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[ecrea] CFP: 4th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies "Irony: framing (post)modernity"

Tue Jun 04 15:52:46 GMT 2013



CECC – The Research Centre for Communication and Culture announces:

4th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies

January 23-24, 2014

Faculty of Human Sciences – Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon



Irony: framing (post)modernity



Irony, either as a paradigmatic strategy of inquiry and critique or as a trait of character and existential perspective, has deeply informed Western culture and its philosophical and political tradition. The contemporary presence of irony in arts and everyday life – in the use of quotation, appropriation, pastiche, parody, kitsch, etc. – while questioning authenticity and authority, often conceals a lack of commitment that might be seen as a revival of the Jena romantics’ epistemological view, in some cases taken to a solipsistic extreme. On one hand, irony as a strategy can be subversive, by deconstructing dogmas and canons, as, for instance, in the challenging of the Kantian notion of beauty by the Duchampian ready-made. On the other hand, it can be conformist when it is expressed as an end in itself, devoid of demystifying quality. Refusing to be dialogical or dialectical, it leaves no room for significant aesthetical experience and/or desirable ethical and political reactions to the established thinking.



In order to reflect upon the ways irony frames (post)modernity, we must rehearse answers to questions such as: how is irony used as a trope in today’s artistic, cultural and political discourses, and practices? How do these rhetorical devices relate to postmodernity as an ironic epoch? How does irony make way for critique? Or, instead, how does irony neutralize the power of criticism by becoming self- referential?



This conference wishes to bring together doctoral students and post-docs working within disciplines that relate to the study of culture (arts, humanities and social sciences), and seek a forum for prolific debate.



Speakers should be prepared for a 20-minute presentation in English followed by discussion. Please send a 300-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical note (100 words) to (irony2014 /at/ gmail.com) by August 31st, 2013. Proposals should list paper title, name, institutional affiliation and contact details. Successful applicants will be notified by September 30th, 2013.

Please note there is a conference registration fee of 50€ due by November 15th, 2013. We regret that travel and accommodation funding for conference participants is not available at this time.



Organizing Committee: Ana Dinger and Elsa Alves



Please find attached the Call for Papers.










Sónia Pereira

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Assessoria Científica do Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura

Faculdade de Ciências Humanas

Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Palma de Cima

1649-023 Lisboa

Tel.: (+351) 217 214 018, ext. 3143

E-mail: (sonia.pereira /at/ fch.lisboa.ucp.pt)



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