[ecrea] CFP: DIRT: Intersectional Approaches to Messiness Toronto Symposium

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd Annual Activist Media Archives Symposium

*DIRT: Intersectional Approaches to Messiness *

*November 10 & 11, 2017*

*Ryerson University*

*Toronto, Ontario, Canada*

The Studio for Media Activism & Critical Thought at Ryerson University, 
Toronto, is seeking abstracts and proposals for a two-day symposium on 
the media activist archive. *Deadline for submission of abstracts & 
proposals is September 15, 2017.*

Archives are dirty. Though scholars have critiqued the idea of an 
archive as dusty and disorganized, their contents often challenge the 
very boundaries that try to contain them. The 2017 Activist Media 
Archives Symposium will interrogate the idea of *DIRT* by “departing 
from the planned coherent borders of the ‘archival’” and refocusing our 
attention to the “trashy, dirty, disgusting, and untidy disorganization 
of bodies, things, and emotions” (Manalansan 2014: 94).  This symposium 
hopes to highlight these kinds of messy, dirty, and 
alternatively-organized archival practices.

*DIRT *will bring together artistic, scholarly, and activist communities 
that consider colonialist occupations, dirty work, complexities in oral 
traditions, dystopian futures and ecological crisis, themes of 
resilience and reparation, dirty archives, naughty/defiant objects, 
archives and shame, ugly feminism, the pornographic archive.

This conference is open to both scholarly and artistic presentations (or 
a combination of both). Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes.

Possible topics for papers include but are not limited to:

Unofficial archives and histories

Shameful archives

Dirty pictures and the pornographic archive

Migration and labour

Sexist, racist erasure of history

Circulation of everyday material objects, once thought of as trash or 
dirt, taken up as vibrant political spaces

Affective relics of modernity, including environments, landscapes, 
subjectivities, and/or memories, and their reproduction through and 
across media

Detritus that marks landscapes, people, and memories

Dirt and Indigeneity

Disability and dirt

Abstracts and proposals should be no longer than 400 words.

Please send abstracts and a short bio to: 
(thestudioformediaactivism /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(thestudioformediaactivism /at/ gmail.com)>

*Deadline: September 15, 2017.*


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