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

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

  *

    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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