[csaa-forum] CFP: Antithesis symposium and issue 'The Event, Culture and Contingency'

[Melissa Gregg]

antiTHESIS, "The Event, Culture and Contingency"

Call for Papers

 

antiTHESIS, one of Australia's longest running postgraduate
interdisciplinary journals, now invites contributions for both the third
annual antiTHESIS Postgraduate Symposium entitled The Event, Culture and
Contingency and for Volume 16 (2006), "in the event ."

 

Truth happens to an idea.  It becomes true, is made true by events.  Its
verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying
itself, its veri-fication. - William James 

 

Integral to understanding changes in both ourselves and our world, 'the
event' is a concept attracting increased critical attention.  Described as
"a difference that makes a difference", an event may happen, or be
manufactured, affect us and be effected by us, and thus emerges from the
impossible cusp between contingency and necessity.  We invite papers that
consider both what constitutes 'an event', and how different events have
been, are, and might possibly be, constituted and reconstituted.

 

Responses may examine this theme in the context of any discipline, and may
be critical or creative in nature - this includes essays, fiction, poetry,
and fictocriticism, as well as photographs and other visual pieces.  The
following topics represent possible interpretations of the theme, and are
meant to motivate, not limit, your thinking:

 

We invite theoretical or creative contributions on the following themes:

 

      - The constitution of events as history

      - The creation of events in disparate revolutionary movements

      - Hype, spectacle and the production of pseudo-events

      - The shocking, the scandalous, the terrible and the sublime

      - Disappointment and non-events

      - Banality, boredom, the eventless and the routine

      - Events that escape unnoticed and unremarked upon

      - Counterfactual interpretations and missed possibilities

      - Peripheral or marginalised events

      - Messianism, Millenarianism and the Apocalypse

      - Complexity, contingency, causality, creativity

      - Risk and intervention

      - Anticipation, expectation, hindsight and memory

      - Cinematic or literary rendition of events

      - Experience and the production of communities: local, national or
transnational

      - Events at distance: physical, temporal or psychical/psychological

      - Response, responsibility and mediation

 

Though they share a single theme, the symposium and the journal are separate
entities with difference deadlines and submission requirements.  You must
make separate submissions to be eligible for both.

 

 

antiTHESIS Postgraduate Symposium will be held on the morning and afternoon
of Friday 1 July, 2005 on the University of Melbourne's Parkville campus.

 

Proposals of no more than 250-words are sought for twenty-minute papers
addressing the theme: "the event and its constitutions".  Please send
abstracts in the text of an e-mail (not as an attachment) to
antithesis at adhocalypsis.arts.unimelb.edu.au by 29 April 2005.  All proposals
shall be considered by 13 May 2005.

 

We are also pleased to announce that a limited number of grants will be
available to subsidise the cost of travel for interstate participants.

 

 

antiTHESIS volume 16 (2006)

 

Papers must be of no more than 6'000 words in length with endnote citations
conforming to the 14th edition of the Chicago Style Guide.  All submissions
must consist of a Microsoft Word document attached to an e-mail.

 

Visual pieces, including original cover art designed for a 150mm x 210mm
space, are also welcome.  Preliminary submissions may be made via e-mail and
must include a 72- or 75dpi jpeg image, the title of the work, and the
artist's contact information.  Upon selection, we will require a
print-quality image on CD or PC formatted disk and a signed letter or
release form giving permission for its use by antiTHESIS.

 

Papers and visual pieces submitted to the journal must be received by
Friday, 11 August 2005.

 

While symposium participation is neither a prerequisite for, nor a guarantee
of, selection for publication in the journal, contributors are encouraged to
take advantage of the benefits of participation in both antiTHESIS forums.
The symposium provides a venue for postgraduates from various disciplines to
meet and discuss their work with peers who share their academic interests.
The debate and feedback generated by a symposium presentation will
inevitably produce ideas that can be incorporated into the paper before it
is submitted for publication.

 

Please address queries and submissions to:

   antiTHESIS

   Department of English with Cultural Studies

   University of Melbourne

   PARKVILLE VIC 3010

   antiTHESIS at adhocalypse.arts.unimelb.edu.au



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://bronzewing.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20050331/0789633c/attachment.html