[ecrea] Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian Conference Programme

Ordinary/Everyday/Quotidian

An International Two-Day Conference

University of York, 26-27 September



REGISTER HERE: http://oeq.eventbrite.co.uk/



The ordinary and the everyday are intuitively self-evident, yet 
notoriously elusive. Efforts to define “ordinary language” or “everyday 
practice” have preoccupied thinkers across many disciplines: 
philosophers, historians, sociologists, political theorists, 
geographers, and critics of literature and the visual arts. And these 
subjects demand more attention from scholars working on race, class, 
gender and sexuality, as well as food studies and the digital and 
medical humanities. Yet existing efforts have rarely engaged in dialogue 
with their counterparts in other disciplines.

One of the major impediments to interdisciplinary cooperation on the 
everyday is the persistence of discipline-specific vocabularies. In 
order to tackle this problem directly, this conference has grouped 
papers according to theme, rather than by discipline. As a result, all 
participants will be challenged to think outside of their habitual 
disciplinary vocabularies, and, we hope, emerge with fresh insights into 
their own presuppositions and an expanded conceptual toolbox for 
thinking about the everyday.

What do the terms everyday, ordinary and quotidian mean at the beginning 
of the twenty-first century? This conference will confront head-on the 
challenges and opportunities presented by the interdisciplinary nature 
of such an enquiry.

Confirmed events include keynote addresses by:



·         Prof. John Roberts (History of Art, Wolverhampton)

·         Dr. Jennifer Baird (Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck)

·         Dr. Bryony Randall (English Literature, Glasgow)



It will culminate in a colloquium chaired by Prof. Ben Highmore 
(Cultural Studies, Sussex) and featuring:



·         Prof. Michael Sheringham (French Literature, All Souls 
College, Oxford)

·         Prof. Holger Nehring (History, Stirling)

·         Dr. Rupert Read (Philosophy, UEA)

·         Dr. Michael White (History of Art, York)

·         Dr. Neal Alexander (English Literature, Nottingham)



Please find attached a full programme. You can also visit our website, 
http://www.york.ac.uk/modernstudies/conferences/oeq/, and e-mail us at 
(oeqyork2013 /at/ gmail.com)

To register, please visit our Eventbrite page: http://oeq.eventbrite.co.uk/



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