[ecrea] CFP: Cultural Transformations: Re-Assemblage (NZ) 30 November-2 December 2006

Re-Assemblage

Fifth Annual Symposium of the Cultural Transformations Research Network
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

30 November ­ 2 December, 2006
Keynote Speakers

Dr Sudesh Mishra, Deakin University, Melbourne
Dr Melanie Swalwell, Victoria University of Wellington

Call for Papers

The Cultural Transformations Research Network invites proposals for papers that engage with the theme of Re-Assemblage. Papers may explore ways in which cultures, histories and cultural elements/artworks have been, or are being, re-assembled into different media, new locations, and new forms, whether in theoretical, critical, aesthetic, or social terms.

The term Re-Assemblage suggests a focus on contexts of heterogeneity, emergent states, spaces, or times, non-essentialism and differences, processes, relationships, tactics and contingency. It might call up aesthetic practices such as collage, pastiche, intertextuality, collection, or re-mediation, across a range of art practices. Critical practices that emphasise comparative or interdisciplinary approaches also relate to the theme.  A further range of areas or concerns often associated with the concept of Re-Assemblage relates to new technologies, cybernetics and informatics (Haraway), the post-human (Hayles), and the desiring machine (Deleuze and Guattari). In social and cultural theory, contexts of hybridity, globalisation and glocalisation are exemplary instances of Re-Assemblage. Despite their utopian charge, concepts or practices of Re-Assemblage can also call for analysis of the ways that they encounter or produce resistance.

This symposium further proposes the theme of Re-Assemblage as a means to examine and push the boundaries of existing discourses of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, as mobilised across a range of disciplinary boundaries Postgraduate scholars and early career researchers are particularly encouraged to contribute.

Papers from across the disciplines are invited to address any aspect of assemblage, including:

* aesthetic practices
* critical strategies
* (post)colonialism, politics, globalisation
* tactics in everyday living
* media, new media, re-mediation
* technologies and human-machine/human-animal configurations
* gender and sexuality

We invite abstracts of 250-300 words to be sent to Barry Empson by October 2 2006: (barry.empson /at/ stonebow.otago.ac.nz)


Barry Empson
German Programme
Department of Languages and Cultures

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