2013 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(oeqyork2013 /at/ gmail.com)> by 16 August; general enquiries are also 
welcome. You can also visit our website at: 
http://www.york.ac.uk/modernstudies/conferences/oeq/