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[Commlist] CFP - CES conference mini-symposium “European Cultures: Utopias and Dystopias”

Tue Aug 02 12:05:51 GMT 2022





CFP 2023 Culture Network Mini-Symposium

Twenty-Ninth International Conference of Europeanists University of Iceland | Reykjavik, Iceland June 27-29, 2023

The European Culture Research Network invites submissions for a mini-symposium on the topic of “European Cultures: Utopias and Dystopias”

This symposium aims to address the relation of culture to utopian and dystopian imaginaries of Europe, past, present, and future. How is culture deployed to generate and promote utopian or dystopian projects and imaginaries? What is the role of cultural institutions? And what insights does the study of culture offer into these narratives? Culture is the vector through which we address and organize our world and (re)imagine idealized pasts, better futures, or bleak destinies. We approach culture in its broadest sense here: from cultural practices, institutional cultural projects, the mechanisms of production, and collective identities, to objects and texts in their reception.

We are particularly interested in papers discussing the following topics within or in relation to the framework of the conference themes of “utopias and dystopias”:

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    Decolonization and Decolonizing Culture

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    Migration and diversity

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    Cultural approaches to borders and boundaries

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    Culture and conflict (in Ukraine and beyond)

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    Cultural imaginaries in a changing world order

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    Imagining alternative futures: cultural activism, aesthetic, and
    poetic practices

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    Socialist(Postsocialist) Utopias/Dystopias and cultural politics

Mini-Symposia are thematic clusters of 3-5 sessions of any of the above types grouped together.

  Sessions involve a moderator and discussants, and can take four forms:

-Paper panels consist of 4-5 papers organized around a common theme with comments provided by a discussant.

-Book panels (also known as "Author Meets Critics") bring together 4-6 scholars to debate a recent publication in the field and are moderated by a chair.

-Roundtables assemble 4-6 scholars to discuss a common theme, idea, or topic with moderation provided by a chair.

Please send proposals for mini-symposium by October 1to Michael Gott ((michael.gott /at/ uc.edu)), Arina Rotaru ((arina.rotaru /at/ gmail.com)), and Claske Vos ((c.vos /at/ uva.nl) <mailto:(c.vos /at/ uva.nl)>)

We also encourage you to inform us of any panel or paper proposals that are related to culture and of direct interest to the research network but that fall outside of the specific themes selected for the symposium. This will allow the network to promote related panels. The CES conference welcomes session proposals or individual abstracts on all aspects of European culture.

You will submit proposals directly to the Council for European Studies by Oct 14 (for those included in a network symposium, instructions for indicating your participation in a panel will be sent by us in advance of the deadline) https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/iceland-2023-call-for-proposals/

Limited network grants to support travel for graduate students or faculty without institutional funding are available. Please contact the network co-chairs listed above for more information.


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*Notes on CES conference format*

*The ECRN welcomes contributions on local, regional, national, transnational topics. Please do consider your topic in its specificity as having a relation to Europe as term, history, discourse, place, etc.*

*CES is an interdisciplinary conference.  People used to humanist conferences please note that our network strives to participate in the CES format: longer papers shared in advance and 10-12 minute presentations at the conference. This requires more advance planning but results in a more lively and interactive panel and symposium-wide discussion and promotes engagement with others beyond our immediate fields and disciplines. *

*Some guidelines to keep in mind:*

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    *Think of the goal as something closer to a seminar conversation
    that all can participate in. Think of the conference as fostering
    edited volumes, special issues, and working group formation.*

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    *Plan to share longer papers, chapters in draft mode 2 weeks before
    the conference.*

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    *Commit to reading the papers on your panel and to papers across
    panels.*

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    *Commit to communicating to an interdisciplinary audience*


EUROPEAN CULTURE is a new Research Network at the Council for European Studies.

For membership information, see https://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/membership/research-networks/european-culture/

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