[ecrea] CFP Spaces of Alterity: Conceptualising Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices and Narratives

>Conference: Call for Papers:
>
>Spaces of Alterity: Conceptualising Counter-Hegemonic Sites, Practices
>and Narratives
>
>University of Nottingham, UK
>28th-29th April 2011
>
>Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
>China Mieville and Dr. Alberto Toscano
>
>This two day international conference for postgraduate and early
>career researchers explores interdisciplinary conceptions and
>representations of radical, counter-hegemonic space.
>
>As concerns grow over such issues as spatial privatisation,
>commodification and homogenisation, surveillance, extra-legal spaces,
>social and political non-spaces, and the loss of common or public
>spaces, so too a plethora of interventionsacross genre and
>disciplinary boundarieshave been launched in opposition to these
>trends. Examples are diverse, and can be found, for example, in
>literary studies of estranging narratives in contemporary fiction;
>spatial representations in film, TV and new media; the creation of
>critical spaces of alterity in political activism (such as
>semi-autonomous zones); psychogeographical spatial strategies, and
>philosophical and theoretical conceptions of counter-hegemonic space.
>
>We invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes from candidates across
>the arts and humanities, welcoming individual papers as well as group
>panels that respond to these and other conceptions of
>counter-hegemonic Spaces of Alterity. Possible research questions
>include, but are not limited to:
>
>What estranging utopian, dystopian, post-apocalyptic and science
>fiction spaces of alterity are being utilised in contemporary
>aesthetic and cultural productions, e.g. film, literature, TV, art,
>computer games?
>
>How do these narratives travel across media and what changes occur
>when they are adapted, reworked and transformed? What research
>questions are raised by such collaborations, transmissions and
>intermedial dialogues?
>
>How can we approach traditionally-understood print and audio-visual
>texts in relation to virtual spaces of alterity, such as fan-based
>communities, social networking sites and other sites developed through
>user-generated content (UGC)?
>
>What are the relationships between textual spaces of alterity and
>non-textual forums, communities and dialogues?
>
>What physical spaces of alterity are being constructed in contemporary
>urban environments?
>
>How are such spaces critical, oppositional or subversive and how do
>they draw on the contributions of local communities and organisations?
>  How do spaces of alterity which are informed by
>traditionally-understood texts function on the Internet and how can
>they inform our understanding of filmic, visual and literary textual
>methodologies and approaches?
>
>What forms can counter-hegemonic, avant-garde, or subtractive
>spaceswhich can be spatial, but also temporal or conceptualtake?
>
>  What political, artistic, or scientific practices can such spaces
>foster? How does distance from institutions help form alternative
>political, literary and artistic practices?
>
>Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent by email as a Word
>attachment to (spacesofalterity /at/ gmail.com) by Wednesday 3rd November
>2010 and should include name, affiliation, e-mail address, title of
>paper and 4 keywords.
>
>Conference website:
>http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cultural-studies/research/conferences.aspx
>
>Speakers:
>
>China Mieville is a distinguished Weird Fiction novelist, activist,
>and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Warwick. His
>publications include King Rat (1998), Perido Street Staion (2000), and
>Iron Council (2004). In 2010 he won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for an
>unprecedented second time with his latest novel, The City and the City
>(2009).
>
>Alberto Toscano is senior lecturer in Philosophy at Goldsmiths,
>University of London. He has published extensively on social and
>political subjectivity, biopolitics, and the philosophy of Alain
>Badiou.
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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