[ecrea] cfp CCSR Conference - Radical Space

The Centre for Cultural Studies Research at the University of East London
invites proposals for Cultural Space, a conference to take place at the UEL
Docklands Campus on Friday and Saturday, 18th and 19th October, 2013.

We are interested in presentations which address the problematics of space
both as concept and as lived social reality, with a particular emphasis on
the tension between spaces of control in the context of contemporary
neoliberalism, spaces of resistance and the apocalyptic spaces which emerge
from war, forced migration and the failures of consumer capitalism.

What are the politics of space in contemporary contexts? How can we re-think
space beyond the public/private divide? How do spatial arts re-configure
space and the way in which it is experienced? What new configurations of
space may emerge from burgeoning forms of community? How do the theatres of
contemporary war force a re-assessment of spatial concepts? Is it still
possible for the notion of virtual space to function in opposition to the
striated space of contemporary cities?

We would welcome proposals which take a novel approach to presentation,
particularly those which include elements of performance or which make
creative use of the spaces made available for the conference.  Dimitris
Papodopoulos (University of Leicester) and the independent artist Joanna
Rajkowska have been confirmed as plenary speakers. Further plenary speakers
to be confirmed. Topics may include (but are not limited to):

Occupations and other resistant practices
Squatter communities and displacement camps
New theatres of war
Art in/of the street
Imagining extra-terrestrial space
Utopias and heterotopias
New imaginative architectures
Psychogeography in the 21st century
The space of the body and the body in space
Digital architectures and virtual space
Social networking as a new public sphere
Hacking, hacktivism and other digital spatial incursions
Cinema and post-urbanism
Cartography and performance
Class and social space
Music scenes and spaces of community/expression
The apocalyptic city

Full details will be posted on our website culturalstudiesresearch.org in the
near future. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to
either Debra Benita Shaw ((d.shaw /at/ uel.ac.uk)) or Tony Sampson
((sampson2 /at/ uel.ac.uk)) on or before 15th April, 2013.

Dr Debra Benita Shaw
Reader in Cultural Theory/Programme Leader, Cultural Studies
School of Arts&  Digital Industries
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London, E16 2RD, UK
http://culturalstudiesresearch.org

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