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

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The deadline for this CFP has now been extended one week to *September 22. *
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    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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