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[ecrea] Call for Proposals - Affect Theory Conference

Sun Feb 01 22:48:36 GMT 2015



AFFECT THEORY: WORLDINGS/TENSIONS/FUTURES – Call for Stream Proposals

October 14-17, 2015  Millersville University’s Ware Center, Lancaster PA

Website: www.affecttheorymu.com

Twitter: @affectWTF

Email: (affect-conf /at/ millersville.edu)
Confirmed plenary speakers: Ben Anderson, Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, Heather Love, Jasbir Puar, Jason Read, Jeremy Gilbert, Katie Stewart, Lauren Berlant, Lawrence Grossberg, Lisa Blackman, Melissa Gregg, Natasha Dow Schüll, Patricia Clough, Shaka McGlotten, and Tavia Nyong’o.

Over the course of the last decade especially, it is safe to say that affect, studies of affect, and theories of affect have steadily risen to prominence within and across a variety of academic disciplines, artistic practices, and research approaches. Not without some amount of controversy and pushback, the relatively rapid movement of affect toward the forefront of critical attention has been opening new paths of intellectual inquiry, reshuffling longstanding debates and conceptual formations, and inspiring imaginative cross-fertilizations of disciplinary and aesthetic genres. Now seems a perfect time to pause and take stock. So, let’s do that.



Gathering together many of the leading and emerging voices that have helped give contour and texture to the contemporary discourses of affect, this three-day conference – with a lively mix of plenaries and selected panel-streams – will be devoted to addressing affect from a broad spectrum of vantage points.



Located in and around Millersville University’s downtown Ware Center in Lancaster Pennsylvania, this setting will provide a truly intimate and distinctive opportunity to engage in-depth and at length in discussions about the past, present and future state(s) of affect study. Duke University Press will publish work drawn from this conference in a follow-up volume to the Affect Theory Reader (Gregg & Seigworth, 2010).



What is at stake in the contact-encounters or singular worldings of affect as sensed through and between sometimes divergent disciplinary (as well as undisciplined) registers and atmospheres? How have inevitable tensions (political, aesthetic, ethical, theoretical, and more) catalyzed debates over the utility of bringing affect to established and nascent fields of knowledge and practice? Where are the futures for affect and theories of affect pointing us? These starting orientations are meant only to offer initiating categories for what will become timely themes and specific topics surrounding affect at this conference.



FIRST …



We encourage direct participation in the creation and flow of our conference’s conversations through the submission of STREAM PROPOSALS. A stream proposal is a single-person (or duo) submission that identifies and expands upon a specific theme related to affect / theories of affect that will, ideally, become two or three conference panels of three to four panelists each. The issues and engagements that serve as a stream’s central concerns should be clearly framed and conceived in a way that encourages – as much as possible – potential participation from different disciplines. The stream proposal should include a list of possible topics and sub-topics that would fit within its overall framework. Stream proposals should be no more than 500 words in length and must be submitted to ‘(affect-conf /at/ millersville.edu)’ no later than MONDAY, MARCH 16. Acceptance/rejection of stream proposals will be communicated within two weeks of the deadline for submissions.



SECOND …



a) CALL FOR PAPERS: After the acceptance of stream proposals, a CFP for 250-word PAPER ABSTRACTS – oriented to the accepted stream proposals – will be posted on the conference website no later than March 30. Those who have their stream proposals accepted will then take an active role as ‘stream organizers’ working with the conference committee to promote panel submissions to their stream through their social networks and helping to give shape to the ultimate make-up of their panels. The final deadline for proposed paper abstracts to be submitted to a specific stream -- at ‘(affect-sub /at/ millersville.edu)’ -- will be MONDAY, MAY 11.



b) WRECK THE FORMAT: For those who pursue affect in ways that might be somewhat less formally academic and more aesthetic/performative/poetic/evocative, etc, we welcome the submission of proposals for performances, art installations, musical pieces, film and video showings, and similarly provocative interventions. Please submit a detailed description of no more than 500 words regarding any such activity – including special requirements for space and some sense of the time-range – to ‘(affect-sub /at/ millersville.edu)’ by no later than MONDAY, MAY 11. Initial inquiries about the possible inclusion of such work at this conference would be encouraged well before the May 11 deadline however.



FINAL PROGRAM: The make-up of the stream proposals will be finalized – with all paper proposals accepted/rejected – by the end of May. The conference’s program, including any performance-related works, will be posted by early June.



PhD WORKSHOPS (one or two) are presently in their early planning stages. More information will be available about these workshops soon.



REGISTRATION for the conference will begin June 15th and is set at $100 graduate student received on or before August 15 ($150: after Aug 15) and $150 faculty ($200: after Aug 15). Registration includes admittance to all conference events, at least one conference meal, and special related downtown Lancaster/conference activities.








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