Culture & Power Seminar
Under the auspices of the Iberian Association for Cultural Studies (IBACS)
The 14th International 'Culture & Power'
Conference: 'IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION'
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha,
Departamento de Filología Moderna
Facultad de Letras,
Ciudad Real, Spain
22-24 April, 2010
Questions of identity and identification are
among the most important evolving concerns of
Cultural Studies today. Indeed, many thinkers,
theorists and academics working in the
interdisciplinary field of cultural studies
continue to wrestle with
these slippery concepts in their explorations
of "the production and inculcation of culture or
maps of culture" (Chris Barker). Commonly
apprehended as contingent, culturally specific
and socially produced, identity is often
conceived of as the result of a whole range of
different, possible identifications linked to
specific modalities of power under specific
social and historical conjunctures, hence, the
unstable and fluctuating nature of identity and
identity formation. The tension between
self-description and social ascription is
fundamental for individuals and groups to
construct, negotiate, defend and resist their
self-understanding. Through a process of
personal identification with discursively
constructed subject positions, identities emerge
across a wide range of cultural practices in the
course of social interactions involving the use
of language and other semiotic systems
manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds.
This conference invites 20-minute papers
addressing the topic of 'identity' and
'identification' from a wide range of
perspectives within Cultural Studies. Although
other topics may be considered, we welcome
papers dealing with, but not being limited to, issues such as the following:
1. Theorizing identity construction and
identification processes from a (variety of)
cultural studies perspective(s): identities as
discursive-performative / unstable / multiple /
fragmented / projects / constructed and
negotiated / narratives of the self / etc.
2. Methods and perspectives for examining
identity-construction and identification
processes in culture and society:
post-structuralist, feminist, psychocritical,
discursive, linguistic, Marxist, Queer Theory,
postmodern, ecocritic, postcolonial, etc.
3. From social and cultural identities to
subjectivity and the self: dimensions of and
interrelations between identity production,
consumption, commodification, regulation, inculcation, and representation.
4. Identity and genre: identities in
fiction, drama, poetry, film, television, print
media, politics, advertising, education, the
institutional, the Internet, etc. The role of
cultural artefacts in identity-construction
processes within circuits of culture in society.
5. Identity at the crossroads of cultural
studies with its disciplinary neighbours
(literary theory, sociology, linguistics,
discourse studies, anthropology, media and
communication studies, history, geography, musicology, philosophy, etc.).
6. Challenging, questioning and subverting
identities: re-constructing, -inventing,
-cycling, -visiting, -creating, -locating,
-discovering, -examining, -jecting, -producing,
-thinking, -versing, -vising, -vitalising,
-reading, -writing identities in culture and cultural artefacts.
7. Gender, sex, race, ethnicity, class,
age, citizenship and religion issues: identity
politics, hybridisation, border identities and subcultures.
8. The discourses of local, regional,
national and trans-national identities: tensions
between globalisation and nationalisms.
9. Identity and identification across
cultural practices: diasporas, memory, trauma and body politics.
10. Identity and visual culture:
intertextuality, multimodality, and the dialogue between the arts.
11. Historicizing identities: cultural history
and the criticism of historical identities.
12. Identity and popular culture.
13. Identity in the Information and
Communication society: e-identities, cyber-identities, virtual identities.
IMPORTANT DATES:
§ January 15th, 2010: Submission of full
papers. Please send FULL PAPERS (2,500 words)
together with a 200-word ABSTRACT. Papers may be
sent online through the conference website
www.cultureandpower.org
<http://www.cultureandpower.org/> or directly
to (Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es) <mailto:(Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es)>
§ February 15th, 2010: Notification of acceptance.
§ April 22nd, 23rd & 24th, 2010: Conference dates.
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
The following speakers have confirmed their participation at the conference:
§ Lawrence Grossberg (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
§ John Storey (University of Sunderland)
§ Chris Weedon (Cardiff University)
PUBLICATION:
Selected papers will be published in a volume after the conference.
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES:
Papers may be presented in English or Spanish.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Matías Barchino Pérez (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Chris Barker (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Susan Bassnett (University of Warwick, UK)
Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)
Lou Charnon-Deutch (Stony Brook University, USA)
María José Coperías Aguilar (Universitat de València, Spain)
Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Nick Couldry (The London School of Business and Economics, UK)
Paul du Gay (Warwick Business School, UK)
José Manuel Estévez Saá (Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
Fernando Galván Reula (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
Rosa González Casademont (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
Felicity Hand (Unversitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain)
Phil Hubbard (Loughborough University, UK)
Brian Longhurst (University of Salford, UK)
Ana María Manzanas Calvo (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain)
Sara Martín Alegre (Unversitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain)
Scott McCracken (Keele University, UK)
Silvia Molina Plaza (Universitat Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Susana Onega Jaén (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Juan Sisinio Pérez Garzón (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
Alvaro Pina (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Inés Praga Terente (Universidad de Burgos, Spain)
Isabel Santaolalla (Roehampton University, UK)
Peter R. Sedgwick (Cardiff University, UK)
Greg Smith (University of Salford, UK)
John Storey (University of Sunderland, UK)
Socorro Suárez Lafuente (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Graeme Turner (University of Queensland, Australia)
Rubén Valdés Millares (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain)
Teun van Dijk (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
David Walton (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)
CONFERENCE CONVENORS:
Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo & Ángel Mateos-Aparicio
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE:
Javier Enrique Díaz Vera
Beatriz González Moreno
Ignacio Ramos Gay
Ernesto Suárez Toste
ENQUIRIES may be sent to the conference convenors:
§ Dr. Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo:
(Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es) <mailto:(Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es)>
§ Dr. Ángel Mateos-Aparicio:
(Angel.Mateos /at/ uclm.es) <mailto:(Angel.Mateos /at/ uclm.es)>
REGISTRATION, ACCOMMODATION, SOCIAL PROGRAMME &
FURTHER INFORMATION will be updated on this
conference website: www.cultureandpower.org
<http://www.cultureandpower.org/>
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