[ecrea] Call for Participants: Film and Media in the Tracks of Deleuze Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture

Call for Participants:
Film and Media in the Tracks of Deleuze
Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture
July 15-19, 2013 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

The annual one-week summer institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture for
graduate students will be held at Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) on
July 15-19, 2013. This year’s institute theme is: “Film and Media in the Tracks
of Deleuze”. Thirty years after the publication in French of Cinema 1: The
Movement-Image, Deleuze’s work on cinema remains at the center of
contemporary debates on film, and its relationship to other visual media, as
well as to philosophy, literature and political thought. This institute will bring
together prominent scholars of film, literature and theory to explore the
relationship of Deleuze’s work on cinema to his thought as a whole, as well as
to that of other major theorists who are, in various ways, in dialogue or
conflict with that work. It will particularly focus on the possibilities and limits
of Deleuze’s approach to media aesthetics both for interpreting historical and
contemporary media practices and for mapping the relationship of film (and
art in general) to politics.

The seminar, directed by Professors Scott Durham and Dilip Gaonkar, will
consist of five days of presentations and discussions led by four distinguished
group of visiting faculty. They are:


Serge Cardinal, Professeur agrégé, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études
cinématographiques, Université de Montréal.

Tom Conley, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University.

Gregory Flaxman, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
and Adjunct Professor of Communication Studies, UNC, Chapel Hill.

Eleanor Kaufman, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French
and Francophone Studies, UCLA.

Lectures will occur in the afternoon and the mornings will be dedicated to
workshops around readings (assigned in advance) for each lecture. The
overlapping format enables both student and faculty participants to continue
informal scholarly discussion during group lunches and dinners.

The seminar is sponsored by the Center for Global Culture and
Communication, an interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University
School of Communication. The Center will subsidize transportation (up to
$250), lodging, and some meals for admitted students. Applicants should send
a letter of nomination from their academic advisor, along with a one-page
statement explaining their interest in participating in this year’s institute, to
the summer institute coordinator Caitlin Bruce ((bruce.caitlin /at/ gmail.com)). We
will adopt a policy of rolling admissions. Priority will therefore be granted to
strong applications that are submitted in a timely fashion, preferably by June
25. All inquiries should be directed to Caitlin Bruce ((bruce.caitlin /at/ gmail.com)).



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