[ecrea] cfp - Common Ground. A Two Day Conference

Common Ground – A Two-Day Conference organized by the Centre for 
Cultural Studies



24-25 June 2013. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK



Call for Papers:



Postgraduates in the Centre for Cultural Studies are pleased to announce 
their annual conference. This year’s theme is Common Ground and we would 
like to invite papers, artistic presentations, workshops and panel 
proposals on all aspects of this topic.



This conference comes out of a shared frustration with the framing of 
canonical discourses. For every subject and object in the world, there 
is a linear story of its explanation– a forward-projecting narration of 
origins, development, transformation and signification. What is 
accomplished in this expository process is a reductivism that not only 
privileges particular modes of explanation, of knowing, but in doing so 
also neutralizes the grounds of subversive potential. How can we explode 
these centralizing rationalities and reconfigure the conceptual space of 
knowing? How can we think critically about literal and metaphorical 
spaces and the accompanying temporalities which claim to bring 
individuals together and form alternative modes of collective being but 
simply end up privileging dominant, homogenising discourses of social 
control and organization?



Possible topics could include but are by no means limited to:



- Privileging narratives

- Writing and Rewriting History

- Time, history and asynchronicity

- Dissenting Voices

- Homogeneity and hegemony

- Interiority/exteriority

- Discourses of Inclusion/Exclusion

- The collective vs. the individual

- Who are the 99%?

- Nationalism and Identity

- Digital Technologies and posthumanism

- Crossing borders and limits

- Institutional Critique

- Spaces of convergence – the street, the square

- Public vs. private spaces

- Encounters, confrontations, conflicts

- The production of difference

- Subversive spaces and temporalities





Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words and emailed to:

(ccscommonground2013 /at/ gmail.com). Deadline for submissions is 26 April 
2013. For more information please visit 
www.commonground2013.wix.com/conference







Dr Sophie Fuggle

Lecturer and MA Convenor in Cultural Studies
Centre for Cultural Studies
Goldsmiths, University of London

E: (S.Fuggle /at/ gold.ac.uk)
T: ++44 (0) 207 078 5003

http://www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff/drsophiefuggle/
http://fuggbug.tumblr.com/



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